If it walks like a fraud, acts like a fraud...

This AP article is full of interesting, non-committal language in describing the controversy surrounding the East Anglia emails. One favorite line:

"This correspondence looks very bad," de Boer said.

Uh, yeah, it does. So does this:

On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen's biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the "summit to save the world", which opens here tomorrow, she will have 200.

Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. "We haven't got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand," she says. "We're having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden."

And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number? "Five," says Ms Jorgensen...

According to the organisers, the eleven-day conference, including the participants' travel, will create a total of 41,000 tonnes of "carbon dioxide equivalent", equal to the amount produced over the same period by a city the size of Middlesbrough.

If this group of power-happy loud-mouth fear-mongers truly thought the planet was in peril from man-made activity, they'd figure out how to solve the crisis using Skype instead of jet-setting around the world to hobnob over drinks and caviar. When you don't lead by example, it's kind of hard to take your cause seriously.