By now, most of you have heard about this global warming thing and how it is going to destroy the planet.  For over the last several years, it has begun to be clear that the data from models used to push this hysteria does not match what is actually happening. Recently, there were reports from the IPCC that the Himalayan Glaciers were melting and would be gone by 2035.

You have also read stories about how the people responsible for some of the leading reports have been manipulating data. 

Now there is a story that the head of the IPCC (inter-governmental panel on climate change) has been hiding the fact that their prediction that the Himalayan Glaciers will melt by 2035 was based on hearsay and not even manipulated data.  Apparently the IPCC chief new that the data was in error prior to the Copenhagen summit, but hid the fact to keep the embarrassing truth from coming out prior to the summit.

The Copenhagen summit was all about getting rich countries (read as America) to pass massive taxes to slow their economies and cut carbon emissions.  The truth about the data in the IPCC reports would be very damaging to the UN’s attempt to hobble the American economy in order to create a better more fair world.

In the recent SOTU address, the President again called for congress to pass massive new taxes to help stop global climate change.  It’s time for the American people to demand that our politicians stop spouting global warming and climate change propaganda as truth.

Apparently, the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit had its email accounts hacked.  Firstly, we need to condemn the illegal hacking of those emails.  The people responsible should be prosecuted when found.

The emails themselves show a pattern of modifying the data to show that  the earth was warming when in fact it was not.  There was also a campaign to exclude and shun any scientist that pointed out errors during peer reviews of research.  In effect, only scientists that wouldn’t question the methods or results of a report were allowed to review the reports.

The true facts on global warming are ignored and fictional reports are created to influence public policy.

Some of the facts on global warming that have been ignored:

• The earth has been cooling since 1998 and not warming.
• The earth is currently below the 4500 year average temperature.
• The Al Gore charts show warming since the peak of the little ice age 300 years ago.  So yes, overall there has been a large warming since the last time it was the coldest, but that has always happened.
• There have been many times in the history of the earth that average temperatures have been much warmer than now.
• The facts show that CO2 levels are preceded by warming and not the other way around.
• Industry produces less than 3% of the CO2 in the atmosphere, the other 97% is from natural causes.

Why do the facts on global warming matter?  Because our government  is hell bent on “saving the planet” by passing massive taxes on energy in order to influence our choices.  Despite the facts against global warming, our several leaders in our government want to pass legislation that would destroy our economy.

We need to find ways to solve our energy problems and reduce pollution.  However, we don’t need to lie and invent reasons to take extreme measures that would reduce our freedoms and lower our standard of living.

To learn some of the facts on global warming and the facts against global warming, you should read The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming.  The book goes into some of the details of the environmental movement, but also details the lies and the true facts on global warming.

The cap and trade bill is an attempt by our government to address global warming.  Our government has decided to ignore the true facts about global warming and has even suppressed any studies that bring up facts against global warming.

A post at Hot Air explains why this means that we wouldn’t see a cap and trade bill come to the floor of the senate or even a cap and trade vote anytime before the 2010 elections as many Democrats from red states would be unwilling to risk their careers on raising the cost of energy for voters through a cap and trade bill.

Many Americans that think they understand the global warming debate may find themselves asking, what is cap and trade?  The cap and trade theory is that by instituting a cap and trade tax, companies would put less CO2 into the atmosphere and those that due would pay the government to do so.  Companies that can reduce emissions of CO2 could sell or trade their carbon credits.

One major flaw of the cap and trade theory is that it ignores that the cap and trade tax would be passed on to energy consumers.  Several groups that support a cap and trade bill hope that is the case.  The cap and trade theory is that when energy is more expensive, people will use less energy saving the planet in the process.

The cap and trade theory doesn’t take into account that consumers just don’t use energy in their homes, but everything they buy consumes energy to produce and ship.  The cap and trade bill would in effect create a cap and trade tax that would raise the cost of all goods and services.

Hopefully, by the time this comes up again, most Americans and our representatives will know the facts about global warming and drop the idea of creating a massive tax increase on the American people.  This will help insure that a cap and trade senate vote would bring an end to the cap and trade bill.