Guardian: Climate researchers have suffered from a very severe loss of public confidence and trust in their competence and integrity over the last three years. Meteorologists now have an opportunity to repair the damage and to restore the role of the profession in the democratic processes of public debate and policy-making.
A YouGov poll carried out on 3-4 December 2009 (a couple of weeks after the "climategate" emails first appeared online) found that only 41% of the public agreed that, in general, they...