Climategate: The Smoking Code by Robert Greiner crossposted from his blog. All the bold is his emphasis.

First, let’s get this out of the way: Emails prove nothing. Sure, you can look like an unethical asshole who may have committed a felony using government funded money; but all email is, is talk, and talk is cheap.

Now, here is some actual proof that the CRU was deliberately tampering with their data. Unfortunately, for readability’s sake, this code was written in Interactive Data Language (IDL) and is a pain to go through.

He then goes through the code–this isn’t an area I can comment on as I don’t have the training, but you can wade through his analysis. Here’s part of his summary:

As you can see, (potentially) valid temperature station readings were taken and skewed to fabricate the results the “scientists” at the CRU wanted to believe, not what actually occurred.

Where do we go from here?

It’s not as cut-and-try as one might think. First and foremost, this doesn’t necessarily prove anything about global warming as science. It just shows that all of the data that was the chief result of most of the environmental legislation created over the last decade was a farce.

This means that all of those billions of dollars we spent as a global community to combat global warming may have been for nothing.

If news station anchors and politicians were trained as engineers, they would be able to find real proof and not just speculate about the meaning of emails that only made it appear as if something illegal happened.

Some posts of interest

So much is being written about Climategate and the fallout from it, it is tough to cover it all….

In that post he links to one on Google-gate

I’ll work on putting some of the Google-gate info in an update to the post.

(I’ve changed my mind–I’m going to do a separate post).