No Hole in the Blogosphere: Tracking Climate-Gate - Daniel Foster - The Corner on National Review Online

At the heart of the story is the potential triumph of political ideology over sound science, on display in the hacked email exchanges of luminaries in the climate science community, who now appear to have done everything short of translating the scienfitic record into Newspeak to tilt the debate on global warming. If the politicized suppression of data and method, of dissent, and of the truth, evident in the emails doesn't amount to a conspiracy to sell the world on anthropogenic warming, it'll do until the real conspiracy gets here.

Column: Groupthink and the global warming industry - Jonah Goldberg - USATODAY.com

Indeed, the closer you look at the scandal the more you realize it's all one big outrage. The same journalistic tribalism that allowed Dan Rather to destroy his career over "Memogate" keeps reinforcing itself. Rather picked sources who said what he wanted to hear, then he reported what they said as if it were indisputable. The same thing is happening on climate change. Ideological bias is a major factor in the news media's work as a transmission belt for the climate industry.

[Out-of-touch] Scientist: Consensus withstands climate email flap - Capital Weather Gang

Gerald North: Scientifically, it means little.
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GN: First, I do not think this is a scandal. I normally do not read the blogs, neither ClimateAudit nor RealClimate. But I did dial up ClimateAudit and by chance come upon Curryʼs statement.

Abbott win dooms the ETS

Climate Change Minister Penny Wong, blaming ''an extreme wing of the Liberal Party'' for the imminent defeat of the legislation, told the Senate last night: ''We will not let these extreme views prevail. We are not going to be spooked by the scare campaign. [You know, that scare campaign where people attempt to scare us into not believing that 7-Up bubbles are going to kill our grandchildren] We know Australians want action on climate change.''