See last week’s Global Warming Scandal/Fraud revelations, here.  Now, see what this week’s scrutiny brings us, below.  

The Alaska Standard’s Alex Gimarc (Photo-r) comments: The leak of 160 meg of e-mails, computer modeling code, spreadsheets and other data from East Anglia University’s Climate Research Unit has exposed over a decade of fraudulent climate science “proving” the existence of manmade global warming. It has thoroughly documented the complete corruption of the peer review process and corruption of the scientific journals used to publish those results. At this point, not only are the conclusions that there is global warming now in question, but the data that led to those conclusions now suspect. And the corruption exposed engulfs the scientific community, the scientific journals, the UN IPCC, several universities, and even Obama’s Science Czar John Holdren, who has and still is participating.

Kyle Smith writes (11/29) in the NY Post, “You wouldn’t jump from saying, “I believe young men commit a lot of the murders in this country” to “Let’s lock up all 17- to 25-year-old males,” though doing so would eliminate most of the problem. Cap-and-trade is a similar overreaction, a Tax on Everything, from snacks to Cadillacs. Every product that is made with carbon-based energy would be punished. The primary appeal of the plan to statists and their never-ending search for new revenue is its ninja-like stealth. Like Europe’s “Value Added Taxes” that are simply included in the price of everything, it wouldn’t be transparent, like a sales tax or an income tax. “It’s really big, really, really hard, and is going to make a lot of people mad,” Sen. Claire McCaskill, the Missouri Democrat, said this week.  (Much more below….)

Henry Waters writes (11/29) in the Columbia (Mo.) Tribune, “Count the Columbia campus of the University of Missouri among the threatened entities, at least according to UM system President Gary Forsee, who recently sent word to Missouri’s congressional delegation urging defeat of the bill.

CEI’s Chris Horner writes (11/30) in the Washington Examiner, “After reams of information were posted on a Russian server detailing the inner workings at the highest — and highest-compensated — levels of what’s called "climate science," many of us in the "skeptic " community were reminded of one phrase: "Told you so." 

Mark Steyn writes on National Review Online (11/28), “The e-mails of “Andy” (as his CRU chums fondly know him) are especially pitiful. Confronted by serious questions from Stephen McIntyre, the dogged Ontario retiree whose Climate Audit website exposed the fraud of Dr. Mann’s global-warming “hockey stick” graph), “Andy” writes to Dr. Mann to say not to worry, he’s going to “cover” the story from a more oblique angle. 

NY Times (11/27) reports, “Some prominent climate scientists are calling for changes in the way research on global warming is conducted after a British university said thousands of private e-mail messages and documents had been stolen from its climate center. Dr. Curry and others said that if nothing else, the e-mail correspondence suggested that climate scientists needed to show more temperance in dealing with their critics. “We won the war — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, and climate and energy legislation is near the top of the U.S. agenda,” Dr. Curry said. “Why keep fighting all these silly battles and putting ourselves in this position?"

George Monbiot writes in the UK Guardian (11/26), ‘The response of the greens and most of the scientists I know is profoundly ironic, as we spend so much of our time confronting other people’s denial. Pretending that this isn’t a real crisis isn ‘t going to make it go away. 

Edward Cowle writes (11/29) in the Buffalo News, “The project in question would erect 240 wind turbines manufactured by A-Power Energy Generation Systems of Shenyang, China, on 36,000 acres in West Texas. Organizers of the project cite that an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 manufacturing jobs would be created. But those jobs won’t be here in New York or in the United States; they’ll be created in China using our federal tax dollars. Even worse, a recent independent study cited by Schumer found that 84 percent of the $1.05 billion in “green” stimulus funding distributed by the Obama administration since September has gone to foreign companies.

James Buchen writes in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (11/28), “Lawmakers must consider whether it makes sense to enact an LCFS and trade friendly Canadian oil for a greater reliance on OPEC and Middle East oil. Thankfully, Wisconsin voters understand the threats posed by an LCFS law, and overwhelmingly oppose it.

Wheeling News-Register (11/29) reports, “U.S. Rep. Alan Mollohan may be willing to support a proposed "Cap and Trade" bill if it contains the proper concessions for the coal industry. During a recent visit to Wheeling, Mollohan, D-W.Va., said he believes the climate control legislation currently before the U.S. Senate will be amended to the point that it passes through Congress. He stressed that West Virginia needs to be prepared for such a bill.