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Offline sam

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Scientists Respond to "Climategate" E-Mail Controversy
« on: December 06, 2009, 01:05 »
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=scientists-respond-to-climategate-controversy

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Stolen e-mails and computer code do nothing to change average temperature trends, but they could damage climate researchers' credibility just when polls are showing public belief that greenhouse gases are warming the planet is ebbing
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Re: Scientists Respond to "Climategate" E-Mail Controversy
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2009, 03:04 »
There's nothing particularly notable about this staged Newsnight debate on Friday until the professor makes a comment which suggests he thought the cameras had stopped rolling.  They hadn't.

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Re: Scientists Respond to "Climategate" E-Mail Controversy
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2009, 05:19 »
nice  :laugh: (2:40 in if you just wanna skip to it!).

I thought both just came across as floundering idiots.
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Re: Scientists Respond to "Climategate" E-Mail Controversy
« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2009, 10:59 »
I gave up waiting for it to load.  And YouTube are supposed to be 'broadcasting' full programmes?  ::)
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