To use a line from President Reagan, "There you go again." In an Express editorial about global warming, the paper resorts to the same old liberal mind-speak, calling names and twisting the facts.
There is no doubt global warming exists, but where is your proof that it is caused by man? Global-warmists such as former Vice President Al Gore have insisted for years that there was no doubt that the consensus among scientists was that man-made carbon dioxide emissions were the cause of global warming. That hypothesis was severely damaged last week when a whistleblower disclosed about 61 megabytes of e-mails to and from global warming scientists at the UK's East Anglia University Climate Research Unit. The e-mails were among a small group of highly influential climate scientists at the center of the worldwide panic over global warming exposing multiple discussions among them concerning their manipulation of data and the use of various evasive tactics to avoid releasing the facts behind their hopped-up numbers to the public. Those e-mails are now widely quoted to show that weather temperature data was manipulated to produce false results—results that "proved" the theory of man-caused global warming.
In light of "Climategate," serious people studying the global warming issue and the staggering consequences of political decisions based on it should consider the credibility of the opposing sides of this debate. Which of the two sides insists that there is no debate, uses intimidation and ridicule to suppress and discredit this dissent, refuses to hold itself accountable for repeated false alarms, has been caught manufacturing data to fit its predetermined conclusions, has an economic and political agenda driving its science, has been tainted by millions of dollars in corrupting research grants, and is recommending policies that are reckless and to the economic detriment of the United States?
Common sense begs us to question, not resort to name-calling.
Steven Mantey
Hailey
