I stum­bled across this quote, and I love it.  It fits the whole “Cli­mate­Gate” issue going on.  Read it, under­stand it:

Per­fect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsup­ported by the air. Facts are the air of sci­ence. With­out them a man of sci­ence can never rise.

– Ivan Pavlov, Russ­ian phys­i­ol­o­gist (1849−1936)

UPDATE (2:51 P.M.):  Just saw on Fox News that Phil Jones, the Direc­tor of the Cli­matic Research Unit in the U.K. that was involved with the leaked e-mails, is step­ping down pend­ing an inves­ti­ga­tion that he over­stated the case for man-made cli­mate change.  Well, how about that?