A couple of years ago, supporters of global warming theory began referring to skeptics as "deniers" — implying that anyone who doubted climate change should be lumped with Holocaust deniers.
Now the shoe is on the other foot, thanks to the eye-popping e-mail dump that hit the Internet recently and quickly became known as "Climategate." The response of much of the global-warming "community" has been … denial.
A New York Times story on the Copenhagen climate summit declared, "In Face of Skeptics, Experts Affirm Climate Peril." The U.S. negotiator at Copenhagen, Jonathan Pershing, said the hacked e-mails have "no fundamental bearing" on the summit. Al Gore waved off the controversy as so much "sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency went right ahead with its "endangerment finding," laying the basis for the regulatory equivalent of a tax on greenhouse gases.
The e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, however, raise serious questions about the theory of anthropogenic global warming, or AGW.
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