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The information leak from the CRU is not unique. It must be said that the situation is not at all as severe Similar reports of unscientific methodologies practised | as Gore and company like to pretend it is. In 2007, it by NASA have emerged in recent years. When globa was reported that the polar ice-caps were melting. They warming critic Stephen McIntyre found serious errors in were...but figures from the US National Oceanic and the temperature data of NASA's Goddard Institute for | Atmospheric Administration showed that a year later Space Studies (GISS), which undermined the conclusion —_ almost all the "lost" ice had come back." Hence, ice that global warming was occurring, some globa levels which had shrunk from 13 million square warming adherents were quick to point out that this kilometres in January 2007 to just four million in error was nevertheless insignificant in the greater | October 2007 were almost back to their original levels a scheme of things.° few months later. In fact, figures for 2008 showed that But the real consequences of this error were _ there was nearly a third more ice on the Antarctic Ice summarised by atmospheric physicist Professor Fred Shelf than is usual for the time of year.'' This was hardly Singer: "A change in climate history data at NASA's reported. Goddard Institute for Space Studies recently occurred Christopher Horner, author of The Politically Incorrect which dramatically alters the debate over globa Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism,” claims that warming. Yet, this transpired with no officia there is far more to Al Gore than meets the eye. He announcement from GISS head James Hansen, and wen argues that through personal contacts with Gore and unreported until Steve McIntyre of Climate Audi President Clinton, as well as wide support from the discovered it Wednesday, Green movement, the energy August 11, 2007."" corporation Enron was set to Indeed, whereas man-made ...the global warming exploit the global warming global warming proponents are " " issue for tens of billions of quick to use every weather consensus has been dollars. According to Horner, a anomaly of climate change a dangerous collusion contributing factor in the when confronted with criticism . soe collapse of Enron was the of unscientific methodology—if between science, politics unwillingness of the United not outright scientific fraud— and the media in States to play this dangerous they are quick to claim they are . game. It may also come asa the victims of a giant the spreading ofa surprise to learn that Enron chief Ken Lay and the CEO of British Petroleum (BP), John Al Gore and the polar bears Browne, had meetings in the The fact of the matter is tha White House in 1997 with Vice- e global warming "consensus" has been a dangerous _ President Gore and President Clinton. Their agenda was collusion between science, politics and the media inthe — to ensure that the US agreed to the Kyoto Protocols. spreading of a modern myth: that we are responsible Yes, you have read that correctly. BP wanted the US to or global warming. Though we might be, the reality is | agree to the Kyoto Protocols. Why? Such a compliance at science has been unable to prove so. with the Protocols would have imposed major costs A photograph of two polar bears clinging to a melting — upon the US energy industry and all of those who use iceberg has become one of the most enduring images in energy—a very large hidden tax. Both Enron and BP is campaign. It was used by former US Vice-President | would have made billions from this hidden tax that Al Gore during his Inconvenient Truth lectures to underline — would have been extracted from the American people. e peril in which the world already finds itself. Al Gore might thus be seen by many as the one who ournalist Carole "C.J." Williams reported’ that the image __ revealed a truth that the Bush administration was trying was taken in August 2004, just off the coast of Alaska, by _ to hide. Indeed, for a long time, the fact that Bush was Amanda Byrd, then a marine biology graduate student. —_ unwilling to endorse and act upon global warming was As Byrd is happy to point out, the bears were in no _ seen as evidence that it had to be real! When it comes danger as they were so close to the coast (they canswim to climate change, Gore might be a far more evil villain 100 miles). She wanted a photo more of the "wind- — than Bush! sculpted ice" than of the bears. But then the image was American climatologist Dr Robert Durrenberger copied by another member of the crew and eventually stated: "Al Gore has returned me into the battle, and passed on to Environment Canada. Then it was eagerly forced me to research climatology again. Due to all of adopted by the warmist propaganda machine—chiefly the disinformation that Gore and his army are spreading by Al Gore, who claimed: "Their habitat is melting... about climate change, | have decided that real beautiful animals, literally being forced off the planet".’ —_climatologists have to help the public understand the In truth, no polar bears were in distress during the __ nature of the problem.”” shooting of that photograph. So where does one find "real climatologists"? conspiracy. modern myth... between science, politics and the media in the spreading of a modern myth... 12 * NEXUS ...the global warming "consensus" has been a dangerous collusion FEBRUARY - MARCH 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com