A Little Gloating

Ace points out that the MSM is keeping mum about those revised globwarming figures, but there's a bit of self-satisfied towel-snapping going on around the blogosphere.

Now, there are always sober, rational voices that tell the blogosphere not to get too pleased with itself and refrain from engaging in unseemly triumphalism when they score a point.

As I explained last summer, I am not one of those voices.

So please enjoy this rump-shaking endzone dance by Okie, who just a few days ago chewed up and spat out Newsweek's hit on global warming "deniers".

And here's a little sarcasm from Mrs. Peel about the NASA executive who tried to keep a lid on the broken dataset that showed 1998 was the hottest year yet:

I think Jim Hansen should disclose his methodology to the public. And also, I personally would like to think that if our government needed to silence someone, they could do a better job than this. The guy has had, what, 700 interviews in the last two years? (I may be exaggerating, but not by much - I definitely remember reading that he had 30 interviews in the same month that he started claiming that the government was trying to silence him.)

Poor repressed suppressed distressed Mr. Hansen. The guy's just like Anne Frank, if she gave press conferences from her attic and weren't in any danger and had a great job in a free country, and she tried to prevent the release of career-damaging information.

PS Did I use the subjunctive right? "if she...weren't in any danger"?