After the CRU story broke, I mentioned to the husband that there have been a dearth of good, solid hacks in the last several years. There have been malicious hacks, hacks done for financial gain, politically motivated hacks, but there haven’t been many hacks for the public good. The CRU hack is a sweet one, opening a door into the insular, agenda-driven world of paleoclimatology, a field whose data are the justification for the shifting of trillions of dollars of the world’s richest nations. (Not to mention the massive guilt visited upon the unscientific middle classes of said nations.)
Once upon a time, I paid much more attention to this sort of thing. Now I’ve become a passive PC consumer, which makes me a bit sad.
Oh, look at that–I’m already over it. I’m just glad somebody’s doing some good out there.
Ed Begley Jr makes the case for cooler heads to prevail in his discussion with Stuart Varney on Fox News.