Glenn Reynolds
Instapundit
12/3/2011
CLIMATEGATE UPDATE: DailyTech: Climatologists Trade Tips on Destroying Evidence, Evangelizing Warming. “The emails contain outright requests for the destruction of professional communications regarding research in an effort to cover up public scrutiny of public flaws. The leaks add yet another humiliating scandal to Pennsylvania State University as they implicate prominent Penn State climatologist Michael Mann even more directly than the last release.”
You might also want to read my paper on science fraud.
Update: Lord Monckton to COP17: Warming is not happening
The mood at this year’s UN climate conference is subdued. Perhaps fearful. In CFACT’s talks with the representatives of government, business, even the more radical NGOs, we’ve yet to find anyone confident that a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol will emerge in Durban.
The usual sideshow has been assembled. You can find rows of displays making their standard pleas for your tax dollars. Wind farms, solar, mass redistribution in the name of “climate justice,” and all the usual scare tactics have assembled…
…For the massive global warming industry, all hope vests now in the technocrats. Behind closed doors, out of site of the huge plenary session and the NGO freak show, a very small cadre of bureaucrats are meeting. They dream of treaties, but these skilled inside operators won’t let that stop them. They are putting together side agreements which permit them a way to work around such inconvenient obstacles as the U.S. Senate and whichever protections have been created to protect the sovereignty of other nations. Do not underestimate, the potency and cost of these side agreements.
Global warming is about money. Billions. They want to make it trillions. Those cashing in on this fortune will not go gentle into that dark night…
…Lord Christopher Monckton is at COP17 as a member of CFACT’s delegation. He has become so well recognized in this field that he draws attention here like a magnet. The organizers of radical warming NGOs can’t resist the chance to take him on. He debates them where they stand and never fails to knock them for a loop. For CFACT, the jury is still out as to whether or how much the world may have warmed. We are very confident the left has it wrong when they place humans at the controls of the world’s thermostat. However, consider the following argument from Lord Monckton who questions the fundamental basis of the whole warming scare…
Read the whole thing.
