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By Thomas McAdam
examiner.com

A lot of inconvenient truths are starting to appear in the battle over global warming. Even the term, “global warming” is being attenuated by retrenching environmentalists. The preferred term is now “climate change.” This shift in language was occasioned by the unexpected observation that, for the last eleven years, the Earth’s average temperatures have been cooling. So much for Michael Mann’s vaunted “hockey stick” chart, which predicted we would all be cooked in our greenhouse by the end of this century.

Last week, in what many are calling “the worst scientific scandal of our generation,” someone—it is not for certain if it was a hacker or a whistleblower—released a number of leaked emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU), indicating a long and devious conspiracy to manipulate and falsify temperature records, in support of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theory. This scandal has been dubbed “Climategate,” and the term seems to be sticking: Google shows that the word now appears across the internet more than thirteen million times.

The significance of this discovery cannot be overstated. The CRU scientists have been the driving force behind the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and their “substantiation” of Mann’s “hockey stick” projections constitutes the underlying “scientific consensus” behind the IPCC’s global warming reports. This is the same “scientific consensus” relied upon by Al Gore in his movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” and the rock upon which the disastrous Kyoto Accords were built.

The timing of this startling revelation could not be less propitious for the environmental socialists of the (now, cooling) world. Next month, world leaders will converge upon Copenhagen, to iron out a more suitable replacement for the Kyoto Accords; a dog’s breakfast of a treaty that Presidents Clinton and Bush refused to sign, and that our senate voted 99-0 not even to consider, much less approve.

Caught red-handed falsifying data, the crooks at CRU (they’ve made a lot of money off scaring the crap out of us) made an interesting u-turn last week. After having stonewalled for years, against numerous requests and freedom-of-information demands to release copies of the raw data they used to arrive at their AGW conclusions, they announced their willingness to make all of their data available for public and scientific scrutiny. Call it a little sunshine on global warming.

But wait. Not so fast. Are you ready for this? Over the weekend the CRU scientists at the University of East Anglia admitted destroying much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. See, when they moved into their new offices (financed by a generous government grant), they didn’t have enough space to store all the papers and magnetic tapes they used in their research. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years. So much for the sunshine.

As the Church Lady used to say on SNL: “How convenient!” Seriously, is there any plausible reason for us to trust the conclusions and predictions of this bunch of crooks and charlatans? Only the most deranged, Kool-Aid drinking, Algore worshiping, enviro-fascist could pretend with a straight face that the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theory is anything other than a giant pseudoscientific hoax.

Some day, when your grandchild asks you how so many folks could have been suckered in by Algore and the IPCC/CRU crowd, you can just say that it took you a while to discover that there was more truth to be found in The Louisville Examiner than on the pages of The New York Times. And the kid will say: “New York Times? What’s that, grandpa?”

Watch the video: Conspiracy of the century? Hackers ‘expose’ climate change
(We had to go to Russia to find a fair and balanced report)

Watch the video: Hot ‘Climategate’ debate: Scientists clash LIVE on RT