[hinckley buzzard]

At some point they will have to conclude that they have bet on the wrong science and will have to admit that AGW skeptics were correct.

They will never admit that. When the time comes, and they can no longer hold the fort, they will simply stuff the whole issue down the memory hole and, like the mad hatter's teaparty, just move on to the next place where they can create a whole new mess out of nothing.

[rlmorel]

Yep. Just as they did with global cooling back in the Seventies...

[mazda77]

When the time comes, and they can no longer hold the fort, they will simply stuff the whole issue down the memory hole and, like the mad hatter's teaparty, just move on to the next place where they can create a whole new mess out of nothing.

The memory hole just received a giant plug by the release of the Climategate II e-mails with almost 200,000 more to be decrypted. This is the second "walking back" story I have read this morning so now we know somebody's are getting scared, and I would wager they are mostly politicians.