On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:02:59 +1030, Surfer wrote:

Our global temperature series tallies with those of other, completely
independent, groups of scientists working for NASA and the National
Climate Data Center in the United States, among others. Even if you were
to ignore our findings, theirs show the same results. The facts speak
for themselves; there is no need for anyone to manipulate them.

He's not lying there. Even though CRU has always refused to publicise
their raw data, for some totally bizarre reason of their own, their
secondary research pretty much matches that of US NCDC, NOAA, Satellite
data as interpreted by RSS and UAH, and NASA's GISTEMP. The raw data
used by all these groups is publicly available.

This is why the discovery of the word "trick" in 65 meg of email
correspondence really isn't news of any sort, despite the wailing
hysteria rightwing bloggers.