There is group in England, known as the Climate Research Unit ... aka the CRU. This is a group of so-called scientists - the purpose of the CRU is to collect, process, and distribute climate data.
This data has been used for a couple of very key things.
1) It formed the basis for the imfamous 'hockeystick' graph of Dr. Mann's. This computer model purports to show that global temperatures are rising due to man-made causes, chief among them - CO2. Soon all life would end.
2) It also formed the basis for the UN's IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change).
These two items have been used to foment international panic about global warming. Here in the US - these have been used to try to justify the largest set of taxes, regulations, and losses of freedom ever devised by humans.
Well, a funny thing happened on the way to climate disaster! Turns out some hackers (or whistle blowers) released over 50megs of e-mails from the CRU.
Among the things that become obvious from reading these e-mails
- Dr. Mann ignored data that did not fit his desire to show temperature increases that he wanted his model to show.
- The scientists in the e-mails are claiming to have destroyed the original data that their 'reports' were based on.
- They acknowledge that the earth has been cooling the last 10 years - and they have no idea why.
- They realize that there current predictions of the climate does not match actual observations - so they conclude the OBSERVATIONS must be wrong
- They manipulated their results so that they could 'hide the decline' (that's a quote) in recent temperatures.
- They were conspiring to erase e-mails that showed what they were doing. Apparently - not quite fast enough
- They were conspiring to avoid Freedom of Information requests - thus hiding their data from public scrutiny
- They were conspiring to shut out scientists from publishing if these scientists did not go along with the religion of global warming
- They discussed boycotting publications that did, in fact, publish the works of climate 'deniers'
That is, by any fair evaluation, extremely damning of these scientists. So, what has
happened in the 2 1/2 weeks since this information came to light?
- Dr. Mann in under investigation by his university
- The head of the CRU has stepped down
- The MET - the British weather service has announced a 3 year effort to re-evaluate all known temperature data for the last 160 years.
- NASA is launching an investigation into its own handling of this data
Since we all want our policy decisions to be based on solid science (we do, right?)
- You would expect the US government to voice concern about these events, right? -- NO. The Presidents spokesman, the idiot Robert Gibbs, completely discounts the significance of the events
- You would expect the major TV news outlets in the US to jump all over this story, right? Because this is a huge scandal.NO. Except for FOX News, the big boys have ignored it. Apparently too busy filling us in about Tiger Wood's
4 no 5 no 6 no7 mistresses. - You would expect the Congress to be all about investigating this, right? I mean, if this is all true - these scientists have made off with millions of taxpayer dollars - and have tried to foist a hoax of historic proportions on all of us. But, NO, gentle reader - you know better.The ass-clowns in Congress seem undaunted. Luckily, they are too distracted by the Health Care disaster to spend any time on global warming right now.
Like I said - for more details - simply Google 'Climategate' and you will be better informed than all the geniuses at ABCCBSNBCCNNMSNBCNPR and the NYT.
Folks, we at Right of Center Ramblings shave with Occam's Razor. We have said from our very first post (see #4) the Man-made global warming is a hoax. And, as the rapidly unfolding Climategate scandal will reveal, we were RIGHT.
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