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Climate-Gate

by Michael Williams

December 9, 2009

As you know, the EPA ruled earlier this week that the air we exhale represents an endangerment to our health.

This ruling comes just weeks after the so-called science behind man-made global warming has come into question because of the stain of scandal.

It turns out that scientists in Great Britain, who are connected to scientists in the United States who have received millions of dollars in grants to advance the science of climate change, have manipulated data to back the claim that the activities of man imperil the planet.

Apparently for some, the idea of following the science wherever it leads is not so attractive when the science begins to threaten future research dollars.

So, as a result, data that shows evidence of global cooling has been buried, altered and discarded, with emails and other data destroyed to prevent public airing.

Don’t you think there’s a certain irony that folks in Washington who yesterday claimed America rushed to war in Iraq without hard evidence of weapons of mass destruction now say the U.S. must rush to pass new climate laws and regulations -- even while the scientific evidence is still unsettled?

You might call that the principle of “pre-emptive warming.”

Allowing politics to hijack science is not just a scandal because it exposes hypocrisy.  It is an outrage because it impacts the real lives of 24 million Texans.

Our family farmers, our small business owners, our friends and neighbors who pave our roads and generate our power, the single mom down the street and the working families next door -- we will all be hit by a Copenhagen Climate Tax.  This tax, ordered upon us by the United Nations or an EPA-generated regulatory scheme, will have the same negative impact on Texans.

Surely we have not come to the point in America where political correctness not only requires the silencing of dissenting scientists, but the acceptance of new taxes and fees out of guilt and shame over climatic changes that likely would have occurred even if man didn’t inhabit the planet.

When Washington co-opts scientific rigor, Texas citizens pay the price.

Because Texans want to stop the co-opting of science for political goals…
Because we want to stop the gouging of our wallets and the plundering of our pocketbooks…

Texans should take a minute today to write a note to members of Congress, and copy the President and the EPA to let them know just how we feel.

And don’t hold anything back in the name of political correctness.  Because our jobs, livelihoods and the future of Texas depend on it.

Comments

Chuck Dec 10, 2009

As a scientists I am required to have an "N" value that is signifigant to produce enough data to support any theory. With the earth being 4.6 billion years old, how can 80 years of climate data be declared as being scientificly solid? Even if we had 1,000 years of data that would be equivilant to 1 out of 4,600,000, whereby if a drug I discovered cured that 1 of 4.6 million patients it would be absurd it I now declared I cured cancer. If you look at the fossil plant records, there have always been periods of heating and cooling. In fact the last warming period caused the glaciers to receed. Perhaps we are just in a naturally warming period again. Besides, early earth was comprised of mostly methane, a carbon compound, and it was cyanobacteria that converted the methane to oxygen and water, whcih is how the earth took on it's current apearance. Let nature heal itself as anything forced can have dire consequences that man may not be able to reverse, such as the devastation of the plant and bacterial world by reducing carbon to too low a level.

David Dec 10, 2009

The slant on this subject is to be expected. The people behind these scare tactics will lie and manipulate anything and anyone. The word for this is "Liberal"
They have no honor. That is all I need to say about them.

Lonnie Dec 15, 2009

Liberalism and the Global Warming Hoax have a lot in common. Neither is based in truth. Both rely on lies and disinformation to exist. Liberals ignore climategate because it doesn't advance their belief system. I've said this long before climategate ever took hold.

It's my belief that skeptism in science is healthy and helps the debate along. These groups of scientists consistently attempt to beat down their skeptics which to me marks it as a sign of a well plotted out scam.

Climate change is all about money and power to the few that deserve neither because they have shown they can't wield it in a responsible manor.

Lonnie

Scott Jan 21, 2010

As tough as it will be, given the whorld wide "conspiracy" by those folks looking for additional power or just "poor" meteorologists looking for reseach funds, the truth needs to come out. Keep up the message Commissioner Williams.

Old Scott

MICHAEL Feb 3, 2010

What liberalism shares with global warming is the common bond of ideology. An ideology does not ground itself in hard fact; rather, it is merely a set of self-reinforcing ideas which looks to the world for only occasional justification. Marxism is the most extreme example of that, but you see the same in the more intolerant religions as well. With that in mind, read the Climate-Gate emails and you can see the unmistakable parallels - that heretics must be silenced or physically punished; that dissent must be completely eliminated; that conflicting data must be destroyed. Science is not about consensus - it's about subjecting data to relentless scrutiny. Thought processes, on the other hand, are by their very nature too slippery for such rigorous scrutiny.

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