Break out a fresh case of tin foil hats!
February 4th, 2010 . by Robert
Looks like the warmers are running scared. Now in one of the many attempts to diffuse the climategate scandal in which a number of emails and documents showing manipulation of data, exclusion of unfavorable data, and the systematic suppression of opposing research, the warmers are reaching deep into the excuse barrel and dredging up a bogey man upon which to focus attention. The warmers are now claiming that a spy agency of some dark and mysterious foreign nation is responsible. The reason – to destabilize the Copenhagen summit. Come now boys and girls, put the tin-foil hats away and face facts. What the warmers don’t want to address is the fact that data was manipulated and destroyed, temperature measurement stations were compromised, legitimate research was suppressed when it wasn’t favorable to the political agenda, scientific research standards were ignored, and the peer review process was nothing more than a bunch of chicken little bureaucrats quoting conjecture and obscure anecdotal comments from non-scientists.
The warmers want to claim that one bad scientist doesn’t spoil the whole bunch and to some degree they are right. But, it certainly does call for a complete investigation and reanalysis of the situation before we charge headlong into a destructive global agreement to ruin our economy and way of life. Where there’s smoke there’s also fire and in this case the outcome is so serious that it demands consideration of the facts. We can’t allow chicken little to rule the day when evidence from the past decade indicates that anthropogenic global warming is simply not happening and that any warming we have seen was a natural cyclic occurrence. If the chicken little / warmers expect to control the weather perhaps they are more delusional than we think.