Climategate, American Style

It's Saturday afternoon. OldSouth got eight holes in, before the rain moved in and the temperature dropped about fifteen degrees in as many minutes. The course's lake is still covered in thick skim of ice. It hasn't been this cold around here since 1977.

Watching the Saints disassemble the Cardinals in front of an approving crowd in New Orleans, and surfed across this article from the UK Guardian.

James Delingpole of the Guardian has been doing his homework.

It seems the activist 'scientists' have been cooking the database books over here as well!  It's easy to make the temperatures appear to rise if you systematically exclude all the temperature readings from higher elevations and northern climes. 

Just a local example:  Nashville, Tennessee sits in a large depression, ringed by mountainous terrain in all directions.  OldSouth's house sits in the pastures and woods about three hundred feet in elevation above downtown Nashville, a concrete jungle. It's almost always two or three degrees cooler here. Jackson and Memphis, in the Mississippi River Delta to the west of us, is always three to five degrees warmer.  Johnson City, on the Virginia border, in the mountains, is almost always five degrees cooler than Nashville, ten cooler than Memphis.

Easy-peasy!  Let's just ignore Johnson City and the towns around Nashville! OMG! Tennessee is going to single-handedly destroy the remaining polar bears!

Al Gore is a moron.  That's why his home state of Tennessee voted against him 57-43 in the 2000 Presidential race. It wasn't even close.  Why anyone, anywhere gives him a moment's serious attention eludes all of us here who watched him grow up.

Global warming is a fraud, cooked up by people who have figured out that taxing carbon is the greatest foolproof scam ever invented.

The quote from the Guardian worth noting:

You know what this means, don’t you? It means the ragbag of eco-loons, politicians and technocrats pushing AGW can no longer plausibly deploy their main excuse about Climategate – that it was all a little local difficulty of no great importance because the HadCrut temperature data sets were independently confirmed by those at GISS and NOAA. What this story demonstrates, as many of us suspected all along, is that not just the British temperature records but those in the US too have been hijacked by political activists. I need hardly say that this breaking scandal has been almost completely ignored by the MSM.