Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Climate Revisionism

Whenever Uncle Joe Stalin canned one of his "comrades," he made sure to amend the historical record by removing the gent from any group shots in which he happened to appear--sort of a proto-Photoshop. And when scientists and institutions that depend on government handouts for their bread and butter want to amend the historical record to get in line with the ideology du jour, they are similarly resourceful, as per this--Gary Sutton's thoughts in Forbes on the climate fraud:
In 2002 I stood in a room of the Smithsonian. One entire wall charted the cooling of our globe over the last 60 million years. This was no straight line. The curve had two steep dips followed by leveling. There were no significant warming periods. Smithsonian scientists inscribed it across some 20 feet of plaster, with timelines.
Last year, I went back. That fresco is painted over. The same curve hides behind smoked glass, shrunk to three feet but showing the same cooling trend. Hey, why should the Smithsonian put its tax-free status at risk? If the politicians decide to whip up public fear in a different direction, get with it, oh ye subsidized servants. Downplay that embarrassing old chart and maybe nobody will notice.
Sorry, I noticed.
Proto-Photoshopping; a splash of paint--hey, whatever flim-flammery does the trick, right?

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