croc :
All this story proves is that at one university there were some dirty tricks going on. It does not prove or disprove global warning, climate change, or whatever. You seem to have swallowed the US far rights bait hook, line and sinker.
No, it's more than just one university. The corruption extends to Penn State, Arizona State, and other Universities here in the U.S. That is the core of the modelers by which the global warmers get their data that say that the earth is going to burn up if nothing is done, like Al Gore keeps saying. The whole global warming movement is based on those computer models and now these models are shown to be false because of deleted or ignored data that contradicts the whole global warming modeling scheme. So you are way over minimizing this. The whole emphasis of the global warming crowd is basing their claims on these computer models which have been now shown to be wrong, false, untrue.
Currently the climate on the planet IS COOLING. It is not conjecture, it is fact. And the whole projection that the earth is warming is based on a faulty computer models that these universities use. The earth is cooling and that proves their computer models are false. As in WRONG. The whole basis for global warming, as predicted by these computer models, is WRONG. But rather than adjust their models to account for the cooling, adjusting their models according to reality, these "scientists" fudged with the data, adding to the temperature values that is not supported in actual data, adding values made up out of whole cloth, so that their models would be right, so that their personal view would be correct contrary to what actual data and observations were showing. The whole idea of man-made global warming is false because the computer models that they use to predict global warming is wrong, as in UNTRUE, FALSE. So, these scientists are not scientists because real scientists operate on actual data observed. By politicizing their data, they actually become political scientists, politicians, not scientists.
And on top of that, these "scientists" tried to suppress information that did not support their view. And they would not let anyone out of their close knit group see their data. And when a freedom of information act request was made to see their data, they wrote to each other discussing how they were going to hide what they didn't want known about their faulty computer models and faulty research. And these are the people that all the global warming supporters such as Al Gore, and all the other global warming activists claim is the undisputed science. How can faulty computer models and faulty data be undisputed? It's all a lie. there is no other way to put it. Data is either wrong or not. 5 = 5 and not 4 or 3 or 2. They are saying we are seeing 5, but we want it to be 7. So we will change some data so that our data will show 7. That is not science, it's politics. I'd say it's more like you have fallen for the liberal, global warming lie, hook, line, sinker.
We arent' talking about pollution. Pollution is not synonymous with global warming. A piece of paper on the ground is pollution, but is it causing global warming? No. Sure, the air can be cleaner, but dirty air is not synonymous with global warming, it isn't the same. And now we know that CO2 has nothing to do with the temperature of the earth because the models that were claiming that it does have been proven to be wrong.