What the "Experts" Say-"Climategate?-What Climategate?"

Isn't it amazing how the Global Warming crowd-or is it Global Change now- are making excuses for the purloined e-mails from East Anglia University's Climate Research Unit? One would have thought that rational minds would say, "Hold on. Maybe we ought to proceed a little more slowly on this." But noooo! The Global Change bandwagon is rolling along at 90 miles an hour toward that cliff just up yonder. (Copenhagen). Here are some "notable" reactions to the news.

Prince Charles

Climategate? What Climategate? East Anglia University? Never heard of it! It's in England? Where's England?"

British Prime Minister, the hapless Gordon Brown:

“With only days to go before Copenhagen we mustn’t be distracted by the behind-the-times, anti-science, flat-earth climate sceptics. We know the science. We know what we must do.”

"Climategate? What Climategate?"

Keith Olbermann

"Climategate? What Climategate? It's all made up by Cluster-Fox News. Yes, indeed-Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson and Brian Kilmeade. Worst Persons in the wooooorld!"

Senator Barbara Boxer:

"We need to get to the bottom of this and find out who stole those e-mails."

Climategate? What Climategate?

White House Press Spokesman (and court jester)Robert Gibbs:

"Climategate? What Climategate? I think there's no real scientific basis for the dispute of (global warming). I would refer you back to Carol Browner's statement."

OK. What said you, Ms Browner (Climate Czar)?

"Climategate? What Climategate? I'm sticking with scientists who believe in man's impact on global warming."

And Obama's "top science adviser" (and crank), John Holdren had this to say:

"It's important to understand that these kinds of controversies and even accusations of bias and improper manipulation are not all that uncommon in science, in all branches of science" (He should know.)

"The strength of science is that these kinds of controversies get sorted out over time as to who is wrong, who is right, and how much it matters, by the process of peer-review and continued critical scrutiny by the knowledgeable community of scientists."

"Climategate? What Climategate?"

And this comment from Sharon Begley (whoever the hell she is) writing for Newsweek Magazine:

"To be sure, most of the data, and even the computer codes used to analyze them, have been freely available for years (not buried in Al Gore's backyard). But all the data and methodology should be in the public domain. Yes, critics will cherry-pick and play "gotcha," as they have with the e-mails, but the science of climate change is robust enough to withstand that."

"Climategate? What Climategate?"

Fousesquawk (whoever the hell I am) comment: Buried in Al Gore's backyard? Hey! Maybe she's on to something.


"No tellin' what we're gonna find down there, boys."