Michael Barone posted an article at the Washington Examiner website yesterday about the growing problem with the global warming data released by the Climate Research Unit at University of East Anglia near Norwich, England, (CRU).  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has relied on data from the CRU for their information on global warming.  Now that the CRU emails between the scientists studying and releasing the data have been exposed, there are real questions about the validity of the data. 

Michael Barone points out:

“Australian geologist Ian Plimer, a global warming skeptic, is more blunt. The e-mails “show that data was massaged, numbers were fudged, diagrams were biased, there was destruction of data after freedom of information requests, and there was refusal to submit taxpayer-funded date for independent examination.”

Global warming alarmist George Monbiot of the Guardian concedes that the e-mails “could scarcely be more damaging,” adding, “I’m dismayed and deeply shaken by them.” He has called for the resignation of the CRU director.”

According to WattsUpWithThat:

“The Science and Public Policy Institute issued a report on the money involved in funding the global warming debate in August concluding, “Over the last two decades, US taxpayers have subsidized the American climate change industry to the tune of $79 billion.””

Meanwhile, President Obama heads for the Copenhagen climate summit as if nothing in the climate debate has changed.  I think it’s time to stop, take a deep breath, and consider the fact that there are some very powerful people heavily financially invested in global warming,  Unfortunately, some of those people are American politicians in a position to advance the ‘global warming’ agenda to their own benefit. 

The climate may be changing.  The climate has changed before, and it will change again.  To me, the real question is, “What effect do the activities of man have on climate?”  That question has not been answered.  Curbing pollution is a good idea.  Crippling the world economy to curb pollution is a really bad idea.