I think Rush Limbaugh is right: there are two realities. He describes them as "the universe of truth" (whatever conservatives say) and the "universe of lies" (that being whatever liberals say). I might define the terms less divisively. But the conclusions would probably be the same.
That being said, I find the damning evidence involved in Climate Gate both a comforting confirmation of the obvious (that Global Warming advocates have political, economic, social and quasi-religious motives for their assertions and activities, not scientific ones, which, frankly, should be clear simply from their behavior, but lets not go there right now) and a great illustration of the deep ideological divide that it illustrates. And just exactly what "deep ideological divide" means.
So the 1079 emails and 72 documents seem indeed evidence of a scandal involving most of the most prominent scientists pushing the man-made warming theory - a scandal that is one of the greatest in modern science. . . emails suggesting conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.
Of course, conservatives are crowing. That's to be expected, I suppose. Yet the liberals--the devoted followers of The First Church of Global Warming--are simply ignoring it. It's like it didn't happen. For those few on the left that are being forced to acknowledge Climate Gate, they immediately become enraged . . . at the whistleblower! And then go on how to explain how the intentional forging, destruction, and manipulation of the data is just the "messiness" of science that lay people are too stupid to understand.
Seriously. Newspapers that think endangering the men and women of our armed forces by publishing military secrets comes under the public's right to know, and had no problem running transcripts of illegally obtained recordings of cell phone conversations by prominent Republicans, are now complaining about the hackers that revealed the tremendous fraud behind so much of the "important global warming science" that helped lead us the supposed "scientific consensus" that man-made Global Warming is real, and not a giant hoax to create economic markets in carbon trading to the make the rich even richer while taxing you and me into the poor house. Complaining, that is, if they mention it at all.
Despite the media ignoring it, or pointing the finger of the blame at the whistleblower, at least it is being looked into. We'll see if anything comes of it.
So, I'm reading Ezra Klein today, to get my daily dose of precocious, erudite, well-informed sweet-smelling liberal propaganda, and he's going on about the dangers of Global Warming like there never was a Climategate, or like that it's not shaping up to be the coldest winter on record. And some point, even the liberals have to start wondering why they keep talking about the droughts and the flooding brought on by global warming, when it keeps getting colder. Don't they?
Seriously, they are. Which is a good thing. Using a modern secular myth to justify looting the private sector and punishing the tax payer is reprehensible, and the more people who wake up to the same, the better.
The Jawa Report has a breakdown on how Axelrod and the Obama campaign are trying to make fake grassroots campaigns to smear Sarah Palin, while, at the same time, leaving a trail of smoking guns everywhere. No wonder the left like's to tell us they are the smartest and most ethical folks out there!
The Journal of Feminist Insight blog has a breakdown of softballs Charlie Gibson tossed Obama vs. the prosecutorial nature of his questions for Palin. Pretty damning stuff, indeed. For Obama: How does it feel to win? For Palin: Do you have enough qualifications for the job your seeking? And on and on and on.
Not classy, Charlie.
Apparently to folks of the left, the ends will always justify the means. Ruin people, lie, cheat, steal, anything short of murder (and, hmm, who knows, maybe that, too) is okay if it means you get universal healthcare and progressive taxation. Learning that, on the left, the end always justifies the means is why I'm not a liberal today.
