Wall Street Journal - The Science and Politics of Climate Change

Mike Hulme, one of those scientists with emails involved in "climategate", has written this article about the meaning of science and its involvement in political battlefields. No side is specifically taken but there definitely seems to be bias toward realism. I will not try to paraphrase this article, I strongly suggest that anyone and everyone read it.

I am a climate scientist who worked in the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in the 1990s. I have been reflecting on the bigger lessons to be learned from the stolen emails, some of which were mine. One thing the episode has made clear is that it has become difficult to disentangle political arguments about climate policies from scientific arguments about the evidence for man-made climate change and the confidence placed in predictions of future change. The quality of both political debate and scientific practice suffers as a consequence.

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Science never writes closed textbooks. It does not offer us a holy scripture, infallible and complete.
-Mike Hulme