The political climate has just changed - for Oakes, too | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

It’s astonishing how fast “climate sceptics” has gone from a slur to a boast.

Climategate: how the conspirators gagged on their deceptions | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Steven Hayward points out that many other Climategate scientists privately had trouble swallowing the practices of their colleagues
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Why did so few of these scientists speak publiicly of what they were observing - the fudging, the falsehoods, the bias, the exaggerations, the refusal to admit error and the tribal mindset, so fatal to dispassionate science?

Why did they allow the world to spend countless billions on warming policies built on such “science” and such deep uncertainties?

Quadrant Online - Christopher Essex - Sceptics in Wonderland

Many of we scientists have been ringing the alarm bells from the beginning on this. We have been telling everyone who would listen about who we were dealing with. We have known all along.

Quadrant Online - Scientists trade their lab coats for pin stripes

Since government is by far the most important element in the structure of inducements influencing the research community, the CRU scandal has clear lessons for Mr Rudd. Not just because the science of global warming may not be as settled as we’re told. But also because the manipulation of scientific questions for political purposes, whether to drive a wedge through opposition parties, or to hold the “middle ground”, or to gain status in international forums, introduces powerful distortions into the process of scientific enquiry, to the detriment of taxpayers who so generously fund it.

Rudd runs scared from climate debate | Australian Climate Madness

Despite the attempt at matey banter, and patronising put downs of Tony Abbott, it is still transparent as a sheet of Glad Wrap, Kevin!

If you don’t turn up, you lose.

Read it here.

U.N. Environment Chief Calls on China, U.S. to Raise [Climate Swindle] Offers - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

A failure by rich world nations to help poor nations adapt to climate change and finance a transition to cleaner energy would “create a very emotional context for Copenhagen that if not handled with sensitivity could derail the summit as well,” he said.