It was BAD SCIENCE. The famous Hockey Stick graph - the number 1 pusher for having to deal with the problem turned out to be BOGUS. Samples of tree rings not favorable to the study were dropped out. The study deliberately chose not to show earlier warming which was greater because it would undermine the study.
The Climate Emails showed deliberate deceptions and underhanded tactics. Not only this but other claims turned out NOT TO BE SCIENTIFIC.
Not to mention a boat load of Hurricanes that didn't hit the US each year for the last 3 years as projected.
It was just plain bad science pushed by politics.
Well, on that note, it is worthwhile to recall the words of one Dwight David Eisenhower.
In the same farewell speech that the Left likes to quote so frequently in which he warns of the "military-industrial complex", he also very much warns of the Big Science / Big Government complex.
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades. In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present -- and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
What was have here with ClimateGate and all the Green nonsense pushed by politicians as a means to a power grab is exhibit A for the prescience of Eisenhower on this issue.