You Sir, are a willfully ignorant moron. You try to have it both ways. You acknowledge the tampering of the scientific method, and despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, you insist that the 'warming' is still taking place, without any supporting evidence.

Here are two very simple questions, even you should be capable of answering;

If the global warming data was true and accurate, why would you need to 'fudge it'?

If the global warming data was true and accurate, why destroy the raw data so that no one can verify your findings?

Are you just trying to be controversial to sell your lame articles? Pick a subject you actually have some knowledge in.

You are using the cooked books of the very same discredited scientists you discuss when you make statements like this:

"The claim of recent global cooling is deceptive. It is true that 2008 was cooler than 1998. But 1998 was the hottest year recorded since the advent of reliable records in the 1800s, while 2008 was the ninth hottest. Despite yearly variations, the overall trend goes in one direction. All 10 of the hottest years on record have come since 1997."

These men worked very hard to come up with temperature numbers that supported their cause, going so far as to fudge the numbers in whatever direction necessary to support them. One of the massive fudgings had them work overtime trying to disappear the Medieval Warming Period, where it was warmer than it is now, and I guarantee you we weren't responsible.

Then there are all sorts of other irregularities, not the least of them being the arbitrary and numerous adjustments to the numbers, then conveniently deleting the raw data so that none of us could actually gauge the depths of their deception. They cherry picked data from cherry picked sources (the tree data), including and omitting it selectively as they saw fit for different time periods. They located temperature monitoring stations in the middle of expanding urban areas, then adjusted the temperatures UP rather than down to account for urban heat islands.

The data is suspect in so many different ways, I'm not sure how you feel confident in any of the numbers you're claiming.

The science needs to be redone by a completely separate set of scientists, starting over with a fresh set of raw data. Until then, I will not believe anything these men have produced.

Here are some inconvenient observations that keep me from embracing the anthropogenic global warming thesis and associated calls for drastic action:

1. Some parts of the earth are cooling even when others are warming. Some of the warming measurements come from urban areas and so exhibit a warming bias.

2. Whatever caused the Medieval Warm Period could be causing any warming today.

3. C02 changes lag behind temperature changes, not the other way around.

4. Even cutting in half our greenhouse gas emissions would have a negligible effect on global temperature change. In other words, our contribution will be "lost in the noise." Why ruin the global economy for generations without a measurable return?

5. With the fall of communism, statists the world over fled into the environmental movement. People who wanted to control the world through communism now want to control the world through environmentalism.

So, in my view, a sturdier thesis is that the call for a drastic "cure" to anthropogenic global warming is driven by two innate and nearly immutable aspects of human nature:

1) a desire to exert power over others by telling them what to do and taking their money, and

2) the innate human urge to worship

The first is self explanatory. The second may be explained as follows: People who reject God deprive themselves of the proper outlet of devotion to the Creator of the universe. So, they instead worship (i.e., trust in, dedicate themselves to, declare the worth and primacy of, make personal sacrifices for, and order their entire lives around) the creation (i.e., the planet). They then compel others to do the same.

It seems that both kinds of devotees may be found in Copenhagen this week.

Which thesis--that the earth is warming which can and must be stopped, or that the warming is largely fraud and a means to ram through a statist, socialist agenda has more the ring of truth?

"People who wanted to control the world through communism now want to control the world through environmentalism."

Amen! This is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing BUT the truth! This is the nation's entire POLITICAL 'Agenda!' To falsely base something as ridiculous and unproven as "Global Warming" and implement it in such a nation-altering way as to CONTROL us and bring us straight onto the path of COMMUNISM!!!! Yet most people just cannot see through this sham. "Global Warming" is a means to an end to bring this nation under the control of a GLOBAL GOVERNMENT OR NEW WORLD ORDER!

And NEVER MIND that allowing these so-called 'scientific claims' to be challenged/PROVEN will ever HAPPEN.... because this untruth is NECESSARY to use as an excuse to change life as we KNOW it! "Global Warming" is a disguise to cover up what Big Government really wants to accomplish....CONTROL! And "Cap & Trade" is just the 'political' means to pull it off!

"People who reject God deprive themselves of the proper outlet of devotion to the Creator of the universe. So, they instead worship..... the creation (i.e., the planet. They then compel others to do the same."

I couldnt have said this better myself! I was listening to Talk Radio and heard something very similar. It makes perfect sense. Maybe if these people started looking outside themselves and material things for the REAL truth, rather than putting their faith only in all things 'tangible!' Next thing you know, POPULATION CONTROL will likely soon be on the table!