Maybe if they made a profit they could offer more books.

"This "incident" involves four scientists. Just four. "

You really need to get out more. Here's a map of the participants based on the email addresses
http://computationallegalstudies.com/2009/11/27/visualizing-the-east-anglia-climate-research-unit-leaked-email-network/

Four?!? That's like output from the CRUd programs. "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."

"majority of data that feeds these models ARE known"

It would be nice if the models using that data could predict, umm, even the past?

Climate modeling can't account for the effects of clouds, but the data's good.

So, the principle seems to be that the government should use other people's money only when it enforces your preferences.

FWIW, I think that no bailout money should have been used for any corporation. That is, the government should have stayed out of it.

I also think the government should stay out of my kitchen and my bedroom.

Your sig says "No Big 3 bailout", but if government can tax fat people why can't they give the money to the Big 3? Put, differently, on what principle would you base your objection?

You don't think there's any backlash? The backlash started with furious objections to the bailout while Bush was still in office. It has proceeded into the Tea Party movement.

Do you also believe the Chrysler bondholders decided to abandon their fiduciary responsibilities without intervention from the White House? Do a quick search on "Tom Lauria."

Actually, that's government and corporations and unions cooperating in theft. It's called Corporatism or Syndicalism, depending on who's currently favored by government. The ante has just been raised.

"French corporations and government are entangled in ways that Americans might find unfamiliar."

Not for long.