Well now we have the mirror opposite of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" story breaking in recent weeks as emails have been uncovered by some of the most "reputable" scientists on the subject of Global-Warming (notice they often use the term Climate-Change now....hmmm). These emails show a shady side of these so-called scientists as they discuss:
- Destroying evidence (emails, documents) in case there is a Freedom-of-Information request
- Falsifying data to cover up a lack of warming
- How to prevent other scientists who don't buy into their view by keeping their papers from being published
We have always regarded scientists in an almost religious manor in our society putting their ethics up there with priests and doctors. But now the curtain is being pulled back and revealing someone less than the "great and glorious Oz" behind the scenes. Men, not armed with facts and data but instead with a political agenda. These scientists are riding a wave of political ideology rather than following the truth. They know there is more money to be made by government grants searching for the global-warming boogy-man rather than letting the dat speak for itself. In the end these men will have not only destroyed all arguments for global-warming, but will have also destroyed the credibility of their craft. We now see that even scientists are not above reproach and are given to the same vices as the rest of us. That they to can lie, cheat and deceive as much as the rest of us. Maybe even MORE than the rest of us as they most often reject the idea of an all-knowing, all-seeing (and yes even all-loving) God! For if there is no God, then there are no reprocussions of my behaviors which may include lying to the rest of the world and causing un-founded fear, panic and the spending of TRILLIONS of dollars to fight a non-existent problem.
Of course this is not the first time scientists have been caught lying to the public. About 20 years ago a small team of scientists claimed to have found "cold-fusion" in a chemical reaction. Of course their findings could not be replicated and they were chastised as having jumped to a conclusion in order to make headlines. But in this case, science did the RIGHT thing and did what it is supposed to do by checking their findings by could replicating the results. When they could not be replicated it was denounced. Therefore the scientific-method prevailed as it should. But what differs in this case is that here we do not have the scientific-method being allowed to be used. Instead we have scientists actively attempting to thwart the scientific-method and to cover up their TRUE findings by tweaking data and destroying evidence. In the case of the cold-fusion scientists, they were only guilty of jumping the proverbial "gun" and announcing their findings before they could be corroborated by their fellow colleagues because they didn't want to get beaten to the press. Also, their lies (or half-truths) caused no real harm to society except to their own careers and reputations. The global-warming scientists should be brought up on charges of misleading the public and possibly causing mass panic and alarm (if I were a more of a litigious person, I could see suing them for causing psychological and mental stress and anguish by saying The earth is warming! The earth is warming! .... doesn't this fall under the law that prevents a person from yelling FIRE! in crowded room??)
We also need to take a closer look at the policies that caused this to happen. Where did the train come off the tracks in this case? Was it politicians (ahem.... Al Gore) with agenda's and fist fulls of cash from the government that could have been the culprits? Haven't we learned the politics, like salt-water, is a corrosive element. It's very nature is to corrupt and destroy whatever it comes into contact with? And why is that the case? Without getting too philosophical here, it is simply because governments sits at the very top of society's grand pyramid. Unless that society is governed (implicitly not directly) by a higher power (God), that government has the ultimate final say in what is ethical and acceptable. It therefore itself becomes corrupt and thus having nothing to prevent it otherwise, it corrupts all who come in contact with it as well. In the case of these scientists were corrupted by politicians with social and political agenda's to control their citizens and to redistribute their wealth. Seeing that there was more money and prestige in making up data and covering up the truth these scientists denigrated themselves and their profession.
But now we see that the lies don't stop there either. As of today, hardly a word is spoken of this massive cover up that has been found by the computer hackers. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN,, MSNBC, CNBC have not made one mention of it on their news programs. Fox News and the NY-Times have made mention of it (and maybe the Wall Street Journal...but I am not sure on that) have checked the story and are declaring it factual and the emails a reality. I am sure now these stations are busy digging up dirt on the computer hackers to see if there were any laws they had broken and if they should serve any jail time for their offenses. They may do an article or two on computer security in the 21st century and how easy it is to break in a steal information. But no mention will be made of the lies these "truth-revealers" have uncovered and how the rest of us are being played as fools and that global warming is really...
A CONVENIENT LIE!