In case you haven’t heard—and given the shameless bias of most mainstream news sources (particularly on the topic of global warming), you may well not have—hackers recently breached the network of a prominent British climate research organization and released about 61 megabytes of confidential information “into the wild.”
To say the released information is damning for the Al Gore crowd is a large understatement. It’s a Caligulan orgy of evidence, frankly. It’s so delicious, I kept thinking it was going to be a well-perpetrated hoax.
Alas, the well-perpetrated hoax may well be “global warming.”
I have noted from time to time how remarkably consistent a hard-left pro-environmental agenda is with an anti-capitalist agenda. That, more than any other single factor, has kept me skeptical that a) global warming is occurring (as described) at all; b) if it is, that human beings have anything significant to do with it; and c) if it is, that it shall inevitably yield the calamities so often ascribed to it.
Here is an “inconvenient truth” for the radical left environmentalists: the planet hasn’t warmed in a decade. Here’s another one: it’s actually cooling. The released emails and papers discuss in several places ways to manipulate evidence to massage these facts from the discussion. Other discoveries:
- Candid, private doubts about whether the planet really is warming at all
- Destruction of evidence contrary to anthropogenic global warming theory
- Fantasies of violence against prominent global warming skeptics
- Selective use of data (“cherry picking”) to disguise the true effects of past climate events
- Strategizing on how best to eliminate skeptics from the scientific journal peer review process
Remember, though: this is “settled science.”
James Delingpole at Telegraph has assembled some of the juicier bits discovered (so far) here. (He also helpfully tells you that the time to dump stock in alternative energy companies is now.) Heh.
Dear readers, don’t miss the magnitude of this. This is a lot of (formerly?) well-respected climate scientists actively and sustainedly behaving most unscientifically. This is creating an emergency where one does not exist, with nothing less than the world economy at stake. This is a travesty of premeditated deceit.
I’ve read several polls indicating that “global warming” hasn’t been of much concern to average Americans lately, since they’re all wound up about silly things like the economy and security. The climate change boondoggle was already ill-equipped to take even small arms fire, much less the bunker-buster it got this week.
Like I said, delicious.
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Haven’t you heard Bo? The UN’s and self-appointed nobel laureate oscar winner grammy winner Climate Czar Al Gore’s environmental models had errors. Global Cooling is the new threat to civilization. And surprisingly enough, the same “Greenhouse” gases originally modeled to trap heat inside the Earth’s atmosphere, are now thought (by the same model builders) to reflect the Sun’s heat away for the Earth. This will ultimately resulting in a new global ice age. The fix is the same though. Stop usage of all fossil fuels immediately and institute a world economy crippling cap and trade policy. Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” will be over dubbed with “global cooling” replacing “global warming”. Additionally, the portion of the film dealing with the melting of the Artic ice and pending demise of Polar Bears will be re-shot to show Polar Bears roaming southern cities and eating small children.
That’s why they stopped calling it global warming and started calling it climate change.
And, we’ve already been through the looming ice age fear. That was during the 70s when the earth was cooling then. But, it couldn’t be cyclical or anything.
Did Les Miles do the research?
Yawn. Once again I’m proved smarter than the average bear. It’s getting tough, this being right all the time.
Lee: I’ve loved the mental image of the polar bears roaming the cities. 🙂
‘seester: Something, isn’t it? Go read the opening of this post.
BamaDan: Heh!
kemtee: Don’t let up.
If you haven’t already read Iowahawk’s take on this yet, it’s a must read. It’s side-splittingly funny!
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/11/iowahawk-geographic-the-secret-life-of-climate-researchers.html
Bob, good stuff. I may have to blogroll that.
Well written, Bo.
Scott, thanks, man. I started to type “I can’t believe this isn’t more of a story than it is,” but of course, I have no trouble believing that whatsoever.