PrintDecember 13, 2009
The Wages of Climategate
Climategate is the worst blow the left has received in quite some time. The only comparable episode in recent years is Rathergate, involving the bogus documents "proving" George W. Bush's malfeasance regarding his service in the Texas Air National Guard. Rathergate shook the U.S. legacy media to its foundations, proclaimed the coming of age of internet-based media, and put a period on the network careers of Dan Rather and his producer. Climategate promises to be of even greater consequence.As the CRU uproar plays itself out, it may well fracture the left-scientific partnership that has distorted scientific research for decades, along with providing a much-needed whipping for environmentalism, the most influential offshoot of contemporary leftism. Climategate is all the worse because it was unexpected. The warmists really did think they had it wrapped up, that they had pulled off the AGW fraud and needed only to formalize it at the international level to guarantee themselves...(Read Full Article)
