I still find it completely maddening that possibly the biggest conspiracy in world history gets virtually no coverage here in the U.S. New revelations about the depth and breath of the fraud perpetrated against humanity involve institutions both national and international and had financial and politically backing from the highest levels of government.

People should hang for this.

James Hansen of NASA, should be among the first. It is inconceivable that this guy is still employed by NASA when he should be in jail.

Email messages obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute via a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that the climate dataset of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) was considered — by the top climate scientists within NASA itself — to be inferior to the data maintained by the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU).

The NASA scientists also felt that NASA GISS data was inferior to the National Climate Data Center Global Historical Climate Network (NCDC GHCN) database.

These emails, obtained by Christopher Horner, also show that the NASA GISS dataset was not independent of CRU data.

Further, all of this information regarding the accuracy and independence of NASA GISS data was directly communicated to a reporter from USA Today in August 2007.

The reporter never published it.

Effectively, this means that three of the four data sets have been compromised. Why am I not surprised.

Frankly, my skepticism about global warming always stemmed from my incredulity about a computer model that simply could not have ever had the kind of large, consistent dataset required to make any meaningful predictions about climate. We can only predict weather with any reasonable accuracy, two or three days in advance for the same reason--there simply aren't enough data points available from the sparse system of weather buoys distributed throughout the Pacific ocean. Yet we were expected to accept arctic climate models that had no actual data points at all!

Our collective scientific ignorance will be the death of us all...