The Hoax that is ClimateGate

The Hoax that is ClimateGate

As I have said before, just because Al Gore says the “debate is over,” doesn’t mean it’s so.  In fact, scientists, real scientists, would hold that according to the Scientific Method, it is never over.  That’s the whole point. I’ve discussed this before, but it is worth repeating.  Science works by iterating and refining its take on reality, forever getting closer but never reaching the finish line.  That’s because there’s always more to learn, new evidence to process, new ideas to debate.

Did Albert Einstein simply accept Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of gravity as the last word?  Did Newton himself even pretend to say that the “debate was over” on how gravity works?  It’s a good thing neither of them did.  And it is what makes both of them intellectual giants.  And it’s what makes Al Gore, well, insignificant, at best, in comparison.

Let’s set Al Gore and the money he makes from the global warming hoax aside.  Instead, let’s focus on what happened recently with the security breach at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU).  What was revealed is what many have known for some time: global warming is not science, but religion.  ClimateGate, as it is now known, has revealed the lengths some people will go to perpetrate a hoax.  Andrew Bolt, an Australian journalist, provided an excellent overview of ClimateGate as it broke.  He continues to examine ClimateGate today by highlighting a paper that concludes that the global warming hoax is just another scare –like the 26 before it.

In manipulating the data, scientists forfeited their integrity.  In squashing opposing viewpoints, those in charge shrugged off ethics.  In the end, the study of the earth’s climate was displaced from the high intensity light of science and moved to the murky darkness of suspicion and rumor.

Over the years, I have heard several scientists come forward to discuss what it was like to work in these research groups.  They discussed why they felt compelled to leave and why others remained.  As always, it came down to a battle of one’s individual ethics versus the lure of money and power.

This week, the Copenhagen Climate Conference began in light of all the damning evidence revealed by ClimateGate.  Ironically, the U.N. estimates that during this 12 day conference, 40,584 tons of carbon dioxide will be produced.  That’s equivalent to all of the CO2 emissions of Morocco during the entire year of 2006!  This conference is not about the climate, mind you.  It is once again about money.

Similarly, the EPA announced this week, with the consent of President Obama, that CO2 is now a danger to the health and welfare of the public.  That’s us.  We humans.  The very ones that inhale oxygen and emit carbon dioxide.  The same carbon dioxide that is inhaled by plants, which in turn emit oxygen.  This symbiotic relationship between plants and animals is the way life on this planet has worked for billions and billions of years.  Except now, the EPA has stepped in to educate us all on the dangers of carbon dioxide.  This is not about science and fact.  It is only about money.  This move by the EPA will allow Obama to put pressure on Congress to pass the Cap and Trade bill (more on that in a moment).

The study of the earth’s climate is now tainted forever as we have lost years of raw data, we have seen scientists forsake their duty to uphold the Scientific Method, and we have seen those that try to stand up and blow the whistle be squashed and silenced.  A glitch in a satellite study showed the polar ice caps shrinking dramatically, when in truth, they have not changed over much at all.  Polar bears are supposedly on their way out, when in truth, their numbers have grown five-fold over the last thirty years.

Fight for the truth.  Fight against the Cap and Trade bill, which, in Obama’s own words, will force your electric bill to necessarily skyrocket.  Don’t let Obama redistribute our wealth and jobs out of this country and into the rest of the world.  If he succeeds, the U.S.A. will sag into being nothing more than a third-world country.  Stand up for science.  Stand up for the truth.