Global warming fight is nothing but a joke

Only in the U.S. would a newspaper have the nerve to publish an article like “Ski Resorts Fight Global Warming” (November 29) more than a week after “the worst scientific scandal of our generation” broke.

Are you drawing a blank on what I’m talking about? That’s because only in the U.S. is there almost a complete news blackout on “Climategate,” a story that blankets the headlines in Britain, Australia and New Zealand.

A handful of global warming scientists, who have controlled discussion on the issue of climate change, were revealed in hacked e-mails to have continually massaged the facts to come up with the predetermined conclusions they wanted. They destroyed raw data after receiving Freedom of Information requests (a crime), so others could not see their deception. They provided “peer reviews to each other instead of allowing outside examination of their work, and they stifled dissent by ostracizing any scientific journal that dared to print the work of their critics.

They continue to attack anyone who disagrees with what is called, now laughably, “settled science.” They are still insisting loudly that their work is credible, without providing any believable evidence to back up that assertion. After all, they conveniently “lost” much of their raw data.  Oops!

Still confused? Type “Climategate” into Google to see the more than 13 million articles on this outrage. In the U.S., you’re unlikely to see all the facts anywhere else.

I will have trouble believing ever again any “settled science” that has a political application.

JOANNA FUCHS

Cocolalla