Climategate Implosion is Bush’s Fault » The Anchoress | A First Things Blog

But I also had a journalist I admired, and who I still consider a friend, privately and gently suggest that if I doubted the truth about AGW then I was as deluded (and perhaps as evil) as a “holocaust denier.”

Yes. The left went that far. The press went that far. They embraced this unsettled science, this unproven theory, with a fervor of moral righteousness; to dispute AGW was to be a bad and stupid person, even if were a dissenting scientist.

WARMERGATE WRAP | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog

• James Lewis: “It’s just like the Nixon tapes, except that emails are a lot more accurate than John Dean’s memory.”

• Col. Douglas Mortimer: “You know, when you consider that ‘We’re Saving The Planet’ is the biggest power/money grabbing scam since ‘We’re Saving Your Souls,’ whoever leaked/released those e-mails and such is kind of like the modern scientific equivalent of Martin Luther. This person/persons may well have broken the backs of the Global Warming Priests who did everything in their power to make sure that the common man, and those who would oppose them, had no direct access to the Spoken Word of God.”

As Copenhagen summit nears, ‘Climategate’ dogs global warming debate | csmonitor.com

This is a “smear campaign to distract the public,” added Mann, a coauthor of the Copenhagen Diagnosis, the report on climate change released this week ahead of the Copenhagen. “Those opposed to climate action, simply don’t have the science on their side,” he added.

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Remember how some out-of-context and patently misunderstood emails totally proved that thousands of climate-change scientists are wrong, and the dozen of Exxon-funded ones were right all along?

The inconvenient truths Mr Gore and his fanatical friends DIDN'T tell you about climate change | Mail Online

In my experience, people who employ alarmism, and who turn with rage on their critics, do so because they lack confidence in their case. Watch their behaviour at the coming Copenhagen climate conference, a festival of panic and exaggerated woe.

This particular frenzy, if not checked, could end by bankrupting the West and leaving us sitting in the cold and the dark whistling for a wind to power our dead computers – while China and India surge on to growth and prosperity because they have had the sense to ignore the whole stupid thing.