Tuesday, 1 December 2009
Global Warming Hoax Exposed
Global warming is a scam, pure and simple. By any objective measure, it’s the crime of the century, with a dollar value that dwarfs the sins of Bernie Madoff or Enron. People like Al Gore have become millionaires by selling books and “carbon credits” to their marks… many of whom knew perfectly well they were being taken for a ride, but felt political pressure to play along, or saw opportunities created by the exercise of raw government power. The economic damage from legislation passed in response to this hoax will run into trillions of dollars, if Barack Obama’s disastrous cap-and-trade legislation passes the Senate....
… but no private corporation could do anything like this, could they? The global warming scam is the kind of crime that only Big Government can mastermind.
Can you imagine if a private company had used iffy science and false advertising to sell more of their product? How hard would the government come down on them? Ask the cigarette companies about it. They have been almost run out of business and have battled our government for decades. And they have been now where near as manipulative and fear mongering as the global warming crowd.
The good news is that the global warming science may be experiencing its own economic bubble.
This has long been one of the credibility issues with the AGW movement from the beginning, although one built into government grants for research in general. Government grants create a market for research, which universities and other institutions create supply to meet, as Stephens rightfully notes. That gives government a great deal of power to distort academic markets, if you think of them in those terms — and a massive incentive for the providers to endorse the reasoning behind the supply. After all, concluding that an issue is negligible or nonexistent means the end of such grants.
But researchers have ethics and a sense of responsibility as scientists, some will argue in return. That may be true in many or even most fields, but the e-mails exposed at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit — one of the premier institutions pushing the anthropogenic global-warming theory — show that the AGW field was not among them. The e-mails repeatedly discuss ways to hide bad and contradictory data and ways to attack other scientists arguing against their conclusions. The charitable conclusion to draw from this is that they believe in AGW so much that they became high priests instead of researchers; the less charitable conclusion was that they didn’t want the gravy train to end. Either or both, they stopped doing science a long time ago.
With the discarding of the raw data by East Anglia CRU, the pretense at science has ended. The cash incentives for reaching those conclusions should end as well. If AGW is real, then let the scientists build a transparent and complete data set for all to review openly that proves it, instead of only publishing subsets of “adjustments” and destroying the raw data. Science welcomes critical review; corrupted advocates shrink from it and conspire to block it. While some may argue over the benefits and problems with government funding of the former, no one can argue that the latter deserves a red cent of public money to encourage it.
We can only hope so! And the sooner it happens the better.
