I’ve been reading some of the e-mails. The CRU guys and the media are claiming that they’re being taken out of context. The problem is that many of these are fully threaded e-mails. You get the full context because you can see the whole conversation. Sure they’re throwing around acronyms that might not be familiar, but that’s what search engines are for.

OT: I have a gmail account that I use for my personal stuff. I sent an e-mail to my work account last night that had several conservative URLs in the body so I could remember them. Oddly, that e-mail just disappeared into the ether. More oddly, we use Google’s Postini filtering service, no it wasn’t caught in the spam filter, I checked. I just mention this as an interesting coincidence to see if anybody else has had any “odd” things happen with Gmail.

Of course! The data disagree with your theory. How could they possibly be right? The data and the forces that create them should definitely stop passing notes and pay attention to the professor! Whatever the professor says is right and the forces of nature need to realize that, and the sooner the better!