Stacy McCain nails it on ClimateGate:
The simplest way to define conservatism is this: The belief that liberalism is wrong.
I’d like to ask all the moron liberals out there — and you know who you are — what they think of the mainstream media (except Fox) ignoring what may be the greatest scientific scandal since Galileo? Hmmm? Any comments? Apologies? No?
Didn’t think so.
As Stacy McCain writes, this scandal is “further confirmation of the fundamental truth that liberalism is always wrong.”
And this from Eric Raymond:
According to the summaries I’ve seen, the 61 megabytes of email and documents net-jacked from the Climate Research Unit a few days ago do not — quite — reify conservatives’ darkest fantasies about “the team” (as the network of professional anthropogenic-global-warming alarmists communicating through CRU likes to style itself). To do that, they’d have to contain marching orders from the Socialist International.
However, the excerpts I’ve seen are already quite damning enough; among other things, they are evidence of criminal conspiracy to violate the Freedom Of Information act. And I no longer have to speculate about the rest; I’ve downloaded the documents from Pirate Bay and will study them myself.
For those of you who have been stigmatizing AGW skeptics as “deniers” and dismissing their charges that the whole enterprise is fraudulent? Hope you like the taste of crow, because I do believe there’s a buttload of it coming at you. Piping hot.
Am I going to blog about it? Heh…try to stop me…
UPDATE: I’ve read about 10% of the material and started a file of notes on it, but been delayed by preparing for a major release on one of my projects. In the meantime, read this excellent summary with links to the original emails.
I wonder when the cholesterol and second-hand smoke scandals will break? More here on the scandal with a crapload of links.
George,
I’m told that it was scandalous front page news all over Europe.
If that’s so, Lori, then the sad fact is that journalists in Europe have more ethics, and are ostensibly more honest, than their counterparts here. That, in a nutshell, is why we don’t trust them.