Article Tags: ClimateGate, Joseph A Olson
We still do not know the back story to today’s greatest headline. The whistleblower and/or hacker who dropped the CRU email pebble may not have even realized the magnitude of the resulting tsunami. We must pray that this act of heroism goes unpunished. By threatening the current annual carbon exchanges of $125 billion, which were expected to rise to a trillion, there are plenty of upset money changers turned scalp hunters in the temple.
The “Blessed” thing about the Hadley hacking is that it has eliminated the eye glazing minutiae of science from the debate. No longer do we have to discuss the correct proxy value for cosmically irradiated isotopes of Beryllium and Chlorine atoms trapped in ice core samples. There are those who claim that this blessed event occurred due to respect for scientific purity.
The real reason for the event may well be the whistleblowers recognition of the underlying threat to humanity. Regardless, the debate has shifted. The layman has a good general knowledge of the concepts of lying, stealing and taxes. We can now discuss what this issue has secretly always been about: the theft of your nation, your assets, your freedom.