RealClearPolitics - Robert Tracinski - ClimateGate: The Fix is In

This is an enormous case of organized scientific fraud, but it is not just scientific fraud. It is also a criminal act. Suborned by billions of taxpayer dollars devoted to climate research, dozens of prominent scientists have established a criminal racket in which they seek government money-Phil Jones has raked in a total of £13.7 million in grants from the British government-which they then use to falsify data and defraud the taxpayers. It's the most insidious kind of fraud: a fraud in which the culprits are lauded as public heroes. Judging from this cache of e-mails, they even manage to tell themselves that their manipulation of the data is intended to protect a bigger truth and prevent it from being "confused" by inconvenient facts and uncontrolled criticism.

The damage here goes far beyond the loss of a few billions of taxpayer dollars on bogus scientific research. The real cost of this fraud is the trillions of dollars of wealth that will be destroyed if a fraudulent theory is used to justify legislation that starves the global economy of its cheapest and most abundant sources of energy.

This is the scandal of the century. It needs to be thoroughly investigated-and the culprits need to be brought to justice.

Cooling on Phil - Mark Steyn - The Corner on National Review Online

On the Warmergate scandal, the Settled Scientists seem to be settling on Phil Jones, head of the Climate Research Unit, as the designated fall guy.

Andy Did Something Good Last Night | GlobalWarming.org

So, good for Andy for posting those succinct thoughts by Mr. Smith. But here are points deducted for Mr. Amazing:

The Copenhagen Diagnosis

The purpose of this report is to synthesize the most policy-relevant climate science published since the close-off of material for the last IPCC report.

C3: Non-Fraudulent Climate Research Indicates Strong Solar Influence On Asian Temperatures; Human CO2 Influence Is Squat

Read here. More peer-reviewed science that documents the significant impact solar conditions have on global temperatures. Asian warming due to human CO2 emissions is not a real factor.