Mike Hulme and Jerome Ravetz ( famous for the quote:”Wherever there’s a system, there’s a racket to beat it.”) have been granted a momentous public platform to plead the case for reform of the scientific process. In a clear acknowledgement to the invaluable public service that the blogosphere ( most obviously Climate Audit and Wattsupwiththat) the very thoughtful and wordy piece knocks into a cocked hat all the usual drivel written by most ‘environment correspondents’ from the mainstream media.

At last there appears a chink of light to guide the public out of the murk created by the IPCC and vested political lobbyists.

I’m a librarian and get touchy about such things

Their only defense is that the dog ate the data. Otherwise the Had Crew have erased the original data. This is the only possible explanation if they do not produce it. Forget thee-mails, secondary; look at the S/W code: a disgrace.

But, also, bear in mind one more point. When one is accused of fraud, or cheating, or lying, in the UK, you can always resort to slander and liberl laws. The fact that these lying, fraudulent crimatologists haven’t done this is an admittal of their guilt.

Burn in hell, crimatalogists.

Like post-factum you know.