CLIMATE CHANGE ROCKED

Daily Express UK ^ | December 2,2009 | John Ingham

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THE scientific consensus that mankind has caused climate change was rocked yesterday as a leading academic called it a “load of hot air underpinned by fraud”.

Professor Ian Plimer condemned the climate change lobby as “climate comrades” keeping the “gravy train” going.

In a controversial talk just days before the start of a climate summit attended by world leaders in Copenhagen, Prof Plimer said Governments were treating the public like “fools” and using climate change to increase taxes.

He said carbon dioxide has had no impact on temperature and that recent warming was part of the natural cycle of climate stretching over ­billions of years.

Prof Plimer told a London audience: “Climates always change. They always have and they always will. They are driven by a number of factors that are random and cyclical.”

His comments came days after a scandal in climate-change research emerged through the leak of emails from the world-leading research unit at the University of East Anglia. They appeared to show that scientists had been massaging data to prove that global warming was taking place

The Climate Research Unit also admitted getting rid of much of its raw climate data, which means other scientists cannot check the subsequent research. Last night the head of the CRU, Professor Phil Jones, said he would stand down while an independent review took place.

Professor Plimer said climate change was caused by natural events such as volcanic eruptions, the shifting of the Earth’s orbit and cosmic radiation. He said: “Carbon dioxide levels have been up to 1,000 times higher in the past. CO2 cannot be driving global warming now.

[SteamShovel]

Governments were treating the public like “fools” and using climate change to increase taxes.

The public is a bunch of fools.....

.....They support socialism al-la-Global Warming and

.....They keep voting for the political fools who want to raise these taxes.

We don't have much time to change their minds. Hopefully Climate-Gate and Obama/Boxer's response of "so what" will open their eyes.

[Canedawg]

“This alone is a disgrace and should completely discredit the findings”

Sad that the American MSM does not see it fit to question, much less discredit, the fraudulent findings.

[Bob]

They [the CRU emails] appeared to show that scientists had been massaging data to prove that global warming was taking place

Let's rephrase that:

They confirmed that scientists had been massaging data to prove that global warming was taking place

[Mr. Lucky]

Hello?