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Climategate: this is our Berlin Wall moment!

I've just had a great, very sympathetic interview about Climategate on LBC radio (London's main commercial news and talk station) with Petrie Hosken. She told me she has been simply inundated with callers, all of them utterly unconvinced that human influence has made any significant on so-called "Global Warming". She was desperate to get a few balancing calls from people who do believe in AGW but just couldn't find any.

Can you imagine this happening a year ago? Or even a month ago? Until...

Climategate: five Aussie MPs lead the way by resigning in disgust over carbon tax

Australia is leading the revolt against Al Gore's great big AGW conspiracy – just as the Aussie geologist and AGW sceptic Professor Ian Plimer predicted it would.

ABC news reports that five frontbenchers from Australia's opposition Liberal party have resigned their portfolios rather than follow their leader Malcolm Turnbull in voting with Kevin Rudd's Government on a new Emissions Trading Scheme.

The Liberal Party is in turmoil with the resignations of five frontbenchers from their portfolios...

Climategate: what Gore's useful idiot Ed Begley Jr doesn't get about the 'peer review' process

Here is an amusing video of an actor named Ed Begley Jr getting weally, weally, WEALLY cross about the Climategate scandal. (hat tip Breitbart TV)

Well no wonder he's cross. His world is falling apart. Ed Begley Jr – now probably better known as a climate activist than for his role TV medical soap St Elsewhere – bought in so heavily to Big Al Gore's Man-Made-Global-Warming meme, he actually became a vegan and is engaged in a competition with some other actor you won't have heard of to see who ...

Climategate: the scandal spreads, the plot thickens, the shame deepens…

Wow! The scandal just gets juicier and juicier. Now it seems that the Kiwis may have been at it too – tinkering with raw data to make "Global Warming" look scarier than it really is. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That; Ian Wishart)

The alleged villains this time are the climate scientists at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NiWA) – New Zealand's answer to Britain's Climate Research Unit. And to judge by this news alert by the Climate Science Coalition of NZ, both...

What Labour has done to our education system is criminal – as this heart-rending story shows

Thanks to a tweet by Stephen Fry over one million people will have been directed to this story. And rightly so for it is a crying scandal. Ed Balls, especially should be forced to read it every hour until his dying day. So should all his predecessors in the ludicrously named Department of Children, Schools and Families. So should every other member of the Labour government, past and present. So should all the 'progressive' educationalists who have fought so hard over the decades to combat...

Climategate: how they all squirmed

Among the many great amusements of the Climategate scandal are the myriad imaginative excuses being offered by the implicated scientists and their friends in the MSM as to why this isn't a significant story. Here are some of the best:

Most Unexpectedly Honourable Response: The Guardian's eco-columnist George Monbiot

Say what you like about the Great Moonbat, the heliophobic Old Stoic is the ONLY member of the Climate-Fear-Promotion camp to have delivered a proper apology.

I apologise. I was too...

Climategate reminds us of the liberal-left's visceral loathing of open debate

If the argument isn't going your way, close it down. This was ever the way of liberal-left. Criticize the European Socialist Superstate and you're a "Little Englander"; object to wind farms spoiling your view and you're a "NIMBY"; demand curbs on immigration and you're "a racist"; desire better education for your kids and you're "elitist"; question the current majority scientific view on AGW and you're a "Denier" who deserves only to be scorned, vilified and preferably silenced.

We have seen p...

Climategate: why it matters

Climategate: still an astonishing lack of coverage in the MSM, the only major UK exception being the Mail which, after years of agnosticism now seems to have decided to come down firmly in the climate sceptics' camp – here, here and in this article today by the mighty Booker. (Nigel Lawson is able to slip in a mention, too, in today's Times).

But is that because – as some of the commenters below my post are so eager to tell me – it's a complete non-story which deserves to get me the sack for b...

Climate change has nothing to do with the Holocaust or 9/11

But you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise from all the hysterical propaganda put out by the ecofascists of the AGW lobby.

Here's the latest example from those silly trustafarian children at Plane Stupid:

And here, for those who missed it, is a spat I've had with the Guardian over an elderly US war veteran who apparently considers it seemly and apt to compare the piles of emaciated bodies he saw being swept into heaps when he helped liberate a Nazi concentration camp at the end of World War I...

Climategate: how the MSM reported the greatest scandal in modern science

Here's what the Times has had to say on the subject:

 

E-mails allegedly written by some of the world's leading climate scientists have been stolen by hackers and published on websites run by climate change

The sceptics claim that the e-mails are evidence that scientists manipulated data in order to strengthen their argument that human activities were causing global warming.

(Yep – definitely an improvement on their earlier, non-existent coverage; but not exactly pointing up the...