Al Gore ranted,

It’s no longer acceptable in mixed company, meaning bipartisan company, to use the god**** word climate. It is not acceptable. They have polluted it to the point where we cannot possibly come to an agreement on it.

Put aside the fact that the warmists never wanted to “come to an agreement.” What they wanted was for the rest of us to get in line and agree to hamstring the economy and empower government to control minute details of our lives (like lightbulbs and toilets and our freedom to travel) based on science so shaky that scientists routinely refuse to release data, and have been caught falsifying and hiding evidence.

And now by ManBearPig’s own account, we have a significant victory.  Apocalyptic prediction after prediction has failed to come to pass, and people can’t help but notice they’ve been lied to.  His Oscar-winning propaganda film was found by a court to have errors so significant it cannot be shown to UK schoolchildren without disclaimers.  After years of warmists comparing “climate deniers” to Nazis and terrorists, it’s Gore’s views which are “no longer acceptable” to the majority of us.

The photo of Bush and the  ”Mission Accomplished” banner was used deceptively by the left in that the mission that was accomplished in that case was the limited, 10 month mission of the aircraft carrier. The banner was not intended to signal “mission accomplished” over the overall Iraq war.  Similarly, Gore’s spittle-flecked diatribe indicates a battle won, not the war. We’re now near the end of the current global warming scare, but this cycle has been played out five times since the New York Times first hyped climate change in 1895.  True victory will be transparency on the part of scientists and accurate and fair reporting on climate, and we are nowhere near that yet.  Still, Gore’s public frustration is a very satisfying marker.

No longer acceptable.

I didn’t particularly enjoy science classes when I was in school, but my teachers did manage to pound a few basic principles into my head. First, show your work. Second, if someone else can’t duplicate it, it doesn’t count.

Many of today’s climate scientists are being reschooled in those basics. For years they displayed a snotty “I’m smarter than you chump taxpayers, so take my word that we have to destroy the economy or die” attitude and refused to show their work.  Now, Freedom of Information Act requests are forcing them to put up or shut up.

Michael Mann, of the entirely debunked “hockey stick” fame, routinely fights requests to show his work and now he’s being required to show his emails, so that the taxpayers who fund him can know if he’s pulling an East Anglia or not.  And by “an East Anglia” I mean conspiring to hide and distort data in order to propagandize for the cult of anthropogenic global warming.  After his hockey stick fiasco, I would bet that he has.

You’ll get nothing and like it!

Holliday has for several years been predicting that blackouts could become a feature of power systems that replace reliable coal plants with wind turbines in order to meet greenhouse gas targets…. Under the so-called “smart grid” that the UK is developing, the government-regulated utility will be able to decide when and where power should be delivered, to ensure that it meets the highest social purpose. Governments may, for example, decide that the needs of key industries take precedence over others, or that the needs of industry trump that of residential consumers. Governments would also be able to price power prohibitively if it is used for non-essential purposes.

Blackouts: not a bug. A feature.  And don’t worry. You can trust the government to know when you need electricity and how you may properly use it.

Added: More on this at Pajamas Media.

UPDATE: Speaking of the wheels coming off the global warming bus, Ed Morrissey has a great interview with Senator Inhofe. Inhofe is releasing a report in which he blasts the IPCC over Climategate, and calls for an investigation. Just as the Obama administration seems ready to double down on their health care takeover with reconciliation, they also apparently intend to proceed full speed ahead with EPA regulation of the plant food that we exhale. Amazing.

I’m thoroughly enjoying watching the wheels come off the global warming bus. Six Meat Buffet asks the critical question: If The Tree of Global Warming Fell In The Living Rooms of The American Press And No One Reported It Would It Make A Sound?

As Ric Locke via Insty points out, “everybody who’s actually been to a Tea Party rally, then watched Teh Newz afterwards, knows from personal experience that the alphabet media are a pack of liars.”  The last 15 years of hyping – instead of investigating and fairly reporting – global warming stories illustrate it as well.  At some point we have to get beyond the benefit of the doubt.  Was the press essentially tricked by scientists who were in turn led astray by the quest for grants and a handful of scam artists?  What did the press know and when did they know it?

I can accept the “conspiracy of shared values” theory – that the press eagerly believed global warming theory because it helped achieve leftist goals with which they agreed.  But at some point, it does go beyond that and even simple incompetence.  And this is that point, as Six Meat points out.  They are willfully not reporting on what Michelle Malkin describes “the global warming scandal of the century” summed up by Viscount Monckton.  The Associate Press has a story, and they’re sticking to it.   So is the Washington Post.

I created the Global Warming/Global Cooling category back in 2007 when I learned that the scaremongering media hype on climate change had been going on for more than a century, switching from cooling to warming every few decades.  I’m old enough to remember the 1970s global cooling scare.  I remember being told to enjoy my summers because it would be cold year-round when I grew up, and hearing conversations between adults on whether they ought to have a backyard greenhouse because it would eventually be too cold to grow produce any other way.  As the Frank Capra video shows, the 70s cooling hype was preceded by the 50s warming hype.  This eye-opening article tracks the hype since 1895.  And since warming is obviously not happening, before too much longer we’ll start hearing more about manmade climate change cooling.  The snow line is indisputably moving south, and my prediction is that the media will surely pick up the pace on the global cooling stories which started nearly three years ago.  Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.