Altering The Numbers On Global Warming

One of the big stories on the internet yesterday was the story of a hacker who posted emails from Hadley Climatic Research Unit (CRU), Britain’s largest climate research institute.  The emails suggest that scientists were altering data in order to make sure they could prove global warming.

The story is all over the internet.  My two sources are Power Line and (for the scientific type who actually understands how this works) WattsUpWithThat, which has charts, graphs, and other scientific things.

It’s a simple story, but a very important one because of the timing.  Some of the people attending the upcoming meeting in Copenhagen had planned to use global warming as a reason to set up a ‘world authority’ that would have some control over every country on the planet.  National sovereignty was going to be negatively impacted by the need to control global warming.  If there is no need to control global warming, the concept of a ‘world administrator’ might not go over so well.

This is a copy of one of the emails posted at Power Line.

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There is another email which talks about leaving a particular scientist out of the ‘loop’ because he might not be ‘as predictable as we’d like.”  That is no way to run a research unit!

Even if global warming is real, there is no evidence that man is responsible for it.  I believe we all need to take better care of Earth, but I also believe civilization can move forward while creating a ‘greener’ society.  I am not ready to give up my steak dinner to save the planet, because I do not believe that giving up my steak dinner will save the planet.  It might be healthier for me, but that is my choice–that decision shouldn’t come from someone in Copenhagen I have never met!  

Until the global warming types are willing to switch to nuclear power, drill offshore safely, and thoroughly research other sources of energy (rather than make emply claims of what those sources of energy will accomplish), I refuse to take them seriously.