Global Warming? Nevermind . . .

In an interview with the BBC, British climate scientist Phil Jones, the man at the center of the University of East Anglia e-mail kerfuffle (also known as "Climategate"), made some startling admissions that run opposite of the "settled" conclusion that global warming exists and is the result of human activity.  The statements made by the professor include:

• There has been no statistically significant global warming since 1995.
• The so-called "Medieval Warming Period" may have been just as significant as the current warming period.
• The issue of whether global warming currently exists is NOT settled according to the professor, who said, "I don't believe the vast majority of climate scientists think this. This is not my view."

I wonder if the High Priest of Global Warming, Al Gore, will now retract the statement he made to Congress in 2007 that the science of global warming is settled and that carbon emissions from human activity is the cause.  I doubt he will.  After all, he is making too much money from this enormous bamboozle.

Admittedly, Professor Jones spends a good part of the interview in academic double-speak as he attempts to salvage what is left of his reputation.  But other sources can be mined to support the implosion of the global warming thesis.  Professor John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (aside:  UAH was the location of last week's shooting by deranged Professor Amy Bishop) is now stating that “temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of global change.”  Why should Professor Chisty's opinion matter?  Because he is a former lead author of the reports issued by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ("IPCC").  And what does the IPCC have to do with Professor Jones at the University of East Anglia?  The Climactic Research Unit at the UEA, which serves as the data repository for the IPCC, was formerly headed by Professor Jones until he was forced to resign in the wake of the Climategate e-mail scandal.  You may recall the IPCC from the recent revelation that it deliberately overstated the evidence to support a conclusion that Himalayan glaciers will disappear by 2035.  According to the lead author of that IPCC report, the inaccurate statement was made because, "We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action."  In other words, the report's authors lied in an attempt to exert political pressure.  Wow.

I have only scratched the surface of all the revelations that are now coming out as the global warming house-of-cards comes tumbling down.  Yet at a time when the Federal budget is totally out-of-control, the Obama Administration continues to push for action to address the climate change phantom menace, action that will cost the taxpayers of America trillions of dollars.  It is time to bury this issue and get to work on putting Americans back to work and bringing the budget under control.