Hopeful NY Times Climategate article - dashed!

From yesterday's NYTimes: Scientists take steps to Defend Work on Climate there were a lot of great ideas floated, like admitting mistakes, making reforms in the process and opening up data.

If this had happened in the first place, I would never have started a blog. But all I saw for weeks was denial, deception and distraction that "Besides, all the rest of the science is good!"

While the article's ideas were good, the conclusion took off in a completely different direction,

“There have always been people accusing us of being fraudulent criminals, of the I.P.C.C. being corrupt,” Dr. Schmidt said. “What is new is this paranoia combined with a spell of cold weather in the United States and the ‘climategate’ release. It’s a perfect storm that has allowed the nutters to control the agenda.”

In other words, the accusers have become nutters, now that they are armed with more evidence than ever of badly conducted science.

This dismissive attitude and the substituting of name calling for problem solving is exactly the reason to keep pressure applied, when they see every revealed error as a risk to the progress of their galloping agenda.