The academic fraud after The Day After Tomorrow.
I had a laugh out loud moment this Sunday night, flipping channels and stopping on the FX network showing (yet again) of The Day After Tomorrow, an apocalyptic global warming movie filled with gratuitous scenes of our destruction.
I imagine the folks at FX programming probably would never have guessed that this weekend one of the chief global warming proponents and researchers would be forced to admit that he “lost” all of the data he used to produce the infamous “hockey stick” computer model predicting global temperature increases due to carbon output. This comes after the professor, Phil Jones, stepped down as director of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit in the wake of scandal over e-mails showing that researchers were manipulating climate change data (i.e., Climategate).
Whoopsie! I lost my data. Of course, a more skeptical person might say Jones “destroyed the data.” And an even more cynical person might say the good professor “made up” or “fabricated” the data.
Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.
And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.
The admissions will be seized on by sceptics as fresh evidence that there are serious flaws at the heart of the science of climate change and the orthodoxy that recent rises in temperature are largely man-made.
Gosh… one would think that all scientists and policy makers, skeptics or not, would want to ensure that the facts and data were sound. One would think, that is, if this were really about science. But it’s really about control and social engineering by taxing and regulating the one thing that ensures a healthy and productive society: energy consumption.
Nonetheless, Professor Jones’ admissions are just more bad press for the global warming folks. What’s a social engineer who sucks on the government grant money tit to do? How will the likes of Duke Energy ever make billions off carbon trading now? How will the Congress ever institute a fraudulent VAT tax if there is no warming?
In just the last few weeks we’ve had: Climategate e-mails followed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was forced to admit that it relied on faulty science in a claim that Indian glaciers would disappear by 2035, that it was wrong about 1998 being the warmest year on record (1934); that it accidentally confused feet and inches in a report regarding sea level rise in Fl0rida (18 inches not feet).
Fear not, though, warming freaks!
The Obama administration isn’t going to let something as simple as the truth or facts get in the way of regulating the number of farts you make and miles you drive — they’re promising that the EPA, a gang of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats, will by totalitarian fiat force we American consumers to, well, consume less.