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If you actually care about limiting the worst of climate change, it is a disastrous bill. It enriches the powerful at the expense of the poor world and ordinary Americans. It fails to do anything useful, or to even address the science. We are clearly using our whole asses here, to get the worst possible climate bill. And it is the only shot we’ve got, at least for a while, at getting one passed. I hate it. I support it.

Lies We Can Believe In?

To be fair, Pielke is not a global warming denier nor does he dispute the aspects of the report that don’t touch on his work. I’m not a global warming denier, either, which is why this sort of stuff infuriates me so much. You do not do the nation—or science—a favor by lying, misrepresenting research and exaggerating like hell. You serve them by telling the truth—even the inconvenient parts. Everything has trade-offs—even global warming.

Interestingly, there is a thunderous silence from the blogs that were constantly bashing Bush for distorting science. HuffPo? Not a peep. Bad Astronomy? Nada. Daily Kos? Are you kidding me?

So come on, defenders of science. When your Messiah has a hand in misrepresenting peer-reviewed published scientific research, you need to speak up. Or did you only give a shit about politics messing with science when it was the evil George Bush?

Climate Change Fraud - Because the debate is not over - U.S. Government's Climate Con-job

Written by Paul Driessen, TownHall

Suppose a company doctored data, misrepresented study findings, replaced observations with computer simulations and hired PR flacks to promote its new “wonder drug.” News stories, congressional hearings and subpoenas would be in overdrive. Fines and jail sentences would follow. And rightly so.

But the standards change when “climate catastrophe” is involved.