Mainstream media in bed with global warming alarmists

interlakespectator.com | Dec 11, 2009

By John Coward

For years now Al Gore, the self-proclaimed guru on man-made global warming, has been running around the globe in his private jet telling anyone who would listen that the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will cause catastrophic climate changes on the planet.

Gore’s political influence at the United Nations led to the creation of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group backed by “scientists” in the climate community. IPCC has called for global governance over CO2 emissions which would result in trillions of dollars of wealth flowing to developing nations from the richer nations of the developed world.

Gore has said that the science behind the man-made global warming theory is “settled” and there is no need for further debate.

The so-called “Mainstream Media” has bought this line of thinking and has blindly trumpeted Gore’s cause without questioning the science behind the former U.S. vice president’s crusade. Recent revelations from the University of East Anglia in England that allege scientists at the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the university: cooked the climate data; black-balled scientists who dared to disagree; and refused to release their data and the methodology behind their findings.

Now the “Mainstream Media” is scrambling to do what should have been done in the beginning, long before the CO2 monster grew to the size and global scope that it is now.

Well, Mr. Gore, the “science” is not settled as more and more scientists, branded as deniers and radical skeptics, have begun to come out of the closet and challenge the scientists behind the CO2 theory to come clean with the facts and prove their case beyond a shadow of a doubt.

More than half the scientists at the American Physical Society, a venerable society of physicists founded in 1899 at Columbia University, are calling on their own society to withdraw their support from the science that supports the IPCC and its followers.

Princeton University’s Robert Austin has come out and said that, ” I view it as science fraud, pure and simple, and that we should completely distance ourselves from such unethical behavior by CRU, and that data files be opened to the public and examined in the full light of day.”

Declan McCullagh, on CBSNEWS Blogs, says others from the society have also weighed in on the issue. “Hans von Storch, director of the Institute for Coastal Research, calls the climate change axis a “cartel.” A colleague, Eduardo Zorita, went further and said the scientists implicated in the CRU e-mails that ignited the imbroglio “should be barred” from future United Nations proceedings and warned that “the scientific debate has been in many instances hijacked to advance other agendas.” One estimate from a free-market group says that 12 of the 26 scientists who wrote the relevant section of a UN global warming report are “up to their necks in ClimateGate,” McCullagh reported.

If CO2 is the truly the villain and cause of the planet warming to a point where civilization is at risk then it is surely important enough for our political leaders and scientists around the globe to find the truth. Science has never been about consensus; it’s about finding the truth.

The chattering classes gathering in Copenhagen to hammer out a global solution to a problem that may not even exist may want to put down their champagne glasses and demand the truth and not some kind of consensus.