Baby It's Cold Outside

We're getting ready for another round of winter weather this weekend. And while one storm or one reading does not make or break the trend of the weather. We need to seriously rethink how we view what was once called global warming and now is called climate change.

First let's take the name change in general. The fact that the alarmist have stopped calling it global warming is, in and of itself, a big shot to the theory. Second, and the biggest is what's being called Climategate (I HATE that every scandal has to have the suffix 'gate'). Science is an exact science, pun intended. That means it depends on strict rules and guidelines. The initial problems with the first Climategate researchers is that they didn't just ignore the rules, they weren't lazy and take shortcuts, they followed all the rules. And when the data obtained by following the strict set of scientific rules, they changed them. Then they hid the evidence. If someone is suspected of a crime and we find out they hid evidence our suspicion usually rises. When you realize that the bulk of all research in the generation that followed relied almost exclusively on that flawed data you can only conclude that EVERYTHING we though we knew about global warming is wrong.

But wait, There's more! Since the first scandal broke we've found many other examples of climate fraud. And each example more ignored by the mainstream than the first. We found the glaciers are not melting, it was a hoax perpetrated by the WWF (not the wrestling organization, where we would expect hoaxes but a wildlife foundation) and the IPCC (A UN organization, what a shock). We found out the Russians faked climate data and didn't follow scientific guidelines but instead picked the data that supported their claim and buried exculpatory evidence. The horrendous Kyoto Treaty was based on this study. And not to be outdone, our own government had to get in on the act as well.

The only moral thing to do is to scrape all climate data and start over with strict oversight. If we are going to spend billions, or even trillions, trying to fix a problem, shouldn't we make sure we have a problem first? Let's stand by the old maxim, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. (And don't pretend it is broke). Now, give me back my incandescent bulbs.