What would Galileo do?

The Tribune makes a decent stab at addressing ClimateGate, acknowledging the suspect nature of the revealed emails from scientists at the center of the supposed UN IPCC consensus that global warming is man-made.

They still cling to the idea that the planet is getting hotter. I would draw their attention to one of the emails, via InfoWars:

• Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and a lead author of the 2001 and 2007 IPCC Scientific Assessment of Climate Change, penned the following email discussing the BBC’s supposed turn around on climate change:

Well I have my own article on where the heck is global warming? We are asking that here in Boulder where we have broken records the past two days for the coldest days on record. We had 4 inches of snow. The high the last 2 days was below 30F and the normal is 69F, and it smashed the previous records for these days by 10F. The low was about 18F and also a record low, well below the previous record low.

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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. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.

Well, by all means let's get some better observations. Honest and transparent ones. As the BBC article notes, there has been no rise in temperatures for eleven years--since 1998. Some scientists are now concerned about the advent of global cooling. The president's own "science" adviser John Holdren has been known to make wildly irresponsible predictions. (And remember Newsweek's conventional wisdom in the 70's?) In the meantime, let's table the cap and tax bill and any commitment at Copenhagen to kill progress and take us back to a Unabomber shack in the name of "science".

Summary and full report available here. Daniel Henninger, whom I had the honor of hearing at the American Spectator dinner last month, with his latest column: Climategate: Science Is Dying Science is on the credibility bubble. What would Galileo do?

More. Rasmussen: Americans Skeptical of Science Behind Global Warming

From the poll results, Earth to Gore:

As for Gore, despite winning both the Nobel Peace Prize and an Academy Award for his advocacy of efforts to fight global warming, only 31% of Americans consider him an expert on the topic.

The UN is another leading advocate for major anti-global warming initiatives, but just 29% of voters see that organization as an ally of the United States, while 15% regard it as an enemy. For 47%, the UN falls somewhere in between.

But then the Goracle didn't finish law school or divinity school. As far as I know he is not a scientist either. As for the UN, a gaggle of grasping and mendacious dictators--who elected them?

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