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Vin Suprynowicz
The global warming fraud is melting
By now, you doubtless know a dastardly hacker broke into the e-mail system at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Britain late last month, grabbing and making public more than 1,000 e-mails that expose how these "scientific experts," cited so often to confirm "man-made global warming," have been fudging their data, conspiring to remove global warming skeptics from the teams that "peer-review" their doctored data for publication, and advising each other to delete incriminating e-mails being sought under the public disclosure laws.
Wow. I'm about as shocked as Claude Rains' character when he found out there was gambling going on at Rick's Place in "Casablanca." Aren't you?
East Anglia is not some cowtown community college. The Climate Research Unit there is one of the world's four major collators and repositories of "global warming" piffle.
The next obvious question is why such great gray ladies of mainstream journalism as The New York Times and The Washington Post -- who are simply thrilled to publish memos and transcripts "which the authors intended to remain secret" when they tend to destroy the careers of people they hate, including Richard Nixon and any other nominal conservative -- now discover in themselves a curious reticence to further probe and play up the details of this story of government-funded chicanery and fraud.
Why? This is like asking why the Vatican's daily L'Osservatore Romano might play down new scholarly evidence that Jesus of Nazarus survived the crucifixion and lived out the rest of a peaceful life under an assumed name in some village on the Sea of Galilee, building fishing boats and raising a large brood with Mary Magdalene.
These mainstream "news" sources are hammering the final nails into their own coffins -- coffins crafted by a Bush-Obama Depression brought about by the very statist/socialist policies these newspapers have been promoting for 60 years, in company with the rise of that uncontrollable alternative news source, the Internet -- because they can't bring themselves to report this stuff, because they're all adherents of the Green Religion.
The cover-up is failing. On Monday, Penn State University announced it was launching an investigation into the academic conduct of Michael Mann, director of the school's Earth System "Science" Center, one of the exposed e-mailers. Tuesday, Phil Jones, the director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, announced he would stand aside as director while his university conducts an investigation.
Others may trace the theological roots of the Green Religion, and give it a proper name. I content myself with summarizing its pernicious doctrines:
Mankind is evil. He pollutes Earth. Every other species may pee in the creek and drop its dung upon the ground, while modern man makes substantial and increasing efforts to treat his sewage so as not to poison those who live downstream. But citations of fact and logical argument have no place in a summary of the doctrines of a religion.
Reducing mankind's population to less than 1 percent of today's total would be a good first step toward restoring Earth to its proper, Eden-like condition, the Greens believe.
The free market has been an abomination, they insist, allowing a lucky few (those who pursue learning, develop their skills and talents, work hard, pool their capital, save and invest) to gather and enjoy more than their fair share of the world's wealth and resources.
The solution to all these inequities is government. Big, all-powerful, redistributive government. Take the Environmental Protection Agency.
There's good evidence industrial pollution was already being curbed by market pressures long before this gang of bureaucratic obstructionists got going. But even if we were to concede that the EPA played a major role in the environmental cleanup that's occurred in the past 70 years, there's the problem: The job is largely done.
Since no one can show how reducing sulfur dioxide emissions any further makes any economic sense, it's time for such agencies to congratulate themselves all 'round and close up shop, after setting up a few monitors to let us know if some new crisis should arise.
What? But government must grow always more powerful and more expensive, punishing greedy, rich capitalist polluters, seizing their wealth and transferring it to the "victim" classes! It must!
The obvious solution? Invent some new form of "pollutant," something invisible that no one previously thought of as a pollutant at all.
Carbon dioxide! It contributes to "global warming." That's the ticket! Evil industrial mankind is going to cause all life on Earth to fry on a griddle! Government needs vast new powers -- and whopping big new taxes on greedy industrialists -- to fight this new scourge!
Only a nation where the vast majority of children are now turned over to the government for 12 to 16 years of brainwashing could hope to pull off such a mass carny stunt.
Earth has been cooling for a decade. If it were to warm a bit, that would be a good thing, allowing us to produce more food. Back when it was warming, there's no evidence that any activity of mankind had anything to do with it.
It's still a tough world. Many families again struggle to feed their children. Nuclear weapons will be used again. Placing antibiotics in chicken feed to fatten up the pullets is going to breed new disease germs immune to most of our medicines. You want real trouble? It's coming. So further crippling our economies and our technological growth at this juncture, to stave off a thoroughly fictional "climate disaster," is unwise.
Those who wish to adhere to the Green religion have every right to believe this pathetic twaddle. But they have no right to propagandize other people's children in such sublime idiocy at taxpayer expense, and they certainly have no right to impose these beliefs and doctrines upon us under coercion and threat of force by erecting government offices for that purpose. This constitutes the state "establishment" of the Green Religion, strictly and properly forbidden by the First Amendment to the Constitution.
We tolerated this balderdash when we felt wealthy enough to shrug it off, but these arrogant twits have taken it too far. Now the pendulum starts back the other way. And it's a hard rain gonna fall.
Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Review-Journal and the author of "Send in the Waco Killers" and "The Black Arrow." See www. vinsuprynowicz.com/ and www.lvrj.com/blogs/vin/.
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Bob Bogus wrote on December 19, 2009 07:04 PM:
Science has been completely corrupted and the fraud of "global warming" is just the tip of the iceburg. (Ugh, sorry, no pun intended.)
The New World Order in Science http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/bauer2.1.1.html joe lewis wrote on December 18, 2009 09:56 AM: Brian was again all: "The work of a few scientists pales by comparison to the hundreds of thousands of studies done by tens of thousands of scientists all coming to the same conclusion -- the Earth is getting warmer. Short-term trends do not disprove long-term scenarios and a few bad apples don't spoil tens of thousands in the bunch." Haha, you poor twisted science Denier. Or maybe it's not so much that you are a science Denier, as you are a media Supporter. You are spewing lies about thousands of studies reaching this conclusion. Most of these studies make no such claims at all. The problem is (if you take the time to read them, if you have that sort of scientific mentality I mean), most of them have summaries that, for whatever reason, give the absolute worst case scenario. The chances of anything near that worst-case scenario actually happening are about one in a billion. But the media, being just that...journalism grads, etc., don't know anything about science OR numbers or statistics. So all they can hope to do is parade out these summaries as if they represent the gist of the "study". So there you have it. All I can say is, be careful, and try not to fall for this in the future. Because, I will assure you, the journalists are going to keep doing this same song and dance, if only out of necessity (i.e., lack of sufficient mathematical or scientific knowledge). Oh, in the meantime, please quit spewing out this "thousands of conclusive studies" garbage, for everybody's sake. joe lewis wrote on December 18, 2009 09:42 AM: Brian was all: "You right-wing nut jobs really think we can pour our garbage into our ultra-thin atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and have no affect at all? Really? Really? (As they say on SNL)" Well Brian, do you left-wing nut jobs really think that volcanoes can erupt for that same time period - spewing thousands of times more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than man's machines have - and not have a horrible, irreversible effect on the "fragile planet". Hmmmmm, now that I have your "reverse scientific method" ilk thinking, maybe you guys will see that the earth is far more resilient than any of us could possibly imagine. Get a life, and better yet, find a real religion. Don't be a numbers denier anymore. Think "thousands" vs. "a few"; that is the inequality here. Nature: thousands of (pick your units) for millions of years. Mankind: very few (of same said units) for about 130 years. Well, we have to breathe too of course. Forgive us Father Gore, for we have....breathed. Peggy McGilligan wrote on December 15, 2009 10:52 PM: Although persuasive, the global flooding argument didn't ring true. I knew that NASA, the military and government agencies did extensive climate research, and said as much. If global warming could melt the polar ice caps and thus cause global flooding by 1976, the alarm should come from the aforementioned sources. Perhaps not coincidentally, by 1976 the Earth’s fossil fuel deposits would also be depleted. It was a grim scenario. Terry McAuliffe, who probably named THE ARK himself, took me aside and explained, when it came to global warming; you couldn’t trust the government. As we know, 1976 came and went without a global catastrophe. I still had that $45-dollar pair of striped slacks just like Hillary’s. I don’t know which was worse. I never regretted being booted from the cabal (I was hardly ever in), and never expected to run into Terry or his disciples again, especially decades later in sunny California. Yet there they were on the Central Coast, whistling the same old tune with some major new variations. They’d applied the global warming hysteria to higher education. Like global warming itself, education now became a massive fraud scheme designed to enrich the GLOBAL WARMING CULT. By 1995, The Brethren Of The Coast had grown exponentially. There would be much more to manmade global warming than mere water spotting: http://theseedsof9-11.com Ps. If you believe Bill Clinton, like I mean who doesn’t, now it’s supposed to get colder, before it gets warmer. Peggy McGilligan wrote on December 15, 2009 10:50 PM: There’s far more evidence to suggest that pot smoking causes adult onset psychosis, as demonstrated by Al Gore’s delusional poetry, than there is proof that global warming even exists. It takes an IQ greater than one’s shoe size to pen something comparable to poetry, yet in addition to his substantial carbon footprint, Al Gore stands to net billions of US dollars for his global warming scam, upon none of which will he pay taxes. In 1971, I first encountered the GLOBAL WARMING CULT. Terry McAuliffe was pushing the fledgling global flooding ideology out of a cleverly named unisex-clothing shop called Hang-Ups, in a converted African American Church, acquired under false pretenses and wittily christened THE ARK, on South Patrick Street, in Alexandria, Virginia. As a live music venue, THE ARK would easily eclipse New York’s already famous Fillmore East, but folded a short time later due to corrupt business practices. jl wrote on December 13, 2009 08:01 AM: "You can also take classes in your friendly local higher education institution in the science department..." Oh, you could, but that would likely educate you in the scientific method and what real hard science entails -- not a safe haven for Warmist memes. In related news, Iowahawk details the DIY hockeystick: http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/12/fables-of-the-reconstruction.html The key assumption is that a linear multiple regression model linking the observed data and the proxy variables, over a limited time scale, is appropriate. This is the kind of analysis you do when you’re first starting out and have no idea at all of the physical model underlying the phenomena you’re trying to explain; these kind of models have very little predictive power. Of course, the complexity of climate makes it much, much more difficult to calibrate a model. Lawrence Baker wrote on December 13, 2009 07:57 AM: Global Warming-IS- Human / Industrial Waste! The best indisputable SCIENCE example that should be the #1 item on the Copenhagen Agenda would be the toxic waste dump, the size of Texas, 900 miles off of the United States and Canadian West Coast. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GreatPacificGarbagePatch That is a Big SCIENCE problem with no dedicated U.S SCIENCE and INNOVATION DEPARTMENT to address the issue. The U.S (or Canada) has not even sent out a SCIENCE research vessel to evaluate this ecological disaster; neither country wants to take the responsibility for the industrial/human pollution or even acknowledge its existence. No Profit-No Action!-No SCIENCE! Will the World Trade Organization and the New Industrial World Order address the issue? Where is their World SCIENCE Department? Can the problem be solved with SCIENCE? Probably so, Americans are very ingenious primarily because we were raised with the compliments of Freedom and Democracy and are free thinking individuals. We could probably figure a way to clean up the mess and possibly make a profit doing so. We can do nothing until we have a DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE that is free to address SCIENCE and to develop the advancement of SCIENCE. (Yes, for the sake of humanity; SCIENCE FIRST-PANDERING SECOND.) MSchaffer wrote on December 12, 2009 10:50 AM: For those interested in the science rather than the hyperbolic statements of the deniers below please start here: http://www.ipcc.ch and, http://www.realclimate.org You can also take classes in your friendly local higher education institution in the science department but that takes more effort than typing misleading statements such as those below and could lead to confronting the profound cognitive dissonance davelv or Peggy Mcgilligan display. davelv wrote on December 10, 2009 08:43 PM: How can the EPA regulate global warming when it only HELPS Americans by lowering heating costs, extends the growing season and hurts our enemies around the world. The EPA should not be trying to help other countries, but only AMERICA. Further, the NRC in review of CO2 vs the Yucca Mountain Repository notes that after fossil fuels are used up the climate will return to normal within a few thousand years. So even the Federal Government in one branch is saying that CO2 is not important. Carbon tax and trade is just another scam by Pelosi, Boxter, Waxman, Reid and most importantly Obama who all are trying to turn America into a European socialist government controlled society at best, and into a Communistic centralized control-all government at worst. Obama wonders why Americans across the country are worried about the direction of his administration while the Hollywood elite who support him fly CO2 emitting planes around the world to the carbon conference. Sooner or later, these out of touch government servants of the people will be replaced with those who value freedom and America. Peggy McGilligan wrote on December 10, 2009 07:36 PM: In 1971, I first encountered the GLOBAL WARMING CULT. Terry McAuliffe was pushing the fledgling global flooding ideology out of a unisex clothing shop called Hang-Ups, in a converted African American Baptist Church, acquired under false pretences and perhaps prophetically christened THE ARK, on South Patrick Street, in Alexandria, Virginia. The Ark was supposed to rival New York’s already famed Fillmore East, but folded a short time later due to corrupt business practices. Read More Comments |
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