The culture, that all have assumed is the case, in the curtailing of the current global warming debate, has now come to light and shows the trial and tribulations of dissent from the accepted norm.
It was with disgust, but not surprise, that the emails that have come to light in the media overnight show Kevin Trenberth, a climatologist at the US Centre for Atmospheric Research and a supporter of the theory of man made climate change, stated in one email, “The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment, and it is a travesty that we can’t.”
Considering that Mr Trenberth was the lead author of the 1995, 2001 and 2007 Scientific Assessment of Climate Change reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) this statement is completely damning of the current premis for an ETS. It is, however, a very illuminating insight and honest appraisal of the science that underpins the current lack of balance in the Australian emission trading debate. If Mr Trenberth can not explain cooling when we should have warming then it appears ludicrous that Mr Rudd and Minister Wong can. Furthermore, the implementation of a new Australian Tax to fix an uncertainty is insanity.
Now to the culture that underpins this so called “settled science”. Britain’s Climatic Research Unit’s Phil Jones “cheered” when he heard of the death of Australian sceptic John L Daly in Launceston in 2004 and attached the death notice in an email to the director of the Earth System Science Centre in Pennsylvania, stating it was “cheering news”.
What a noble group of individuals. I am sure Copernicus would have kept them well at arms length but they would have been great mates of Urban VIII in his fireside chats with Galileo.
Australia is merely days away from a vacuous complicity with a debate that has reignited, refuting previous certainties. Australia is set to endorse the debate after only allowing one side to speak and the consumer, farmer, miner, pensioner will pay for the bloody minded conceit of Labor.