We've Been Had
Last year, my column "Global Warming Rope-A-Dope" (12/24/08) started out: "Americans have been rope-a-doped into believing that global warming is going to destroy the planet. Scientists who have been skeptical about manmade global warming have been called traitors or handmaidens of big oil." New evidence proves that climatologists and environmental policy advocates have not only fed us lies, engaged in scientific and academic fraud but committed criminal acts as well.
Last month, Russian computer hackers obtained thousands of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in England. CRU has the world's largest temperature data set. In collaboration with scientists around the world, including the U.S., its research and mathematical models form the basis of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 2007 global warming report.
The e-mails involved communication among climate researchers and policy advocates around the world who brazenly discuss both the destruction and hiding of data that does not support their global-warming claims. They discuss criminally deleting data rather than comply with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. There's also discussion of faking data for journals such as Nature, conspiring to keep opposing science out of peer-reviewed journals (which they controlled the editorial boards), and using statistical "tricks" to hide the cooling period of the last 10 years. One e-mail said, "The fact is we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't." Another said, "it would be nice to try to 'contain' the putative 'MWP,' even if we don't yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back." MWP refers to the Medieval Warm Period (800 A.D. to 1300 A.D.) when the Earth was much warmer than it is now. This bothers the global warmers because they can't blame the temperature increase a thousand years ago on SUVs, coal-burning power plants, incandescent bulbs and 60-inch TV screens.
Editors of professional journals, who were willing to publish articles that disagreed with the warmers, were forced to resign — as was in the cases of editors at Climate Research and Geophysical Research Letters. A flagrant example of suppression is found in CRU director Phil Jones', letter to Pennsylvania State University's Michael E. Mann that questions whether the work of academics who question the link between human activities and global warming deserve to make it into the IPCC report, which represents the environmental extremist's view on climate science. Jones writes, "I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"
The fact of the matter is an increasing amount of climate research suggests a possibility of global cooling. Geologist Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Emeritus Professor at Western Washington University, says, "Recent solar changes suggest that it could be fairly severe, perhaps more like the 1880 to 1915 cool cycle than the more moderate 1945-1977 cool cycle. A more drastic cooling, similar to that during the Dalton and Maunder minimums, could plunge the Earth into another Little Ice Age, but only time will tell if that is likely." Geologist Dr. David Gee, chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress, currently at Uppsala University in Sweden asks, "For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming?"
Last year's column closed with my speculation that if ever "the permafrost returns to northern U.S., as far south as New Jersey as it once did, it's not inconceivable that Congress, caught in the grip of global warming zealots, would keep all the laws on the books they wrote in the name of fighting global warming. Personally, I would not put it past them to write more." This is confirmed by the Obama administration's climate czar, Carol Browner, who, despite dishonesty, fraud and criminality, says she considers the science on global warming settled.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.
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Dear Walter Williams. Good Article. Yes, Americans have been 'duped, duped, and duped' by politicians.
Your readers might be interested in the following article.
Kay Hagan (you know, the new US Senator from Greensboro that's going along
with all the 'legislation' so she, too, can get that high dollar salary and
retirement), said and I QUOTE "I'd say that Harry Reid knows how to get 60
votes, and that was very important to our country in order to move forward
with thhat legislation." "Bribing" the blood-sucking ticks (has been done
too many times) is nothing to be proud of, Ms. Hagan! Corruption and greed
is what most politicians are all about. Ms. Hagan, politicians have
accomplished absolutely nothing in several decades! Politicians have
bankrupted America, sold Americans jobs to foreign countries, for their own
best interests, borrowed trillions, without Taxpayers consent, and you have
the audacity to state this 'healthcare disaster is very important to our
country!' Taxpayers would like to know "when have you read the fine print
in anything that benefited Americans?" "Did you bother to save the textile and
manufacturing companies?" "Do you know that until textile and manufacturing
jobs are returned to America that America is doomed, and there's absolutely
no need for infrastructures, bigger government, as there will be no one to
pay Taxes, including your high-dollar salary, retirements, and freebies?"
You see, Ms. Hagan, you're just like the rest of the 'blood-sucking ticks'
and it's obvious you'll go along with any 'DEAL MAKING PROGRAMS' the
corrupt and greedy politicians like Reid, Pelosi, Rangel, Frank, Dodd, just to name
a few, have lingered over for several decades, for job security, and to
hell with the honest, hard-working American!
Ms. Hagan, bribery is a crime and you and your politician buddies might
think you're above the law, but your time is coming and, hopefully, real
soon as America can't afford anymore!
For the people who don't know what's happening to America and that one
trillion has 12 Zeros, and "a zillion is undetermined, because it is huge",
and this 'healthcare reform' that's gone on for years (job security for
politicians, but bankruptcy for Taxpayers) should concern everyone!
Politicians got raises and bonuses! Taxpayers received no raise, insurance
premiums were raised! Politicians get the best of healthcare, drugs, and
insurance. Taxpayers get the leftovers; including higher insurance premiums
and even higher co-pays for their GENERIC drugs. sddelong
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TO ALL CONCERNED TAXPAYERS: Please watch the video below (send along to
everyone). Newt Gingrich is 'on target' with what he's saying.
WHAT TAXPAYERS ARE SAYING 'IT'S TIME TO TAKE AMERICA BACK, GET RID OF ALL
POLITICIANS BY PUTTING THEM ON A SLOW BOAT TO GITMO, TAKE ALL THEIR ASSETS
TO PAY OFF THE TRILLIONS THEY'VE BORROWED WITHOUT TAXPAYERS CONSENT, AND WE
MUST 'NOT' FORGET TO SEND ALONG THE LOCAL, STATE, FEDERAL PRISONERS, SOCIAL
AND WELFARE RECIPIENTS!
IT'S TIME TO TIGHTEN THE BELTS AND PULL UP THE BOOT STRAPS AND GO 'KICK
BUTT' - REMOVE ALL 'BLOOD-SUCKING TICKS' FROM THEIR OFFICES, TAKE KEYS,
CARS, AND ANYTHING THEY POSSESS, AS THESE GREEDY AND CORRUPT SLOBS HAVE
DESTROYED AMERICA AND SOLD TAXPAYERS OUT FOR THE HIGHEST DOLLAR FOR THEIR
RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS, WHICH, INCIDENTALLY, TAXPAYERS NEED TO MAKE SURE WHERE
ALL THEIR FOREIGN BANK ACCOUNTS ARE, SO THIS MONEY CAN BE USED TO PAY OFF
THE TRILLIONS, WHICH IS GOING TO BE NEEDED TO BUILD AMERICA BACK, NOT THE
FOREIGN COUNTRIES! AFTER 9/11 - DID FOREIGNERS BUILD AMERICA BACK? I DON'T
THINK SO!
POLITICIANS HAVE COMMITTED 'TREASON' ON THE AMERICA TAXPAYERS - THEY'VE
SOLD OUT AMERICA AND THIS, TO HONEST-HARD-WORKING TAXPAYERS, THEY MUST PAY BE
HELD ACCOUNTABLE!
BY THE WAY, NO MORE LOBBYISTS, DRUG AND INSURANCE COMPANIES, ACLU,
ATTORNEYS, GIVING MONEY TO ANY POLITICIAN, AS TAXPAYERS ARE FED UP WITH
PAYING FOR ALL THE POLITICIANS 'FREEBIES' AND 'HOLLYWOOOD PARTIES',
'EXTRAVAGANT AND PLUSH LIFESTYLES', THAT'S COST TAXPAYERS THEIR JOBS AND
THEIR SECURITY! DOES THIS SEEM 'FAIR AND JUST TO ANYONE?' I DON'T KNOW
ABOUT YOU, BUT I WANT MY MONEY BACK, SINCE WE'VE BEEN OVERCHARGED FOR INSURANCE
AND DRUGS JUST TO PAY FOR THE POLITICIANS AND THEIR LIFESTYLES!
Newt Gingrich gets paid to tell a story - the one above, by me is 'FREE'!
Shirley deLong, Artist, Activist, Writer
======================================================================================== You have got to listen to this short speech by Newt Gingrich!! Notice that no mention of political parties is made. Like him or not he tells it like it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&v=qtjfMjjce2Y
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Posted by: Shirley deLong
Sat Dec 26, 2009 2:54 PM
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