Words fail when faced with the ongoing exposure of the emptiness at the heart of this man-made global warming catastrophe (the catastrophe being not the “climate-change” but rather the human price of the hoax). Words like amazing, mind-boggling, astounding, farcical, absurd and horrifying. Grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented? Sure, it’s GUBU to the nth degree. And yet none of these words are truly up to the task. From the U.K. Times:

SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.

It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.

The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation.

The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building.

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The CRU is the world’s leading centre for reconstructing past climate and temperatures. Climate change sceptics have long been keen to examine exactly how its data were compiled. That is now impossible.

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Jones was not in charge of the CRU when the data were thrown away in the 1980s, a time when climate change was seen as a less pressing issue. The lost material was used to build the databases that have been his life’s work, showing how the world has warmed by 0.8C over the past 157 years.

He and his colleagues say this temperature rise is “unequivocally” linked to greenhouse gas emissions generated by humans. Their findings are one of the main pieces of evidence used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which says global warming is a threat to humanity.

At the Times website, one reader’s comment is this: “They couldn’t rent a storage locker? If trillions are to be spent on this theory, a few hundred bucks a months is a good investment.”

This comment starts to get at the basic point, a point which I fear escapes many people who just seem to trust governments and other authorities to get these big judgment calls right; to trust them to make the correct findings of fact which determine the policies that ultimately affect all of our lives. This — and by this I mean this whole notion of man-made global warming — this is not just some judgment call as to whether it’s margarine or butter that’s worse for your health, or some similar bit of medical or nutritional trivia on which the scientific community seems to go back and forth forever. This determination that human activity itself is or will be responsible for destroying the planet Earth is leading to the generation of brutal tax and control policies by governments and worldwide bureacratic authorities that have already had enormous costs and would ultimately have costs that are truly incalculable for billions of people living today and billions in the future. It can indeed be said that there has never been anything bigger than this. So when some call this potentially the greatest act of scientific fraud in history, there is no exaggeration. There could well be some understatement there (because this really goes so far beyond any relatively amusing caper like Piltdown Man), but no exaggeration.

It seems clear to me that the profoundly anti-human agenda of what used to be radical environmentalism has become more and more mainstreamed by the man-made global warming movement; certainly it has become the operating worldview of those largely Western elites (and I don’t mean people from Utah) who would set themselves up as speaking for the mainstream. It’s already led to such obscene and perverse dislocations in the normal and healthy functioning of human commerce as the bio-fuel fiasco, where the price of basic food stuffs soared due to governmental mandates regarding the required “green” content of gasoline for automobiles. What could possibly be more obscene than the idea of wealthy Westerners filling their gas tanks with corn while people in the Third World starve? Smugness and sanctimony on one end of the scale; deprivation, suffering and death on the other. Yet this is merely a harbinger of what’s to come in the brave new world of environmental justice, should the big lies of man-made global warming ultimately continue to win the day. Of-course the ordinary people of the Third World are poorly-represented by the usual crooks and dictators who probably see the climate-change hysteria as a gravy-train pulling into the station, and are eager merely to reach out their hands for “subsidies” from the West to deal with the supposed effects of it all. The effect they should be most afraid of is the identification of human beings themselves as the problem, and the consequent cheapening of the value of the lives of their own populations.

In the U.S. we’re still faced with the potential of this so-called “Cap and Trade” bill, which would effectively amount to the largest tax increase in history for ordinary Americans, without ever being visible on an individual’s 1040 form. By forcing energy prices up, everything will become more expensive; there is simply no way around that. Of-course, if you’re wealthy, maybe it just means restructuring your expenditures a little to deal with the changed economic circumstances. If, on the other hand, you are one of the poor or the working poor, or the struggling middle-class — who supposedly would be the highest priority of the current Democratic administration and Congress — then what do you do when your electric bill soars, and when the price of all those bare necessities rises? You can’t cut back on necessities; you just have to suffer. It is not only a huge tax increase, therefore, but a hugely regressive one. It is rather less than credible to me that this will get through Congress under the current circumstances, with unemployment continuing to rise daily and an election one year away, but the mere fact that is actively being considered and that it is being advocated by this White House ought to be terrifying. And it is terrifying.

One has to stand back sometimes and wonder out loud: How did it ever come to this? How did the actual needs of real human beings come to be regarded as second-rate, compared to some hypothetical concerns generated by a bunch of agenda-driven so-called scientists, radical environmentalists, self-promoters and loud-mouths? Why are so many people so eager to be fooled, and to think the worst of themselves, their societies and their own way of life?

Words fail, but sometimes you still have to try and use some.

It’s unbelievable, it’s strange but true,
It’s inconceivable it could happen to you.
You go north and you go south
Just like bait in the fish’s mouth.
Ya must be livin’ in the shadow of some kind of evil star.
It’s unbelievable it would get this far.

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