Climategate - Global Warming Hucksters Revealed

I have been reviewing the details of “Climategate,” a story that broke in the last several days.  So far, the mainstream media has not been all that interested in the story. I am very interested, however, since anthropomorphic global warming (AGW) is a theory that has led to some of the most ridiculous, bloated, job-killing, taxpayer-robbing legislation in our nation’s history.

At the center of the scandal is the Climate Research Unit (CRU), a government-funded group of “scientists” in the United Kingdom whose “research” informs such climate change luminaries as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former Vice President Al Gore.  These and a lengthy list of celebrities, politicians and various environmental groups have been agitating for drastic measures to be taken to reduce greenhouse gasses.

I have been skeptical of these apocalyptic claims for some time. Global warming alarmists fly around the world in private jets and drive to meetings in limousines to warn us that we have to reduce our carbon footprint.  They encourage us to buy carbon credits from companies they coincidentally own.  They create cap and trade legislation that will coincidentally benefit companies from whom they get campaign contributions. To my eyes, they have more in common with a 1970s televangelist than someone who really believes in this gospel of environmental salvation.

Now it turns out that emails published from the CRU validate what I have long suspected – the foundational texts of the Church of Global Warming are based on nothing more than scientific fraud. But unlike a real church, this church has been getting billions in government grant money, and its efforts have led to legislation that has and will cost untold billions more, not to mention a bureaucratic stranglehold on jobs in the United States.

There is so much to say about this, and I plan to say it. Stay tuned as I continue to monitor the fallout from these revelations.

We have to hold people accountable for this fraud. Given the enormous investment in time, money and prestige behind climate alarmism, it will take a lot of effort to unpry their fingers from our pockets.