Climategate, the scientific scandal of our age...

...many of us are appalled by the widespread acceptance of medical quackery, are awfully insulted by the unquestioning acceptance by the MSM of psychic charlatans, aura readers and other con artists, and have never been abducted and/or probed by alien beings or even seen a UFO. Us poor unfortunates are prone to scepticism and questioning, and have always therefore been wary of the green left campaign to destroy capitalism and the lies and media collusion that sustains their hypocrisy. The debunking of the green left climate change scare after the Climategate expose continues under its own accelerating momentum. Climategate offers the most significant evidence to date that the outrageous dogmatic certainty of Al Gore and others that the science explaining catastrophic climate change is settled is pure political hogwash. A very cursory examination of the issue reveals that much is still to be determined; the interaction of clouds and cosmic rays for example, the role of the oceans, and the influence and/or absence of sunspots. Amidst all this uncertainty, many of our most lauded scientists and brightest brains kept their doubts to themselves. In this respect alone they colluded with the hypocritical greens, displayed humble obedience to their paymasters and great disdain for their fellow citizens.

Of all the quotes from the leaked Climategate emails, the comments and plaintive questions from fellow Kiwi Kevin E. Trenberth (right) carry the most weight for me. Trenberth is one of the major figures within international climate science circles. He is head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research. He was a lead author of the 2001 and 2007 IPCC Scientific Assessment of Climate Change and serves on the Scientific Steering Group for the Climate Variability and Predictability program. In addition, he serves on the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Programme .He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Wearing his 4 star scientific general's hat Trenberth stands in the ranks of our best and brightest, aware since the third form in Christchurch of the most fundamental law of physics; that energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be transformed or transferred. He would always know that if the IPCC climate models do not even satisfy this elementary law, then it is questionable whether they are useful for anything at all. Trenberth openly admits that there are 3 sets of vital data that are "wanting" before they can understand how the climate functions...he writes on October 14th 2009...

"We are not close to balancing the energy budget. The fact that we cannot account for what is happening in the climate system makes any consideration of geoengineering quite hopeless, as we will never be able to tell if it is successful or not! It is a travesty..."
"Saying it is natural variability is not an explanation. What are the physical processes? Where did the heat go? …
"But the resulting evaporative cooling means the heat goes into atmosphere and should be radiated to space: so we should be able to track it with sky temperature data. That data is unfortunately wanting, and so too are the cloud data. The ocean data are also lacking, although some of that may be related to the ocean current changes, and burying heat at depth, where it is not picked up. If it is sequestered at depth then it comes back to haunt us later, and so we should know about it. "

These admissions and doubts by Trenberth seem to make him one of the most human of all the Climategate figures. After all these years of research he is saying, we still don't have a clue where all the energy is going. Without this knowledge, how can he or anyone else construct and obey computer models that will predict our climate destiny ? Unfortunately of course, Trenberth followed the lead of fellow catastrophist Dr Stephen Schneider instead who in 1989 advised "Each of us has to decide the right balance between being effective,and being honest."

...For another stunning timeline summary of the most significant Climategate revelations, click here...

...and OffTopic, but unquestionably the quote of the day, courtesy and H/T Evan C., from Labour MP Kelvin Davis, responding to arch fool and racist nincompoop Hone Harawira...

"We (Maori) are generally dumber, sicker, poorer, more pissed, drugged and pregnant than any other group of people in New Zealand. We know the problem, but what's the solution? Well let's repeal the Foreshore and Seabed and put the F&S into Maori title. We can be dumber, sicker,poorer, more pissed, drugged and pregnant at the beach. That'll make all the difference."