A couple of years ago, it was revealed through a series of emails that researchers at a well-regarded climate change research facility had worked to silence credible researchers who questioned claims about “global warming.” One even threatened violence against a skeptical scientist.
Moreover, the government-funded facility, at Britain’s University of East Anglia, stonewalled freedom-of-information requests about its data and other materials.
Impartial scientists should not fear transparency about their work. But the science of global warming too often has been politicized, and now it is happening again.
Newly released email, also related to the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, shows that dispassionate scientific inquiry was often laid aside in favor of promoting the view that man’s use of fossil fuels is disastrously heating the Earth.
The Washington Post reports on one batch of the email: “An official from the British Met Office, a scientific organization that analyzes the climate, writes to the Climate Research Unit’s then-director, Phil Jones: ‘Observations do not show rising temperatures throughout the tropical troposphere unless you accept one single study and approach and discount a wealth of others. This is just downright dangerous. We need to communicate the uncertainty and be honest.”