So what is it you're afraid of, Shemp?
ShempMcGurk wrote:
> Statistics con the final nail in Rudd's climate change coffin
>
> Piers Akerman
>
> Monday, November 23, 2009 at 10:37pm
>
>
> UNTIL last Friday, Wall Street's scammer Bernard Madoff was considered the
> biggest fraud in world history, having taken his greedy clients for an
> estimated $US64.8 billion.
>
> Madoff's fraud has been put in the shade however by the extraordinary web of
> scandal which has been revealed by leaked emails from the Hadley Centre
> (University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit) over the last few days,
> which certainly appear to demonstrate that a group of the most prominent
> scientists advising the United Nations on global warming have systematically
> manipulated data to support their argument that global warming is both
> genuine and caused by humans.
>
> Apart from a weak claim the leaked material was "out of context", there was
> no denial of the authenticity of the 3000-plus documents and 61 megabites of
> hacked data and emails put on the net on the weekend.
>
> Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who has called climate change the greatest moral
> issue facing the world, would be wise to withdraw the ETS Bill before the
> Senate or risk looking an even greater idiot if the emails can't be refuted.
>
> He will be shown to have recklessly endangered the national economy by
> relying on falsified data to run his fear and smear campaign against credible
> critics and make his extravagant claims of global disaster.
>
> Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull also should draw breath and consider the
> basis of his support for the ETS as the rest of the world looks into
> Climategate and considers how the UN was able to bankroll what appears a
> rogue group of climate scientists hell-bent on justifying their claims with
> dodgy data.
>
> Recently, Britain's new high commissioner to Australia, the politico Baroness
> Valerie Amos, introduced herself to Canberra with an address at the National
> Press Club at which she lectured Australians over their growing reluctance to
> embrace the accepted wisdom on global warming.
>
> "I have been surprised that the science itself is being questioned," she
> said.
>
> "These are things where there have been debates over a long period of time in
> other countries and where we have reached conclusions and moved on.
>
> "In the UK, there is a degree of political consensus about what in broad
> terms needs to be done. There is a lot of debate about how we do it. You
> would certainly not see on a daily basis . . . the kind of negative reporting
> that you have here," she thundered.
>
> As the baroness now wipes egg from her face, she might think it is a pity
> there was not more negative reporting earlier in the UK, and she and her
> Labor government would not look as stupid as they do now.
>
> Baroness Amos might tell Australia what her prime minister, Gordon Brown,
> plans to do about this scandal.
>
> A full investigation is clearly needed, but after that what? As those
> involved have not denied the evidence presented in the leaked emails, and
> presuming they would have, if they could have, shown they did not falsify and
> manipulate data to satisfy what is now a political agenda, their scientific
> reputations must remain under a cloud.
>
> Rudd Labor's propaganda machine is in overdrive presenting doomsday scenarios
> which now appear to be totally baseless.
>
> It would be an absolute folly for the Copenhagen meeting to continue before
> there are answers to all the questions raised by Climategate, and an even
> greater foolishness for the Opposition to back the Government's ETS, based as
> it is on manipulated data.
>
> Rudd recently claimed that those who don't agree with the global warming
> theory were "deniers", but it now seems they were just people who weren't
> ready to be easily fooled.
>
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