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So That’s Why They Call It Climate Change

Unfortunately for Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and the Copenhagen crew, it looks like the people in charge of documenting the science that keeps the Left’s green ambitions in bloom have been cooking the books.  In emails and other documents hacked, stolen, and posted from Britain’s Hadley Climatic Research Centre several high profile climatologists discuss ways to “hide the decline” of global temperatures.

One of the first reports on the now publicized documents can be found here.

Update: Here's a helpful paper (PDF) from the Heartland Institute discussing the use of misleading charts and graphs in the global warming debate.  The reference to "Mike's Nature trick" in the smoking gun email from Phil Jones is to the famous "hockey stick graph" showing a dramatic uptick in global…[more]

November 20, 2009 • 02:32 pm

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1 Obama Administration Imitates Hugo Chavez on Internet

When asked this week whether he planned on reading Sarah Palin’s new autobiography Going Rogue, Barack Obama curtly replied, “probably not.”  Fair enough.  The President is a busy man playing pickup basketball games at the White House, whisking Michelle off to taxpayer-subsidized dates in New York City and plotting methods…

2 Google’s Spider Web of Ties to the Obama Administration

Obama's FCC and Net Neutrality – Merely a Trick on Internet Users or Just a Treat for Google? WASHINGTON, DC – As President Obama’s FCC moves forward to impose burdensome Net Neutrality regulations on the Internet and just in time for Halloween, the Center for Individual Freedom (“CFIF”) today released the following illustration…

3 Political Opposition to Destructive “Net Neutrality” Gains Momentum

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski, apparently lacking any sense of irony, warned this week of a “looming crisis” in wireless Internet capacity, even while he simultaneously proposes “Net Neutrality” rules that would exacerbate the problem.  Speaking at a wireless industry convention, Chairman…

4 Net “Neutrality” – Government’s Newest Takeover Plan and Corporate Welfare for Google

Amid the blizzard of governmental hyperactivity since Obama’s inauguration just eight months ago, it’s understandable that disoriented Americans remain unfamiliar with the looming threat known as Net Neutrality.  Understandably, the current healthcare debate alone consumes a great deal of Americans’ focus and opposition. …

5 If You Like How Big Government Runs the Post Office, You’ll Love How It Runs the Tech Industry

America’s telecommunications sector has withstood the economic downturn remarkably well.  In spite of this, or perhaps precisely because of this, it might be the next target of government overreach.  As The Wall Street Journal noted this week, the tech sector has helped lift the markets from their recent troughs…

6 “Net Neutrality”: Regulating and Politicizing the Internet

Net “Neutrality”: Regulating and Politicizing the Internet What is Net Neutrality? So-called “Net Neutrality,” or more aptly “Net Regulation,” is governmental regulation of the Internet. It creates new government mandates to regulate the Internet by limiting broadband companies’ ability to freely…

 
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