Mean Green Lies

There is so much to talk about right now, more prevalent being those of the new monstrosity of a health bill, and then the "Climategate" evidence that has recently surfaced. Since the health care bill still has some running to do, and the climate scandal has just surfaced, let's go with the latter.

If you haven't heard about this week old Climategate as of yet, there is a pretty good reason. Here's an article talking about how none of the major news agencies are talking about it, save for Fox. Not too surprising, they tried to ignore the ACORN sandal, Van Jones scandal, and anything else that that challenges their M.O. Yet, 11 AP journalists are working overtime to find any disparaging information in the new Sarah Palin book. Too bad we don't have the same thing going on Barak's books...

So, in case you've been gone for the past decade or so, Al Gore and company have been jetting across the globe, promoting world carbon reduction in an effort to save the planet. Originally, it was called global warming, but as just about everyone has noted, it is certainly not getting hotter around here. Thus, more recently, it is monikered, "climate change" which is utterly ridiculous because obviously, the climate does change. It changes a lot, actually. Right now it's friggin' cold and windy.

Climate change is supported by many respected individuals within the scientific community. Accordingly, the data collected over the last several decades has (had?) pointed to a growing trend of earth being heated. In this case, the data suggested that 1998 was the hottest year on record. Since then (and thus the change from "global warming" to "climate change") the global temperatures have declined a bit. Nevertheless, upon the horizon, or so we were informed, it was going to get much warmer, so much so, in fact, that glaciers would melt, deserts would expand, droughts increase, and seas would rise. (see link below)

This ideology of reducing our carbon footprint gained a lot of traction, mainly due to "science," press/propaganda and now, after this scandal emerged, fraud. Of course, there were legitimate scientists debating the actual cause of climate changes even before this scandal emerged, but accordingly, "the debate is over" was the battle cry 4 years ago. As a matter of fact, no vis-a-vis debate ever took place! Instead, the UN jumped on board and the IPCC was more than willing to push data for funding, which is exactly what has come to light with this recent scandal; Climategate.

Enter in a hacker. Typically, hackers can be 'thrown under the bus' as they say all too often these days. A hacker gets into your computer, steals your data, then uses it for ... everything. But in this case, this hacker, perhaps the only good one out there, hacked into CRU, Britain's Climate Research Unit facility. 61 megabytes of information were taken. CRU pushes what is called the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theory, or in other words, man-made global warming. In this stolen data we have years of email correspondence, research data and manipulated evidence. What's interesting is that in the emails, there appears to be deliberate collusion between these leading scientists to use false information in their concurrent publications. In turn, these reports are used by the IPCC and then, the UN. Of course, Al Gore uses it in his presentations which trickle down into our media and schools.

This information couldn't have come at a better time, however. In December we have the global climate change conference in Copenhagen. Consider this the new version of the overly failed Kyoto Protocol, but on steroids. This conference is armed to the teeth with pro-climate change goons heavily fed on information cooked up by the CRU, IPCC and lobbied by the UN. Ergo, this scandal undermines their standing. Seeing how pleased our current administration is on getting cap-n-trade achieved here, I would not be too surprised if something with our name on it got signed during that conference. But with this new evidence coming to light, and the fact that this scandal is finally getting some traction, perhaps this one false science can be put to rest.

Perhaps calling this a false science is over-simplifying it. There may be climate change, but the relevance of human impact may be so insignificant, that there is very little we can actually do to change it. As I said before, the climate does change, everyday for those outside of the southwest. They recently stated that when Mt. Krakatoa erupted, it affected [cooled] global climates for several months. One volcano erpution.

Let me say, that, from my state, we are conscientious about the environment. And, my goal isn't to make anything less habitable. I'd rather see cities grow-up (high-rises) rather than grow out (expand). But, this climate science is flawed, deliberately. Cars emit 97% less pollution now than 35 years ago. Appliances met energy star requirements to be more efficient. We have better insulation for walls, better windows, furnaces, clean coal plants, and on and on. And we didn't need false science to push for all that. We did it. Made ourselves more efficient through innovation, even capitalism. Besides, when was the last time you heard about acid rain?

While this is good news in terms of commerce and personal freedom, it makes you wonder what other data is being manipulated to push an agenda. Eh? Did you say health care? Yes, yes, I'll get to that topic again, trust me.