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CLIMATEGATE: IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES, Clive Crook writes: ?It is not enough for climate scientists ?

By Glenn Reynolds

CLIMATEGATE: IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES, Clive Crook writes: “It is not enough for climate scientists and environment ministers to go to Copenhagen and tell each other how right they are. They also need to convince the public. National politics ? the democratic process ? is awfully inconvenient sometimes, but cannot be waved away. . . . Aiming to smear the doubters and shut them up is just bad science, and from a public-relations point of view is wholly counter-productive. . . . For the sake of their own credibility, scientists should maintain a cautious distance from politics, and those who take up politics should not expect the deference to disinterested scholars they would otherwise deserve.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on December 15, 2009 (boomark / email).