Friday, July 9, 2010

Explosion? Nope. Barely a “pop”

     From today’s issue of physicist Robert L. Park’s weekly newsletter, “What’s New”:
     Last week we reported that Michael Mann, the Penn State University climate scientist who played a key role in alerting the world to global warming, was exonerated by the University in the climategate controversy that broke in December (here).
     On Wednesday, a British panel exonerated the members of the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University in the UK. However, the scientists had failed to uphold the standards of openness on which the credibility and influence of science is grounded.
     Everyone involved has now been held accountable for their actions, except the unknown hackers who broke the law. They must have imagined the [selectively revealed] e-mails would set off an explosion, but it was in the end a barely audible "pop."….

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...