The Global Warming Conspiracy

SEE HERE Now that a rather large number of emails have been revealed among the principle global warming scientists we see that there is a clear trail of collusion to manufacture a crisis despite the data and not because of it. This is not merely bad science. Scientists, like everyone else, can and often do make mistakes. Science is supposed to be self-correcting because the work of one scientist can be duplicated by another and any mistakes are likely to be corrected in the course of that kind of confirmation process.

This doesn't work if the real process is to confirm the hypothesis at any cost, be it destruction of non-confirming data, or the selection from a large population of data only those particular data points that confirm the hypothesis (called cherry picking the data) or unfairly maligning those in the field who don't support your favorite hypothesis or ... (well I think you get the idea).

The emails which have come to light reveal that all of these kinds of activities were going on. To say the least this should put a pall over the alledged AGW theories. The fact of the matter is that most of the data appears to have been manufactured by a combination of questionable techniques ranging from cherry picking the tree core data to suppressing the cooling data which contradicts the global warming simulation models and can't be explained by them.

We have here a scandal of significant proportions and some heads should surely roll. But we'll see if the political forces that encouraged these bad actors in the first place will now protect them once their biased and unscientific actions have come to light. There is no honor among thieves we are told and as it becomes more and more obvious of late, most politicians are likely thieves I'm guessing we'll see some distancing from these bad actors as well as a great deal of denial. Should we call them "deniers" then? I'd feel bad for them, except they so clearly don't deserve a whole lot of sympathy.