Motley CRU
Word is getting around about a 1974 CIA report entitled "A Study of Climatological Research as it Pertains to Intelligence Problems" concerning the fears of climate change. Only, in those days as anyone old enough to remember will recall, the panic was over a pending ice age.
You just can't make this stuff up. From the original CIA report:
"There are three basic schools or philosophies of climatology. The first is centered around Professor H. H. Lamb who is currently the Director of Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom."
So it appears that the CRU jumped from ice-age panic to toaster-oven panic in the course of a few years. Also, if you review the original report, the exact same disasters are predicted then for the looming ice age that are now presented as inevitable outcomes of The Warming. Oh, and the same weather indicators are used: flood, drought, etc. Of course, now they leave out the unprecedented high levels of snow.
The report does offer one telling question: "Can the Agency depend on climatology as a science to accurately project the future?"
Evidently not.