There is certainly confirmation bias.

However, there is also the deconstructionism of natural science, also known as “post-normal science,” the subject of an outstanding Belmont Club post on the subject from 2007.

http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-is-post-normal-science.html

A leading avatar of post-normal science, i.e, the deliberate politicization of “facts” and “truth,” in the natural sciences, is Mike Hulme. He is quoted at length in the above-referenced post.

What if anything does Mike Hulme have to do with Climategate?

He is a senior climate researcher at — The University of East Anglia — and a senior IPCC researcher and author.

Let us in this context reconsider the linked post at Watts Up With That about the nearly 2.5 C upward “homogenization” of raw temperature data at Darwin, Australia.

That particular fraud is almost certainly not an isolated instance, and the days ahead are likely to bring many more examples of flagrant and unjustifiable manipulation of raw temperature records to fake up a totally fraudulent case of global warming.

It has already been shown by the same author of that WUWT post that the CRU temperature stations include some of the largest cities in the world, even as they claim to have adjusted the urban heat island signal out of their analysis.

But not to worry – it’s post-normal science in the service of the greater political good.