Walter Russell Mead at The American Interest Online site writes in The Death Of Global Warming:

The global warming movement as we have known it is dead. Its health had been in steady decline during the last year as the once robust hopes for a strong and legally binding treaty to be agreed upon at the Copenhagen Summit faded away. By the time that summit opened, campaigners were reduced to hoping for a ‘politically binding’ agreement to be agreed that would set the stage for the rapid adoption of the legally binding treaty. After the failure of the summit to agree to even that much, the movement went into a rapid decline.

The movement died from two causes: bad science and bad politics.

After years in which global warming activists had lectured everyone about the overwhelming nature of the scientific evidence, it turned out that the most prestigious agencies in the global warming movement were breaking laws, hiding data, and making inflated, bogus claims resting on, in some cases, no scientific basis at all. {,,,}

Mead isn’t a denier, in fact he seems to strongly believed in AGW, but is facing the reality that Al Gore and the Holy Order Of Global Warming Hysteria blew it big time. “Bad science and bad politics” indeed. Mead follows up that one with one today about the Liberal Media’s total lack of coverage of the collapse of AGW due to all that bad data, manipulated data, false data and cover-ups galore.

Readers of The New York Times have no idea that any of this is happening (although this story in today’s paper hints that President Obama is retreating from the goal of a comprehensive climate bill). Those who get their news from the three old news networks haven’t heard about it. It’s likely that even key members of the Obama administration haven’t realized the full dimensions of the problem they face.

The word here is denial: there’s too much intellectual, political and moral energy invested in the climate change movement for liberals to pay attention to the dots, much less to connect up the whole dismaying picture. It looks very much as if reporters or (more likely) editors were so invested in climate change that they assumed that the initial charges were less consequential than they have turned out to be. They therefore failed to understand the effect of the cascading charges and revelations on American politics. Skeptics up, Obama down, cap-and-trade dead. Since they couldn’t see that, they failed to think through the consequences of cap and trade’s death for the global climate change process.

One lesson from this: the secret weapon of American conservatives is the liberal media. Had American liberals known what was coming, they could have taken some steps to limit the damage. But they didn’t see it coming because the media they rely on lacks the insight and the instincts to recognize a major story in time.

It’s fun when even the Looney Left is starting to “get it”! To all you AGW hysterics out there — Anthropogenic Global Warming Is DEAD! Crap & Tax is a FARCE.

Deal with it . . .

[H/t: Ace -- don't miss the Puppeh Cam!]

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