I won’t take the Sun Journal to task for not covering ClimateGate. Larger mainstream news organizations call ClimateGate a minor scientific dust-up of little interest to the general public. “Nothing to see here, folks, move along.”

So, I do move along — to the Internet. I browse a range of coverage and get a wide array of analyses.

My conclusion to this point: Anthropogenic global warming is a hoax. Last month, a whistleblower posted e-mails and data from East Anglia University’s climate research unit in the United Kingdom that expose the hoax’s perpetrators.

UEA’s Jones and Briffa and Penn State’s Mike Mann write back and forth about manipulating raw data to create their famous hockey stick graph, supposedly dramatizing rising recent temps. They write about refusing other scientists a peek at the raw data under Britain’s Freedom of Information Act, and share ways to prevent papers by skeptical scientists from getting published.

Throughout, their motives are political, not scientific.

The data shows a frustrated-beyond-words statistician attached to the climate research unit dealing unsuccessfully with raw data he ultimately brands as “hopeless.” Poorly formatted, missing titles, riven with gaps, missing labels and keys, Ian Harris confesses to glossing over difficulties, even making up data to get a statistics set that confirms the already produced hockey stick graph.

Harris’ conclusion? “There is no uniform data integrity. It’s just a catalogue of issues that continues to grow as they’re found.”

The anthropogenic global warming database is statistically corrupt and the scientists are morally corrupt.

Leonard Hoy, Greenwood