All Eyes on Copenhagen

As the mushroom cloud grows larger and more incriminating by the day, viz:

Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation

"A week after my colleague James Delingpole , on his Telegraph blog, coined the term "Climategate" to describe the scandal revealed by the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, Google was showing that the word now appears across the internet more than nine million times."

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"The reason why even the Guardian's George Monbiot has expressed total shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their authors are not just any old bunch of academics. Their importance cannot be overestimated, What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the heart of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)."

...there is some some sign that Harper and other leaders know exactly what's up:

Harper stands firm on 'modest' emission cuts despite UN plea

I'm having a hard time shaking the hunch that the stand taken by Western leaders at Copenhagen is going to be one that kills the global AGW warmist gestapo for good.

In the meantime, at least one American senator is calling for a hearing to uncover the truth and intends to attend Copenhagen as "one man truth squad". This is going to be just like Watergate. The term Climategate was well chosen.

Actually, it's going to be much more important than Watergate. Watergate dealt with the corruption of one president and his administration in one country only. Climategate involves not only the entire planet, but trillions of dollars already expended on solutions to a problem that doesn't exist. Lawyers will be enriching themselves for years and years to come. As for me, my most fervent hope is that the credibility of the institution of peer review will eventually be restored.

Oh, and I won't even begin to speculate what this will do to the compliant and complacent MSM (ie. big television). At least some of the newspapers are doing their job, so maybe there's hope for them yet, at least the pixels on monitors variety.