George Monbiot, one of Europe's best-known global warming alarmists, is calling on Phil Jones, one of the climate scientists involved in the email scandal, to resign. Then, Monbiot thinks that if the scientists apologize and promise to never let something like this happen again (meaning, I guess, manipulating data and lying and perpetrating a fraud on the world with that manipulated data), that all should be well again.
Poor Monbiot says he feels so alone. (Boo hoo.) He says that "climate deniers" are making "wild claims" about the email material. He also does admit that the emails are very damaging. (I'm not sure how both can be true.) Then, Monbiot says that most of the environmentalists have going into denial, alleging that the emails are no big deal.
"The response of the greens and most of the scientists I know is profoundly ironic, as we spend so much of our time confronting other people's denial," wrote Monbiot. "Pretending that this isn't a real crisis isn't going to make it go away. Nor is an attempt to justify the emails with technicalities. We'll be able to get past this only by grasping reality, apologising where appropriate and demonstrating that it cannot happen again."
One article has this to say about Monbiot, global warming, and the email scandal:
Monbiot is hoping that public awareness of the e-mail scandal can be sufficiently contained (especially in the United States and Europe) to prevent a full-scale exposé of the extent to which so-called "climate science" has been systemically corrupted and politicized by the IPCC and its enabling "experts" at the CRU and similar institutions. Readers interested in investigating evidence that shows the CRU e-mail scandal is just the tip of the iceberg may want to check other sources, such as those here, here, and here, that have been reporting on and documenting the bias, abuses, and unethical practices of the climate alarmists for years.
Click here to read more: Climategate: George Monbiot's Lament
Thankfully, investigations have begun in England and in the US.
But what do you think? Should an apology and a promise to "do right" the next time be enough for these scientists? Personally, I think they need to earn back trust. That's usually what happens when people lie and cheat.
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They DO, however, need to keep going. Global warming isn't gonna stop of its own accord, whether you believe it exists or not.
Did you hear today that some of the emails were leaked to the BBC months ago and they sat on them? Makes me wonder if the "hacking" was encouraged by whoever leaked the emails in the first place. And....I wonder if they tried to leak them here too...
I think I watch too many of those end of the world type movies where the global warming does us in.....is there even a way to stop it anyway?
"In the country's northern port in the town of Murmansk, the Marine Biological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences monitors life in and around the Barents Sea.
The institute has amassed an impressive database concerning temperature and salinity of the sea over the course of the 20th century. Referring to the statistics, biologist Pavel Makarevich says there are clear cycles during which both temperature and salinity rise and fall. These cycles, he says, are related to solar activity.
Murmansk harborBildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Murmansk is Russia's gateway to the Arctic waters
"In my opinion and that of our institute, the problems connected to the current stage of warming are being exaggerated," he says. "What we are dealing with is not a global warming of the atmosphere or of the oceans."
Makarevich expects a normalization of Arctic temperatures in the coming years. This view appears to have the support of a growing number of Russian scientists. Some even predict a temporary cooling of temperatures towards the middle of this century, a phenomenon known as a "Little Ice Age." "
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4921542,00.html