Wicked witch hunt exposed

Well, Toto, it looks like we’re not in Kyoto anymore. The release of thousands of e-mails written by researchers who authored U.N. global warming reports central to the movement to regulate carbon has exposed them as wizards of fraud.

Their own words reveal the extent to which they manipulated data, censored skeptical scientists, punished academic journals who didn’t go along and vowed to hide data contrary to their apocalyptic claims.

Just weeks before the Copenhagen environmental summit, which is expected to produce a binding agreement imposing devastating carbon restrictions on energy producers, Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” has become an inconvenient hoax.

In the months ahead, Obama’s energy coordinator Carol Browner is driving the EPA to name carbon dioxide a danger to public health. But now the EPA, which has based its findings on the United Nations reports, will have to find a new scientific basis for its actions. They may try to convince us that monkeys can fly.

The global warming faithful have responded to the collapse of their belief with the cry, pay no attention to those e-mails on the Internet, but anyone with courage, a heart and a brain knows that global warming is just a bad dream.

Rick Melanson

Spokane