More on the Climate...

Did everyone enjoy Climategate? (By the way, thanks Mr. Nixon for starting the whole "gate" thing...kinda annoying) Over 1000 emails between scientists at the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the UK's University of East Anglia were stolen and made public by an unnamed hacker. The initial take on these emails was that it showed scientists who privately were having disputes on the validity of the data as well as concerns that the data were not completely proving their public line of human-made global warming. Now it seems that everyone is dismissing the initial reaction as overdone and off base and that the emails don't show anything more than scientists being rude or dismissive and any data discrepancies are minor and do not change the larger thesis.

Truth is tough to get at sometimes when everyone has an agenda. We do know a couple things. Temperatures were much higher during the Medieval Warm Period (roughly AD 800-1300). We are still recovering from the Little Ice Age which ended around 1850. So, temperatures were higher when the carbon footprint of mankind was probably close to nothing. The question of whether human activity is accelerating atmospheric warming seems largely unanswered, and perhaps, unanswerable. Some scientists even say that carbon dioxide levels actually follow, rather than preceded, changes in temperature.

One other thing is very clear in all of this. The Obama administration, and many socialists around the world, do not care about the facts at this point. Shortly after Climategate hit, and just before the Climate Conference in Copenhagen (don't ya just love alliteration?), the EPA released a report that stated the effects of climate change are a danger to the public health. Guess what that means? The EPA can implement whatever rules it deems necessary without going through Congress. This administration will not let "cap and trade" die. It's a power and money grab that is too tasty not to enjoy. Manipulation and half-truths are necessary evils in getting it done. I have no doubt that behind closed doors there are a lot of "the means justify the ends" rationales being spouted.

Obama's transformation of America continues. He told you this is what he was planning. All that it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to stand by and do nothing...or in our case...actually elect evil to office.