More Cracks in the Global Warming Temple

I've long said that the global warmists have created their own religion which worships the earth as a quasi-deity requiring us to pay penance (cap & trade), tithe to the less fortunate (or less sinful in terms of pollution offenses) through massive wealth transfers, and pay homage to the Pope of the warming cult, Al Gore.

Even the Guardian (UK) is now reporting serious concerns stemming from leaked emails from the East Anglia CRU. Keep in mind that Guardian is more left wing than the New York Times and Toronto Star combined.

A Guardian investigation of thousands of emails and documents apparently hacked from the University of East Anglia's climatic research unit has found evidence that a series of measurements from Chinese weather stations were seriously flawed and that documents relating to them could not be produced.

It's already been settled, unlike AGW, that the CRU broke the law in failing to comply with British freedom of information laws. Fortunately for the law breakers, they were saved by a technicality and won't be prosecuted.

But the Guardian refuses to see the writing on the wall. I give them credit for reporting the story, but they just won't let go of their faith in AGW despite the evidence: "The revelations on the inadequacies of the 1990 paper do not undermine the case that humans are causing climate change, and other studies have produced similar findings. But they do call into question the probity of some climate change science."

Of course not, if they did, the Guardian's editors would look quite silly considering they had an editorial just this week preaching that man-made global warming was real and hear to stay. But at least the Guardian mentions it. The pathetic pseudo-journalists at the Globe & Mail barely mention it in the news as if a second opinion doesn't really exist. Then again, the G&M did the same thing during the reign of Chretien, but I digress.

The sad part is that in all this hype and bluster, real environmental issues that are important are sidestepped and overlooked. There are environmental problems and serious ones. Most stem from communist or former communist nations who care less about the environment than the lives of their own people who are frequently brutalized. China, Russia, and the former Soviet Bloc countries left catastrophic messes after their ideologies disintegrated into the ash heap of history. China remains as a fascist-commanded economy with sprouts of capitalism, but is more like the Third Reich in its administration.

Remember that although many well meaning, but flawed thinking people are pushing eco-faith, there are also many for whom Green is the new Red. Maurice Strong, Al Gore, George Soros, and others have found a cause to replace socialism yet still build central planning and control systems to direct every facet of the economy and human life. It is not a conspiracy theory, but a threat to freedom.

Let people choose, and convince them with facts, evidence, and logic. People are not stupid, democracy resides upon the very notion.