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More Shame For the Shameless

The people who have promoted the idea that the earth is in imminent peril because of man-made global warming will regret their blind faith in "science" some day.  I'm not going to hold my breath for apologies from the likes of The Gore-acle, President Obama, or Leo DiCaprio, but a guy can dream, can't he?

The latest from the on-going Climate Gate saga is that the UN's "experts" at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) used evidence collected from an usual source:

In its most recent report, it stated that observed reductions in mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and Africa was being caused by global warming, citing two papers as the source of the information.

However, it can be revealed that one of the sources quoted was a feature article published in a popular magazine for climbers which was based on anecdotal evidence from mountaineers about the changes they were witnessing on the mountainsides around them.

The other was a dissertation written by a geography student, studying for the equivalent of a master's degree, at the University of Berne in Switzerland that quoted interviews with mountain guides in the Alps.

I took a Geography class in college.  Maybe I can submit a paper saying this whole ruse is a pathetic back-door excuse for liberals the world over to both have a cause to fight for and attack capitalism.

Want more evidence?

From The Times of London:

The chairman of the leading climate change watchdog was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit, The Times has learnt.

Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment that the glaciers would disappear by 2035 was wrong, but he waited two months to correct it. He failed to act despite learning that the claim had been refuted by several leading glaciologists.

The IPCC’s report underpinned the proposals at Copenhagen for drastic cuts in global emissions.

Dr Pachauri, who played a leading role at the summit, corrected the error last week after coming under media pressure.

There is no bottom to the pool of shame the United Nations swims in.  Luckily American politicians have avoided the hysteria, right?

See: Cap-and-Trade, the economically-crippling legislation Nancy Pelosi got through the House last June and President Obama brought up again in his State of the Union Address last Wednesday.  Cap-and-Trade has been sold to the American people as a necessary bill to combat the global warming we're now finding out people had to manipulate statistics to "validate."

If you still don't believe me that this entire thing is a sham, watch this: