Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/28/2009 7:56:05 AM PST by bilhosty
The global warming jamboree in Copenhagen was surely the most outlandish foray into intellectual fantasizing since the fourth-century Christian bishops assembled in 325 AD for the Council of Nicaea to debate whether God the Father was supreme or had to share equal status in the pecking order of eternity with his Son and the Holy Ghost.
Shortly before the Copenhagen summit, the proponents of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) were embarrassed by a whistleblower who put on the Web more than a thousand e-mails either sent from or received at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, headed by Dr. Phil Jones. The CRU was founded in 1971 with funding from sources including Shell and British Petroleum. It became one of the climate-modeling grant mills supplying tainted data from which the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concocted its reports.
Deceitful manipulation of data, concealment or straightforward destruction of inconvenient evidence, vindictive conspiracies to silence critics, are par for the course in all scientific debate. But in displaying all these characteristics, the CRU e-mails graphically undermine the claim of the Warmers that they command the moral as well as scientific high ground. It has been a standard ploy of the Warmers to revile the skeptics as whores of the energy industry, swaddled in munificent grants and with large personal stakes in discrediting AGW. Actually, the precise opposite is true. Billions in funding and research grants sluice into the big climate-modeling enterprises
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
I was about to say I am unaccustomed to agreeing with Mr. Cockburn...
Headline reads: Liberal Dolts Argue If World is Flat !!!!
LOL! Not only do I agree but I could not dismiss AGW with any more sarcastic disgust than Cockburn shows for it.
***Tells it like it is***
And takes an unnecessary swipe at Christianity while at it!
Chops it up nicely, eh ?
I’m willing to bet they still try their stunt of global Marxist government. It will just be stalled 6 months or so. They will never stop until we get rid of therm all.
It is very important for good writers to clearly tell the public what is going on. That is a very well crafted clear column that both strikes at the heart of the hoax and clearly shows the relationship of the CRU e-mails to misuse of science.
That he is a lefty is also a plus.
He couldn’t resist talking about concentrating on the toxins that are REALLY killing us...hmmm...and which might they be, Mr. Cockburn?
That is probably the greatest name in the history of the English language.
From hereon, I will publicly attribute famous historical quotes to him.
"Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man." - Alexander Cockburn.
Lunatics gather at Copenhagen.
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