So, the big Copenhagen climate conference is almost halfway over, and everybody (other than, it appears, Danish prostitutes) is having a grand old time. Tuvalu finds itself a household word; pedal pushers are powering up their own smoothies; the future is apologizing; inflatable-globe producers are making a mint; as are limo drivers; the local police got a cool new water cannon; Viscount Monckton is again trodding on Godwin’s Law; kids are rubbing the bellies of giant pigs. Such attention is swell for the swine, but it seems that another important mammal, the elephant in the room, is being studiously ignored.
I’m referring, of course to the giant trove of e-mails that were hacked and released from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Britain last month. The Times’s Andrew C. Revkin says the documents “will undoubtedly raise questions about the quality of research on some specific questions and the actions of some scientists.”
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