A Voice in the Wilderness In Defense of "Mere Conservatism"

Climate Change Exposed

From The Boston Herald:

In an embarrassing blow to the movement to combat global warming, hackers have posted hundreds of e-mails from a world-renowned British institute that show researchers colluding to exaggerate warming and undermine skeptics.

Like most pet issues of the Left, global warming and climate change have become sacred cows that must be defended at all costs.  Lying, misrepresenting the facts, or personal ad hominen attacks on skeptics are all fair-game tactics to advance the agenda and ultimate goal: global governing bodies to oversee nearly ever aspect of our lives.

Of course the average "Green" American or European is not necessarily thinking about how best to hand over control of their nation's sovereignty to foreign entities and unelected bureaucrats in Copenhagen or Brussels, rest assured your progressive leaders are.

In one leaked e-mail, the research center's director, Phil Jones, writes to colleagues about graphs showing climate statistics over the last millennium. He alludes to a technique used by a fellow scientist to "hide the decline" in recent global temperatures. Some evidence appears to show a halt in a rise of global temperatures from about 1960, but is contradicted by other evidence which appears to show a rise in temperatures is continuing.

Jones wrote that, in compiling new data, he had "just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e., from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline," according to a leaked e-mail, which the author confirmed was genuine.

We're using manipulated data, presented to us by ideologically (and financially) driven people, to make decisions about our economy and country.

Plus many of these climate-obsessed people are just plain mean and heartless:

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.”

Mark Steyn, as usual, has written a powerful column that encapsulates the bigger, broader implications of the climate change hysteria (and scam).