Thread: Climategate: The White House Stonewalls with Stupidity

Climategate: The White House Stonewalls with Stupidity

November 30th, 2009 9:13 pm

Robert Gibbs – 1991 North Carolina State BA in poli sci (that’s it for the education indicated on his Wikipedia entry) – is the latest political operative to be seriously questioned on the metastasizing Climategate scandal. Of course, the man happens to be White House Press Secretary, so his response should be of some moment.

But Gibbs’ first instinct was to hide behind Director of White House Environment and Climate Change Policy Carol Browner – herself an English major – who has insisted AGW is settled science because thousands of scientists said so – an inane argument in itself. When a reporter noted that thousands of scientists disagreed, Gibbs basically stamped his foot and insisted “I think there’s no real scientific basis for the dispute of this,â€

So is this something else that's too big to fail since so much has been invested in it?