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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Can We Ever Trust
Global Warming Scientists Again?
The riveting news has shocked both sides of the global warming debate as private e-mails from some pro man-made scientists and researchers reveal that they have been actively skewing their controversial findings.
An unknown person hacked into the e-mail server of the prominent climate-research center, the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England, and stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming and posted them on the Web, according to CNN. Some of the e-mails have startling quotes such as ...
"I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e., from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline." — Phil Jones, director of the research center, CNN
"I think we have to stop considering 'Climate Research' as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal." — Dr. Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State, Wall Street Journal
These are not flattering quotes from the people who are supposed to be giving us unbiased facts about our planet. These people are supposed to present to us objective research so we know how to prepare for the future.
These people are extremely despicable because they failed in their duties as scientists. In addition, they were closed-minded and belittled their fellow scientists and researchers who do not agree with the theory that man is creating global warming.
The popular pro man-made-global-warming group not only destroyed their own credibility, but destroyed our faith in them.
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should conduct an investigation into the methods these scientists use to collect their data, how it is presented and what is excluded. And it would be interesting to see if skeptics’ claims are true: That research grants and funds play a big part in these scientists’ conclusions on global warming. Some believe that the direr the research, the more money is given to said research.
It is time we get real facts about this, but in the meantime, what should we do about our planet?
The best solution, until a truly unbiased research paper gets published about global warming, is to try to confine our use of oil to reasonable limits, try to find alternative, reliable sources of energy and to clean up after ourselves.
Hopefully this embarrassment can be a lesson that a few of these researchers will learn. However, it would be foolish to believe that all of them would force themselves to be the unbiased scientists that the world needs.
While the two sides of this debate are playing around with their own agendas, it’s time that we take charge of the study of our planet and what type of effects, if any, we have on it.
It’s time that we demand a stricter review of all research done and a real open and objective debate about it, so we can better understand what is happening to the planet.
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