Cooking The Books

Folks are gradually waking up to a key tactic used by the far left - "Never waste a crisis." We might add however - invent one if there’s nothing handy.

We know that the "stimulus" package, health "reform" and weather are all convenient conduits for this group of nefarious misfits. Readers understand just why that is so with the economy, and just lately, as we explained, with health. What about weather?

We threw four darts at the weather services this early pm. Here is what came up: 1) "New Delhi - At least 17 people died as towns and cities in India's northern states were hit by cold weather, officials said on Friday." 2) "Britain is bracing itself for one of the coldest winters for a century with temperatures hitting minus 16 degrees Celsius, forecasters have warned." 3) "Forecasters say the coldest stretch of weather in years if not decades could be heading for North Carolina." 4) "A man whose body was found in a park on Chicago's South Side is Cook County's fourth confirmed cold-related death." Some hot flash, huh?

Of course most of those duped by the machinery of the far left maintain these events are but a fluke. But the instigators of this fraud know better. Their time is about up and they know it. Even the German publication Der Spiegel, "the house organ for climate hysteria" as the IBD put it the other day, weighing in again with the sad news that the earth does not have a fever after all. In an article titled, "Climatologists Baffled By Global Warming Time-Out," author Gerald Traufetter leads off with the observation: "Climatologists are baffled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years." They better figure it out, Der Spiegel warns, because "billions of euros are at stake in the negotiations." Ahhh! Money. Connect the dots for goodness sake.

And then of course, that little bit about hacking the other day at the Hadley Climate Research Unit. Oops! Seems these "scientists" aren’t all that, should we day, objective (reserving the word liars for later use). They boasted of twisting data to fit the favorite flavor, even gloated over the death of a warmer skeptic. My. My.

In fact, any slob (not compromised by grant $) can take a look at the closest stump to know the earth regularly experiences change. Really. Trees don’t lie. Gary Sutton in Forbes put it this way: "Tree rings show a mini ice age in Europe about the time Stradivarius crafted his violins. Chilled Alpine Spruce gave him tighter wood so the instruments sang with a new purity. But England had to give up the wines that the Romans cultivated while our globe cooled, switching from grapes to colder weather grains and learning to take comfort with beer, whisky and ales. Yet many centuries earlier, during a global warming, Greenland was green. And so it stayed and was settled by Vikings for generations until global cooling came along. Leif Ericsson even made it to Newfoundland. His shallow draft boats, perfect for sailing and rowing up rivers to conquer villages, wouldn't have stood a chance against a baby iceberg. Those sustained temperature swings, all before the evil economic benefits of oil consumption, suggest there are factors at work besides humans."

The far left counts of the lack of scholarship and the general amnesia of the masses to ply their trade. In this instance, the guy shivering in India doesn’t have to read or remember anything to know this global warming bit is just another instance of cooking the books.

Robert Craven