Climategate: What would the Gipper do?

Climategate is a Conservative issue.

Conservatives believe in a small state. The Climategate scientists are part of a global conspiracy to expand it.

Conservatives are pragmatists who believe "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." But Al Gore's AGW agenda is about spending vasts sums of public money on a problem than doesn't exist.

Conservatives are empiricists, with no time for idealistic fantasies about how much better the world could be if only you tortured human nature enough. That's why they...