WaPo ClimateGate Cartoon: 'Did Al Gore Invent Climate Change?' | NewsBusters.org

In one fell swoop, the Post not only validated the significance of this scandal, but also severely dissed the Global Warmingist-in-Chief.

Glenn Harlan Reynolds: Climategate denial foundering on army of Davids | Washington Examiner

Climate czar Carol Browner responded: "I'm sticking with the 2,500 scientists. These people have been studying this issue for a very long time and agree this problem is real."

The problem is that the "2,500 scientists" she refers to were relying on data and models that, it now appears, may have been fake. Garbage in, garbage out. Plenty of scientists believed in Piltdown Man, too, for a while.
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For politicians, hitching their wagon to the carbon-control star was already an iffy proposition given widespread economic problems and public skepticism. In light of the Climategate revelations, many of them are likely to view it as something closer to suicide.

My prediction: The Copenhagen global warming conference will feature a lot of pretty words and promises, and no admission that things have changed. But we'll see little or no actual movement, as politicians around the world realize that there's no percentage in pushing these programs on an increasingly wary public.

Roger L. Simon » Climategate: Time to postpone Copenhagen

No matter what our climate czar may insist, climate science and Copenhagen are now under a giant cloud.
...I have a simple recommendation. Postpone the UN Climate Change Conference, scheduled to begin in Copenhagen on December 7. Give it another year or two for people to examine the science in the open. Otherwise, this will be seen as one of history’s great boondoggles.

Someone Please Slay the Climate Change Turkey

Thanks to the efforts of Dr. Tim Ball, frequent contributor to CFP, and other honorable scientists, the myth of climate change has been exposed for the fraudulent hot air that it really is.

Leftist politicians like Al Gore, Barbara Boxer, and Barack Obama need to be held accountable for their alarmist rants and raves which have unnecessarily panicked millions of folks into passive acceptance of junk science as a New Age cult religion.

The whole sordid mess needs to be investigated with those found guilty subjected to severe punishment.

Global climate talks remain alive, but details are far from settled - washingtonpost.com

The Obama administration has allocated about $1.2 billion toward international climate programs as part of its proposed fiscal 2010 budget. Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said in an interview that it would take at least twice as much to help seal a deal in Copenhagen.