Climategate Investigation VINDICATES Scientists.

LONDON — An independent report into the leak of hundreds of e-mails from one of the world's leading climate research centers on Wednesday largely vindicated the scientists involved, saying they acted honestly and that their research was reliable.
Green Man: In summing up the politics of this issue I couldn't improve upon the comments of commenter "Pimentoloaf" on The Huffington Post" article.

Most of the comments that argue against action to mitigate climate change are for economic reasons. Let's entertain that thought for a second. Consider the dramatic decline of America's steel industry, the huge reduction of our manufacturing workforce, and the designers, engineers and technicians that have been furloughed in the automotive and aeronautic segments. These people can be put back to work. A typical wind turbine has 8,000 parts and is made of 250 tons of steel.

Somebody has to make that steel, fabricate those parts, assemble them, deliver the assembled turbine to a wind farm, erect the turbine and manage the wind farm. Those are American jobs! And they are jobs in sectors hardest hit by the global economy - the sectors that need jobs the most. What kills me is that the people arguing against green technology are people who could benefit most, directly or indirectly, from a technology shift of this sort. Arguing against a movement toward green tech is either a stunning lack of vision, or a political hatred so unreasonable that it has clouded all sense of good judgement and reason.

Green Man: And the same goes for solar, wave turbine energy, biomass (including some cool research and advances into algae energy) and countless other green energy technologies. My wife works for a solar company here in Colorado, which was recently granted billions of dollars from the Obama administration to increase viability, employment and continued advancements in the technology. The company is Abound Solar. Abound Solar produces next-generation, thin–film photovoltaic modules intended to deliver the lowest levelized cost of electricity. Our proprietary manufacturing process produces solar modules that help customers achieve grid parity today and replace traditional forms of electricity generation.

We need to increase our investments in these kinds of companies to take our economy back and clean our planet. So we don't have to rely upon the delusions of religious fanatics who think someone is going to come and save us just in time before our world burns up. These anti-climate change folks often tend to be conservative politically, yet one of their favorite points to bring up is our grandkids--usually when discussing money issues. Sorry guys but you're kids won't inherit your gobs of money if they can't breath or if it's so hot no one can leave the house, let alone work.

~The Green Man has Spoken~

How Can You Deny the Weather and Its Scientific Properties?

It's scary how many people deny and outright HATE science!! I'm thinking most recently of the many climate change deniers. It's like shaking your fist and denying the sun!! Especially when they benefit in SO many ways from science. The really frustrating part is that some (if not many) of the benefits they experience from scientific research they probably aren't even aware of. Ignorance is a weapon of mass destruction. They love our modern medicine but when science shows that our use of fossil fuels is eroding our very thin but critical for life ozone layer, that's going too far? And I always say to them, "Isn't it better to be safe than sorry? What's the worst that happens? We free ourselves from foreign oil with green energy and in so doing create an industry that re-energizes our economy??? Sounds likes a win-win scenario to me!!

And I would venture to say that a sizable portion of the climate change deniers are conservative Christians who believe there is a man in the sky who talks to them. But climate change is where they draw the line? Seriously? Something that has been scientifically proven by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is more illogical to you than the man in the sky theory??? The IPCC is a WORLD scientific body sponsored by the United Nations to study climate change. This aren't just "liberal" scientists from America but from across the globe, o.k.? Most industrialized countries (and others) see the IPCC as authoritative.

You'd think that the American, conservative, Christian tendency of worshiping giant families would be enough to trigger them to action for the sake of their grandchildren. I guess they're willing to gamble their lives too. Family values my ass. Whatever happened to conservatives who believed in protecting nature like Teddy Roosevelt? You know, conserving our natural museums and churches? Would your belch black smoke into your sacred church or temple? Of course not, so don't belch pollution into nature's sacred temple loft, which is our atmosphere.

So either the entire world, whole nations and all its scientists are together in on some uber-conspiracy of epic proportions, (which would arguably be the biggest conspiracy of all time) or the science is right and your an asshole moron. I'm betting on the latter. Thanks climate change deniers for doing the global, climate equivalent of pissing in the public pool.