If anyone thinks there's a hint of tweaking the data for non-scientific purposes, they are free to produce an analysis showing that Earth isn't warming," adds Michael Oppenheimer Hey, Mikey! How about proving that "warming" is anthropogenic and catastrophic?
"In fact, you have been free to do so for decades and haven't been able to."
Even before this latest revelation of collaborative calamity-mongering, Lil' Mikey's "hockey stick" graph was proven to be a fraud. Researchers have demonstrated conclusively that he created it only by omitting two crucial anomalous time periods from his calculations: the so-called "Little Ice Age" and the "Medieval Warm Period". Whoops. Where
did I put those five hundred years?
And about those famous tree core samples from the Ural Mountains (not, as popularly supposed, from Al Gore): over three hundred samples were collected, but they used only ten of them, from a total of three (3) trees. It must have been an oversight. Yep, that was it. Couldn't possibly be the work of a bunch of cherry-picking, grant-grabbing socialist hacks, now could it?