Climate scientists scoff at stolen emails - Darren Samuelsohn - POLITICO.com

But just as a similar 2009 document dump mattered little in unraveling the scientific consensus on global warming, the 5,300 new emails and other files that surfaced on a Russian computer server Tuesday inspired little worry among researchers that the fact of human-caused climate change is in danger of being undermined.

..."This is just trivia,” said Joel Smith, a Boulder, Colo.-based environmental consultant and a coordinating lead author of a chapter about North America in an upcoming report by the United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “It's a diversion. It's throwing sand in people's eyes. Yes, we're dealing with human beings here who are scientists. We're not perfect people. People may say things in emails that may be indiscreet. But that doesn't alter the fundamental science."

..."It's clear that they are a very small organized conspiracy designed to dupe the world," said Myron Ebell, director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. "There just simply cannot be a doubt about that now from the text of these emails."

Flashback: Horner: Michael Mann may have something to hide - Minnesotans For Global Warming

Horner says that once these groups made their displeasure known, UVA "reversed course" and decided to fight, spending "$500,000 with [former U.S. Senator] John Warner's law firm in Washington, D.C. to keep the taxpayer from seeing the records."

Global Warming's War On Thanksgiving | ThinkProgress

The demand pressure on corn to produce ethanol is not a major factor in the extreme price spike, since that demand is known ahead of time, allowing farmers to plant enough. The biofuels mandates do help set the floor for corn prices, and speculators exploit the situation of the commodity having a price floor but no ceiling.

Sadly, the American Farm Bureau Federation — which claims to represents the interests of American farmers — is run by global warming deniers.