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November 25, 2009
Opinion: Why You Should Be Hot and Bothered About 'Climate-gate'
Topics: Political News and commentariesJohn Lott writes in his opinion piece at FOXNews.com that what appeared as a coordinated campaign to hide scientific information about climate change could wind up costing us trillions:
Usually academic research is completely ignored by the general public but in this case proposed regulations, costing trillions of dollars, are being based on many of these claimed research results. This coordinated campaign to hide scientific information appears unprecedented.[...] Science depends on good quality of data. It also relies on replication and sharing data. But the last couple of days have uncovered some shocking revelations. Computer hackers have obtained 160 megabytes of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England. These e-mails, which have now been confirmed as real, involved many researchers across the globe with ideologically similar advocates around the world. They were brazenly discussing the destruction and hiding of data that did not support global warming claims. The academics here also worked closely with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
[...] And as Robert Tracinski has noted at RCC, the damage here (of the enormous case of organized scientific fraud) goes far beyond the loss of a few billions of taxpayer dollars on bogus scientific research. The real cost of this fraud is the trillions of dollars of wealth that will be destroyed if a fraudulent theory is used to justify legislation that starves the global economy of its cheapest and most abundant sources of energy.
Indeed, the time has come for reasonable people with common sense the world over to become "hot and bothered," and as Tracinski goes on to say in his article, realize that this is the scandal of the century - and it needs to be thoroughly investigated-and the culprits need to be brought to justice.
Related video: Climategate: 'Scientists would rather change facts than their theories.'
Also realted:
ClimateGate: People need to go to jail
This eleven-minute-long interview with climate scientist Pat Michaels reveals much about just how scientific the global-warming "hawks" are (as in NOT at all).
Posted by Abdul at November 25, 2009 10:41 AM
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