Here it is Monday, and the administration is keeping quiet about the climate-change fraud conundrum.  The only word I've heard comes from climate czar Carol Browner, who stated,

I'm sticking with the 2,500 scientists. These people have been studying this issue for a very long time and agree this problem is real (…) [people calling for action] are a very small group of people who continue to say this isn't a real problem, that we don't need to do anything.

At least she stops short of calling us "deniers" or "flat earthers."

Which is better than I can say for Al Gore.  His new book is called, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, and it opens with this happy quote from Deuteronomy:  "I’m offering you the choice of life or death. You can choose either blessings or curses."

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Gore thinks very highly of himself.  He's on a crusade to save us from our own worst instincts, much like his wife was in the 1980's.  He loves to see himself on television, and it's even better that he gets to lecture us from a position of moral authority.

By now we've all heard about "climate gate."  The evidence so far is damning, to say the least.  I've certainly had my fill of the politicizing of pseudoscience, and I hope this new episode gets people questioning what they've blindly accepted for quite some time.

In any case, I imagine things will be a bit awkward at Copenhagen next week.

Reading through the current tale of scientific dishonesty and whitewashing, I can't help but be reminded of the Michael Bellesiles incident.

Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize today. He joins such great historical figures as Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Lech Walesa and Martin Luther King.

I, for one, am incensed.

Gore was awarded the prize largely for his work on An Inconvenient Truth, a visually appealing movie filled with distortions and lies. It is a piece of irresponsible, fear-mongering propaganda masquerading as science.

Is this what science has been reduced to? For that matter, is the Nobel Peace Prize now so cheap and easily given on political merits?