There's only one solution to be secured in the developing Climategate scandal.
Release the data!
Eric S. Raymond:
Open-Sourcing the Global Warming Debate
The email and documents recently netjacked from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia raise serious questions about the quality of the research being used to underpin major public-policy decisions.
In the open-source software community, we understand about human error and sloppiness and the tendency to get too caught up in a pet theory. We know that the most effective way way to combat these tendencies is transparency of process — letting the code speak for itself, and opening the sources to skeptical peer review by anyone.
There is only one way to cut through all of the conflicting claims and agendas about the CRU’s research: open-source it all. Publish the primary data sets, publish the programs used to interpret them and create graphs like the well-known global-temperature “hockey stick”, publish everything. Let the code and the data speak for itself; let the facts trump speculation and interpretation. [link]
To this point in time, those driving the global warming stampede have guarded zealously the foundational data that gives rise to their apocalyptic theories of doom. At every turn, they've refused to release that data in part or in whole. To this very day, much of it remains a secret.
Oddly, the scientific community has been accepting of this unusual circumstance.
Well now, with the release of the emails that have launched Climategate, the integrity of the climate alarmists - and their data - are called into serious question.
The only way to overcome this loss of moral high ground is to be completely open with the data and methodologies.
The forthrightness of those at the center of the firestorm will also be an indicator as to just how aboveboard they really are.
I have my doubts, of course ...
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Mohammad al-Sabban: "“No one has been as badly let down by the revelations in these emails as those of us who have championed the science. We should be the first to demand that it is [sic] unimpeachable, not the last.”