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IPFS News Link • Climate Change
Global Warming Scandals and Extortion for 'Dignity'
• Campaign for Liberty/Lew RockwellOn top of these two gaffes, it's been barely a month since an entire government-funded research unit also violated basic scientific principles. It didn't cherry-pick; it just wholly destroyed original raw data -- data behind major studies claiming a global warming crisis. How credible can those studies be now? That's a scandal. Data are stored and shared for the express purpose of all interested scientists who might work to replicate results. That is the scientific process. How convenient for that original data to disappear if it had been manipulated to produce certain results that backed climate change policies that require a global bureaucracy to monitor and ration energy use of developed countries. How convenient, indeed.
Despite these scandals, or perhaps because of them, alarmists will become even shriller in forthcoming weeks and months. The handwriting on the wall tells them taxpayers are tired of global-warming hysteria and mad about the certain cost burdens that will be dumped on them, so alarmists are launching last-ditch efforts to really scare everybody. Prepare for the sky to fall. That same handwriting even cautions that there is unlikely to be any climate change legislation passed in Congress this year, and unlikely to be any climate change concessions given away in Copenhagen in December by the US. But, before we shift our attention away from this old crisis, we should become aware of an item that surfaces in the Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty Draft that could spell pure trouble, if implemented. Anthony Watts refers to this Draft as "wealth transfer defined, now with new and improved "dignity" penalty."
17. (a) Compensate for damage