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Dr. Judith Curry – a climate scientist who is an Anthropogenic Global Warming alarmist, but not an elite member of “the team,” i.e. Gavin Schmidt, James Hansen, Phil Jones – has offered up a proverbial olive branch in the interest of “rebuilding” the “trust” the climategate scandal has demolished.

Of course, she can’t resist using the olive branch to take a few swipes at the people she’s offering it to, referring to “deniers” and suggesting that skepticism of AGW was initially funded by “Big Oil.” (I still haven’t received a check from “big oil” or even a gas gift card.)

Watts Up With That contributor Willis Eschenbach (who’s been mentioned on this blog before) responded aptly to Curry’s semi-open hand.

The solution to [restoring credibility] is not, as you suggest, to give scientists a wider voice, or educate them in how to present their garbage to a wider audience.

The solution is for you to stop trying to pass off garbage as science. The solution is for you establishment climate scientists to police your own back yard. When Climategate broke, there was widespread outrage … well, widespread everywhere except in the climate science establishment. Other than a few lone voices, the silence there was deafening. Now there is another whitewash investigation, and the silence only deepens.

And you wonder why we don’t trust you? Here’s a clue. Because a whole bunch of you are guilty of egregious and repeated scientific malfeasance, and the rest of you are complicit in the crime by your silence. Your response is to stick your fingers in your ears and cover your eyes. [emphasis in original]

Read the whole thing.

Howard Friel has published a book called “The Lomborg Deception.” Newsweek “science editor” Sharon Begley praises it. Armed Liberal notes that Begley shoots herself in the foot on her credibility.

But, the most entertaining bit of all is Lomborg’s response. [PDF format]

Now, I don’t agree with Lomborg’s take on the AGW hypothesis (he believes it). But where Lomborg is right is when he notes that the “cure” of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by halting the burning of fossil fuels is far worse than the disease.

Some of you in low-lying areas were worried.

Scientists have been forced to withdraw a study on projected sea level rise due to global warming after finding mistakes that undermined the findings.

The study, published in 2009 in Nature Geoscience, one of the top journals in its field, confirmed the conclusions of the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It used data over the last 22,000 years to predict that sea level would rise by between 7cm and 82cm by the end of the century.

Of course, now scientists global warming alarmists are suggesting that the sea level rise may be even higher. Of course, that’s not based on science, but upon grant applications.