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Global warming data manipulated to help support theory

December 16, 2009

For those who have jumped on the green bandwagon, beware: it may come to a screeching halt. Recently, thousands of e-mails and documents were leaked from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in which top scientists discussed their forgery of global warming data to cover up the worldwide cooling trend.

“I’ve just completed Mike’s trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline,” one message read.

Because the scientists could not reconcile this recent cooling in their theory, a cover-up was deemed necessary.

“The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment, and it is a travesty that we can’t,” another e-mail said. “The CERES data published in August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data is surely wrong.”

The e-mails also spoke of suppressing reports for a United National Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) journal that seem to contradict the global warming theory so that the rest of the science community could not review them and take them into account.

“I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report… Kevin and I will keep them out somehow- even if we have to redefine what peer-review literature is!” another e-mail stated.

The Climatic Research Unit’s data carries much weight both in and out of the science community, and the Environmental Protection Agency admits it depends on it the most to determine that carbon dioxide emissions are harmful and need to be regulated.

There is even evidence that the cover-up had worse motives than just maintaining a theory.

“With publication of an article in Science (in 1995) I gained sufficient credibility in the community of scientists working on climate change,” a report by Professor Deming said. “They thought I was one of them: someone who would pervert science in the service of social and political causes.”

Even one of the top global warming supporters admits that this “Climategate” scandal must be taken into account.

“Luckily for the skeptics, and to my intense disappointment, I have now been passed the damning e-mail that confirms that the entire science of global warming is indeed a scam,” scientist George Monbiot said. “Had I known that it was this easy to rig the evidence, I wouldn’t have wasted years of my life supporting a bogus discipline.”

Still, some supporters disregard the new information and continue to uphold their theory.

“…these skeptics have not overturned the well-established basic physics of the greenhouse effect, namely that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and increasing its concentration in the atmosphere causes the earth to warm,” Bob Ward, Policy and Communications Director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

Congress discussed the issue but dismissed any claims that the e-mails prove global warming is false. The leak occurred just in time for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on Dec. 7 and discussions of the cap and trade bill.

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