The scandal at the University of East Anglia regarding fraudulent climate change data has now been broadly reported, and predictably has been named Climategate. Of course many people who have deeply invested in the point of view that the world as we know it is about to end because of global warming will not acknowledge the scandal, but that is also predictable.

You see while planet earth is still chugging along agreeably as though it was propelled by a great big gas guzzling V-8 engine, the world of those who gain by promoting the idea of human-created global warming is coming to a lamentable end. It is their credibility that has been submerged, not by melting ice caps, but by the flood of facts and the avalanche of admissions within the leaked report. In column after column my Sun media colleague Lorrie Goldstein has heroically laid bare the lies for all Canadians to see. On the Fleishman Political View blog my colleague Dietwald Claus has asked excellent and provocative questions about the CBC’s lack of coverage of the issue.

In the face of this fraud what should we call those people that maintain their position that humankind has caused global warming? I can’t bring myself to call them Climategate Deniers for that would be to try and cut off honest debate by labeling those with a different view as being like people who deny the reality of the holocaust.

Sure the global warming crowd smugly used the “denier” label on those of us who questioned their position, but they were unethical in doing it. We should be those happy weather warriors who follow the tracks of the facts up and over the drifts of rhetoric and across the frozen wasteland of sophistry until we reach that broad sunlit uplands of the objective truth.

So let’s not label our polar opposites as being anything at all. Instead let us point out that while they may wish to stomp their feet in protest at the inconvenient truths contained in the leaked report, they do so while standing on very thin ice. But the thinness of this ice isn’t caused by cars, cows or Al Gore’s jet. It is caused by some very proud scientists who lied about global temperature data in order to mislead the world about human created climate change. They generated far more heat than light, and now because of it they stand stranded on a tiny and ever shrinking ice flow.

I know you would like me to go on and on in using these hilarious weather analogies but I refuse to on the grounds that I am too sensitive to the feelings of those poor people on the ice flow, in danger of freezing to death or even worse being consumed by indignant polar bears, who also feel like they’ve been duped.

I cannot in good conscience talk about the blizzard of emails that revealed the breadth and depth of the global warming snow job. If I did I would deservedly receive a frosty reception. It would be an outrageous pun to note that the head of the university’s Climatic Research Unit, Phil Jones has now been forced out into the cold, so I won’t make that pun lest you freeze me out.

Instead let’s urge scientists to be scientific now that the data has been revealed to be more fiction than fact. Secondly, let’s demand that governments not crush a wobbly world economy under the dumb weight of a faulty premise. Now there are two environmentally friendly Christmas gifts worth wishing for.