An excellent rant on AGW

This time from James Lewis at Pajamas Media

Anthropogenic Global Warming: The Greatest Fraud in History?
Like famished swine shoving each other aside to get to the trough, self-proclaimed scientists and real politicians are again launching headline upon headline to claim yet another disaster in the name of utterly unproven global warming. Did you know that the flock of geese that flew into US Airways jet engines this month in New York City were put there by global warming? And that London fogs, or rather their absence, are making global warming worse?

Yep. It�s right there in the paper, Maud.

As scientific skeptics are finally discovering the courage to speak out, the hype machine is faltering just a little.

But President Obama just appointed a True Believer to be science czar in the White House. So we can expect the politicians to keep hammering on this little piggy bank until the last golden coin drops out. You�ll be paying for the biggest false alarm in history for years to come.

But what worries me most is that the credibility of science may never recover � and perhaps it shouldn�t. Credibility has to be earned, and once it�s squandered may never be recovered. By now far too many scientists have knowingly colluded in an historic fraud, one that would put Bernie Madoff to shame. We are seeing political larceny here on a truly planetary scale.

Why should scientists who�ve gambled their own reputations on this fakery ever be trusted again? They shouldn�t. Would you entrust your life savings to Bernie Madoff? Right.

I�m not a climatologist. Like most scientists I rarely judge what others do in their fields. And yet it�s been flamingly obvious for years now that the hypothesis of human-caused global warming violates all the basic rules and safeguards that protect the integrity of normal, healthy science. That�s why AGW (anthropogenic global warming) looks like a massive fraud, the biggest fraud ever in the history of science.

If that�s true, anybody who cares about science should be outraged. Even if you don�t care about that ask yourself if you want your next medical exam to be honest. Or the next time you drive across a traffic bridge, do you want the engineering tests to be falsified? If scientific corruption becomes endemic, we risk losing one of the great jewels of our culture.

So here are some fundamental violations of scientific integrity that any thoughtful person should recognize. I�m not going to touch on climatology � the case against the warming hypothesis has already been made very well by experts. I just want to talk scientific common sense.

What follows is a long (two pages) essay/rant with lots of links to back up his assertions. The 180+ comments are well worth reading through.