Global Warming Hacked

Global Warming stands at the crossroads of scientific tomfoolery and economic ignorance.

Now, with the hacking of one of the principle citadels of this world wide fraud, the jig may be up for the global warming swindlers, according to James Delingpole. 

The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)

He shares some damning evidence in his excellent article.  These are actual quotes from the "scientists":

Manipulation of evidence:

I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.

Private doubts about whether the world really is heating up:

The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.

The Washington Post has a short piece on this here:  WaPo - Climate Fudge Factory Hacked

Loony Left:  We shall not be moved (despite the evidence of fraud)
None of this matters to the left.  Can't let facts get in the way of a good global scam.  Self-described "Environmental Strategist" Andrew Winston is a typical fount of nonsense: 

we need a cap and price on carbon so we can compete and innovate. 

This is nonsensical, so he elaborates:

Without a cost on carbon and some restrictions on total emissions, the "externality" that is climate change won't be priced into our investment decisions.

In other words, we need to make the cost of fossil fuels artificially high so inefficient, pie-in-the-sky "green technologies" can compete.  Jack up everybody's light bill to line Al Gore's pockets.  Go ahead Dems, run on that in 2010.

"Talk to a climate change believer long enough and they will eventually get around to saying the earth has too many people.  Well then, they should go first!"
--Ann McElheinney (Anti-enviro heroine)

Not Evil, Just Wrong
Telegraph - Delingpole

Smart President, Dumb President

So, tell me again why Barack Obama is so smart and George Bush is so dumb?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisors with people who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the fourth of May (Cuatro de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?

If George W. Bush had misspelled the word advice would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as "proof" of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on "Earth Day," would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually "get" what happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had failed to send aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt --which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate -- in one year, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan's holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 6 months -- so you'll have three years and six months to come up with an answer.

HT to OD - Thanks for the E-mail! I don't know who wrote this, but it bears repeating.