than real-life scientists. Second, the CSI scientists don't require that people make any effort to save energy or to be less wasteful in general. So, accepting what they say requires no sacrifice (for instance, you don't have to limit your use of aircon, or buy a refrigerator that is smaller than a house in England (honestly, what do you USAians keep in those monsters?), or drive a car with an engine smaller than 4 litres, and so on). Yep, I agree Nigel. Some of the stupidest customer anecdotes out there suggest also that people tend to think all those fancy-shmancy CSI photo-imaging can be done at your local printing shop. Never mind that it takes months of work by some graphic artist to come up with all that stuff, some people really think that you can just do all those tricks in five seconds without any computer equipment at all. Sigh... we need to educate more people about how technology works, not just that it does. [...] The CRU data itself matches not just the NASA and NOAA measurements, but also the analysis by the recent BEST team, which was partly funded by the denial industry (e.g. the Koch brothers) and was headed by a denier -- Richard Muller -- who later changed his mind after having seen a re-analysis of the data himself (read more here and here). [...] [...] data to question global warming -- so much so that one study funded in part by the Kochs that