@ breakfast

" The story here is: "Programming error found, corrected."

There is certainly an IT angle, but I don't think it's really all that big of a deal, no matter what the denial industry would have us believe."

Afraid I have to disagree with that. The issue is the behaviour of one of the foremost activist / scientists in the world today, James Hansen. I use that oxymoron deliberately in this case.

Speaking personally, if one of my colleagues behaved with such high handedness and a lack of transparency, I wouldn't trust a thing they say. Bullshit is bullshit in any language and in any field of scientific activity and I've seen enough of this kind of behaviour in the past to know what it means.