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From the Register's Opinion Page: What to say to a global warming advocate
By MARK LANDSBAUM
Register editorial writer and columnist
It has been tough to keep up with all the bad news for global
warming alarmists. We're on the edge of our chair, waiting for the next
shoe to drop. This has been an Imelda Marcos kind of season for shoe-dropping about global warming.
At your next dinner party, here are some of the latest talking points to bring up when someone reminds you that
Al Gore and the U.N.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won Nobel prizes for their work on global warming.
ClimateGate – This scandal began the latest round of
revelations when thousands of leaked documents from Britain's East
Anglia Climate Research Unit showed systematic suppression and
discrediting of climate skeptics' views and discarding of temperature
data, suggesting a bias for making the case for warming. Why do such a
thing if, as global warming defenders contend, the "science is settled?"
FOIGate – The British government has since determined someone
at East Anglia committed a crime by refusing to release global warming
documents sought in 95 Freedom of Information Act requests. The CRU is
one of three international agencies compiling global temperature data.
If their stuff's so solid, why the secrecy?
ChinaGate – An investigation by the U.K.'s left-leaning
Guardian newspaper found evidence that Chinese weather station
measurements not only were seriously flawed, but couldn't be located.
"Where exactly are 42 weather monitoring stations in remote parts of
rural China?" the paper asked. The paper's investigation also couldn't
find corroboration of what Chinese scientists turned over to American
scientists, leaving unanswered, "how much of the warming seen in recent
decades is due to the local effects of spreading cities, rather than
global warming?" The Guardian contends that researchers covered up the
missing data for years.
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