Roy Spencer, Ph.D., a bona fide climate scientist, reacts to the conspiracy to promote global warmism among scientists that was revealed by the release of 60-plus gigs of data stored on Britain's East Anglia Climate Research Unit servers. His piece is called, "ClimateGate and the Elitist Roots of Global Warming Alarmism." I'll cite his closing paragraph first.
Year after year, the evidence keeps mounting that most climate research now being funded is for the purpose of supporting the IPCC’s politics, not to find out how nature works. The ‘data spin’ is increasingly difficult to ignore or to explain away as just sloppy science. If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck…And what of the IPCC? Remember that it is a political body, not a scientific one. And, according to Dr. Spencer, the IPCC is a machine-politics body with all that it entails.
The hundreds of e-mails being made public after someone hacked into Phil Jones’ Climatic Research Unit (CRU) computer system offer a revealing peek inside the IPCC machine. ...The "latest treaty" Dr. Spencer refers to is that of next month's Copenhagen summit, where the aim is literally to set up a world government, which is made explicit in the language of the treaty. As Britain's Lord Monckton, former chancellor of the Exchequer, explains, the Copenhagen treaty is designed to eliminate true national sovereignty altogether, especially that of the United States.
At a minimum, some of these e-mails reveal an undercurrent of elitism that many of us have always claimed existed in the IPCC. These scientists look upon us skeptics with scorn. It is well known that the IPCC machine is made up of bureaucrats and scientists who think they know how the world should be run. The language contained in a draft of the latest climate treaty (meant to replace the Kyoto treaty) involves global governance and the most authoritarian means by which people’s energy use will be restricted and monitored by the government.
Even if this language does not survive in the treaty’s final form, it illustrates the kind of people we are dealing with. The IPCC folks jet around the world to all kinds of exotic locations for their UN-organized meetings where they eat the finest food. Their gigantic carbon footprints stomp around the planet as they deride poor Brazilian farmers who convert jungle into farmland simply to survive.
Understand: "saving the planet" is not the point of Copenhagen. The point is to compel wealth transfers from rich nations to everyone else and to institute a new class of global elites who get to tell everyone else how to live. Global warmism is a political movement joined at the hip to the two things that lubricate political movement everywhere: money and power. In the US alone, "The Global Warming Science Machine: $79 Billion and Counting," for example. And as Lord Monckton pointed out, the new global government desired by the treaty's backers will definitely not be a democratic one. You and I do not get to choose who represents us nor will we have any say in how they will dictate our lives.
What the Copenhagen treaty will do is set up a new nomenklatura of bureaucracies and factotums and commissioners, providing them with near-unlimited political power, a luxurious lifestyle and upward mobility for their children and political allies. If you think this sounds like the old Soviet system writ global, you're right.
All 181 pages of the proposed treaty are here (PDF).
But there is a glimmer of good news. There is substantial reason to believe that no binding treaty will actually result from next month's Copenhagen summit. But the new commissar class will not quit, they will regroup and try again. "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
Update: CBSNews.com has a long online report on the brewing scandal of the emails and what they reveal, including that the Congress may investigate whether climate science is in fact rife with cooked reporting.
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