Gibbsie, you’re doing a heck of a job.

"There’s nothing that we think can and should be done that isn’t being done. Nothing," Gibbs said Friday during a lengthy, often testy exchange with reporters about the response to the oil disaster.

There are no powers of intervention that the federal government has available but has opted not to use, Gibbs said.

I actually believe him. I believe that the combined resources of BP and the United States Government are being wielded in every possible way to stop the spill.

I also believe that we’re completely fucked.

Ugh

Three scenarios lie ahead.  They rank as bad, worse, and ugliest (the latter being catastrophic and unprecedented).  There is no “good” here.

The Bad.

Containment chambers are put in place and they catch the outflow from the three ruptures that are currently pouring 200,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf every day.  If this works, it will take until June to complete.  The chambers are 30-foot-high steel configurations that must be placed on the ocean floor at a depth of one mile.  This has never been done before.  If early containment is successful, the damages from this accident will be in the tens of billions.  The cleanup will take years.  The economic impact will be in the five states that have frontal coastline on the Gulf of Mexico: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.

The Worse.

The containment attempts fail and oil spews for months, until a new well can successfully be drilled to a depth of 13000 feet below the 5000-foot-deep ocean floor, and then concrete and mud are injected into the existing ruptured well until it is successfully closed and sealed.  Work on this approach is already commencing.  Timeframe for success is at least three months.  Note the new well will have to come within about 20 feet of the existing point where the original well enters the reservoir at a distance of 3.5 miles from the surface drilling rig.  Damages by this time may be measured in the hundreds of billions.  Cleanup will take many, many years.  Tourism, fishing, all related industries may be fundamentally changed for as much as a generation.  Spread to Mexico and other Gulf geography is possible.

The Ugliest.

This spew stoppage takes longer to reach a full closure; the subsequent cleanup may take a decade.  The Gulf becomes a damaged sea for a generation.  The oil slick leaks beyond the western Florida coast, enters the Gulfstream and reaches the eastern coast of the United States and beyond.  Use your imagination for the rest of the damage.  Monetary cost is now measured in the many hundreds of billions of dollars.

Too bad for everybody who had a mortgage or rental property on the gulf coast.

Too bad for everybody who borrowed money to operate a fishing or shrimp or tourist boat.

Too bad for the insurance industry. They’re going to need a federal bailout.

Too bad for the American taxpayers. We’re going to be on the hook for this one way or another.

And what happens if there’s a hurricane in the gulf this year?

There is no conceivable reason to enter into a “climate change” treaty or to subject ourselves to regulatory tyranny when there’s this kind of evidence of shadiness and incompetence.

We need investigations first.

A segment on the Dec. 3 broadcast of BBC’s "Newsnight," showed the implications of the story behind the so-called "ClimateGate" scandal are more than just e-mails concealing data, but an incompetence analyzing the data by way of faulty computer code.

John Graham-Cumming, a British programmer known for the open source "POPFile email filtering program" explained how the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) had wholesale problems with its computer programming analyzing climate change data, with billion, if not even trillions of dollars, on the line.

Major networks still haven’t reported on the climate change fraud

Alexandria, VA – For the fourteenth straight day, the three broadcast networks have failed to report on the great and growing ClimateGate scandal on their weekday morning or evening news programs.  How to explain this?

Perhaps it is that ABC, NBC and CBS have not yet heard of the story, despite two weeks of non-stop reporting on and discussion of ClimateGate in a whole host of media outlets.

This is getting pathetic:

SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.

It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.

The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation.

The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building.

The admission follows the leaking of a thousand private emails sent and received by Professor Phil Jones, the CRU’s director. In them he discusses thwarting climate sceptics seeking access to such data.

In a statement on its website, the CRU said: “We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data.”

These are some of the chief scientists who were involved in the UN’s climate change panel, upon whose report the entire issue of global warming is based. They’ve been caught hiding data, changing numbers, undermining peer-review, etc. Now, they’ve apparently destroyed the original data that they used to make their claims. They only have the fake data left.

What does this mean? It means that any claim these people make based on their own research should be ignored, because they can’t back it up with their original data, and it will be impossible for other scientists to reproduce their results.

Again, this is why we’re supposed to use curly light bulbs. This is why there are Priuses. This is why we need Cap & Trade. This is why we don’t build power plants in this country anymore. It’s all because of data that’s been made up by people who hide their fundamental data.

For those of us who believe that anthropogenic global warming is bullshit, this is just further evidence that it was a manufactured farce perpetrated by ridiculous people for political purposes. For those who believe that it’s a fact, you should be completely outraged by the incompetence and scheming of scientists who are actively seeking to obscure facts, manipulate date, and destroy the people who disagree with them.

How is the White House responding?

Climate Czar Carol Browner (former member of Socialist International):

"I’m sticking with the 2,500 scientists. These people have been studying this issue for a very long time and agree this problem is real."

Except that the data they’ve been using is now missing, and all that remains is fake data provided by scientists of questionable character.

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs:

"Several thousand scientist have come to the conclusion that climate change is happening…I don’t think that is in dispute anymore"

Except for the fact that the fundamental evidence is in dispute, it’s not in dispute anymore. The dispute has grown so obvious that it’s doubtful that we should even HAVE a climate change czar.