Despite the best efforts of CRU “climatologists,” the scandal ignited by the hacking of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit just keeps gaining traction.

The most recent problem facing the CRU?  They have destroyed much of the raw data they used to support their man-made global warming claims.

Most of the data in question was erased in the 1980’s, and serves, to this day, as the foundation upon which the CRU databases are built.  With the original numbers gone, there is essentially no way for other scientists to check the work the CRU has been doing for the last 30 years. 

A statement on the CRU website reads “We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data.” 

Professor Phil Jones, the CRU director, maintains that a temperature increase of 0.8 Degrees Celsius over the last 157 years is “unequivocally” related to mankind’s greenhouse gas emissions.   However, the fact that the data on which he bases that claim is gone has sent shock waves through the scientific community.

As Roger Pielke, an environmental studies professor at Colorado University puts it: “The CRU is basically saying ‘Trust us’.  So much for settling questions and  resolving debates with science.”

We are told constantly that faith and science don’t mix.  Science is provable, demonstrable, and based in quantifiable fact.  Why then should the CRU just expect the world to have faith in their numbers, especially in the wake of emails that show that its scientists were cooking the books?

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” – Carl Sagan

- Robert Laurie