Will Obama Restore Science to Its Rightful Place?
As the story goes, after 8 head-in-the-sand years of the Bush Administration, the big business and psuedo religious belief system of the past would not live to see another day in the new Obama administration. Obama vowed to “restore science to its rightful place” which basically meant we’d be harvesting stem cells and end the debate on global warming.
But science and politics have a tricky little relationship, as trusted “scientific data” brings big bucks, and hiding other scientific data keeps big bucks from being lost. Government and the laboratory can be just as destructive as the left’s hated military-industrial complex. In my opinion, the “rightful place” of science, regardless of what it is, would be as far from the government as possible.
After months of Climate Gate revelations showing the exact type of manipulation and censorship that Obama railed against, you’d think that this newfound love of science, which would mean believing what the data showed regardless of your personal thoughts, would be affecting the economy busting cap and trade bill and a host of other policies set to take over our lives to save the planet.
Not so, you sillies.
In fact, the most startling revelation of them all came this weekend, where the crucial scientist whose data was at the center of the global warming debate says that there hasn’t been any warming since 1995 and that it was not due to man. If you wanted to double check that, not so much luck since he seems to have lost the papers on it.
Huh? I can almost see Al Gore yelling “Well, hockey sticks!!”
This has now been reported by most of the world media besides MSNBC. India has dropped out of the IPCC and is forming their own panel, supposedly to do actual scientific reviews of data. The best stories have come from the British press, including the BBC.
It’s a long convoluted chain of events and meanings. Data that was supposed to tell the world that government control, more taxes, and lowering of lifestyle to save the planet came from false data, made up data, college kids’ term papers as sources, an Al Gore powerpoint, and the movie The Day After Tomorrow.
As scientific theory goes, the debate can’t be over, even if your government says it is. If science is to be returned to its rightful place, than its best the government withdraws their climate change legislation and gets their hands out of the back pockets of the Big Global Warming industry and the science community.
I do see the temperature rising quickly soon…but it’s going to be isolated in Washington, DC.
No matter what state you are in, you likely questioned the whole thing this weekend (snow in all 49 states minus Hawaii) which is why the US media quickly said the snowstorm is because of global warming as well.
Awkward below. From that right wing machine Fox News..I mean the BBC.
Updated – another oops.
