How can you believe an article that's obviously biased? The fact that they use the word "alarmism" and "gaping hole" indicates an agenda rather than a dispassionate assessment of the data.
Like the other side's dispassionate assessment of the data? Really? You alarmist started this slippery slope back in the 70's making dire predictions based on models and not facts. You guys play loose and fast with (falsified) data and now you want some decorum?
Sciencific fraud of this magnitude would have completely and totally invalidated any arguement people were trying to propose:
1. Manipulate the data supporting the claims of a sudden and dangerous increase in the earths temperature;
2. Not disclose private doubts about whether the world was actually heating up;
Suppress evidence that contradicted the hypothesis of anthropogenic global warming (AGW);
3. Disguise the facts around the Medieval Warm Period, when the earth was warmer that it is today;
4. Suppress opposition by squeezing dissenting scientists out of the peer review process.
You got a lot of nerve man.