If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet. When you read some of those files -- including 1079 emails and 72 documents -- you realise just why the boffins at Hadley CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be "the greatest in modern science". These alleged emails -- supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory -- suggest:
Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.
One of the alleged emails has a gentle gloat over the death in 2004 of John L Daly (one of the first climate change sceptics, founder of the Still Waiting For Greenhouse site), commenting:"In an odd way this is cheering news."But perhaps the most damaging revelations -- the scientific equivalent of the Telegraph's MPs' expenses scandal -- are those concerning the way Warmist scientists may variously have manipulated or suppressed evidence in order to support their cause.
Heh heh. We're always right about this sort of nonsense, since us troglodytes of the right have noses that are better attuned to scams and nonsense than are the sophisticated denizens of the left. Probably comes from having to fight off the televangelists.
You'd think this would be the end of the whole matter, that it'd disappear like a bubble burst, never to be discussed again by those who were taken in. It ain't gonna happen that way: there's going to be denial, there will be calls for the heads and probably the testicles of the people who broke in and made off the the emails, and there's gonna be a whole lot of pretending nothing happened -- just continue on with proposals to tax the entire world to cope with climate change, whether it be Global Warming or Nuclear Winter or Silent Spring or whatever's going to happen in the Fall.
