In the meantime, the Brits have acknowledged that the scientists at the CRU broke the law under the UK Freedom of Information Act when they didn’t relsease data requested:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1246661/New-scandal-Climate-Gate-scientists-accused-hiding-data-global-warming-sceptics.html

More “hiding the decline”? Yep. Will they be prosecuted? Nope.

But there’s a third entity that stands to gain from from the perpetuation of the global warming crisis – an entity that would surprise and anger many on the Left.

Last July, Matt Taibbi wrote an excellent article in the Rolling Stone entitled “Inside the Great American Bubble Machine” that chronicles every economic bubble that Goldman Sachs has capitalized upon since the 1920’s.

(Here’s a link to the article.)

In the very last paragraph of this article (Section 5 of the online article), Taibbi reveals “what may the biggest and most audacious bubble yet”:

Gone are Hank Paulson and Neel Kashkari; in their place are Treasury chief of staff Mark Patterson and CFTC chief Gary Gensler, both former Goldmanites. (Gensler was the firm’s co-head of finance.) And instead of credit derivatives or oil futures or mortgage-backed CDOs, the new game in town, the next bubble, is in carbon credits — a booming trillion- dollar market that barely even exists yet, but will if the Democratic Party that it gave $4,452,585 to in the last election manages to push into existence a groundbreaking new commodities bubble, disguised as an “environmental plan,” called cap-and-trade. The new carbon-credit market is a virtual repeat of the commodities-market casino that’s been kind to Goldman, except it has one delicious new wrinkle: If the plan goes forward as expected, the rise in prices will be government-mandated. Goldman won’t even have to rig the game. It will be rigged in advance. [Emphasis added]

Al Gore, Barack Obama, the Democratic Party, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, the developing nations … and Goldman Sachs?

Economics, like politics, make for strange bedfellows.