One of the necessary steps in the road to undoing the stupidity of 'global warming' is to allow nutters like Babbling Babs to say stupid stuff in public. People will come to understand that the same ignoramuses who want the leaked e-mails prosecuted are the same ones who applauded the release of the Pentagon Papers and the Bush administration memos on the war on terrorism.
The sooner the public sees that, the sooner the public will come to understand that the leaked e-mails really are serious and really do undermine 'global warming'. |
Leaked e-mails allegedly undermining climate change science should be treated as a criminal matter, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said Wednesday afternoon. Boxer, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said that the recently released e-mails, showing scientists allegedly overstating the case for climate change, should be treated as a crime.
"You call it 'Climategate'; I call it 'E-mail-theft-gate,'" she said during a committee meeting. "Whatever it is, the main issue is, Are we facing global warming or are we not? I'm looking at these e-mails, that, even though they were stolen, are now out in the public."
The e-mails, from scientists at the University of East Anglia, were obtained through hacking. The messages showed the director of the university's Climate Research Unit discussing ways to strengthen the unit's case for global warming. Climate change skeptics have seized on the e-mails, arguing that they demonstrate manipulation in environmental science.
| They also demonstrate arrogance, subversion of the scientific method, a willingness to destroy the careers of critics, and perhaps even outright fraud. |
Boxer said her committee may hold hearings into the matter as its top Republican, Sen. James Inhofe (Okla.), has asked for, but that a criminal probe would be part of any such hearings.
"We may well have a hearing on this, we may not. We may have a briefing for senators, we may not," Boxer said. "Part of our looking at this will be looking at a criminal activity which could have well been coordinated.
| While you're at it Babbles, how about prosecuting the two young folks who videoed the ACORN offices? Think of the publicity you'd have. |
"This is a crime," Boxer said.
| I do not think that word means what you think it means. |
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