Jon Stewart covers ClimateGate

Jon Stewart is really sounding more like a journalist than journalists at the NY Times or CNN etc. do. He covered the ACORN scandal when the mainstream media was downplaying it. And now, Stewart is once again going a step further than the media ever did with the CRU scandal. If global warming is supposed to be the greatest existential threat we face at the moment, shouldn't the media be covering the controversy, which casts serious doubts on the validity of global warming assumptions, to be major, major news? If there's a good chance that we might not be doomed after all, shouldn't we know about it? We should. But the media have painted themselves into a corner. Their interests are so deeply aligned with agw researchers that the potential debunking of agw would also be a death blow against the media's own credibility. So, the media are now forced to make a choice between their credibility and the truth. What underlies credibility is usually the truth. That the media are not too interested on the truth now to preserve its credibility is indeed very surreal.

Stewart is correct to be concerned over the integrity of the scientific process, but he seems to be unmoved anyway by the implications of the corruption of this process on the very conclusions it produced. If the process has been seriously compromised, the conclusions are too. Stewart is concerned that by disregarding the scientific process, climate scientists are emboldening the skeptics. He should be concerned instead that by disregarding the scientific process, climate science isn't really science at all.