Truth is coming out about warming

For the last few years, anyone who dared dispute the so-called consensus of human-caused climate change has been labeled a denier, a flat-earther, or an anti-science buffoon. Writers to Fence Post even took the Daily Herald to task for having the temerity of printing letters skeptical of the whole global warming enterprise.

Al Gore droned on and on, unchallenged on every TV appearance, about the "settled science" of global warming.

But a funny thing happened on the way to Copenhagen. On Nov. 17, a series of e-mails and other documents, which had been obtained from the prestigious Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia University in England, were posted on the web.

The files reveal attempts to withhold data from freedom of information requests, scientists expressing doubts about alarming conclusions being published by the U.N. International Panel on Climate Change, and threats by scientists against reporters who strayed from the party line of imminent, disastrous, human-caused climate change.

Some of the data are now being reviewed, because of questions about how the data were manipulated before being incorporated into papers for publication.

Until now, all we've had from the Daily Herald are a couple of passing mentions of the whole affair in some reprinted AP stories ("nothing to see here folks, move along..."), and a few obligatory "the world is burning up even faster than we thought" stories from the AP's reliably alarmist Seth Borenstein.

But the truth is slowly leaking out through various sources. A visit to ClimateDepot.com will bring up links to many stories covering the unfolding events. On a side note, it's interesting that AP reports insist on referring to "stolen" e-mails. I wonder if we can expect references to "stolen" Pentagon information next time someone leaks information vital to national security.

John Greer

Arlington Heights