The journal, Nature, has a strikingly hubris filled editorial about the "climategate" impact on the "science" of Global Warming...

... it is just amazingly ironic that the writer desires to blame these poor innocent "scientists" for being so naive about how to use the MSM to their advantage in the exposing of the so-called climate lies by the "deniers."

Look... the global warming alarmists OWNED the MSM... and the MSM owned the climate alarmist's message for some 20 years now. The skeptics have been vilified and castigated by the MSM and the alarmists as fringe kook enemies of the earth and humanity... called criminals and deserving of being executed... the list could go on and on and on about how the alarmists and the MSM and government have been in collusion from the get-go.

Look... alarmists... man-up.

Nature Opinion

Climate of fear

The integrity of climate research has taken a very public battering in recent months. Scientists must now emphasize the science, while acknowledging that they are in a street fight.

Climate scientists are on the defensive, knocked off balance by a re-energized community of global-warming deniers who, by dominating the media agenda, are sowing doubts about the fundamental science. Most researchers find themselves completely out of their league in this kind of battle because it's only superficially about the science. The real goal is to stoke the angry fires of talk radio, cable news, the blogosphere and the like, all of which feed off of contrarian story lines and seldom make the time to assess facts and weigh evidence. Civility, honesty, fact and perspective are irrelevant.

Worse, the onslaught seems to be working: some polls in the United States and abroad suggest that it is eroding public confidence in climate science at a time when the fundamental understanding of the climate system, although far from complete, is stronger than ever. Ecologist Paul Ehrlich at Stanford University in California says that his climate colleagues are at a loss about how to counter the attacks. “Everyone is scared shitless, but they don't know what to do,” he says.

Scientists must not be so naive as to assume that the data speak for themselves.

Researchers should not despair. For all the public's confusion about climate science, polls consistently show that people trust scientists more than almost anybody else to give honest advice. Yes, scientists' reputations have taken a hit thanks to headlines about the leaked climate e-mails at the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK, and an acknowledged mistake about the retreat of Himalayan glaciers in a recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But these wounds are not necessarily fatal.

To make sure they are not, scientists must acknowledge that they are in a street fight, and that their relationship with the media really matters. Anything strategic that can be done on that front would be useful, be it media training for scientists or building links with credible public-relations firms.....

The "skeptics" have had to pay their own way... use the alternative media of the internet and talk radio... face overwhelming ridicule and insult... a true story of little David facing the giant Goliath.

Of course... Yahweh has had a great hand in the revelations and exposing of the massive corruption called Anthropogenic Global Warming.

God Bless the Skeptics... they are waging a great service for all humanity.

Consider and ponder.

xtnyoda, shalomed