Happy T-day lizards. I’m a relatively infrequent visitor here these days, and am a little surprised at the reaction to climate-gate. I guess I hold more-or-less to the Krauthammer agnostic position, dumping all the CO2 into the air can’t be good, but a definitive link? I don’t know. I abhor any dishonesty on the part of ‘deniers’, but I have long suspected that the “scientific consensus”/journals/peer-reviewed literature doesn’t exactly have clean hands either- and recent developments show that ths is true. I’m all for cutting CO2 emissions, but the damage that has been done cannot be undone quickly- the CO2 is in our atmosphere. Pre-industrial-revolution levels will not return for eons even if artificial CO2 emssions stop tomorrow. And we don’t know whether solar output will remain stagnant and trump whatever CO2 levels we do have. My view is that the “scientific community” has latched onto a subject that should be of concern, certainly, to all of humanity, but the potential seriousness of the issue does not take away from the fact that they do have an agenda, and they should lose some serious credibility.