The Empiricist

In the past two weeks there have been some remarkable developments in the climate change debate. First, a key dataset used to prove the case for global warming has disappeared and those involved aren’t talking about it. See this article for more: The dog ate global warming, although it’s all over the blogosphere.
Then Steve Macintyre of Climateaudit managed to get his hands on a hitherto secret database that had been used to construct the Manne hockey stick- that graph that Gore shows you in An Inconvenient Truth that shows global temperatures spiking in the 20th century. It turns out that the data was cherry picked. When a more complete dataset is used, there is no spike.
And of course earlier this year was Ian Plimer’s epic book on the topic, Heaven and Earth.
Anyone who still believes in climate change is behind the times.