If Ed Begley’s peers — Hollywood liberals — were to review his performance on Fox, they would probably give it a thumbs-up. I see a zealot who is having his faith tested and unable to keep his composure in the process. The emails in question contain evidence that the climate scientists at East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit have cooked the books on “peer review” literature. They have deliberately made it harder for skeptics to challenge them in peer review publications because they don’t want the challenge. They have also refused, over and over again, to release the data and programming code that drive their models — this is the information that is needed to do a proper “peer review” study of their analyses. So, when Begley is yelling about relying on “peer review” studies by PhD’s he is demonstrating his own ignorance of the email scandal. Consider this excerpt from an email by a global warming alarmist, who also happens to be the head of Britain’s Climate Research Unit, to a climate scientist at Penn State, Michael Mann: