What is Climategate?

Climategate refers to the systematic one-sided research and reporting of global warming as well as the extreme measures of what to do about it.

I am an engineer. Engineers like to design things with the knowledge they gain. Engineers may not make the best scientists because science is about the pure gathering of knowledge without applying it. But I can say scientists do not make the best engineers. The most brilliant chemist might not be able to bake decent cupcakes. So don't count on a scientist to find the solution to a global problem. This is not their area. I'd like to see a lot of small-scale experiments before drawing any conclusions about what to do. If you tell me there isn't time, I'm afraid I don't buy into that pressure tactic, you're just going to have to sweat it out while I (and others) look at the situation. This will take a century or so.

Let's move beyond the engineering and talk about climate science. We've seen CO2 levels go up and we've seen temperature records rising but we don't know if the two are connected. It's a little like the athlete that has to wear the same underwear at every game because that's what he wore every time he won in his early days. Today, the science of global warming has not risen above the level of superstition, but we're making progress! Give it another century or two.