A life-after-Climategate e-mail:

I’m not sure any development from Copenhagen can give environmental alarmism its momentum back in the United States. Climategate is damaging, but I suspect we’ll look back at this month’s EPA ruling as the political death blow for the alarmists.
Climate change is such a complex issue that even most policymakers don’t really understand it. But anyone can understand the EPA’s new position: the stuff we breathe out of our noses is a harmful pollutant. Forget the economic implications for now; the Obama Administration doesn’t seem to realize how silly the whole thing sounds. It’s a bridge too far for the environmental regulators, especially so soon after Climategate, and politically, it’s a near-impossible case to make to the American public.