The hot air rant…

Apparently some brave souls recently hacked into the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (Hadley CRU) and picked up files, e-mail messages, and other relevant information and published them on the internet for the benefit of all…

Why this information leak is critical is because Hadley CRU is one of the four ‘official‘ sources of global temperature data used by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – and the folks whose e-mail exchanges have been disclosed to the public are some of the most influential scientists who have been pushing the ‘global warming‘ agenda for many, many years…

The leaked e-mail messages are shocking in that they expose the ‘manipulation‘ of data done to support the anthropogenic global warming theory – together with private interal admissions between these folks that the earth is not quite heating up as they make it up to be…not surprisingly, the e-mails also indicate the use of peer pressure to exclude global warming skeptics (towards whom these ‘insiders‘ also express great animosity) from participating in the debate on climate change and/or contributing their knowledge and information to the same…

Knowing what I know about today’s scientific community (and from first-hand experience listening to and observing a young ‘neuro-science‘ student I know – whose sole purpose in life seems to be the endless pursuit and accumulation of personal wealth), I’m not overly shocked or surprised by these revelations – these folks are driven more by their egos and the accumulation of personal wealth than they are by their conscience or moral/ethical principles…I digress…

An email from (now ex-) CRU Director Phil Jones explicitly illustrates the lying and manipulation (I’ve taken the liberty of highlighting key words in bold and italics to illustrate my point):

“…I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline. Mike’s series got the annual land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999 for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998…”

Another e-mail from Kevin Trenberth (US National Center for Atmospheric Research) interestingly reads:

“…The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate…”

I will note that Trenberth has on many occassions written articles about the planet not warming as predicted (or presented) – so I’m inclined to believe that he’s expressing an honest concern rather than contributing to the misinformation…but who knows…

What is very interesting in all of this is that a very small group of ‘elite‘ scientists – who have been assigned the responsibility of collecting, analyzing, and disseminating critical data – seem to have the ability to influence and massage the information that the rest of the scientific community receives…and there seem to be no safeguards or audits in place to ensure that they aren’t misleading the rest of the planet having supposedly sold their souls to the highest bidder…

There is no doubt in my mind that all the information we receive today is tampered with and intentionally manipulated by entities that only care about the success of their agenda – we have many examples from our recent past to prove that assertion…and unfortunately, just like we have done to all our endeavors, our scientific establishment is structured just like any corporate or military entity: bureaucratic, hierarchial, and with highly compartmentalized (silo mentality) fields of pursuit – thereby hindering ‘honest‘ and open communication and collaboration within the scientific community…and with the growing ‘corporatization‘ of our scientific pursuits, we’ve inoculated the ideals of competition, backstabbing, and mistrust into the system…

Coming back to these scalding e-mails, there are messages from seemingly highly educated scientists expressing their desire to “…beat the crap out of…” skeptics – and in a ‘celebratory‘ message following the death of one of the earliest climate change skeptics, one of these ‘elite‘ scientists is on record stating: “…in an odd way this is cheering news…”

Sick! (and sad too)…

Click HERE and HERE from some gems from this fiasco…

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In 1951, the U.S Congress established the National Science Foundation (NSF) to provide financial support for post-World War II scientific research. Soon thereafter, someone at NSF or on the National Science Board, which is charged with oversight of NSF, had an idea, a really corrosive idea, the implementation of which would lead to the perversion and corruption of American science for decades ahead. The idea was that reviewers of scientific proposals to NSF for government research grant money should be anonymous; the crux of the idea being that anonymity would encourage honesty in evaluation even when those reviewers might be competitors or might have vested interests. Thus the concept of anonymous peer review was birthed.[...]

For decades, the use of anonymity within NSF, NASA, and elsewhere has been gradually corrupting American science. Unethical reviewers – secure, camouflaged, masked and hidden through anonymity – all too often make untrue and/or pejorative statements to eliminate their professional competitors. Nowadays, it is a pervasive, corrupt system that encourages and rewards the darkest elements of human nature.

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(Basic Cause of Current Corruption in American Science, Herndon, J. Marvin, 2008)

I won’t dwell on where I’m going with this rant…do your own research…but I will give you a hint: this whole ‘carbon tax‘ scam that is being shoved down our throats by the ‘global warming‘ scare-mongers out there is simply another money making scheme…many Wall Street big-wigs have already positioned themselves to rake in tremendous profits from this scam…

“…the carbon market could become double the size of the vast oil market if the new breed of City players who trade greenhouse gas emissions through the EU’s emissions trading scheme have their way… The speed of that growth will depend on whether the Copenhagen summit gives a go-ahead for a low-carbon economy, but Ager says whatever happens schemes such as the ETS will expand around the globe.” (Terry Macalister, Carbon trading could be worth twice that of oil in next decade | The Guardian, 28 November 2009)

“…the large financial conglomerates, involved in derivative trade, including JP Morgan Chase, Bank America Merrill Lynch, Barclay’s, Citi Bank, Nomura, Société Générale, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are actively involved in carbon trading.” ( FACTBOX: Investment banks in carbon trading | Reuters, 14 September 2009)

And you thought Al Gore was a gift from up above, eh?…and by the way, Gore suddenly had a change of heart and canceled his Copenhagen summit commitment…this happened AFTER the e-mails and the apparent ‘inconvenient truth‘ therein made the headlines…interesting, eh?

[update - 2009/12/15: Al Gore did eventually make it to the summit...but ended up misquoting a scientist and created another mess for himself...a rant for another day]

I am inclined to believe (and have been for a long time before any of this surfaced) that this whole ‘global warming‘ fear-mongering by our political goons is but another scam – and while I do accept the fact that our indiscriminate raping of this planet is having a negative adverse effect on the climate amongst other things; I reject the spin, fear-mongering, and the ‘carbon tax‘ nonsense that is being pushed aggressively by the crooks in politics.

Sadly, we’ll probably never know who is telling us the truth and who is lying to us…maybe the hackers (and the e-mails they have leaked) are for real, or maybe this whole thing has been manufactured by yet another cunning entity to push a specific agenda in their favor…such is the misery we’ve carved for our own species…all in the endless, greedy, and selfish pursuit of the shiny, glitzy, glittery illusion that makes our superficial world go round…

- The Ranting Dream