It may be a brave New World but I don't like it.

A few days ago, you may have a read a post on this site which dared to poke a toe into the piranha-infested waters of “Global Warming Science” and the issue of what has started to become known as “Climate-Gate”.

Now, it’s true that most American media outlets ignored the entire maelstrom because:

They didn’t want to even contemplate that they’d been so wrong for so long.

The Obama Administration had not given them the green-light. (No pun intended but welcomed.)

And no Americans were involved.

And you can put those in any order you want.

Or add your own as well.

But, as Obama plans to head out to Denmark for the biggest international yawn in decades, we now learn that Americans are indeed involved and one of ‘em is Obama’s Climate Czar; no wonder the White House went quiet.

Here are a couple of Morris’ Maxims to live by.

For a start, when a politician says he wants to be completely honest, you know he doesn’t. And when that same politician goes quiet he’s trying to think up an excuse but he’s trying to figure out whatever it is you caught him or her doing.

The Czar in question is one, Dr. John P. Holdren and he’s up to his ears in Climategate. Holdren is an intractable global warming activist with no time for climate change skepticism.

In a New York Times article, he contended that such questioning “has delayed. and continues to delay, the development of the political consensus that will be needed if society is to embrace remedies commensurate with the challenge.”

He has also become something of a celebrity, rubbing shoulders with the Hollywood luminaries at President Obama’s state dinner Tuesday night honoring Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and repeatedly appearing as a guest on the David Letterman show.

But the Canada Free Press this week revealed that the former Harvard professor and Al Gore global warming adviser features prominently in the thousands of e-mails and other files made public after the hacking last week of a computer server used by the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit.

The most embarrassing item for the Obama Administration may be a 2003 exchange between Holdren and TCSDaily.com editor-in-chief Nick Schulz. Schulz challenged Holdren on whether downplaying the significance of the Medieval Warm Period required “what lawyers call the burden of proof.”

Holdren’s retort contained a remarkable assertion coming from a scientist: “In practice, burden of proof is an evolving thing – it evolves as the amount of evidence relevant to a particular proposition grows.”

Huh?

Canada Free Press columnist and Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball says of the correspondence with Schulz that Holdren’s “entire defense and position devolves to a political position.”

The CRU documents also find Holdren disparaging solar physicists Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon, contrarians regarding surface temperatures over the past millennium, who were colleagues of Holdren at Harvard, and Ball wonders if Holdren may have intimidated the two scientists before they “suddenly and politely withdrew from the fray,” as Ball describes it.

Some will accept my contention that I don’t kick a downed man unless he’s a Nazi while others would believe I would but, in this case there really is more

Dr. Holdren has a history of alarmingly extremist views. He co-authored a 1977 book, “Ecoscience: Population Resources, Environment,” advocating compulsory abortion for purposes of population control, mass sterilization, government-dictated family size like China’s one-child policy, and a “planetary regime” to be policed by the United Nations.

Not long before the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion-on-demand throughout America, Holdren co-authored “Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions,” which seems to argue that even years after birth a baby is not yet a human being.

“The fetus, given the opportunity to develop properly before birth,” claims the book’s “Population Limitation” section, “and given the essential early socializing experiences and sufficient nourishing food during the crucial early years after birth, will ultimately develop into a human being.”

Holdren’s “Human Ecology” warns of large-scale disaster that might require “involuntary fertility control” to stop population growth. “Compulsory control of family size is an unpalatable idea, but the alternatives may be much more horrifying,” the Holdren book suggests.

Hmm!

I’m glad I’m old and not a fetus.