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Originally Posted by bobcdy
There seems little doubt that the world climate has been warming starting about 1960; evidence is strong about that. A problem, though, is that warming has hesitated for the last 10 years, a feature that doesn't seem compatible with the increase in CO2 proposed as the cause of warming because CO2 has kept increasing during that time period.
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Natural climate variability on interannual and decadal time scales means that this isn't really incompatible at all. See, for example,
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Is-t...r-cooling.html
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Couple that with the scandal of missing data used in making models of climate change, that disclosed by the stolen emails of attempts to keep skeptics from publishing in peer-reviewed journals, and the shortness (about 50 years or less) of the warming interval suggests that the case for human-caused warming is not a strong as many have proposed.
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I work for Canada's meteorological service, which is responsible for our national weather and climate observing network. The data sets that were "destroyed" at UEA in the 80s are still very much present in each nation's data archive. They're not irretrievably lost for eternity. They're just not at CRU anymore. I'd consider this to be a minor problem.
As a scientist, the obfuscation/hiding/deletion of station lists etc. used in the creation of the HadCRUT dataset, as well as some of the tactics employed with respect to journals and editors, etc. are more disturbing.