CLIMATEGATE – THE CONTINUING SCANDAL – AT 11:14 A.M. ET:  The British press is leading us on this one, although some American newspapers have started coming out of their hibernation to acknowledge that maybe there's a story here.

The story is the continued stonewalling by the global-warming establishment in the face of scandal after scandal.  From London's Telegraph:

If there’s one thing that stinks even more than Climategate, it’s the attempts we’re seeing everywhere from the IPCC and Penn State University to the BBC to pretend that nothing seriously bad has happened, that “the science” is still “settled," and that it’s perfectly OK for the authorities go on throwing loads more of our money at a problem that doesn’t exist.

There is now an official inquiry in Britain into serious concerns about the Climatic Research Unit, one of the world's leading research centers in "global warming."

The latest example of this noisome phenomenon is Sir Muir Russell’s official whitewash – sorry “independent inquiry” into the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) scandal.

The inquiry has not even begun and already it has told its first blatant lie – seen here on its official website.

"Do any of the Review team members have a predetermined view on climate change and climate science?

"No. Members of the research team come from a variety of scientific backgrounds. They were selected on the basis they have no prejudicial interest in climate change and climate science and for the contribution they can make to the issues the Review is looking at."

The story goes on to point out that several appointees to the "investigative" panel have long, detailed histories as advocates for the conventional global-warming theories, despite the clear denial on the investigation's website.  One has now resigned from the panel in embarrassment.  But the handling of the "investigation" echoes, as we reported yesterday, our Penn State's whitewash of its leading star in warming research, leading some students actually to hold a rally to force a clean, neutral investigation.  They won't get it.  There's too much money involved in this kind of research for Penn State to risk it.

And the Obama White House shows no sign that it has any doubts about the "settled science" of global warming.  The scandal continues.  We are dealing with a religion.

February 13,  2010