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Will Climate Scandal Be a Tipping Point?
WSJ via realclearpolitics.com ^ | November 27, 2009 | Kimberley Strassel

Posted on 11/27/2009 10:53:17 AM PST by neverdem

So declares Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, taking a few minutes away from a Thanksgiving retreat with his family. "Ninety-five percent of the nails were in the coffin prior to this week. Now they are all in."

If any politician might be qualified to offer last rites, it would be Mr. Inhofe. The top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee has spent the past decade in the thick of Washington's climate fight. He's seen the back of three cap-and-trade bills, rode herd on an overweening Environmental Protection Agency, and steadfastly insisted that global researchers were "cooking" the science behind man-made global warming.

This week he's looking prescient. The more than 3,000 emails and documents from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit(CRU) that have found their way to the Internet...

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There's still the EPA, which is preparing an "endangerment finding" that would allow it to regulate carbon on the grounds it is a danger to public health. It is here the emails might have the most direct effect. The agency has said repeatedly that it based its finding on the U.N. science-which is now at issue. The scandal puts new pressure on the EPA to accede to growing demands to make public the scientific basis of its actions.

Mr. Inhofe goes so far as to suggest that the agency might not now issue the finding. "The president knows how punitive this will be; he's never wanted to do it through [the EPA] because that's all on him." The EPA was already out on a legal limb with its finding, and Mr. Inhofe argues that if it does go ahead, the CRU disclosure guarantees court limbo. "The way the far left used to stop us is to file lawsuits and stall and stall. We'll do the same thing."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agw; climategate; cru; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; inhofe
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Inhofe got their number. Remember Chuck U Schumer making the analogy between Iraq and Vietnam?

"There will be resolution after resolution, amendment after amendment . . . just like in the days of Vietnam. The pressure will mount, the president will find he has no strategy, he will have to change his strategy, and the vast majority of our troops will be taken out of harm's way and come home."

We just have to be relentless. Just keep pounding them. We'll get back to SCOTUS. Anthony Kennedy will reverse his earlier vote that CO2 is a pollutant, IMHO. Judges despise lies.

1 posted on 11/27/2009 10:53:18 AM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem
Will Climate Scandal Be a Tipping Point?

Not a chance.

But executions for people who litter might be.

2 posted on 11/27/2009 10:55:23 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (whitey's over it.)
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To: neverdem; Little Bill; Nervous Tick; 4horses+amule; Desdemona; Fractal Trader; grey_whiskers; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

3 posted on 11/27/2009 10:56:44 AM PST by steelyourfaith (Time to prosecute Al Gore now that fellow scam artist Bernie Madoff is in stir.)
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To: neverdem
It's not about climate, it is politics driven destruction of our country's dominance as a super power.
4 posted on 11/27/2009 10:56:54 AM PST by boomop1
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To: neverdem

We would be in much better position now if Bush and McCain had not backed AGW. At least Palin had some common sense on this issue - for which she was pilloried by Charlie Gibson and others.

Who’s looking dumb now Gibson?


5 posted on 11/27/2009 10:58:49 AM PST by BigBobber
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To: neverdem

>> Anthony Kennedy will reverse his earlier vote that CO2 is a pollutant, IMHO. Judges despise lies.

Honest ones do, anyway. And I have no reason to believe that Kennedy is dishonest, intellectually or otherwise, whatever his ideological flaws may be.

Good point.


6 posted on 11/27/2009 11:04:57 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: BigBobber

>> We would be in much better position now if Bush and McCain had not backed AGW.

I wonder if we’ll see Bush, McCain, and other RINOs backpeddling and claiming they were mislead.


7 posted on 11/27/2009 11:07:19 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: neverdem

Sen. Jim Inhofe seems to be a voice in the dark. AFAIK, not a single Congressman or Senator besides Jim have said a word about Climategate. Hoping I’m wrong but that’s the way it looks from here and I’ve been following this thing pretty close.


8 posted on 11/27/2009 11:15:12 AM PST by InterceptPoint
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To: neverdem
Tipping point:


9 posted on 11/27/2009 11:15:41 AM PST by P.O.E. (- End road work.)
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To: neverdem; All
Mark my words, here:

http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1433905#1433905

This?




"Does this mean we can have our incandescent light bulbs back?"

...is going to become the rallying cry that helps drag this swindle into the light of day.

And yes, it is a swindle- a fraud and a cheat and a scam-- a deliberately designed construct intended to con you out of things you hold dear-- money, prosperity, freedom... and a few other things, as well.







I'm keeping a running file ( always updated ) on this fraud and scandal:

"Hadley CRU has apparently been hacked –[epic fraud?]"

Click the picture:



10 posted on 11/27/2009 11:27:49 AM PST by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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To: the invisib1e hand
LOL!


11 posted on 11/27/2009 11:33:14 AM PST by lonevoice (If Fox News is the only outlet reporting it, did it really happen?)
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To: backhoe

LOL! All it needs is that audio of Gore going on like a black preacher, “...the glory of the Lord will be revealed...”


12 posted on 11/27/2009 11:51:26 AM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: neverdem
LOL! All it needs is that audio of Gore going on like a black preacher, “...the glory of the Lord will be revealed...”

One of our compatriots at our Canadian sister site has dubbed him "L. Ron Whore," nicely slandering Gore, Scientology, and workin' gals...

13 posted on 11/27/2009 12:07:30 PM PST by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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To: neverdem

The EPA needs to be investigated, I hope he goes there!
Healthcare scam is a killer but this crap and trade is the death sentence for us all.


14 posted on 11/27/2009 1:10:16 PM PST by ronnie raygun (Leaders who refuse to lead will be lead by the people)
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To: neverdem
Would letters to Justice Kennedy asking essentially, WTF, help?
15 posted on 11/27/2009 1:14:59 PM PST by JPG (Obama's plan for America...today, Labor Unions...tomorrow, Labor Camps.)
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To: neverdem
There's still the EPA, which is preparing an "endangerment finding" that would allow it to regulate carbon on the grounds it is a danger to public health.

I live within the confines of a 27 square mile "Superfund Box" which is more or less governed by the EPA. This Hydra needs to have all its heads removed and separated at great distance from the remaining carcass.

16 posted on 11/27/2009 1:40:34 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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To: BigBobber
re: Who’s looking dumb now Gibson?)))

He likely hasn't heard of Climategate.

17 posted on 11/27/2009 3:19:05 PM PST by Mamzelle (Who is Kenneth Gladney? (Don't forget to bring your cameras))
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To: InterceptPoint

“Sen. Jim Inhofe seems to be a voice in the dark. AFAIK, not a single Congressman or Senator besides Jim have said a word about Climategate. Hoping I’m wrong but that’s the way it looks from here and I’ve been following this thing pretty close.”

Sometimes it’s best for members of the U.S. Congress to keep their mouths shut about any particular hot topic. I certainly appreciate their individual and collective silence on Climategate.

I, for one, have enjoyed hearing from individuals around the world who are not politicians. Some of them are earthy scientists, others stats-men, and many individs. of unknown training/occupations/etc..—it’s been quite good.


18 posted on 11/27/2009 4:51:21 PM PST by hyperconservative (Heartfelt humble thanks to the Great Whistleblower(s) at CRU!!)
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To: hyperconservative

Off to Twitterville I go...


19 posted on 11/27/2009 5:12:06 PM PST by hyperconservative (Heartfelt humble thanks to the Great Whistleblower(s) at CRU!!)
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Thanks neverdem.


20 posted on 11/28/2009 8:58:20 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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