Climategate, Copenhagen and Power-hungry Politicians

Galileo proved scientific truth is not popular consensus

When I was a kid, I used to genuinely believe that humans were on a divine path to greater wisdom, more profound discourse, and perfect knowledge.

Lately, I just see a bunch of power-hungry politicians doing their utmost to discredit intelligent thought and dumb-down the world around them, so they can continue on an unimpeded path toward greater monetary gain.
Accepting hundreds of billions of dollars from governments over the last couple of decades has politicised Science. Governments like any investor want ROI (Return On Investment)
Hard science, alongside medicine, was one of the few things left accorded automatic stature and respect by most people. But the average person reading accounts of the East Anglia emails will conclude that hard science has become just another fiction, as politicized and “messy” as gender studies.

The real fallout of climategate may have nothing to do with the credibility of climate change, the scientific data on climate change is sound , deforestation and pollution can’t be good for the environment. But by throwing out the raw data and just keeping the “massaged” data the scientist involved in climategate have hurt the very agenda they were trying to advance.

Remember Professor Nutt? the UK drug tsar sacked for claiming Ecstasy, cannabis and LSD are less harmful than alcohol. He’s the Galileo of our time because among other things, Galileo also proved scientific truth is not popular consensus.