{"id":1397,"date":"2009-11-30T06:21:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T06:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2009-11-30T06:21:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T06:21:04","slug":"common_sense_on_global_warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1397","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense On Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Barone posted an article at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/Global-warming-consensus_-garbage-in_-garbage-out-8595100-76438787.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a>&nbsp;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).&nbsp; The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has relied on data from the CRU for their information on global warming.&nbsp; Now that the CRU emails between the scientists&nbsp;studying and releasing&nbsp;the data have been exposed, there are real questions about the validity of the data.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Michael Barone points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Australian geologist Ian Plimer, a global warming skeptic, is more blunt. The e-mails &#8220;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.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Global warming alarmist George Monbiot of the Guardian concedes that the e-mails &#8220;could scarcely be more damaging,&#8221; adding, &#8220;I&#8217;m dismayed and deeply shaken by them.&#8221; He has called for the resignation of the CRU director.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to <a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2009\/11\/29\/quote-of-the-week-krugmans-lol-on-skeptics\/#more-13401\">WattsUpWithThat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The Science and Public Policy Institute issued a <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceandpublicpolicy.org\/images\/stories\/papers\/commentaries\/Glover%20%20Economides%20-%20The%20GW%20Science%20Machine%20-%20by%20Jenn%2008%2010%2009.pdf\"><font color=\"#515151\"><em>report<\/em><\/font><\/a><em> on the money involved in funding the global warming debate in August concluding, &#8220;Over the last two decades, US taxpayers have subsidized the American climate change industry to the tune of $79 billion.&#8221;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, President Obama heads for the&nbsp;Copenhagen climate summit as if nothing in the climate debate has changed.&nbsp; I think it&#8217;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,&nbsp; Unfortunately, some of those people are American politicians in a position to advance the &#8216;global warming&#8217; agenda to their own benefit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The climate may be changing.&nbsp; The climate has changed before, and it will change again.&nbsp; To me, the real question is, &#8220;What effect do the activities of man have on climate?&#8221;&nbsp; That question has not been answered.&nbsp; Curbing pollution is a good idea.&nbsp; Crippling the world economy to curb pollution is a really bad idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Barone posted an article at the Washington Examiner&nbsp;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).&nbsp; The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1397\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}