Russ Steele
Writing at Master Resource Blog, Robert Michaels suggest that anthropogenic global-warming alarmism has died and attributes this early death to the Internet:
The end of climate science and the fall of climate politics could never have happened in a world of typewriters, faxes and three TV networks. Cheap telecom and the Internet brought it about, as any document that mattered became available with a Google inquiry and a mouse click. The East Anglia guys were still living in a world of paper journals. Nowadays all the peer reviews that matter come quickly by dozens to anyone who posts something worth (or not worth) reading. Lots of junk turns up, but that’s the freight for information that flows so cheaply and freely.
This is really good news. It means that we will probably never see another mass hysteria that achieves the dimensions of global warming and carbon abatement policy – unless of course it’s real.
Remember how the Internet caused the demise of Dan Rather's career as an investigative CBS Reporter when he got nailed over the “well investigated letters” about George Bush’s military career. He was busted in less than 24 hours by guys and gals in their pajamas using the Internet, because the fonts used in those "well investigated letters' didn’t exist at the time of the dates on the letters?
In the anthropogenic global warming case it was the Internet blogs that became the alternative news sources, as the lame stream press ignored Climategate. They refused to publish the results independent investigations which had determined that the UN IPCC’s iconic Hockey Stick temperature was busted. Now, the Courts have insisted that the Hockey Stick author turn over his e-mails to the Virginia Attorney General. Those Internet e-mails maybe the smoking gun to prove that anthropogenic global warming is just scientific fraud, or worce an out right hoax. Long live the Internet.
