Posted by
The Proud Ex-Democrat on Tuesday, December 01, 2009 12:37:38 PM
I was already preparing a global warming post last week when this story broke. I debated putting up something right away on the Climate-Gate scandal, but ultimately decided it was better left to marinate over the long weekend.
What I was working my way through last week was watching this YouTube video featuring Lord Christopher Monckton. Lord Monckton is one of the world's leading critics of the man-made global warming "theory." In the video he spends about an hour and a half breaking down the science to show that MMGW is a lot of "unscientific, freedom-destroying nonsense." His quote. You may have heard of Lord Monckton because he's the guy who keeps trying to get Al Gore to come out of his big ole house and debate him. So far the former vice-president and current gutless liar has refused. Come on out Mr. Gore! If you really believe your own rhetoric, it's time to be a man and stand up for your point of view. The video is terrific. Highly recommend.
These individuals then posted the 61 megabytes of purloined files onto the Internet for all to see. This is the database upon which much of the so-called "science" on Man-made global warming has been done.
Now I would normally be a bit queasy about commenting on information gained in such a way, but no one on either side of the debate is denying that what went on the net is the genuine article. So here goes:
They cooked the books. How appropriate that this old saying includes the word cooked.
I have felt for a long time that the people, from Al Gore to Robert Hansen to all the rest, who have been screaming about global warming were fanatics who were way carried away with their fear of what they thought was a genuine threat.
The truth is far, far worse. They're a pack of liars. These guys would make Enron's accountants proud. They have manipulated data and conspired to avoid being peer-reviewed by those who point out flaws in their theories, or they use that old favorite trick of the political left: they simply attack the credibility of said critics.
But sadly for the alarmists, were on to them now. These files, as one pundit said, could be to global warming what the Pentagon Papers were to Vietnam. We'll see.
There has been a lot of analysis written of these emails and this data since they surfaced. Some of the best has been from the brilliant legal mind of John Hinderaker at Powerline. The most recent of his posts as of this writing is here. It includes links to his other posts on the subject.
A key quote: "In every scientific field other than global warming, a scientific hypothesis that generates false predictions is considered disproved. When it comes to global warming, however, there is no such thing as falsification. Which is the ultimate evidence that the alarmist scientists are engaged in a political enterprise, not a scientific one." (emphasis added)
Our friends at PajamasMedia weigh in here. A bunch of good posts, read as many as you can. They also include this link to the raw data, along with an invitation to read through them and help with the ongoing analysis effort. Help them out if you have the time and especially if you have expertise in this area.
And keep watching this story, as it has big implications for the statists who are currently running the Democratic Party. They'd like to use "climate change," along with several other made-up "crises," as an excuse for massive expansion of government power. Frustrating them on this issue would go along way toward stopping their liberty-destroying agenda.
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