“The science is settled.” Tell us another one, Uncle Al!

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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