YEAH, IT'S SETTLED SCIENCE - LAUGH NOW - AT 10:45 A.M. ET:  Every day that goes by we seem to learn, from the British press if not from the American, that the house of cards known as "the settled science of climate change" is collapsing a bit more.   From The Times of London:

The Indian head of the UN climate change panel defended his position yesterday even as further errors were identified in the panel's assessment of Himalayan glaciers.

Dr Rajendra Pachauri dismissed calls for him to resign over the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change’s retraction of a prediction that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035.

But he admitted that there may have been other errors in the same section of the report, and said that he was considering whether to take action against those responsible.

“I know a lot of climate sceptics are after my blood, but I’m in no mood to oblige them,” he told The Times in an interview. “It was a collective failure by a number of people,” he said. “I need to consider what action to take, but that will take several weeks. It’s best to think with a cool head, rather than shoot from the hip.”

COMMENT:  Yeah, let's keep a cool head here.  (I'm surprised he still thinks, in an age of "warming," that heads can remain cool.)  Let's not look too closely. 

The UN, already one of the most corrupt organizations on Earth, is confronted with still more problems in its "definitive" work on climate change. 

And in the United States, the Obama administration, clinging to the Al Gorist party line, refuses to reconsider its policy that there's nothing to see here, nothing to see.  All settled.

The Republican Party, as part of its 2010 platform, should call for a massive evaluation, under the direction of respected and neutral scientists, of the "science" involved in the global-warming issue.  is it real science, or is a lot of it political science?  Is it based on solid, proved research, or is at least some of it based on the need to conform, the better to get government grants and admission tickets to prestigious academies?

Our side can make quite an issue of this, as the public has become increasingly skeptical of the repeated claims that the sky is falling and the ocean is rising.

January 23, 2010