Having To Shovel It Out

It's getting pretty deep and thick on climate change denial, and the Village is more than happy to pile on the Science Hate.  Best paragraph:

U.N. Foundation President Timothy E. Wirth, whose nonprofit group has highlighted the work of the IPCC, said that the pirated e-mails gave "an opening" to attack climate science and that the scientific work "has to be defended just like evolution has to be defended." 

Just like evolution has to be defended.  Stop and think about that.  In the United States, climate science is now viewed with the same skepticism that evolution is.

Roger Pielke Jr., a political scientist and environmental studies professor at the University of Colorado, said that the U.N. panel could hurt its own public standing by not admitting how it exaggerated certain climate risks or connections, such as linking higher insurance payouts to rising temperatures when other factors are driving this trend.

"The idea that the IPCC can or should strive to be infallible is really not helpful," Pielke said. "When errors and mistakes are inevitably found, the fall is that much further. . . . There's a real risk that the public perception could swing [toward greater disbelief in climate science]. Even though the reality is that the science -- the underlying science -- hasn't changed." 

But that won't stop the GOP and the Wingers from lying about it. Scientists are liberals you see.  They must be punished.