16 February 2012  Reality is Not Good Enough      Pirate said...
Roger, I think your analysis is spot on.  Judging by what is
available on the Guardian and other enviro-media, they are yet
to realize the importance of faking a document.  I am not
familiar with US libel laws. Does Heartland have grounds for
sueing the media?  Menth said...    If one sentence summarizes
the reaction of the climate advocacy blogosphere to the leak, it
would be "I KNEW IT!!!" This, sadly, underlies a fundamental
weakness of their argument; they still cling to the idea that
the largest impediment to implenting their policy visions is the
obstructing done by rascally think tanks or worse, that
dastardly Mr. Watts! (By raising the specter of insidiously well
funded conservative think tanks they have indeed kicked the ball
in their own net by illustrating how paltry their funding is
relative to green groups)  It's more of the "if only society
weren't brainwashed they would believe the same things I
believe" type of thinking.  While