Climategate? Seriously?

Going to be in Amherst this weekend, not much else to update, but just in case 'climate gate' has you wondering, yes! global warming is happening, yes! it is caused by anthropogenic emissions (we can prove it with isotope analysis! 13C does not lie!) and no! science is not dead, it just so happens that some scientists are irresponsible and think that raw data needs a lot of dumbing down because the public is so fucking stupid.

FYI:
The 'decline' they are talking about is one of three proxies for temperature before we started recording temperatures in a standardized way in the 50s. This particular proxy, because it comes from tree rings, is notoriously hard to detangle from all the other trends that would effect width of a tree ring (temperature, yes, but also precipitation, nutrient availability, age of the stand, looooots of stuff). All this shit has to be crammed into models that generate a lot of error. However, if you look at the raw data with error bars (which these scientists *tsk tsk* did not report), this dip doesn't really take away from the overall warming trend. In fact, there is a LOT of variability in temperature interannually and deviations from a strict UP trend are to be expected, because the real world is messy. i am satisfied as long as the general regression line goes up at the end of the day, which it does.

I'm really pretty offended by the way FOX (et al.) are playing this off to be some kind of 'science-wide' conspiracy again good, hard-working americans, trying to make them give up driving their cars and using electricity.

I have only one question for you, right-wing pundit: what is our fucking motivation? I don't want to pay enormous energy bills or walk to school either. There is absolutely no good reason for the scientific community to 'make up' global warming'. We have fuck-all to gain. Well, I guess we DO have a trillion dollar oil industry backing us....oh, oh wait....that's you guys.
But sure, CO2 levels aren't rising, you're head is just oxygen-deprived from being up your ass all day.