Global Warming Hoax Revealed!  “Scientists Have Been Manipulating the Raw Temperature Figures”

Anyone who’s read much of anything on this site will know where I stand (and have always stood) on the subject of global warming.  I, along with many other skeptics, have long argued that there simply isn’t the proper data to support the idea that global warming is anything like impending problem Al Gore and others have been claiming for so long.  In fact, the average temperature has actually dropped in recent years.

It seems now that not only have our arguments been vindicated, there is strong evidence that the global warming “pushers” have actually been perpetrating a hoax on the entire world.

I’ll let Nigel Lawson from the London Times tell you about the CRU emails which have damaged, perhaps fatally, the theory of man-made global warming:

…the scientific basis for global warming projections is now under scrutiny as never before. The principal source of these projections is produced by a small group of scientists at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU), affiliated to the University of East Anglia.

Last week an apparent hacker obtained access to their computers and published in the blogosphere part of their internal e-mail traffic. And the CRU has conceded that the at least some of the published e-mails are genuine.

Astonishingly, what appears, at least at first blush, to have emerged is that (a) the scientists have been manipulating the raw temperature figures to show a relentlessly rising global warming trend; (b) they have consistently refused outsiders access to the raw data; (c) the scientists have been trying to avoid freedom of information requests; and (d) they have been discussing ways to prevent papers by dissenting scientists being published in learned journals.

There may be a perfectly innocent explanation. But what is clear is that the integrity of the scientific evidence on which not merely the British Government, but other countries, too, through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, claim to base far-reaching and hugely expensive policy decisions, has been called into question. And the reputation of British science has been seriously tarnished.

Perhaps now we can finally get to the truth concerning global warming.  Instead of stifling dissent on the issue, perhaps the scientists can release the real temperature data and face the detractors whom they seem to fear so much…