Climategate: the scandal spreads, the plot thickens, the shame deepens…

James Delingpole discovers that New Zealand tax-eating 'scientists' have been up to the same rotten data-massaging tricks that their UK cousins have been up to.

Here is some raw data:


And here is a published chart drawn from that same data:



Why is it the raw data looks completely neutral, yet the published data shows a definite warming trend? As Mr Spock might have said; Fascinating.

I'm sure large tenured salaries, generous research budgets, and a pre-disposition to wanting to see a warming trend had absolutely nothing to do with it.

Absolutely nothing.