The scandal of fiddled global warming data

The US has actually been cooling since the Thirties, the hottest decade on record
A scene from 'The Day After Tomorrow': in reality, officially approved scientists fudge the data
By Christopher Booker
4:04PM BST 21 Jun 2014
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