Here’s an excellent analysis of the anthropogenic global warming conspiry: Naming and shaming the AGW fraudsters. I’ve written before that this is not your traditional “smoke filled dark room” type conspiracy but more a conspiracy of shared values led by some willfully fraudulent people. Esr’s thinking along the same lines but breaks it down better. And yes, I agree those involved should be severely punished.

Keep in mind, this is by far not the first scam of this nature – we’ve had a climate scare roughly every 30 years since 1895.  That’s not a typo: Eighteen ninety five.  And then there are the other media-driven psuedo-scientific scares that crop up periodically, like the anti-vaccine scare that’s finally coming to an end, or the recent swine flu scare, or the bird flu, the tomato scare, nuclear energy, cyclamates… right down to the DDT demonization that has sacrificed the lives of millions to malaria.  The bad science/media hype combo kills people, and there need to be consequences for that.

This is a must read from American Thinker: a primer on the global warming climate change hoax.

To sum up…

So they cheat. And they lie. And they have from the very beginning.

Greenpeace admits “emotionalizing” global warming at Political Vindication.

Nice to see an interviewer hold their feet to the fire for once.

Added: more from Watts Up With That especially these tools getting their schadenfreudelicious comeuppance:

Gosh, this is becoming a theme. Intrepid sailors/hikers/tourists/scientists/ecologists head for the Arctic with intent to show the world how the Arctic is melting, get stuck in/on the ice, or hopelessly battered, and end up needing rescue by those evil fossil fuel belching rescue ships, helicopters, and planes.

Over at Michelle Malkin’s, a Cap and tax liveblog: Democrats limit debate, stampede toward national energy tax. This is going to be very bad if it passes. Aside from the catastrophic financial repercusssions that even President Obama admits will occur [Read more...]