Climate-Gate: Still more 'shenanigans?'

The link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/01/leaked-emails-climate-jones-chinese

" Phil Jones, the beleaguered British climate scientist at the centre of the leaked emails controversy, is facing fresh claims that he sought to hide problems in key temperature data on which some of his work was based.

" A Guardian investigation of thousands of emails and documents apparently hacked from the University of East Anglia's climatic research unit has found evidence that a series of measurements from Chinese weather stations were seriously flawed and that documents relating to them could not be produced. "

Yep. I'd call that a big problem. But it turns out that that's not the biggest problem. For that part, we go here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/01/dispute-weather-fraud

The title? "Strange case of moving weather posts and a scientist under siege."

" It is difficult to imagine a more bizarre academic dispute. Where exactly are 42 weather monitoring stations in remote parts of rural China?

" But the argument over the weather stations, and how it affects an important set of data on global warming, has led to accusations of scientific fraud and may yet result in a significant revision of a scientific paper that is still cited by the UN's top climate science body.

" It also further calls into question the integrity of the scientist at the centre of the scandal over hacked climate emails, the director of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), Dr Phil Jones. The emails suggest that he helped to cover up flaws in temperature data from China that underpinned his research on the strength of recent global warming.

" The Guardian has learned that crucial data obtained by American scientists from Chinese collaborators cannot be verified because documents containing them no longer exist. And what data is available suggests that the findings are fundamentally flawed. "

Again, there's far more material there, but I'll leave it for you to read. This, however, begs a few very interesting questions as well as observations.

1) Alex Jones (yes, that one) has been talking for years about a "Global Tax" and a "New World Order," among other things. Enter the "Global Carbon Tax."

a) http://www.prisonplanet.com/copenhagen-con-men-launch-global-carbon-tax-heist.html (This is Mr. Jones' site.)

b) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122826696217574539.html

c) http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/mar/12/carbon-tax-should-replace-kyoto-protocol

Google "Global Carbon Tax" and you'll get about 644,000 results.

2) Many other people have mentioned a "Global Carbon Tax." Can they all be conspiracy theorists?

So here's my question: Why continue to push for a global carbon tax when we're still not exactly sure of the root causes of global warming? Is mankind at all responsible for it, or does the human race bear sole responsibility for it?

The evidence is, to me, overwhelming. Mankind didn't cause global warming in my opinion, all he has done is make a bad situation worse.

But then you add in the fact that nearly everybody who studies the fossil record will tell you that climate change on this planet follows natural cycles. Remember, there have been 15 mass extinctions on this planet, all but one (possibly two if the "Great Dying" turns out to be due to asteroid impact as well) have been shown to have been caused by global warming. Indeed, the fossil record itself suggests that we're in a period of mass-extinction right now. Remember my writing about it yesterday? And earlier than that, even. It's called "The Holocene Mass Extinction Event."

The sun itself follows a cycle.

Add to that the fact that, if the Earth didn't have the moon that we have, the Earth would have its own 10,000 year cycle where the poles and axis would both shift. The moon does a number of wonderful things for us:

1) It gives us moon-lit beaches to walk upon, hand in hand with the person we love,

2) It stabilizes the axis and poles. Without the moon, the Earth would wobble on its axis and shift about every 10,000 years.

3) It slows the Earth down. Without the moon, the Earth would spin a 4-hour day - two hours of daylight and two hours of night.

4) Without the moon (and the tidal forces) surface winds would reach between 350 and 400 kilometers per hour. *

That would make human life hard to sustain on the Earth; the moon's not being there. But you get the point: The moon, the Earth, our sun, the galaxy and our universe all follow cycles.

But to tell me that mankind is solely culpable (at fault) for Earth's global warming is rubbish. Indeed, there is even contradictory evidence that currently points to a coming era of global cooling.

* sources:

Dr. Michio Kaku
Dr. Peter Ward
Dr. Phillip Plait