Jim Hopkins: Dodgy science gets us all off the hook - Environment - NZ Herald News

As Madoff was to money, these cons are to climate. They've given sackcloth and ashes such a bad name no one will want to wear it.

Because we now know all this hand- wringing, finger-pointing, cringing, wimpish, guilt-inducing "We're to blame and it's killing the planet" palaver, embraced as a new religion by countless control-freaks, wowsers and old, bewildered hippies is based on totally dodgy data.
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And global warming was the KFC of disasters, a cataclysm so yummy no scribe could resist it.

Especially since the usual suspects; big business, Uncle Sam, globalisation, flash motor cars, fast food - all things most journalists instinctively dislike and wish to demonise - were allegedly the root of the evil.

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : What's NASA and Team Alarmism so Afraid of?

[RealClimate] is populated by none other than NASA's resident alarmist mouthpiece - and official spokesman for Hansen's GISS shop - Gavin Schmidt. Although RealClimate touts the unpaid nature of their writers' work, the time-stamps on Schmidt's often highly personal blog posts make quite clear that these actually come on the taxpayer dime, as well. Other RealClimate writers include "Hockey Stick" Mann and Hockey Stick-related Casper Amman.

Pass the Gravy and Hide the Baloney - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

On this day of thanks I am grateful for, among many blessings, the unfolding affirmation of what we have been warning policymakers about, now confirmed in lurid detail: the global warming industry's aggressive game of Hide the Baloney.
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Scientists lied, Kyoto died. Hallelujah.

Obama, China’s Straight Man - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

First the Europeans suckered Al Gore into that phony 1990 baseline for the original Kyoto Protocol, giving them an assumed pass and nailing us. Now it seems the Chinese have suckered a panicked Barack Obama into trading our economy to China for a bag of magic beans.