'Climategate:' What a joke

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'Climategate:' What a joke

by Mark Silva

"Climategate,'' they call it.

What a joke.

As if the hacking of some email in England exposing some overzealous scientists with a political agenda undermines the world's collection of scientific data on climate change.

Suddenly, it's time for Al Gore to surrender his Nobel Prize.

"Poor Al Gore, global warming completely debunkedvia the very Internet you invented,'' chimes Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show. "Oh, the irony.''

Just like snow in Houston:

Proof, the Luddites insist, that global warming is nothing more than a modern interlude between the great Ice Ages and the human spewing of megatonnage of carbon into the atmosphere has nothing to do with it. All that shrinking Arctic ice cap stuff? Mere Photo-shopping.

The closing argument against climate change, critics contend, comes with more than 1,000 emails hacked in England involving climate research since 1996 that includes talk of combating the arguments of climate-change skeptics, harsh words for those skeptics, exclusion of scientists with contrarian views on the matter and destruction of data that might undermine evidence of global warming.

As if this is the only work in the world that has gone into the investigation of global warming and man's hand in it.

The United Nations has relied on the work of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Great Britain for its "alarmist'' action on climate change, FOX News Channel's Brit Hume notes. The believers in climate change and man's hand in it say the hacked emails from the CRU are being "taken out of context,'' Hume reports.

"There's a one-word answer to all of that: Please.''

As a U.N. conference on climate change in Copenhagen assembles next week, with President Barack Obama and other world leaders headed there for the conclusion of the conference on Dec. 18and Obama making his own journey to Oslo on Dec. 10 to pick up a Nobel Prize for Peacepurveyors of the 'Climategate scandal' would have it that some hacked email is cause for calling off the whole thing.

"The momentum for that was already declining, because global warming, climate change, has been dropping lower and lower in peoples' lists of priorities for a long time now,'' Hume has concluded "and doubts about whether man is causing it and the whole theory of it have been rising. This can only further that that.... Perhaps it may all even be a fraud.''

One word, indeed:

Please.

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