Steve Milloy: Climategate’s Perry Mason Moment

"Were the framing of CO2 as climate-culprit a TV drama, at this point Perry Mason would be cruising off into the sunset with Della Street in his gas-guzzling black 1957 Cadillac El Dorado convertible. But the magnitude of the global warming fraud is immense and widespread — too many politician/celebrity egos, corporate fortunes, and activist political dreams have too much invested in the scam to simply say 'nevermind.'

"They have no shame, and they will not go away. So our struggle against them will continue.

"The difference now is that we are no longer The Skeptics. We are The Vindicated."

Myron Ebell: Climategate: Have They No Shame?

"It is clear that the tip-top scientists implicated in the burgeoning Climategate scandal have no honor, but it is also becoming apparent that they have no sense of shame either. Their strategy is to brazen it out and rely on the great global warming alarmist establishment and the mainstream media to circle the wagons. They have got their talking point and the environmental pressure groups are already repeating it over and over: 'The "global warming deniers" are cherry-picking a few unfortunately worded emails and then taking them out of context.' Well, they are some pretty big, juicy cherries and there are a lots of them.

"But it isn’t going to work. There is simply too much evidence that 'the world’s leading climate scientists' (as they are always described — at least up until a few days ago) at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit were cooking the data. For those not up on technical scientific terms, 'cooking the data' means manipulating and falsifying it. Here are just two examples from one of the approximately 3000 files that were released — either by a hacker or (more likely in my view) a public-spirited whistleblower at the CRU who just couldn’t stand the fraud any more. These two examples are from the 'Harry Read Me' file (which can be found here) and are apparently the ongoing notes of someone charged with trying to fix the problems in one of the CRU’s temperature datasets. The first email:

"What the hell is supposed to happen here? Oh yeah – there is no )’supposed’, I can make it up. So I have … So with a somewhat cynical shrug, I added the nuclear option – to match every WMO possible, and turn the rest into new stations (er, CLIMAT excepted). In other words, what CRU usually do. It will allow bad databases to pass unnoticed, and good databases to become bad, but I really don’t think people care enough to fix ‘em, and it’s the main reason the project is nearly a year late.

"The second email:

"OH FU*K THIS. It’s Sunday evening, I’ve worked all weekend, and just when I thought it was done I’m hitting yet another problem that’s based on the hopeless state of our databases. There is no uniform data integrity, it’s just a catalogue of issues that continues to grow as they’re found."

Erik Rush: Evil is as evil does

"These 'dire circumstances' have been nothing but ruses calculated to incrementally coalesce the power of the state and divest Americans of their liberties – those things for which they ought to be the most thankful. The hidden objectives behind our government's desire to hastily 'rectify' these problems can be seen in the degree of power (and, of course, money) that will be transferred thereto; cap-and-trade and health-care legislation, respectively.

"As I have indicated previously in this space, two can, indeed, play at this game. Those assiduous among us should take an example from the left's playbook here; such cases as the global-warming revelation and the abysmally imprudent, shamelessly political recommendation regarding mammograms should be hammered home in the area of public discourse until even we are sick of hearing about it.

"Why? Because in addition to the limited press coverage these revelations are likely to receive for political reasons, we are dealing with play-for-keeps criminals who, by the time the other half of America wakes up to what is truly going on, will have amassed more power than can ever be wrested from them.

"There is a fine line between faith and foolishness, between tolerance and timidity. The left's rhetoric of acceptance, charity and justice is every bit as fraudulent as it was when Lenin and Castro were spewing it. In 2 Corinthians 6:14, Paul advises Christians not to be "unequally yoked" with nonbelievers. Neither can Americans afford to do so pertaining to villains and fools for one more day."

Human Events: Ft. Hood Killer at Work in Annapolis

"Political correctness was responsible for the death of thirteen people at Ft. Hood. Of this I am certain. I have watched political correctness at work in the military for more than three decades while serving in two different military branches. I may not have seen it all but, I have seen quite a bit of it.

"Aside from academia and the civilian government workforce, there is no place else in America where political correctness is as rampant as military. The rules of political correctness are not listed in military regulations. It is like knowing where to find the chow hall. Everyone just knows.

"Press reports indicate Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan grossly misbehaved for years. Not only wasn’t he seriously reprimanded, but he was actually promoted in spite of engaging in behavior that would have quickly ended the careers of others. Many of us who have witnessed similar behavior know what occurred. Hasan’s activities were virtually ignored because he is Muslim."

Yid with Lid: Leading Climate Change Scientists Use the "Obama Defense" to Deflect "Stolen Emails"

"Some of the leading scientists in the 'Holy Church of Global Warming Moonbats' have shown they have learned a very important rule from US President Barack Obama, when confronted with bad facts, attack the person(s) delivering the fact, call the news a big lie or say it was taken totally out of context. And NEVER, back up your claims with facts. That's how he defended himself against his Jeremiah Wright association, porkulus detractors and the opponents of Obamacare. Now Scientists are using that strategy to deflect the storm arising from those 'Stolen' emails indicating a cover-up of contrary data by global warming proponents:

"Three leading scientists who on Tuesday released a report documenting the accelerating pace of climate change said the scandal that erupted last week over hacked emails from climate scientists is nothing more than a 'smear campaign' aimed at sabotaging December climate talks in Copenhagen.

"'We're facing an effort by special interests who are trying to confuse the public,' said Richard Somerville, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a lead author of the UN IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. Dissenters see action to slow global warming as 'a threat,' he said.

"It seems to me that when Scientist Phil Jones wrote I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline, THAT was confusing the public.

"Of course dissenters see the global warming moonbats' actions as a threat. The scientists have taken an unproven theory that was shaky even before the 'stolen emails' add to it the fact that they are not allowing any peer reviewed research disagreeing with their funky research to be presented. Then add to it the politicians who see it as an opportunity for more government control, and worldwide income redistribution, and they expect the people who haven't drank the Kool aid to think its anything but a threat?"

Yid with Lid: CBO Projects Congressional Climate Change Bills Will DAMAGE ECONOMY

"President Obama wants to bring Cap and Trade to the United States. The Democratic Party dominated Congressional Budget Office took a look what Cap and Trade would do for the people country they reported it will hurt the poor and middle Class in America. The CBO estimates that the price hikes from a 15% cut in emissions would cost the average household in the bottom-income quintile about 3.3% of its after-tax income every year. That's about $680, not including the costs of reduced employment and output. The three middle quintiles would see their paychecks cut between $880 and $1,500, or 2.9% to 2.7% of income. The rich would pay 1.7%. Cap and trade is the ideal policy for every Beltway analyst who thinks the tax code is too progressive, as it hurts the poor more than the rich.

"Yesterday the CBO took another look at the pending Climate Change bills, but instead of reporting on its effect on individual Americans, it examines how the legislation will affect the economy in general....and its not good...."

Yid with Lid: The Barack Obama/Sarah Palin Switcheroo

"Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was almost at her low. Through no fault of her own she was a political joke. Because of her appeal to the 'common' American, she was seen as a major threat to the progressives in the Media and to the Democratic Party. She was lampooned as someone not only unqualified to be president, but in some instances unqualified to be a mother. These vicious and in most cases, false attacks continued even after resigned from her position of governor of Alaska.

"Now one year later things have changed, President Obama has not governed from the middle, but from the radical left, he has hurt America's image at home and abroad, but in many cases he has united the country (against him). His approval is in a free fall.

"The former Governor of Alaska has written a book laying out her experiences and her policy. On her interview tour, she has been seen as intelligent and as in touch with the people as the POTUS is out of touch.

"In short, its as if they pulled a switcheroo."