David Frum – The Week

The conduct of climate scientists at the U.K.'s Climate Research Institute was scandalous. But what does that tell us about the validity of climate change?

On their way to discovering the double helix structure of DNA, James Watson and Francis Crick drew important inspiration from an unauthorized glimpse at the unpublished research of a third scientist, Rosalind Franklin.

Yet when James Watson published his famous memoir in 1968, he made scant mention of Franklin’s contributions—holding her up instead to vicious and misogynistic mockery.

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I do not agree with Mr. Frum's conclusions about a carbon tax, because I believe there is an interest in moving away from fossil fuels.

Nor do I beleive it is necessarily caused by humans. I tend to agree that this just another cycle that's about to end for global cooling. Let's hope so any way.

I also do not believe governments should be providing billions of dollars in taxpayer dollars for those pursuing alternative energy.

In the final consumers are smart enough to want to protect their environment if provided with the right information. People like the scientists at East Anglia and Al Gore are not the best of examples to us.

As Mr. Frum opines:

Scientists—even brilliant ones—are not better than other people. They are at least as prone to vanity, malice, groupthink, charlatanism, and outright dishonesty as those in any other line of work. Happily, science is bigger than the scientists…”