The New Conformo-radicalism - Mark Steyn - National Review Online

Groupthink compliance has never felt so right!

Scandinavia-gate: Climate cooling, but scientists “hide the decline” | CLIMATEGATE

It looks like we now have the evidence of a full-blown Scandinaviagate to further crush the credibility of the crooks that run the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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Our conclusion: time to kill off the IPCC and finally bury the great global warming con.

A HISTORICAL OBSERVATION ON CLIMATEGATE: As this scandal runs on, it’s beginning to remind me of the Michael Bellesiles scandal.

Bellesiles eventually lost his job at Emory (and his Bancroft Prize) over the fraud, but not until his critics had been called political hacks, McCarthyites, and worse. But what’s amazing, especially in retrospect, is how slow his defenders — and the media — were to engage the critics, or to look at the flaws in the data. Instead, they wrapped themselves in claims of authority, and attacked the critics as anti-intellectual hacks interested only in politics. Are we seeing something similar with regard to ClimateGate? It sure looks that way to me.

Recidivist of the day: Juliet Eilperin « Green Hell Blog

Note that this article contains [no?] comments from the skeptics. I know Eilperin knows who we are and I know she knows how to get a hold of us. So what’s the deal? Throw your readers a bone… or would that ruin the alarmist narrative?

Let the Washington Post ombudsman know that Juliet Eilperin has returned to her biased ways — pillow talk will do that, I guess.

Special Report - Lack of Direction on Climate Change Hobbles Carbon [Swindle] Trading - NYTimes.com

Worldwide, carbon trading markets were worth $125 billion in 2009, Mr. Turner said. In Europe, which accounts for 70 percent to 80 percent of the total, the market is likely to contract this year, he added.

With the European carbon credit prices down sharply from 2008 to 2009 and likely to remain flat in 2010, in part because the economic slowdown has resulted in lower energy use, many once-bustling London trading desks have quieted, analysts say.