Climate Change Conspiracy

The scientific basis for global warming is looking shakier than ever now that a hacker has gotten into the computers of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, although it remains to be seen if the release of hacked emails and documents will have any appreciable impact on chances of an agreement coming out of the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen.

Last week an apparent hacker obtained access to their computers and published in the blogosphere part of their internal e-mail traffic. And the CRU has conceded that the at least some of the published e-mails are genuine.

Astonishingly, what appears, at least at first blush, to have emerged is that (a) the scientists have been manipulating the raw temperature figures to show a relentlessly rising global warming trend; (b) they have consistently refused outsiders access to the raw data; (c) the scientists have been trying to avoid freedom of information requests; and (d) they have been discussing ways to prevent papers by dissenting scientists being published in learned journals.

If you wish you may download those an archive of those hacked email, documents, and code here.

Summary

This archive presents over 120Mb of emails, documents, computer code and models from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, written between 1996 and 2009.

The CRU has told the BBC that the files were obtained by a computer hacker 3-4 days ago.

This archive includes unreleased global temperature analysis computer source code that has been the subject of Freedom of Information Act requests.

The archive appears to be a collection of information put together by the CRU prior to a FoI redaction process.

In the face of mounting evidence that the science of climate change is not really science, President Obama has once again put his prestige on the line by announcing plans to go to Copenhagen next month to take part in the global climate summit.

President Obama will travel to Copenhagen to attend an international conference on climate change, White House officials told Fox News. 

The president is expected to travel to the United Nations summit on Dec. 9.

There was some question as to whether Obama would attend. Congress has stalled on climate change legislation as it battles over health care, leaving the world body unlikely to reach a legally binding agreement at the summit, and instead aiming for political commitments.

The White House said earlier in the week that the United States will nevertheless propose an emissions reduction target in Copenhagen next month.

If the president's upcoming presentation is as convincing as the one he made on his last visit to Copenhagen, skeptics can take heart.  You may recall that Brazil won the Olympic sweepstakes that time.  But there is a difference this time, and we can't write off Obama's chances.  There is much more at stake, and there are more who stand  to profit from the ongoing study and regulation of CO2.

This is an enormous case of organized scientific fraud, but it is not just scientific fraud. It is also a criminal act. Suborned by billions of taxpayer dollars devoted to climate research, dozens of prominent scientists have established a criminal racket in which they seek government money-Phil Jones has raked in a total of £13.7 million in grants from the British government-which they then use to falsify data and defraud the taxpayers. It's the most insidious kind of fraud: a fraud in which the culprits are lauded as public heroes. Judging from this cache of e-mails, they even manage to tell themselves that their manipulation of the data is intended to protect a bigger truth and prevent it from being "confused" by inconvenient facts and uncontrolled criticism.  [My emphasis]

In fact you'd have to say climate change is very nearly a perfect scam.  If skeptics are correct, as I believe we are, nothing we do will have any impact on the earth's climate.  If global warmists prevail, as I fear they may, our inability to affect the climate will be given as proof of a continuing climate crisis which will demand more and more government dollars that will be channeled into a self-sustaining constituency that favors greater rather than less government control over out lives.  A mammoth partnership of government, industry, media, and academia will expand in size and power, soaking up more and more funding from increasingly powerless taxpayers.