Boxer Wants Criminal Probe Into Hacked Climate Emails

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And she is right on calling for this:

Leaked e-mails allegedly undermining climate change science should be treated as a criminal matter, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said Wednesday afternoon.

Boxer, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said that the recently released e-mails, showing scientists allegedly overstating the case for climate change, should be treated as a crime.

Emails were stolen, something that the wingnuts, who denounced such activites when it happened to Sarah Palin, now embrace. Those stolen emails have been used to accuse scientists of collusion and deception. It’s libel in the most simplest of terms.

Boxer then went on to state the obvious:

“You call it ‘Climategate’; I call it ‘E-mail-theft-gate,'” she said during a committee meeting. “Whatever it is, the main issue is, Are we facing global warming or are we not? I’m looking at these e-mails, that, even though they were stolen, are now out in the public.”

Again Boxer is spot on. The climate change deniers are saying that this proves we are not going through global warming. Somehow they want us to believe that every university, climatologist and scientist in the world all got came together and decided to lie to the world. Leading conservative writers are echoing this belief, showing their need for extra large tinfoil hats.

We have too much solid evidence showing climate change is occuring to ignore it, or write it off as some conspiracy. What do people like Michelle Malkin think? Maybe they believe that scientists have climbed up to the top of Mt. Everest with very long extension cords and hairdryers and started melting the snow and ice?