The climate control meeting is proceeding in Copenhagen as if climategate had never happened. Yet the shoring holding up their platform is eroding away daily. The latest shoe to drop comes from the Russians who report that Hadley CRU cherry picked the temperature data from Russia by ignoring huge areas that have been getting colder rather than warming. This is on top of revelations from New Zealand, Australia, and the United States that data were fudged to make recent warming more pronounced. It appears that the temperature records that have been used to support the AGW hypothesis are corrupt, and indicate significantly more warming than has actually occurred. There are also now reports that soot in the air rather than CO2 may be responsible for half of the warming that has occurred, particularly warming in the arctic. This was not included in the GCMs used to project future temperature. Land use changes have also had a significant impact in my opinion, and these have also not been included in the GCMs.