See also this Christopher Monkton video.

If only Senator McCarthy had been this good at hunting communists.

Well, Al Gore has been turning into the sceptic's unintentional best friend for quite some while now. I doubt that AGW will be debunked when all the fraud is flushed and the data is purged - but Bloody Al and his ilk are another matter.

If the whole East Anglia affair achieves nothing but the casting of a long-overdue cold eye over the specialized greenhouse gasbags who shamelessly work the essential Gorean argument:

"The science says the politics are what I say, therefore give me the money, suckers!"

then it will have done more for science, politics, and ecology alike than fifty-nine all-singing celebrity campaigns teaching us to go to bed early for Gaia.

Here is to a Great Puncturing, and a return to our scheduled diversity.

Al Gore has enraged warmists because he has given a clear, falsifiable prediction for Actic melt within a timescale short enough that people will be able to call him on it.

I can smell a political scheme.

Al Gore will come forward with an "oh, I had a talk with the scientists, and the dire prediction I made last week will take longer than five to seven years. See? We are honest and scientific and this proves it".

--GJ--