Lead the way, we will be right behind you!

What? You are unwilling to help Mother Earth! Do you deny that if just the 40% of you that are Democrats eliminated your carbon footprint, we would save the planet?

Then a 40% carbon reduction by everyone won’t save it either.

anaerobes hardest hit.

daesleeper on December 7, 2009 at 10:14 PM

As founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Anaerobes (and its sister organization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Aerobes), I am compelled to say, “LEAVE THE LITTLE BUGGIES ALONE!!!!“

Michael Prather, a researcher at UC Irvine who specializes in climate modeling and has served for years as an author with the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, joins many scientists and climate specialists in a firm ‘No.’
Prather, who found one of his own e-mails among those that were hacked, says the scientific consensus on global warming, as well as the data supporting it, remain strong.
He and others say the e-mails instead reveal that scientists are all too human, and can become as excessively concerned with public relations as anyone else in an institutional setting.
The controversy provided a strange backdrop to the beginning of a climate summit in Copenhagen, where 192 countries will try to hammer out agreement on reduction of greenhouse gases.
We asked Prather three questions as the controversy raged. Prather also allowed us to publish his 1998 e-mail — a kind of workaday scientific note filled with technical language, but one that did not inspire the kind controversy other e-mails did.
Q. What is the significance of the release of these hacked e-mails?
A. Primarily they show that climate change science is healthy, interactive, and mostly open.
There are some minor examples of potentially bad behavior, but no conspiracy. The few examples of this are notable in 1000+ emails!
Q. Could the release of the emails change the scientific consensus on climate
change?
A. No, there is far too much science on climate change, far beyond UEA and Penn State, to alter the scientific consensus. If the public lets this affect them, then we have a serious communication problem.
These emails will be used by those who have already made up their minds on climate change to support their irrational belief system. We have already seen some of this, as the highly polarized press (WSJ) digs up their pet scientists to write op-ed pieces masquerading as scientific articles. What is worse, but expected, is that when scientists who were directly attacked, or whose primary work was directly attacked, by these one-sided half-page opinion pieces ask to write a rebuttal, the WSJ editorial policy does not allow equal access but limits their response to a couple of brief paragraphs. Thus, for those whose believe that climate change just cannot be human intervention, these emails will bolster their faith, but for those who continue to examine the scientific evidence, including the uncertainties in current knowledge, they will prove trivial.
Q. What is the consensus?
A. 99% of the last IPCC assessment still stands, and the new data since 2007 make an even stronger case for an acceleration of the human-caused global warming.

Trust me: Fear the EPA as much as crap and trade.

mobydutch on December 7, 2009 at 10:35 PM

you need to fear them more

they are pretty much unbridled

at least with Congress we can vote them in and out

Leo De Caprio was on Oprah talking about warming 3 years ago, and she said, throwing a softball, “Oh what can we do?” He smiled and said, “Elect people who will do something about it.”

The students were more adamant that even the administration. The giant university’s strategic plan was changed to emphasize “sustainability” by commiting to lower out carbon footprint.

I’m telling ya… climategate has registered a zero on the Richter Scale in academia. It’s full-speed ahead.

AGW will not die easily.

Sorry for yelling.

That does seem to be the peer-reviewed consensus among moonbats.
ddrintn on December 7, 2009 at 8:55 PM

An adaptation of Poe’s Law.
Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of moonbatism that SOMEONE won’t mistake for the real thing.

Thank you for submitting this cool story – Trackback from PunditKix…

Bikerken on December 7, 2009 at 9:15 PM

I’ve seen the lefty websites picking up the centrist/republican lite mantra. Support seems to be dwindling.