The Warmists are circling the medicine show wagons. A plucky digital Toto pulled back the curtain to reveal The Global Warming Wizards as just another cabal of fudging humbugs.
James Delingpole has a great summary of the fallout so far. Here's a snark sample, where he lampoons one of the guilty scientist's excuse:
“The use of the term ‘hiding the decline’ was in an email written in haste,”Which does make you wonder how the sentence would have read had he just had a little longer to type it correctly. “Hiding the sausage?” “Heeding the decline?”
Go read the whole piece Here.
Gerald Warner also has a good update in The Telegraph. Conservative and libertarian Brits, so tired of being dictated to for so long, are relishing this scandal even more that conservative Americans are:
Fox News, Barack Obama’s Nemesis, is now on the case, trampling all over Al Gore’s organic vegetable patch and breaking the White House windows.Go read Warner's short article here. Check out the reader comments as well. They are entertaining and heartening. Many Europeans still look to the US and take hope from the heroic resistance of common sense conservative and libertarian Americans.
At the more domestic level, the proposed ban on incandescent light bulbs, so supinely accepted in this servile state of Britain, is now provoking a huge backlash in America.
US citizens do not like the government coming into their houses and putting their lights out. Voters may not understand the cut and thrust of climate debate at the technical level, but they know when the Man from Washington has crossed their threshold uninvited.
