NEIL FRANK
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Monday, January 4th, 2010
Now that Copenhagen is past history, what is the next
step in the man-made global warming controversy? Without question,
there should be an immediate and thorough investigation of the
scientific debauchery revealed by “Climategate.”
If you have not heard, hackers penetrated the computers of the
Climate Research Unit, or CRU, of the United Kingdom’s University
of East Anglia, exposing thousands of e-mails and other documents. CRU
is one of the top climate research centers in the world. Many of the
exchanges were between top mainstream climate scientists in Britain and
the U.S. who are closely associated with the authoritative (albeit
controversial) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Among the
more troubling revelations were data adjustments enhancing the
perception that man is causing global warming through the release of
carbon dioxide (CO2) and other atmospheric greenhouse gases.
Particularly disturbing was the way the core IPCC scientists (the
believers) marginalized the skeptics of the theory that man-made global
warming is large and potentially catastrophic. The e-mails document
that the attack on the skeptics was twofold. First, the believers
gained control of the main climate-profession journals. This allowed
them to block publication of papers written by the skeptics and
prohibit unfriendly peer review of their own papers. Second, the
skeptics were demonized through false labeling and false accusations.
Climate alarmists would like you to believe the science has been
settled and all respectable atmospheric scientists support their
position. The believers also would like you to believe the skeptics are
involved only because of the support of Big Oil and that they are few
in number with minimal qualifications.
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