Watergate According to Socialism

Isn't it fascinating how the Administration in power can decide what is right and wrong, for the most part? Scandals that are detrimental to the public image of their agenda can be magically swept under the rug and kept on the down-low, while scandals that benefit them in some way get covered for weeks on end. I'm talking about the latest blow to Barack Obama's political agenda - Climategate.

I would wager that most of my readers have at least heard of Climategate, but know little of what happened, who was involved, what the direct consequences are, and so on. To briefly sum it up, a hacker got into the computers at the Hadley Research Center in England and revealed a whole host of electronic mail that showed leading climatologists manipulated data, forged graphs, and destroyed evidence that did not support their conclusions. As if that wasn't enough, they prevented scientists with dissenting opinions from being printed in peer-reviewed magazines. To oversimplify things - all of the above = BAD.

Now I'm going to relate this directly to the political agenda of the Obama Administration. Anyone remember during the State of the Union Address (after Jobs, Health Care, and a shot at the Supreme Court, of course) Obama mentioned something called a "cap and trade" policy? Cap and trade is also known as "emissions trading", and the general premise is regulating the amount of a specific pollutant a business can emit by forcing them to pay for their own filters, and offering small economic incentives. The whole logical foundation of cap and trade relies on the theory of global warming actually being a sound one. Thus, there's no doubt that it would be beneficial to Obama's plans for the next few years to just kind of "kick it to the curb".

The impact that this blatant breach of scientific practice has on the growing community of brainwashed global warming activists is colossal. This shakes the whole foundation of their beliefs. No longer are the polar ice caps melting, or the temperature increasing so drastically that it has a negative affect on our daily lives. But, the real crime isn't against science here. It's against the taxpayers. This is an enormous case of fraud. Billions upon billions of tax dollars have been devoted to a pure and noble cause that has turned into a corrupt, greed-driven, dogma-spewing fountain of lies.

When Obama took office, he made the following statement:

"Science and scientific process must inform and guide decisions of my administration on a wide range of issues, including mitigation of climate change. The public must be able to trust the science and scientific process. Public officials should not suppress or alter scientific technological findings."

This was a clear shot at George W. Bush, who casually tossed aside all notion of climate change during his presidency. Now, instead of walking around with his nose in the air pretending Climategate didn't happen (which I can tell you from personal experience doesn't work), he should thank whoever broke this story, and then cease work on the money pit that is Cap and Trade, and not put regulations like that on businesses that turn around and raise the cost for consumers.

I've long been a skeptic of global warming. A few degree change either way in temperature doesn't mean anything. It's very obvious that the Earth goes through periods of heating and cooling as time goes by, and I don't think this is any different (for that one person that always says "No it doesn't!", I give you two words: "ICE AGE"). This latest scandal coupled with the refusal to acknowledge it by our governing body definitely doesn't sway me towards this certain point of view.

Honestly, let's hope Obama ditches this "Cap and Trade, Save the Whales" rhetoric. That would be a fraud that far exceeds that of Hadley scientists - destroying trillions of dollars of profit by passing legislation based on an archaic theory that the Earth is baking us alive; legislation that deprives businesses of it's cheapest and most efficient forms of energy.