The head of the UN’s climate science body says claims that UK scientists manipulated data on global warming should be investigated.

Dr Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said the matter could not be swept “under the carpet”.

I guess you can’t subvert the investigation from the outside.

In the end, it was the fact that it was such a close match for “Word”, and the animated gif, that put it over the top…..if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck….its a duck. That and the continual drips and drabs…that it wasn’t properly vetted, etc…without CBS every admitting it was a fraud.

Now we have the duck quacking, and someone already stepping aside (M Mapes)..and awaiting the internal investigation (internal whitewash without admitting anything). The drips and drabs are starting to come out…and he’s still insisting its all nothing. Like you said…doesn’t really matter. But, can’t help noticing the irony.

I did on one post. Please provide a link and I will!

I think you might want to incorporate the work that ChiefIO was done on GISSTemp. JeffId has a link to him. The most significant of his findings — the oldest continuous sites show no warming trend over the last 100 years. That’s hundreds of sites around the world. Lots of other interesting stuff, too.

I agree that a smoking gun or guns is an effective way to blow a hole in the alarmist case. But I also think that people need to focus on the gross incompetence. Mann obviously has been exposed as an amateur at stats and software who has bungled everything he touched. But he’s not alone. CRU and GISS both have been exposed as amateur garbage. So has Tom Karl and Tom Peterson’s outfit. The biggest aspect of Anthony Watts’ expose is not that the siting is so horrible (bad enough), but that no one was competent enough to think to check the instruments. What a bunch of bozos! What kind of scientist doesn’t think to check and calibrate his instruments?! Yet, NONE of them did. Amazing.

Charles may never come around. Honestly – who cares? Their will always be a lot of heads in the sand on this one.

Given their behavior, it’s ironic that they call people who question their tactics, motives, money, data and conclusions…science “deniers”. It’s further ironic that they view this all as a “smear” campaign, designed to cloud the issues and truth behind the science, funded by big money. Not to mention the use of scare tactics. Pot…meet kettle.

As to your question will it matter – yes it will because the politicians are realizing they may be standing on very shaky ground. Public opinion is turning away from the concept of AGW, the planet is cooling, and the pols don’t have the first clue who is right.

So when they see something so clear as this, something even they can grasp, they will move. Once the pols run for cover it is over.

How does it feel to be complicit in a crime? Ha!

Actually, this is one of the few issues I think you’ve got right. (Your coverage has been very informative too)

As for the 1940 blip even if it is a ‘smoking gun’ will it matter politically speaking if it never gets reported by the MSM? The major US media have largely ignored it. The French media have said nothing. Only a couple of known conservative Canadian papers are reporting it. Just last night the BBC had another report on the urgency of stopping global warming. Obama is still going to Copenhagen. I don’t think anything is going to change.