Scientist talks about adding a 'trick' to graph
(NEWSER) - Hackers have gotten their hands on a trove of emails from leading climate scientists, and global warming skeptics are rejoicing. They say the emails prove the crisis is overblown and are crowing about one in particular, from 1999, in which a scientist plans to add a "trick" to a graph to "hide the decline" in temperatures. In another, a scientist calls skeptics "idiots." The emails will raise doubts on some specific questions and embarrass individual scientists, but that's likely the extent of the damage, writes Andrew C. Revkin in the New York Times . More»
