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Skeptics of global warming, who have long considered climate change a fraud, refer to the incident as "Climategate," with obvious intimations of scandal and cover-up. Advocates of action on warming call it "Swifthack," a reference to the 2004 character attacks on presidential candidate Senator John Kerry by the group then known as Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - in other words, an invented scandal propagated by conservatives and the media that does nothing to change the scientific case for climate change. (See TIME's special report on the environment...
...journal Climate Research, the paper that ignited his indignation is a 2003 study that turned out to be underwritten by the American Petroleum Institute. Eventually half the editorial board of the journal quit in protest. And even if CRU's climate data turns out to have some holes, the group is only one of four major agencies, including NASA, that contribute temperature data to major climate models - and CRU's data largely matches up with the others...
...effort by the fossil-fuel industry and other climate skeptics to undercut global-warming research - often by means that are far more nefarious than anything that appears in the CRU e-mails. George W. Bush's Administration attempted to censor NASA climatologist James Hansen, while the fossil-fuel industry group the Global Climate Coalition ignored its own scientists as it spread doubt about man-made global warming. That list of wrongdoing goes on. One of the main skeptic groups promoting the e-mail controversy, the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, was recently revealed to have links to the energy...
...Still, that didn't stop Hershey's Reese's Pieces stealing the category for confectionary in the round. In the fourth and final group - filled chocolates - Fry's Peppermint Cream, part of the Cadbury family, comfortably beat all-comers. (Read: "Despite Two Rebuffs, Kraft Is Still Sweet on Cadbury...
...Desertion rates are high - 1 in 4 soldiers trained last year, by some accounts. So are rates of drug addiction. Most important, the most effective elements of the military are dominated by ethnic Tajiks, which does little to help win support of the Pashtuns, the country's largest ethnic group and the one among which the insurgency is based. Unlike Iraq, Afghanistan had no powerful army or strong state before the U.S. went in - nor does it have the oil wealth that allows Iraq to pay for its own armed forces. There's also the question of whether they...