IT'S GETTING HOT OUT THERE FOLKS!

Climate "experts" who would stake lives livelihoods on global warming being a reality, are already circling the wagons. As the heat under their collectivist asses is getting turned up, millions of the world's scientists, including the general public are becoming increasingly aware of the damning evidence mounting against their efforts to sell the world a bunch of trumped-up scientific data aimed at handing over the world's economic and political power to the socialists and communists.

In the trenches on climate change, hostility among foes
Stolen e-mails reveal venomous feelings toward skeptics

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 22, 2009

Electronic files that were stolen from a prominent climate research center and made public last week provide a rare glimpse into the behind-the-scenes battle to shape the public perception of global warming.

While few U.S. politicians bother to question whether humans are changing the world's climate -- nearly three years ago the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded the evidence was unequivocal -- public debate persists. And the newly disclosed private exchanges among climate scientists at Britain's Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia reveal an intellectual circle that appears to feel very much under attack, and eager to punish its enemies.

In one e-mail, the center's director, Phil Jones, writes Pennsylvania State University's Michael E. Mann and questions whether the work of academics that question the link between human activities and global warming deserve to make it into the prestigious IPCC report, which represents the global consensus view on climate science.

"I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report," Jones writes. "Kevin and I will keep them out somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"

In another, Jones and Mann discuss how they can pressure an academic journal not to accept the work of climate skeptics with whom they disagree. "Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal," Mann writes.

"I will be emailing the journal to tell them I'm having nothing more to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor," Jones replies.

Patrick Michaels, a senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute who comes under fire in the e-mails, said these same academics repeatedly criticized him for not having published more peer-reviewed papers.

"There's an egregious problem here, their intimidation of journal editors," he said. "They're saying, 'If you print anything by this group, we won't send you any papers.' "

Mann, who directs Penn State's Earth System Science Center, said the e-mails reflected the sort of "vigorous debate" researchers engage in before reaching scientific conclusions. "We shouldn't expect the sort of refined statements that scientists make when they're speaking in public," he said.

Christopher Horner, a senior fellow at the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute who has questioned whether climate change is human-caused, blogged that the e-mails have "the makings of a very big" scandal. "Imagine this sort of news coming in the field of AIDS research," he added...

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Christopher Horner - as mentioned in the previous article - can be seen here mopping the floor with a genuine global warming alarmist moonbat...



It will be interesting to see which way this goes.

If there is legitimate scientific debate amongst those who are truly qualified to remark on such matters, then the outcome will hopefully put to death the lies we have been fed for at least the past 40 years. But I have my doubts. You see, too many governments have become dependent on the economic slavery of their populace and their financial system would break under the weight of an entire collapsing industry - that industry being todays definition of "green." The money that governments spend in one form or another, aimed at "green" research and development, would suddenly become unnecessary and hundreds of thousands of individuals would be joining the rest of us on the unemployment lines.