Further evidence comes to light this morning with regard to the deliberate hiding of data by a coupe of the scientists right at the heart of the global warming scandal.
OK, you may think that a bit "old hat". But what IS interesting is that this piece of investigative journalism comes from The Guardian! 
What is even more interesting is that the journos at The Guardian tipped off the most popular sceptic WUWT website before they published the story.
Wow. The AGW bandwagon seems to be having a slow-motion crash.
Most enjoyable to watch. 
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/01/climategate-intensifies-jones-and-wang-hid-chinese-station-data-issues/
Perhaps the AGW protagonists are becoming concerned that the positive publicity they’ve enjoyed and capitalised on for so long has been turned and used to cause a dent in their case.
The by-line in that Guardian article leads us to that gold-plated environmentalist Pierce who seems to recognises the import of this counter argument, as he ends a piece with this paragraph;
I have been speaking to a PR operator for one of the world’s leading environmental organizations. Most unusually, he didn’t want to be quoted. But his message is clear. The facts of the e-mails barely matter any more. It has always been hard to persuade the public that invisible gases could somehow warm the planet, and that they had to make sacrifices to prevent that from happening. It seemed, on the verge of Copenhagen, as if that might be about to be achieved
But he says all that ended on Nov. 20. “The e-mails represented a seminal moment in the climate debate of the last five years, and it was a moment that broke decisively against us. I think the CRU leak is nothing less than catastrophic
Read more at;
http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2221
Good link, Zulu.
Fred Pierce seems to have suffered a complete Damascene conversion at that point! 
This is from tomorrow's Grauniad:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/02/hacked-climate-emails-flaws-peer-review
It seems that those who support the AGW theory are going out of their way to add credibility to the message by appearing to address these anomalies found in the research up to the moment.
Far from being made in the pursuit of having good scientific data to back the theory, I suspect the hand of political manipulation here and as far as I can see, that hand is being guided by the Climate Secretary Ed Milliband.
It's gratifying that Mr Milliband is able to keep an open mind on the potential requirement for radical change based on such controversial science.
The perceived failure of global talks in Copenhagen last month on combating climate change has also been blamed for undermining public support. Yet, in the government's first high-level recognition of the growing pressure on public opinion, Milliband declared a "battle" against the "siren voices" who denied global warming was real or caused by humans, or that there was a need to cut carbon emissions to tackle itTo make the following more palatable no doubt;
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The danger of climate scepticism was that it would undermine public support for unpopular decisions needed to curb carbon emissions, including the likelihood of higher energy bills for households, and issues such as the visual impact of wind turbines, said Milliband, who is also energy secretary[/size]
Read more here at;
http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=24375This rush to create policy to deal with the effects - on human wellbeing - of a warming climate based on the science used by the IPCC, has done nothing but confuse the issue, and will divert billions of dollars into schemes that will do little to address the undoubted effects of this eventual warming.
It certainly will, however, swell the coffers of those who have already jumped onto the bandwagon, seeing this as an opportunity to amass money – and power - on a hitherto impossible scale.
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