Act now on climate change - Between the Lines - Illawarra Mercury

While I can sympathise with those who are questioning whether the mounting global pollution is causing accelerated global warming, there is little doubt about the harmful impact of toxic pollution in general on Earth's atmosphere.

Power Line - Today's Cartoons

There's no question that it's a fraud, but whether the "scientists" who have been promoting the global warming hoax have committed felonies is not yet clear. They have taken countless hundreds of millions of dollars in government money and used it to produce fraudulent results, which may very well violate criminal statues both here and in the U.K. And the "scientists'" destruction of data that was subject to valid Freedom of Information Act requests may have been criminal under British law; that's a subject on which I am not an expert.

I'd love to see the hoaxers behind bars, but it isn't likely to happen, if only because the government officials who would have to bring charges are their allies. Criminal liability aside, the fact is that these "scientists" nearly pulled off the greatest fraud in world history. Compared to them, hoaxers like Enron and Bernie Madoff were pikers. The global warming alarmists sought to impose trillions of dollars in losses on the world economy, while living high off the hog on taxpayer money. If Bernie Madoff gets life, what would be the appropriate sentence for Michael Mann, Phil Jones, Keith Briffa, and the others?

The perpetrators of world’s greatest scientific hoax should go to jail.

Any and all legislation that limits access to fossil fuels and raises the cost of energy to combat a nonexistent global warming agenda must be stopped. Cap and Trade legislation cannot be allowed to move forward in Congress. Any treaty that comes out of the Copenhagen summit must not be ratified. Anyone who intentionally perpetrates the global warming hoax on the American people should be thoroughly discredited and thrown in jail.

You too, Al.

ABC-TV covers Climategate at last

Never once did Stephanopoulos address the issues that many who have examined the CRU Archive continue to raise. They include, in no particular order: falsification and/or misuse of data, an almost incestuous relationship among scientific paper authors and their reviewers, efforts to have opponents removed from their posts, and contravention of laws requiring data preservation and public release on demand. Instead, the discussion focused almost entirely on politics and diplomacy, and the CRU Archive scandal's likely effect on both.