Global warming, now politely remained “climate change”, to get over the fact that the warming has, at least for now, inconveniently stopped, is never out of the news and I was alarmed to read this headline today.

World’s largest ice sheet melting faster than expected

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/22/east-antarctic-ice-sheet-nasa

Meanwhile, the biggest story to hit the blogs for a long while is the hacking of the CRU email server and the revelation of the shenanigans of the cadre of scientists, including the conspiracy to delete data obtained at public expense lest it “fall into the wrong hands”. The mainstream media has concentrated on the data theft angle of this story so far, ignoring what is a criminal conspiracy to pervert the law by the “top scientists” at the CRU.

To long the public have been told that the science is “to difficult” for them to understand, and we must trust the researchers, ( at least the ones who receive their daily bread and mortgage payments from the global warming trough ). The whole history of this polemic has been mired in the hiding of data, and cherry picking on both sides of the argument.

Bishop Hill has an excellent post on some of the more interesting revelations-

http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2009/11/20/climate-cuttings-33.html

Still, we continue to be shown photos of swimming polar bears, deserts with the perfunctory dead cow skill in a dried out pond ( methinks maybe the camera crew turned up in their 4×4 with a skull specially purchased from the local butcher’s for the purpose).

Oh cynical me!

poor cow