Don’t Let The Facts Confuse You
Obama is heading to Copenhagen Dec. 9 for the climate summit. But, some wonder if he should go.
The 61 megabytes of emails hacked from computers at the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia near Norwich, England, cast serious doubt on the much ballyhooed consensus on manmade global warming the Copenhagen summit is supposed to address. These emails seem to suggest CRU scientists have suppressed data, misstated data and tried to stop publication of conflicting views.
It has been amazing to see only Fox, of the major television networks, even bothered to report the story.
So, what does all this mean?
The Atlantic’s Megan McArdle says, “The CRU’s main computer model may be, to put it bluntly, complete rubbish.”
Australian geologist Ian Plimer is even blunter. He says the emails “show that data was massaged, numbers were fudged, diagrams were biased, there was destruction of data after freedom of information requests, and there was refusal to submit taxpayer-funded data for independent examination.” (Townhall.com, 11.30)
Fox News Channel contributor Michael Barone says, “Do we really suppose that anyone can construct a database of weather observations for the entire planet…to make confident predictions of weather and climate 60 years from now?”
I wonder what folks will be saying about all this sixty years from now.
