Stupid Climate-gate!

I wasn’t going to say anything about the climate-gate scandal but last night, my husband asked me about it and I feel I need to nip it in the bud because he likes to believe a lot of crazy things (He reads Dan Brown).

So this whole thing is about a set of emails leaked from a research facility in England where two scientists discuss how two papers that were skeptic about climate change should never have been published. Some people see in it a conspiracy to keep dissenting voices out. (The Pew Center on Climate Change says the papers in questions were subpar.)

Silly scientists! (Not to be confused with Nutty Professors, see picture.)

None of this is proof that climate change is a hoax. Climate change is science, not complete certainty, but hundreds, if not thousands of top scientists around the world agree to its main principles. 1) The world is warming to a dangerous level at an alarming pace, and 2) human activity is contributing to it. The only dissent that exists is regarding the extent of the damage that will ensue.

So, unless you are willing to believe in a worldwide conspiracy of scientists, all with different backgrounds and allegiances, to have us all driving hybrids, Climate-gate is a stupid distraction. On with Copenhagen!