Here is an article that covers some of the same aspects of the Hadley CRU email story that I covered in a post yesterday, but with more detail in some areas. Here is some more about 'cherry picking' data. I like calling the AGW hypothesis the 'greenhouse gas hypothesis' because the catastrophic global warming supporters only consider greenhouse gases, and ignore other possible anthropogenic causes of warming. The reason for this, I think, is that they want to reduce energy consumption that is primarily provided by fossil fuel combustion. Reducing energy is the key part of the socialists agenda for the destruction of capitalism. The scientists invoved in the global warming cabal may be apolitical, but the politicians that provided the money and drove the policy debate are purely political with no real interest in science.