It’s like that scene in Forrest Gump where Jenny’s boyfriend smacks her around.  ”It’s just Johnson and this damned war!”

Never underestimate the banality of Evil.

Typical liberal claptrap, accuse your enemies of what your side has been doing all along, and claim that it makes everything you’re doing OK.
 

“…aren’t we justified in suspecting that they are not otherwise honest?”

Yes, a conservative is. But to a loony Lib, his heart is in the right place and we are just anti-science. I agree that we are anti their kind of science, which isn’t science at all.

Stalin also pioneered The Big Lie, which so impressed Goebbels on an early visit that he adapted it for the Nazi propaganda machine.  When this thief talks about “lack of transparency,” he is practicing it.

In fact, as the emails released over the last year or so prove, it is the warmists who have conspired to misrepresent research, rig reports, and fake graphics to maintain their myth.

And once again, the question raised by those disclosures are seconded by this event:  if science were on your side, why do you have to fake all this?  Wouldn’t the truth be your ally?

 ”accuse your enemies of what your side has been doing all along”

There is no more consistent theme these days.  Over and over and over I see these jackasses level an emotional accusation that neatly summarizes what they felt justified in doing to others.  I used to think these people were mental and merely projecting. Now I realize it’s a clever defense tactic.

this Gleick character was recently named the Chair of the Ethics committee for the AGU

Typical. I’m always profoundly suspicious of people who make a big deal about “ethics.” How about just obeying the law and not “bearing false witness”? Isn’t that enough?

“Mr. Gleick did not apologize for a nonexistent hoax,
rather he was clearly apologizing for his lapse in judgment for
acquiring information under false pretenses (he lied about who he was to
get data from Heartland). ”

>>>given that the forged doc has a West Coast timestamp, where Mr. Gleick lices, lets wait for the other shoe to drop, OK?

“Nor did Mr. Gleick say “It’s not my
fault” as Stacy quoted. Do you people understand what quotations imply? I
realize this is a fact impaired crowd, but come on, people.”

>>>Heh.  Another construction of Gleick’s hand-waving, explaining-away orgy of exculpation is, “The devils made me do it.”

“I
can understand how these distinctions might confuse this crowd and it’s
selective morality.”

>>you snot-flinging is duly noted.

 I don’t recall seeing anyone apologize for stealing
all of that email from the UK last year.”

>>>I don’t recall anyone owing up to stealing all that email.  Do you?

“Which, by the way, after
careful review (not just one email or one turn of phrase) only
strengthened the scientists claims and reputation. ”

>>>Yes, of course.  All those admissions about deleting docs to thwart FOIA requests, all that contemptible stuff about trying to get people fired, yeah, that “strengthened… claims and reputations….”

BWAAAAhahahahahahhaaaaa!

And, of course, policies against AGW have taken hold and grown stronger over the past three years — oh wait!  They haven’t!!!   No cap-and-trade, no Kyoto successor, no carbon market, bankruptcies of the solar and wind companies, end of subsidies for same….   Yep!   Strengthened claims and reputations!!!

“I think it is
bold statement about Mr. Gleick’s moral compass that he has decided to
come clean on this and take his due criticism so that he can move on.
”

>>>Bold statement according to a moral cretin such as yourself, maybe, paraphrased as :  “My judgment sucked.  I couldn’t help myself”. 

“Which would have been more to your liking, that he did or did not admit
his transgression? ”

>>>How about, “we would have liked it more if Gleick had not “transgressed” in the first place.

“Ironically, the only thing that would have
made this group happy is ignorance: If he hadn’t admitted his failure
then you would not have had anything to froth about.”

>>Heh.  Seems you gullible warmists are the ones doing the frothing.  It’s easy to see why — you can’t quite yet admit that you were conned.

 And unlike the climategate emails these leaked documents do contain a smoking gun.

“well-funded”
Let’s declare that meme dead.

Smoking?  Yes.  Gun?  Not so much.

But back to that “smoking” thing.  What’s in that glass pipe you’ve been puffing on?

…

You know how damaging this is to the Global Warming crowd? This much. The lefty trogs have flooded conservative blogs and are doing a full-court press hoping to derail the criticism.

Good luck with that.

Someone needs to ask Dan Rather about his opinion on this.

You clearly are not familiar with the ethics issues among professional organizations. Simply being a moral, upstanding man is never sufficient under those paens to moral waffling. I’ve seen this type of trash among Engineers and Surveyors.