Climate change: everyone cleared

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Climate change: everyone cleared

Postby Penta » Wed Jul 07, 2010 3:26 pm

All the serious enquiries into "climategate" are coming out, and as far as I can tell, everyone involved has been cleared of serious wrongdoing or perverting the data (apart from the Himalayan glacier mistake).

Dutch govt review of IPCC:
http://www.businessgreen.com/business-g ... tists-warn

Russell review of UEA researchers:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... dishonesty

I think there've been 3 inquiries about Michael Mann, all of which have cleared him (but I haven't got a link to hand).

US climate scientists in particular are still apparently receiving loads of death threats and, thanks to freedom of speech, can't do anything about them:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... limategate

And in the meantime, we do almost nothing to stop climate change, which isn't going to go away by itself. Is it simply an example of the Prisoners' Dilemma, as the wiki page claims:

In environmental studies, the PD is evident in crises such as global climate change. All countries will benefit from a stable climate, but any single country is often hesitant to curb CO2 emissions. The benefit to an individual country to maintain current behavior is greater than the benefit to all countries if behavior was changed, therefore explaining the current impasse concerning climate change.
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