I imagine my thoughts on Swifthack are probably quite predictable. Even if the CRU turned out to have been an Al Qaida training camp, its work is one tiny part of the climate science. Even if all climate models evaporated and all paleo studies were suddenly magicked out of existence, we'd still have the physics of CO2 forcing and a vast pile of empirical evidence from the real world showing the climate's changing. For the basics, it's really not rocket science. It also won't matter what the inquiry finds, will it?
The computer has changed the very nature of mathematical experience, suggesting for the first time that mathematics, like physics, may yet become an empirical discipline, a place where things are discovered because they are seen.
Climategate
I imagine my thoughts on Swifthack are probably quite predictable. Even if the CRU turned out to have been an Al Qaida training camp, its work is one tiny part of the climate science. Even if all climate models evaporated and all paleo studies were suddenly magicked out of existence, we'd still have the physics of CO2 forcing and a vast pile of empirical evidence from the real world showing the climate's changing. For the basics, it's really not rocket science. It also won't matter what the inquiry finds, will it?