Much of the trumpeting over AGW has been about "consensus among the scientific community", as if scientists get to vote to decide what's true.<p>We are now discovering that if there is, indeed, such a consensus, then it's partly due to derailing the literature (see Hadley) or selling to us media sources as if they were scientists doing real research.<p>I think they've got a lot to apologize for, and they now have a lot of work to try and prove their views to a world that has every reason to be critical.