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2009-12-24 Science & Technology

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Posted by Fred 2009-12-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 I've heard elsewhere that Briffa was the leaker. Briffa may not be a very good scientist, but he does appear to be an honest scientist.

Posted by phil_b 2009-12-24 04:35|| 2009-12-24 04:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Science is irrelevant, what's important is serving The Cause. The Cause requires global warming as a justification to impoverish the West and squander the money on third world dictators.

Posted by gromky 2009-12-24 10:57|| 2009-12-24 10:57|| Front Page Top

#3 The bigger issue is the arrogance of science and the arrogance of those who believe that man is all powerful and in control. The same logic that goes into denial of the existence of a higher power go into this nonsense that man can have a significant impact on the climate.

The climate change guys have blamed cow flatulence, dog poop and lawnmowers for global warming. Now we find out they have "queered" the numbers with some very questionable weighting of data and adding and subtracting of mean temperatures from the bottom and top of the scale.

Whether you believe in creation or evolution, the fact remains that the earth has gone through a number of cycles of warming and cooling over its history, many of them well before man was in significant numbers.

That volcano in the Philipines, when it blows, will spew more carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, particulates and crap into the atmosphere than every coal fire, automobile, lawnmower or cow fart since the history of man.

You can shut down every factory, every power plant and take every car off the road and ban fossil fuels and the climate will still change one way or another, up or down.

Everyone of the serious computer models that address climate change shows that the end result of a warming cycle is an ice age. You melt enough ice cap, the ocean currents (which are convection currents) will cease to work and the open oceans at the poles will pump huge quantities of water into the atmosphere, that combination, leads to a global cooling cycle and an ice age.

I think whoever did this should get ALL of the Nobel prizes...even literature and economics because the end result is that all of this climate change crap will be wars and famine and vast starvations of huge quantities of people...as well as the end of civilization as we know it because the industrialized state cannot sustain itself under the caps that these crazy treaties will impose, well not if you consider nuclear power...but wait isn't nuclear power off the table here in the US?

Posted by Karl Rove 2009-12-24 12:30|| 2009-12-24 12:30|| Front Page Top

#4 So can we suggest that Al Gore's trinket be taken away and given to the whistleblower?

Posted by JohnQC 2009-12-24 14:34|| 2009-12-24 14:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes take it away, it was based on false information, fraud and phoney hyperbole.

Posted by Karl Rove 2009-12-24 16:03|| 2009-12-24 16:03|| Front Page Top

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