Great Responses... No, Not Really.

The BBC’s Andrew Neil absolutely grills Chief Scientist at the UK’s Department for the Environment, Professor Robert Watson. And who is Watson? Well, Al Gore called him “Hero of the Planet.”
What kind of garbage is this? Does anyone believe these responses at all anymore?

"We've identified the problem and we're working on making sure it never happens again". Yet nobody is punished (aside from the sacrificial lamb/scapegoat) and nothing is done to ensure it never happens again. This is likely due to the second overused excuse.

"I wasn't employed in that capacity at the time so I didn't know and shouldn't have known that the problem existed." This is another lame excuse wherein the person on the hot seat not only absolves him/herself of any past responsibility but also any future person guilty of the same shortcomings. By the time the issue comes to light, there will be a new person in that position who'll claim the same thing.

 Of course, the person who is actually in the position of responsibility and accountability at the time of the "incident" will be shuffled into a similar but different position mostly so they can claim that they're no longer responsibility for such matters.

Does all of this sound confusing? I think it's confusing by design. Just think of it as one big shell game where nobody wins except the shells.




From ClimateGate.
Cross-posted at WOMBAT's Blog.