February 21, 2010

Climate Change Debate Over? It's Just Begun!

By Ken Blackwell
Ronald Reagan used to say of the Soviets that they liked the arms race a whole lot better when they were the only ones in it. The same could be said of Al Gore and global warming -- oops, excuse me: climate change. Mr. Gore was much happier to dash around the world in his water-vapor-powered personal jet to preach the green gospel of environmentalism. He would tell us which truths were inconvenient. Any dissenters were shouted down as "deniers." No pope would ever make claims as far-reaching, as extravagant, or as all-embracing as Saint Al did.But now comes the pushback. Just before the World Summit on Climate Change at Copenhagen last December, several hundred e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia were leaked. It appeared that Dr. Phil Jones had urged colleagues, including some at Penn State University, to "hide the decline" in world temperatures and encouraged others to do some of their usual "tricks" to get the...(Read Full Article)