Climategate

If you rely on the lavishly remunerated "climate correspondents" of the big newspapers and networks, you'll know nothing about the Climate Research Unit scandals - just the business-as-usual drivel about Boston being underwater by 2011. Indeed, even when a prominent media warm-monger addresses the issue, the newspaper prefers to reprint a month-old column predating the scandal. If you follow online analysis from obscure websites on the fringes of the map, you'll know what's going on. If you go to the convenience store and buy today's newspaper, you won't. That's the problem. The Corner

More and more people are coming out of the woodwork.I've spoken to people in private who said that they expected the science to fall apart at some point. The numbers just don't ad up and the people who have data are not allowing any one to scrutinize it. Now this list of emails and other corespondents comes out and it turns out to be even worse. Some people with a financial interest in the effort have suppressed apposing points of view and indeed sat on information that hurt their cause.

So, what is going to happen? Well, massive government wheels and trillions of dollars are in play. This behemoth will not just slam on the breaks. It will take several of these scandals to convince long time zealots of climate change that they have been duped. Only when this sort of data is available for peer review and open study by anyone will the walls come tumbling donw.

This is not official information. The word is that the information was either leaked or hacked out of university computers. The New York Times seems to think this makes it invalid, even though they have supported documents from this kind of source before with drive. It does plant the seed of decent. It does put a couple cracks in the wall. Hopefully the next time someone puts their head over that wall and says "I want to see your raw unmodified data so I my scrutinize it and maybe even disagree with you over the conclusions from that data." They will be given a fare listen and not be subjected to career shortening conspiracy of their peers.

People wonder how Hitler came to power. Hitler gave the people of his country a common enemy. In the case of Post WWI Germany antisemitism was ramped. I understand it was top on the list of pass times before WWI as well. Hitler simply took this focus and aimed it at his goals. He took the rains of an irrational hatred and used that blind faith to perpetuate his agenda.

Today, in the U. S. and Europe, about a billion people have signed on to doing whatever it takes to make the climate of the planet stabilize. This raw energy, inertia call it what you will, will distract most of the people or the world while a small number of people accomplish their goals. Do they know or care that climate change is unproven? Do they know or care that no one has had access to the numbers except the people trying to get their names in the headlines? Do they know or care that people who work for a living are footing the bill; people who do not have the time to hunt through blogs and find out what is really going on?

In early October, I covered a breaking story about evidence of corruption in the basic temperature records maintained by key scientific advocates of the theory of man-made global warming. Global warming "skeptics" had unearthed evidence that scientists at the Hadley Climatic Research Unit at Britain's University of East Anglia had cherry-picked data to manufacture a "hockey stick" graph showing a dramatic-but illusory-runaway warming trend in the late 20th century. But now newer and much broader evidence has emerged that looks like it will break that scandal wide open. Pundits have already named it "Climategate." A hacker-or possibly a disillusioned insider-has gathered thousands of e-mails and data from the CRU and made them available on the Web. Officials at the CRU have verified the breach of their system and acknowledged that the e-mails appear to be genuine. Yes, this is a theft of data-but the purpose of the theft was to blow the whistle on a much bigger, more brazen crime. The CRU has already called in the police to investigate the hacker. But now someone needs to call in the cops to investigate the CRU. ... This is an enormous case of organized scientific fraud, but it is not just scientific fraud. It is also a criminal act. Suborned by billions of taxpayer dollars devoted to climate research, dozens of prominent scientists have established a criminal racket in which they seek government money-Phil Jones has raked in a total of £13.7 million in grants from the British government-which they then use to falsify data and defraud the taxpayers. It's the most insidious kind of fraud: a fraud in which the culprits are lauded as public heroes. Judging from this cache of e-mails, they even manage to tell themselves that their manipulation of the data is intended to protect a bigger truth and prevent it from being "confused" by inconvenient facts and uncontrolled criticism. Real Clear Politics

Third world nations are already complaining that the checks written by first world nations in the name of climate change are bouncing. They are screaming bloody murder at the moment because this scandal called Climategate is showing the cracks in the foundation of the entire movement. I do not blame them for wanting to get the money now, while it is still available. I think they were never supposed to get paid. They were just supposed to follow the carrot for ever like a donkey pulling a cart. I wander if that is where the Democrat donkey comes from? I hope the donkey gets wise.

One Man's Take

Be careful taking this guy seriously. He is one of the right wing nuts every one is saying is out to get the people. He also happens to hit the points on this topic.

Entertaining Take

If you feel like crying, remember that human kind has survived worse.