The Worst Scientific Scandal Of Our Generation

Christopher Booker, author of The Real Global Warming Disaster writes in today's Telegraph:

The reason why even the Guardian's George Monbiot has expressed total shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their authors are not just any old bunch of academics. Their importance cannot be overestimated, What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the heart of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with a whitewash of what has become the greatest scientific scandal of our age. 

The hacked (or leaked) emails that point to collusion, suppression of contrary evidence and subversion of scientific peer review are the more obvious issues of Climategate.

The deeper scandal shows up in the computer data files that were also released. This is where we see that the data has been fraudulently manipulated to reflect the warming trends these scientists wanted to see.

And why is any of this important? Because it is this bogus computer data that has been fed into the global warming reports of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This is the data that will be presented in Copenhagen as the rationale for punitive carbon taxes and penalties on the western economies and for restrictions on carbon emissions that will ruin western economies while contributing next to nothing in terms of temperature reduction.

So these scientists, greedy for their tenure and millions in grant money, cooked up this latest global warming scheme. Venal politicians like Al Gore conflated it for their own purposes and a lazy and unquestioning media fed it wholesale to a gullible public.

We can't know whether these scientists ever realized that their phony work would be co-opted this way, but they should be reminded that scientific, political and journalistic corruption need to be exposed. And punished.  

More likely what we can expect in the days to come leading up to Copenhagen are tediously endless lists of red herrings and straw men trotted out by the warmist faithful and their media enablers in defiance of real science. That's because this whole fiasco is not really about science at all. It's about co-opting science to promote a far-left anti-humanity political agenda.