Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)

On December 7, 2009, representatives from over 192 countries will meet in Denmark for the Copenhagen Climate Conference. It will be the largest photo-op for world leaders since the G20 meeting in Pittsburg last September. The conference will feature lots of hand shakes and group pictures. Certainly, the press will be provided plenty of memorable quotes on the necessity of reducing greenhouse gases. But that will be all the summit will likely produce as it now appears that any binding agreements will probably be postponed until next year.

All hopes for an agreement were crushed in November when the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation dropped a proposal to slash their greenhouse gas emission to half of their 1990 levels by 2050. Perhaps it was no coincidence that allegedly hacked e-mails highlighting the manipulation of global warming data had been made public at about the same time. The leaked files - which show over 2,000 documents which have allegedly been sent by scientists over the past 13 years - were apparently taken (or sent) from servers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit in the UK. The scandal has been dubbed “Climategate” as it may be to global warming what the Pentagon Papers were to Watergate.

Global warming skeptics have long claimed the computer climate models used to predict the warming of the planet were flawed and could not be trusted. Now the world knows the deception goes far beyond just flawed computer models and may constitute out right fraud. Recently, it was discovered the hacked e-mails were sent over six weeks ago to BBC Weather Correspondent Paul Hudson. Hudson claims this was a direct result of an article he wrote last month entitled “Whatever happened to global warming?”  (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulhudson/2009/10/whatever-happened-to-global-wa.shtml). That essay argued that for the last 11 years there had not been an increase in global temperatures. In fact, one of the leaked e-mails from a US scientist Kevin Trenberth confirms this. Trenberth writes “The fact is we cannot account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.”

Media coverage of the leaked e-mails, with the exception of Fox News, has largely been muted in the USA. However, the UK sees this as a threat to the validity of their science. George Monbiot, a UK environmentalist, said he was convinced the emails were genuine. “'I'm dismayed and deeply shaken. There are some messages that require no spin to make them look bad.  The head of the unit, Phil Jones, should now resign” Monbiot added.

The underlying question that remains unanswered is ‘Why would these respected scientists manipulate or falsify data to point to global warming’? Isn’t the fact that there has not been an increase in warming good news? Perhaps they see the goose that laid the golden egg flying away. These scientists have a personal interest in perpetuating the fear that global warming is real and that more government grants are needed to further study man’s impact on the climate. Others will point to a more sinister motive with global emission limits being the first step to a global government. Both Al Gore and Ban Ki-Moon, the UN Secretary General, has called for global governance of greenhouse gasses. More on the globalist plan for world government can be found here: http://www.infowars.com/climate-gate-is-your-fight/

Regardless what you may believe about global warming, our elected officials have an obligation to make their decisions based on both facts and science…..not what is politically beneficial at the moment. These e-mails should make one step back and reconsider the impact that legislation such as Cap and Trade can have on our economy and global competitiveness. Sadly, I doubt that it will.

This is John Galt Speaking!