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In my holiday travels, I’ve been amazed by the degree to which the coverage of the hacked emails from East Anglia University's Climate Research Unit has captured the interest of normal people. Even people with better things to do than discuss climate policy and “cap and trade” legislation have paid attention to the evidence of a large-scale scientific conspiracy to keep dissenting opinions about man-made climate change from being heard.

The story is sticking because it has the elements that news consumers love: it cuts against the conventional wisdom and shows powerful people in an embarrassing light.

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Al Gore, apparently not content with the job of cleaning the Climategate mess, is now opining on GDP accounting.

Stott: Pascal’s Wager and Global Warming

In summary, therefore, Pascal’s wager can be applied neither to climate change nor to ‘global warming’ in any meaningful way. Indeed, believing in ‘global warming’ may burden you with more costs than not doing so, and believing that you know how to respond to ‘global warming’ may prove false, even if ‘global warming’ were to exist. Ultimately, of course, ‘global warming’ itself may prove a false ‘God’.

I wager it will. And, I’ll bet you all one thing though: climate will change. Any takers, Antonia?

What Story? - Mark Steyn - The Corner on National Review Online

If anyone needs newspapers, it ought to be for stories like this. If there were no impending epocalypse, then "climate science" would be a relatively obscure field, as it was up to a generation ago. Now it produces celebrity scientists living high off the hog of billions in grants. They thus have a vested interest in maintaining the planet's-gonna-fry line. So what do the media do? Instead of exposing the thesis to rigorous journalistic examination, they stage fluffy green stunts, run soft-focus "living green" features with Hollywood "activists", and at a time of massive staff cutbacks in every other department create the positions of specialist "climate correspondent" and "environmental reporter" and fill them with sycophantic promoters of the Big Scare to the point that, as Dr Mann coos approvingly to The New York Times, "you've taken the words out of my mouth".

Andy Revkin (revkin) on Twitter

Well before climate hack questions about future of IPCC: http://j.mp/ipccFate & http://j.mp/ipccFut

Is Revkin trying to distance himself from the climate hoax?