Carol Browner, who, despite dishonesty, fraud and criminality, says she considers the science on global warming settled. ---- there's you typical DC scum and then there are people like Carol Browner
she'll get her's eventually On Dec 9, 9:05 am, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > *We've Been Had > *Walter E. Williams > Wednesday, December 09, 2009 > > Last year, my column "Global Warming Rope-A-Dope" (12/24/08) started out: > "Americans have been rope-a-doped into believing that global warming is > going to destroy the planet. Scientists who have been skeptical about > manmade global warming have been called traitors or handmaidens of big oil." > New evidence proves that climatologists and environmental policy advocates > have not only fed us lies, engaged in scientific and academic fraud but > committed criminal acts as well. > > Last month, Russian computer hackers obtained thousands of e-mails from the > Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in > England. CRU has the world's largest temperature data set. In collaboration > with scientists around the world, including the U.S., its research and > mathematical models form the basis of the United Nations Intergovernmental > Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 2007 global warming report. > > The e-mails involved communication among climate researchers and policy > advocates around the world who brazenly discuss both the destruction and > hiding of data that does not support their global-warming claims. They > discuss criminally deleting data rather than comply with Freedom of > Information Act (FOIA) requests. There's also discussion of faking data for > journals such as Nature, conspiring to keep opposing science out of > peer-reviewed journals (which they controlled the editorial boards), and > using statistical "tricks" to hide the cooling period of the last 10 years. > One e-mail said, "The fact is we can't account for the lack of warming at > the moment and it is a travesty that we can't." Another said, "it would be > nice to try to 'contain' the putative 'MWP,' even if we don't yet have a > hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back." MWP refers to the > Medieval Warm Period (800 A.D. to 1300 A.D.) when the Earth was much warmer > than it is now. This bothers the global warmers because they can't blame the > temperature increase a thousand years ago on SUVs, coal-burning power > plants, incandescent bulbs and 60-inch TV screens. > > Editors of professional journals, who were willing to publish articles that > disagreed with the warmers, were forced to resign -- as was in the cases of > editors at Climate Research and Geophysical Research Letters. A flagrant > example of suppression is found in CRU director Phil Jones', letter to > Pennsylvania State University's Michael E. Mann that questions whether the > work of academics who question the link between human activities and global > warming deserve to make it into the IPCC report, which represents the > environmental extremist's view on climate science. Jones writes, "I can't > see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will > keep them out somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review > literature is!" > > The fact of the matter is an increasing amount of climate research suggests > a possibility of global cooling. Geologist Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Emeritus > Professor at Western Washington University, says, "Recent solar changes > suggest that it could be fairly severe, perhaps more like the 1880 to 1915 > cool cycle than the more moderate 1945-1977 cool cycle. A more drastic > cooling, similar to that during the Dalton and Maunder minimums, could > plunge the Earth into another Little Ice Age, but only time will tell if > that is likely." Geologist Dr. David Gee, chairman of the science committee > of the 2008 International Geological Congress, currently at Uppsala > University in Sweden asks, "For how many years must the planet cool before > we begin to understand that the planet is not warming?" > > Last year's column closed with my speculation that if ever "the permafrost > returns to northern U.S., as far south as New Jersey as it once did, it's > not inconceivable that Congress, caught in the grip of global warming > zealots, would keep all the laws on the books they wrote in the name of > fighting global warming. Personally, I would not put it past them to write > more." This is confirmed by the Obama administration's climate czar, Carol > Browner, who, despite dishonesty, fraud and criminality, says she considers > the science on global warming settled. > > http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/12/09/weve_been_had > __._,_.___ > > . > > __,_._,___ -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
