Governments conspiring with scientists to lie about global warming

You expect governments to lie.  That scientist would abandon their integrity to advance their pet theories is a little harder to handle.  The government conspiring with scientists to lie to the public is totally beyond the pale.

Governments pushed scientists to hide evidence that global warming ceased 18 years ago

You have to ask yourself: "Why would governments be pressuring scientists to hide or minimize data that would call into question the theory of anthropogenic global warming?" I mean, seriously, carbon-limiting programs will costs industry,governments and entire countries trillions of dollars in direct costs and lost productivity. If they were truly interested in doing what was in the best interest of their people they would want more information before taking such incredibly costly and destructive actions........right? You would think, if you were logical. This is where we see that ideology has trumped science. Environmental sciences have been corrupted by radical environmentalism. These environmentalists are anti-industry. They have a childlike belief that by limiting or abandoning industry they can restore Earth to some sort of fantasy Utopian state. Just as with their kindred spirits, the Marxists, they continually push for an unobtainable fantasy goal and don't care how much destruction lies in their wake. And the leftists in government will gladly go along with the radical environmentalists. The leftists are openly hostile to industry and share many of the same motivations as the radical environmentalists. The radical environmentalists will advance their agenda using whatever means necessary. If that means supporting their crackpot theories with phony data and unworkable models, then that is just what they will do. If it means violating the most basic tenets of the scientific method to protect their pet theories from being put to the test they'll do it. If it means illegally blocking FOIA requests to provide their source data, well they did that. Attacking critical scientists who wish to perform an honest peer review on their hypotheses, done. Destroying data rather than complying with a FOIA request? Yeah they did that too.

Science is supposed to be unimpeachable. The scientific method is a self-correcting system that allows our understanding of things to change as new evidence is discovered. There is no such thing as settled science. There is prevailing science, but not settled science. If there were such a thing as settled science we would still think that the universe revolved around the Earth. That was the prevailing theory for all of human history from the moment people first started watching the movement of stars in the night sky until, armed with more information and a questioning mind, Copernicus postulated a heliocentric arrangement. The Copernican system was prevailing science until Kepler came along. Again, not settled science, but prevailing. Isaac Newton came along and changed our understanding of the solar system yet again. The scientific method requires all hypotheses to be tested by experiment and measurement of data. It is only when results that support the hypothesis can be reproduced repeatedly will a scientist publish his results. And then the theory will be peer reviewed. Other scientist will replicate the original experiments and perform other experiments and gather data to test the original theory. Only when this process has been completed do we arrive at what is the prevailing science. If new data or new methods of measurement and detection come along that call into question the prevailing science, the process will begin anew. This is how science is supposed to work. If it is done in this manner it should be unimpeachable. It is all that is known at this moment in time. It does not lock us in to never questioning what we think we know. The scientific method allows us to always question. That is why what has been done in the name of the 'science of global warming' is so distressing. Michael Mann, Phil Jones, James Hansen and the rest of the climate alarmists have made a mockery of the scientific method. They are acting more like the Catholic Church than Galileo. They are the flat-Earthers who would rather condemn their critics to death than admit that their world-view might be wrong. Not only is their global warming hysteria costing trillions and endangering our progress as a species, it will have a profound affect on how science is viewed. When the majority of people finally realize that climate scientists have been lying to them it will call into question the veracity of all scientists. This is what happens when we allow science to become politicized.


via AoSHQ - IPCC report "hilariously flawed"

MIT Climate Scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen told Climate Depot on September 27, 2013:

I think that the latest IPCC report has truly sunk to level of hilarious incoherence. They are proclaiming increased confidence in their models as the discrepancies between their models and observations increase.

Their excuse for the absence of warming over the past 17 years is that the heat is hiding in the deep ocean. However, this is simply an admission that the models fail to simulate the exchanges of heat between the surface layers and the deeper oceans. However, it is this heat transport that plays a major role in natural internal variability of climate, and the IPCC assertions that observed warming can be attributed to man depend crucially on their assertion that these models accurately simulate natural internal variability. Thus, they now, somewhat obscurely, admit that their crucial assumption was totally unjustified.

via Gateway Pundit: Popular Science disables comments because they don't like dissent.

If you are not allowed to question it is faith, not science.  Just change the name of the mag to Popular (meaning government-approved) Faith