Riled Up

So says the Washington Post, and they’re right. They cite the bad economy, those hacked emails about a hockey stick and the Senatorial stalemate over cap and trade (the American Senate is as undemocratic as the Roman one, and we oughta nix it, says I).

Here are two more reasons:

1. There is an air of defeat [...]

By Reilly Capps

Fact of the day: environmentalists suck at arguing. Given solid scientific, photographic, and anecdotal evidence of warming, they’re still losing the debate because one guy used the word “trick” while talking about something called a “hockey stick,” and then because of a couple cold days in February.

This has caused a bunch of enviros to [...]

Two very insightful and extremely sensible pieces here.

 Here, the Weekly Standard takes a deep look at the “Climategate” emails, and comes to the conclusion — a little giddily, but probably not wrongly — that some scientists were reluctant to admit that there was ambiguity about certain bits of data, most notably temperature records from before [...]