You might think that, as much as I have written about climate change (click on the “climate change” tag to the left), I’d have been all over the scandal involving the East Anglia scientists who hid and changed data to fit the “consensus” and who tried to silence skeptics. The truth is that my reaction isn’t much more than a big sigh of relief.

Relief that my instincts regarding the global warming promoters were right.

Relief that skeptics, such as myself, were justified in their skepticism.

Relief that monstrous schemes like “cap and trade” are dead in the United States, or at least mortally wounded.

Relief that there will be (or should be) calls for a more open and critical look at the actual data, rather than a blind devotion to the global warming religion.

Relief that the scientific community might purge some of these charlatans.

I realize the scandal hasn’t gotten much attention in the liberal media, but I’m not sure that matters much. I was going to look through the last several Sarasota Herald-Tribune newspapers to see if they deigned to mention it, but I’m pretty sure they didn’t, at least not in a substantial way, and frankly, who cares? I long ago came to the conclusion that the principle weakness and distinguishing characteristic of today’s liberalism is its willingness to set aside facts, truth, and logic in favor of policy objectives. Inconvenient events are mentally discarded.

Global warming, as political scaffolding with which to construct an ever larger government, is thankfully collapsing. Climate change, as an actual physical phenomenon, will continue in its cycles of cooling and warming, as it has done for millions of years, oblivious to the affairs of man.