Climate Change proponents emails and files hacked

[Jan Klimkowski]

Man-made global warming is clearly a highly political issue.

Once Al Gore, an absolute establishment insider who'd never uttered an original thought or appeared to be motivated solely by moral conviction in his entire political career, became the defacto "leader" of the green movement, my assumption was that the eiltes wanted the option of being able to coopt and subvert the science according to their needs.

In my judgement, the positioning of Gore through that flawed documentary offers the elites the following options:

i) man-made global warming can be used as a stick to further elite geopolitical interests - eg by refusing to allow developing countries to become economic competitors and by pushing through unpopular but lucrative technologies, such as nuclear power;

ii) the green movement can be subverted so that ordinary people have to "make sacrifices" (eg pay much more for their energy), whilst the "radical" envirnomental agenda targetting elite profits in activities such as aviation, logging, industrial pollution, etc can be marginallized;

iii) if events prove that man-made global warming is about to run out of control much sooner than the science predicts, then They already have their pointsman in charge of the "popular movement" in Al Gore Jr.

The emails which, on a balance of probabilities, may well be genuine, show that the science is still very unclear.

However, trying to understand events on a major life-bearing planet in a sizeable solar system, to measure Gaia in time and space with the equivalent of a ruler and pencil, is near impossible. There are so many variables which need to be measured and modelled that the science will probably be speculative and controversial for centuries or millenia.

It is entirely possible that severe environmental events will overtake contemporary scientific knowledge, rendering it irrelevant.

In the interim, it will be intriguing to see the uses made of that science by the elites.