&#8220;The scientists have been tied up and gagged in the back room&#8221;
<p>The unravelling of the AGW fraud continues to provide an entertaining mix of high drama and low comedy.   My favorite recent entry on the CRU mob is a screed from a professor of  mathematics in Canada: <a href="http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2009/12/skeptics-in-wonderland">&#8220;All of my colleagues have had to endure these bullies and criminals for a very long time.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>Then there&#8217;s David Bellamy&#8217;s <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/bellamy-twenty-eight-years-on-tv-then-blackballed-for-challenging-agw-pjm-exclusive/">tale of being canned from a very successful science-popularizer gig on the BBC</a> because he dared to speak anti-AGW heresy.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s a theme in a lot of recent revelations.  As long as the lid was on the CRU&#8217;s fraud, nobody dared speak up about for fear of being dismissed as a crank.  Now that the AGW crowd&#8217;s power to suppress dissent has been broken, expect to hear a lot more actual scientists &#8212; not politicians, but <em>scientists</em> &#8212; coming forward to confirm that the emperor has no clothes. </p>
<p>For the &#8220;low comedy&#8221; part, return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear when <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html">Time Magazine was predicting catastrophic global cooling</a>.  And <a href="http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm">Newsweek</a>, too.  It&#8217;s hilarious how easy it is to substitute &#8220;warning&#8221; for &#8220;cooling&#8221; and have an article that could have been written last week.</p>
<p>For more low comedy, at least one news story alleges that <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/scandal-shakes-foundations-of-climate-science/article1389842/">the IPCC intends to investigate the allegations of CRU misconduct</a>.  Yup, I&#8217;m sure; the kleptocrats in our permanent political class don&#8217;t like it when their plans for a power grab go awry, and the U.N.&#8217;s contingent doubtless wants to know who&#8217;s to blame for this debacle. For some reason, the phrase &#8220;the prisoner was shot while attempting to escape&#8221; keeps running through my head.</p>
