Source:  Campaign For Liberty

Okay, that's harsh.  Let's just say that climategate--the release of thousands of emails among some of the leading academics who argue that the planet is doomed to burn up--suggests that alarmists with a near theological belief in global warming aren't about to let a few contrary facts get in the way of their arguments.

One of the clearest signs of deceit is their near legendary refusal to release the data which they claim supports their positions.  Writes Ross Kaminsky:

"Climategate" is first time that the magnitude of bad behavior by climate alarmist scientists was so large and so easily understood by non-scientists that even the liberal mass media can't completely ignore it (though they're doing their best.)

But the release of e-mail and data from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia in Britain showing global warming alarmist "scientists" manipulating and deleting data is far from the first time these same people have been found to be acting in distinctly non-scientific ways.

It is common practice for academic scientists to share their data and their methods of calculation, allowing others to check their work in a quest for the truth. However, leading global warming alarmist, NASA's James Hansen, and Hansen's employees (who are paid with taxpayer money) and non-American climate alarmists routinely refuse to share their data with those who do not share their near-religious belief in man-made global warming. The issue became big enough that the GAO issued a (rather tame) report on the subject.

Earlier this year, Phil Jones, the head of CRU who just stepped down pending the Climategate investigation, claimed to have lost some of the world's oldest climate sensor data after first saying to the requesting scientist "Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it?" Indeed, there is a consistent tendency among climate alarmist scientists to refuse to make their data or calculations public.

Would you buy a used car from such people?  I hope not.  Then you shouldn't agree to follow their costly, economy-wrecking advice for reducing energy use.