Global Warming Fraud

Last week news broke that a computer hacker had broken into the Climate Research Unit at the University of Anglia in England. This is one of the premiere scientific research centers promoting man-made global warming. Huge numbers of emails were downloaded, documenting conversations between the most prominent climate researchers in the world. The emails revealed appalling scientific fraud. (Read the summary from the Wall Street Journal Here.) The scientists discussed destroying climate data, joining together to refuse access to raw data from climate skeptics, applauding the death of a prominent climate skeptic, discussing ways to manipulate climate data to hide any global cooling, and discussing ways to get rid of prominent skeptic scientists from journal peer-review boards so that all research supporting global warming could be published and all research questioning global warming could be prevented from being published. The Washington Times wrote an article summarizing all the fraud and deceit occurring in the climate research community. The hacked data also revealed how government funding of 10s of millions of dollars goes to support the "favorable" research outcomes of global warming so governments can use the results as a reason to regulate CO2. This provides governments with massive new powers and tax revenue; a clear conflict of interest that would not be ignored if private industry tried the same type of research manipulation. The American Thinker has a great article about this.

Addendum: Here is an article from The Register in the United Kingdom on more climate science fraud. There appears to be a complete collapse of the peer-review process that is supposed to check data to make sure it is accurate before publication in a journal. It has come to light that tree ring data used to extrapolate climate data from the past 2000 years was systematically cherry picked to only show global warming. From the article:

"At least eight papers purporting to reconstruct the historical temperature record times may need to be revisited, with significant implications for contemporary climate studies, the basis of the IPCC's assessments. A number of these involve senior climatologists at the British climate research centre CRU at the University East Anglia. In every case, peer review failed to pick up the errors."

What was the error? The research papers used core samples from just 12 trees, yes 12 trees. The so called Yamal data set had a total of 252 trees. When all 252 core samples are used in the data model, the global warming trend completely disappears. These papers were published in the journals Science and Nature, considered some of the top science journals in the world. The publishing scientists tried to keep the Yamal data set they used secret and were successful for years. Finally, the data slipped out. A mathematician in Canada used the data in an attempt to recreate the climate data. His Name? Steve McIntyre, a thorn in the global warming scientists' side for years. He discovered that in order to reproduce the strong recent global warming trend, he had to pick just certain samples out of the 252 trees. This is yet another example of scientific fraud occurring in the global warming climate research.