SON OF CLIMATEGATE, COMING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU - AT 7:52 A.M. ET:  Even though the mainstream media is in full denial mode over revelations of data tampering amongst the high priests of the Church of Global Warming, the scandal may yet reach a new level, as The Washington Times reports:

The fight over climate science is about to cross the Atlantic with a U.S. researcher poised to sue NASA, demanding the release of the same kind of information that landed a leading British center in hot water over charges that it skewed its data.

Christopher C. Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said NASA has refused for two years to provide information under the Freedom of Information Act that would show how the agency has shaped its climate data and explain why the agency has repeatedly had to correct its data dating as far back as the 1930s.

NASA has been one of the chief sales agents for global warming.

"I assume that what is there is highly damaging," Mr. Horner said. "These guys are quite clearly bound and determined not to reveal their internal discussions about this."

The numbers matter. Under pressure in 2007, NASA recalculated its data and found that 1934, not 1998, was the hottest year in its records for the contiguous 48 states. NASA later changed its data again, and now 1998 and 2006 are tied for the hottest years, with 1934 listed as slightly cooler.

Mr. Horner, a noted skeptic of global warming and author of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism," wants a look at the data and the discussions that went into those changes. He said he's given the agency until the end of the year to comply or else he'll sue to compel the information's release.

COMMENT:  We've called before at Urgent Agenda for major investigations, but I doubt if we'll get them.  President Obama is off soon to the global-warming conference in Copenhagen, where he certainly can't announce that skeptics deserve a voice.  He'll then proceed to Oslo to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize, which he should donate to the 30,000 troops he's sending to Afghanistan.  You can be sure that the Nobel crowd just loves global warming.  They probably all have thermometers mounted on their foreheads.

This story will grow, with or without the mainstream media.  And Americans may learn that "scientists" aren't always right, and that science continuously evolves.

December 3, 2009