Significance of “Climategate” Deciphered

Significance of “Climategate” Deciphered
By Senator Pamela Gorman

The story is everywhere on the web and social media. Most who read it are either annoyed to have to deal with it (those in the cap-n-trade camp) or intrigued by it. But, unless you have been following the spoof of science that is the whole global warming debate (now called “climate change”… when it got colder, they had to change the name of the movement), the significance of these pages and pages of emails and document files recently uncovered by hackers may not be apparent.

It all boils down to this.

In order to use the theories of global warming to substantiate sweeping public policy decisions that are unpopular and economy crushing, one must accept one premise to be true. Namely, you must accept that humans in the post-industrial age are to blame for the earth’s changes. Why? Because only in accepting humans are causing it can you possibly extrapolate a theory that humans can fix it. The religion of global warming is based on the idea that it is unethical to NOT fix it, since they “know” we can…(if we would just give up our way of life and prevent 3rd world countries from modernizing, etc.)

So what is all the excitement with the documents that hackers pulled off the computers of the scientists who published the data on which global warming theories are based? The short answer is: the data was corrupt, mismanaged, and manipulated. The bigger issue, though, is the idea that the core people working to prove man-made global warming KNEW this to be true and toiled in their emails to one another about what to do about the fact that the research data was not supporting their theories. That, my friends, is the big deal here. Because if this is all more than just bad science or a hoax, but actually a coordinated effort to deceive millions of people, then the public policy that has followed is an unnecessary burden on the inhabitants of this planet and some very big shot people have a lot of explaining to do.

The bottom line is this.

The naysayers of Gore’s broken science theories have contended from the start that there is no argument that the planet’s climate is, has always, and will continue to change. So, the key for the global warming zealots was to “prove” that man’s contribution to the naturally-occurring warming and cooling periods is so significant that a correlation can be drawn between changing our behavior and stopping the cycle. With this latest exposure of the embarrassing truth that the “movement” got so married to their theories that they falsified the results to support them, then it takes them back to square one with only a theory and nothing more. But, it goes further. Because the real research shows a never-ending cycle of climate change in our earth’s history (the current flux being mild compared to some before industrialization), it would appear our current human lifestyles are not, in fact, “causing it.” If the humans didn’t cause it, and trying to stop it would increase human suffering (likely without any benefit towards stopping what has gone on for millenniums), then no public policy should ever be brought forth based on the old theories of climate change. Ouch.