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The Globe & Mail – The great global warming collapse
As the science scandals keep coming, the air has gone out of the climate-change movement, by Margaret Wente

The impetus for the Copenhagen conference was that the science makes it imperative for us to act. But even if that were true – and even if we knew what to do – a global deal was never in the cards. As Mr. Mead writes, “The global warming movement proposed a complex set of international agreements involving vast transfers of funds, intrusive regulations in national economies, and substantial changes to the domestic political economies of most countries on the planet.” Copenhagen was never going to produce a breakthrough. It was a dead end.

And now, the science scandals just keep on coming.

Read the whole thing. The Globe & Mail, by the way, is the more liberal national Canadian newspaper. The National Post, which is the one I have in my Google Reader, is the conservative one. So keep that in mind as you read this.