For those of you who still read and do not get all your news from the blithering idiots reading news on talk radio, you may want to spend the next couple of days reading about climategate. Hear’s the basic problem: while the evidence does point to humankind having an impact on the earth, it is on the margin; the extreme margin. You see, Mars, Jupiter and other planets are all warming at about the same relative speed as good old Gaia. We live pretty close to one hell of an atomic furnace, and it is not controlled by a thermostat – it generates various amounts of energy over time, all the time.

Now I became concerned when Al Gore, not one of the most gifted humans in the world, jumped on this wagon. After all, he finished inventing the internet so he must have needed a new project. For which he got a Noble Price.

And now, we find, James Delingpole, writing for the Telegraph in the UK (why does the best news seem to surface overseas so much), spent a lot of time researching the 61 megabytes that hackers released from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit. Delingpole tells us that he found widespread disinformation, including data corruption, from the “scientists.” But wait, there is more: Michelle Milkin has read through the papers and in her blog, called for an investigation on both sides of the atlantic.  The news is calling this climategate, and as of a few seconds ago, there were 144,000 entries found on a google search. Here is a few of the better headlines:

1. Climategate: how the MSM reported the greatest scandal in modern science
2. Countdown to Castrophe: Cophenhagen;
3. Read All About it! Climate Depot Exclusive – Continuously Updated ‘ClimateGate’ News Round Up

And they get better. For years, we have let left-leaning politics dominate the academic debate, including who makes tenure. Now, it looks like we begin to pay for it.