Mark Steyn: Credibility is what’s really melting (Climategate)

Maclean's ^ | February 3, 2010 | Mark Steyn

[2ndDivisionVet]

He's our H.L. Mencken, IMO.

[Lurker]

ping.

[PGR88]

I wish there were some way to “short” Global Warming. I’d make a fortune!

[pissant]

That was a tour de force

[J Edgar]

ROFLOL - I love the title.

[sonic109]

Steyn is ALWAYS so right on the money.
In the information age truth matters not. It’s all media , hype , perception nothing more. The average TV citizen is a moron and can be fooled sooo easily.

[Ramius]

Damn he’s good.

[Cicero]

Brilliant. He can take a complex series of scholarly mistakes that most people would need a hundred footnotes to unravel, and put it all together so that it’s not only perfectly clear what happened, but it’s fun to read.

[balls]

Great post.

[swatbuznik]

Bravo, Mark! And I say that with the best English accent I can imitate (and all due respect).

[grey_whiskers]

"The plural of IPCC reports is not data."

Cheers!

[neverdem]

The WWF is a pressure group. They’re not scientists. They’re not even numerate: one of their more startling glacier-melt claims derives entirely from an arithmetical miscalculation arising from a typing error.

LOL!

[lrb111]

For a Texan like myself, readin’ Steyn, is a much more relaxed and entertaining endeavor than hearin’ Steyn. :)

[Ditto]

As they say in the glacier business, ice work if you can get it.

LOL. Styne's pen really is mightier than the sword. The guy has a wonderful gift for turning phrases.

Creative, funny, and a damn good and very concise thinker.

[Senator Goldwater]

"By 2008, Syed Hasnain’s decade-old casual chit-chat over the phone to a London journalist had become “settled science,” so Dr. Pachauri’s company TERI (The Energy & Resources Institute) approached the Carnegie Corporation for a grant to research “challenges to South Asia posed by melting Himalayan glaciers,” and was rewarded with half a million bucks. Which they promptly used to hire Syed Hasnain. In other words, professor Hasnain has landed a cushy gig researching solutions to an entirely non-existent global crisis he accidentally invented over a 15-minute phone call 10 years earlier. As they say in the glacier business, ice work if you can get it. "

Mencken is a great comparison.

Steyn has it all. Brilliant, acerbic, brutally honest wit.

[coldoc]

How about “Jolly Good Show, Old Pip!”

[Pining_4_TX]

We’re still seeing lots of corporations advertising their green credentials on what they are doing to combat climate change. I just saw one this evening on Fox Business from Siemens Company. I have no idea what they do, but I am tempted to e-mail them and ask them why they haven’t heard yet that climate change is a hoax.

[Plutarch]

This piece has so much content, factually correct, artfully presented, with a unique perspective, with wit, flowing prose, and on and on.

Mark Steyn makes all the other pundits look like so plodding.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

BTTT

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !