Why I now deeply regret my last post

Telegraph
"But rather because in my eagerness publicly to expose the UEA’s unconscionable bullying – and also as a result of my puerile inability to resist taking the mick – I allowed myself to fall into an elephant-size trap: I fought a battle on the terrain of the enemy’s choosing. ....The whole point about Climategate – and, sheesh, it’s pretty weird that I still have to explain this having written perhaps half a million words on the subject since – is that the scientific detail is peripheral. And the reason it’s peripheral is because a corrupt, mendacious political, scientific, corporate and media establishment has rigged it that way: in Britain, everyone is in on the scam from the Royal Society to the Met office to the Hadley Centre to David Cameron’s Coalition; in the US the rot extends through most of the Obama administration to NASA to the Environmental Protection Agency to the Sierra Club to the Mainstream Media; in Australia, the guilty parties range from ABC – so red it makes the BBC sound like Fox news – to the supposedly conservative former Prime Minister John Howard; and that’s before you take into account the EU and the UN."