The dots on the Cliimategate story are now being connected and a report today from Climate Skeptic demonstrates that the adjustments made to temperature readings are responsible for about 80% of the reported increases in temperatures.  Meaning that only 20% of the "hockey stick" can be attributed to any kind of reality-based temperature measurements, according to this report at Climate Skeptic.  

The way science is supposed to work is you go take measurements, you bring them back, build models using your observations and then make conclusions from what you observed.  In this case, the measurements were made and then "corrected" using fudge-factors, guesses and "corrections".  

As Before It's News reported earlier, the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit's (CRU) models are the smoking gun of Climategate because the source code contained comments that explicitly talked about the fudged data and the fact that these do not represent the naturally occurring temperatures:

Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline!!;

yrloc=[1400,findgen(19)*5.+1904]

valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,- 0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor

if n_elements(yrloc) ne n_elements(valadj) then message,’Oooops!’

;yearlyadj=interpol(valadj,yrloc,timey)

But now a researcher has actually used these models to calculate the effect these "VERY ARTIFICIAL corrections for decline" amount to.  It turns out it's 80% of the reported increase in temperature was created by the VERY ARTIFICIAL corrections.   This graph speaks volumes:

This graph represents the amount of "corrections" added in to the temperature data in the CRU model.

If this graph looks familiar, it should because it looks almost the same as Al Gore's graph, the one from his film "An Inconvenient Truth" (below).

Al Gore showing how the graphs line up for atmospheric CO₂ and global temperature (from "An Inconvenient Truth")

As you can see, the graph does a nice "Hockey Stick", just the way the added in fudge factors do.  Now we know that 80% of the hockey stick was contributed not by human CO₂ emissions, but by the imagination of a few people in a lab.  Remove the "corrections" and 80% of the "hockey stick" is gone.  And so is the argument for Global Warming.