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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on February 6, 2010

Renowned economist Walter E. Williams on the global warming sham

Here’s a lucid, fact-based analysis of the players and the “machine” behind the duplicitous, outrageous global warming fraud, written by distinguished economics professor Walter E. Williams.

I’ve long been an admirer of Dr. Williams and his work. He wrote this critical article in December, prior to the IPCC admitting their fraud of the melting of the Himalayan glaciers and the recent revelations of the spurious Amazon rainforest data. Posted at Jewish World Review, We’ve Been Had:

Last year, my column “Global Warming Rope-A-Dope” started out: “Americans have been rope-a-doped into believing that global warming is going to destroy the planet. Scientists who have been skeptical about manmade global warming have been called traitors or handmaidens of big oil.” New evidence proves that climatologists and environmental policy advocates have not only fed us lies, engaged in scientific and academic fraud but committed criminal acts as well.

Last month, Russian computer hackers obtained thousands of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in England. CRU has the world’s largest temperature data set. In collaboration with scientists around the world, including the U.S., its research and mathematical models form the basis of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2007 global warming report.

The e-mails involved communication among climate researchers and policy advocates around the world who brazenly discuss both the destruction and hiding of data that does not support their global-warming claims. They discuss criminally deleting data rather than comply with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. There’s also discussion of faking data for journals such as Nature, conspiring to keep opposing science out of peer-reviewed journals (which they controlled the editorial boards), and using statistical “tricks” to hide the cooling period of the last 10 years. One e-mail said, “The fact is we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.” Another said, “it would be nice to try to ‘contain’ the putative ‘MWP,’ even if we don’t yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back.” MWP refers to the Medieval Warm Period (800 A.D. to 1300 A.D.) when the Earth was much warmer than it is now. This bothers the global warmers because they can’t blame the temperature increase a thousand years ago on SUVs, coal-burning power plants, incandescent bulbs and 60-inch TV screens.

Editors of professional journals, who were willing to publish articles that disagreed with the warmers, were forced to resign — as was in the cases of editors at Climate Research and Geophysical Research Letters. A flagrant example of suppression is found in CRU director Phil Jones’, letter to Pennsylvania State University’s Michael E. Mann that questions whether the work of academics who question the link between human activities and global warming deserve to make it into the IPCC report, which represents the environmental extremist’s view on climate science. Jones writes, “I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!”

The fact of the matter is an increasing amount of climate research suggests a possibility of global cooling. Geologist Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Emeritus Professor at Western Washington University, says, “Recent solar changes suggest that it could be fairly severe, perhaps more like the 1880 to 1915 cool cycle than the more moderate 1945-1977 cool cycle. A more drastic cooling, similar to that during the Dalton and Maunder minimums, could plunge the Earth into another Little Ice Age, but only time will tell if that is likely.” Geologist Dr. David Gee, chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress, currently at Uppsala University in Sweden asks, “For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming?”

Last year’s column closed with my speculation that if ever “the permafrost returns to northern U.S., as far south as New Jersey as it once did, it’s not inconceivable that Congress, caught in the grip of global warming zealots, would keep all the laws on the books they wrote in the name of fighting global warming. Personally, I would not put it past them to write more.” This is confirmed by the Obama administration’s climate czar, Carol Browner, who, despite dishonesty, fraud and criminality, says she considers the science on global warming settled.

Today, record snow and blizzard conditions have been pummeling the eastern United States. How apropos.

Biographical background: Walter E. Williams holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from California State University (1965), a master’s degree (1967) and doctorate (1972) in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles.

The awards and honors Williams have received are many, including the National Fellow at the Hoover Institute of War, Revolution, and Peace; the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship; the National Service Award from the Institute for Socioeconomic Studies; and the George Washington Medal of Honor from the Valley Forge Freedom Foundation. In 1984-1985, he received the Faculty Member of the Year Award from the George Mason University Alumni. He is also a member of the American Economic Association, the Mont Pelerin Society and is a Distinguished Scholar of the Heritage Foundation.

Related:
Times Online, The UN climate panel and the rainforest claim and Climate chief was told of false glacier claims before Copenhagen and Scientists in stolen e-mail scandal hid climate data
Anna Z: Walter E. Williams (This Week’s Guest!): Does U.S. Need To Split Along Political Lines? – IBD/ Investors.com
OneIndia: IPCC’s claim over Amazonian rainforest ‘unsubstantiated’
ScienceNews: IPCC’s Himalayan glacier ‘mistake’ not an accident
GayPatriot: First, it was Himalayan glaciers, now it’s the Amazon rainforest and Another Day, Another Piece of Doctored Global Warming Data
Gateway Pundit: Democrats Force Last US Light Bulb Plant to Close Shop and IT BEGINS… Obama Initiates His Coal-Killing Policies; Energy Costs to Skyrocket and Wrong Again… Barack Obama Lectures America About Rising Sea Levels (Video) and Climate Chief Knew About Bogus Glacier Data Before Copenhagen Summit …Update: They Fudged Rain Forest Data Too! and Unreal. Climategate Junk Scientist Michael Mann Awarded Half a Million in Stimulus Cash and Brrrr… Climate Scientists Say Mini Ice Age Likely For 20-30 Years and Ugh. Awful RINO Lindsey Graham Pushes Climate Policy Because “Congress Needs a Win” and UN Officials Lied About Melting Glaciers to Win Hundreds of Thousands in Grant Money and AP: Don’t Let the -45 Degree Weather Fool You… Global Warming Is REAL
Michelle Malkin: ClimateGate update: Mann handled
The Daley Gator: And The Global Warming Fraud Continues
Frugal Café Blog Zone: More Global Warming Deception Uncovered: Climate Chief Told of False Glacier Info, Kept It Secret — Many Himalayan Glaciers Are Growing, Obama Still Clueless (video) and Baby, It’s COLD Outside… Record Cold and Snow Across Globe and and Einstein’s Error & Another Bogus Claim from Gore: “Earth’s Core Is Millions of Degrees” and Global Warming Scam: Scientific Data in “Hockey Stick” Graph Bogus, Uh, ‘Fudged’ (video)

James G. Lakely, Big Government: An Honest IPCC Scientist Warns His Colleagues: Don’t Dismiss ‘ClimateGate’
Flopping Aces: Latest Shoe in the Global Warming Hoax Drops
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Global Warming Hysteria Bursting Like Other Bubbles
HillBuzz: STUNNING ADMISSION: UK scientists admit they make up data for political reasons to support Church of Global Warming
JammieWearingFool: Surprise! Another Bogus Report From UN Climate Panel Exposed
Paul Chesser, American Spectator: Former IPCC Scientist: Transparency ‘An Obligation’
Christopher C. Horner, Big Government: ClimateGate: Penn State Initial Report Signals Whitewash and Greens Flip: Senate Cap-and-Trade Bill ‘Not a Serious Proposal’ and Little Green Men and their ‘Indispensible’ Big Green Lobbyists and The Real ClimateGate: Who’s Stupid, Hu’s Not and ClimateGate: Maybe Models Really Are Dumb
Rich Trzupek, Big Journalism: Drilling Down Into Obama’s Energy Promises
Bob McCarthy, Big Government: Penn State’s ‘ClimateGate’ Inquiry Determines Further Investigation Is Needed
James Delingpole, Telegraph: After Climategate, Pachaurigate and Glaciergate: Amazongate
Watts Up With That?: Pachauri used TERI email account to conduct official IPCC business
The Political Class: United Nations retracts “Proof” of Amazon Rainforest disappearing. That’s strike three.
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: When Climate Change Experts Are Not Experts
Steven Mosher, Big Government: Leake and the London Times: Climate Scientists thwarted FOIA
BBC News: Harrabin’s Notes: IPCC under scrutiny

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