What needs to be explored is not the validity of the secular trend, but the nature of the local influences working against it. By rushing to apologize for a statement they clearly did not understand, British Secretary for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband and others have impugned not only the honesty of scientists like Hasnain, but also the credibility of science itself.
这次所谓的“冰川门”事件说明，的确需要重新检讨我们的认识，但不是对冰川退化这一长期趋势的认识，而是对干扰退化趋势的当地因素的认识。英国能源安全与气候变化大臣米利班德（ Ed Miliband ）和其他一干人等忙不迭地出来为他们自己也一知半解的事情道歉，不光是在糟蹋哈斯南等诚实科学家的声誉，也是在糟蹋科学本身的信誉。