Laura Ingraham hosted Dan Esty, environmental law professor at Yale University and Patrick Michaels of Cato Institute.
Esty thinks that despite the East Anglia e-mails, that the science of climate change is solid. He says there have been dozens of databases that have documented the greenhouse effects. He said there are some things they aren't as sure about - the magnitude, the celerity of the global warming phenomenon. He said that because a few behaved badly, it doesn't undo the theory put forth by good and careful scientists. He said the East Anglia group strayed from science to advocacy.
Patrick Michaels said that it isn't relevant that global warming occurs and that the East Anglia group were cheerleaders. He said it matters how much the globe is warming. He said it isn't necessarily the end of the world and that there is at best a modest uptick in warming - and that there hasn't been warming in the last decade. He said there was a document prepared by a group for Copenhagen that was comprised of a large number of East Anglia scientists which calls that report into question. Michaels said that these scientists are trying to push the argument in their favor with costs being placed on taxpayers.
Ingraham said that people are seeing scientists who are so deeply into their views that would upend their lives and our economy and they have serious doubts about the veracity of those who try to fudge the data.