Decisions, Decisions - WSJ.com

You have to love the brazenness with which [Pachauri] simply ignores the central revelation of the emails: that the global warmists worked assiduously to keep skeptical papers from being peer-reviewed in the first place. It reminds us of that joke about the definition of chutzpah: when a guy kills his parents, then blames global warming for making him an orphan.
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[from] this September 2003 email from Edward Cook of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y., to East Anglia's Keith Briffa:

    Without trying to prejudice this work, but also because of what I almost think I know to be the case, the results of this study will show that we can probably say a fair bit about <100 year extra-tropical NH [Northern Hemisphere] temperature variability (at least as far as we believe the proxy estimates), but honestly know f***-all about what the >100 year variability was like with any certainty (i.e. we know with certainty that we know f***-all).

"We know with certainty that we know f***-all." That pretty well sums up the state of climate science after the East Anglia revelations.

define:f** all - Google Search

Nothing at all or very little; Very few, very little, or no

More remarkable stuff from Jim Hansen:

The most foolish no-fighting-spirit statement, made by scores of people, is this: “we have already passed the tipping point, it is too late.” They act as if a commitment to a meter of sea level rise is no different than a commitment to several tens of meters. Or, if a million species become committed to extinction, should we throw in the towel on the other nine million? What would the plan be then – escape to Mars? As I make clear in “Storms of My Grandchildren”, anybody who thinks we can transplant even one butterfly species to another planet has some loose screws. We must take care of the planet we have – easily the most remarkable one in the known universe.

Let’s say we have passed a tipping point – say current atmospheric composition is enough to cause a large eventual sea level rise. What do we do? Wring our hands? What we must do is restore the planet’s energy balance, or make it slightly negative. That does not guarantee that heat already added to the ocean will not further erode ice shelves and cause sea level rise. But it gives us a fighting chance to minimize that problem. Of course, it would help if we knew the current planetary energy balance accurately, and the climate forcings – that’s the subject in chapter 4 of “Storms”.