By Ann Coulter

As we now know (and by we I mean everyone with access to the Internet) the University of East Anglias Climatic Research Unit has just been caught ferociously manipulating the data about the Earths temperature.
Recently leaked e-mails from the scientists at CRU show that when talking among themselves they forthrightly admit to using a trick to hide the decline in the Earths temperature since 1960 as one e-mail says. Still another describes their manipulation of the data thus: (W)e can have a proper result but only by including a load of garbage!
Am I just crazy from the heat or were they trying to deceive us?
Global-warming cheerleaders in the media were quick to defend the scandalous e-mails explaining that among scientists the words trick hide the decline and garbage do not mean trick hide the decline and garbage. These words actually mean onion soup sexual submissive and Gary Ind.
(Boy it must be great to be able to redefine words right in the middle of a debate.)
Also of course the defenders said that the words needed to be placed in context the words check was in the mail and theyd like to spend more time with their families.
I have placed the words in context and it turns out what they mean is: gigantic academic fraud.
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The leaked e-mail exchanges also show the vaunted scientists engaging in a possibly criminal effort to delete their own smoking-gun e-mails in response to a Freedom of Information request. Next the fanatics will be telling us that among scientists this behavior does not indicate knowledge of guilt.
If I recall correctly their next move should be to fire the special prosecutor late Saturday night.
These e-mails arent a tempest in a teapot. They are evidence of pervasive fraud by a massively influential institution that has dominated news coverage of global warming.
CRU was regularly cited as the leading authority on global climate analysis including by the very news outlets that are burying the current scandal such as the New York Times and the Washington Post. The CRU alone received more than $23 million in taxpayer funds for its work on global warming.
Having claimed to have collected the most complete data on the Earths temperature for the last half century the CRUs summary of that data was used by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for its 2007 report demanding that we adopt a few modest lifestyle changes such as abolishing modern technology reverting to hunter/gatherer status and taxing ourselves into servitude.
But then last weekend in the middle of the Lets Cook the Books! e-mail scandal the CRU said that all its data on the Earths temperature since 1960 had been irretrievably lost. (Although I suspect overcooked might be a more apt term.)
The way this episode is unfolding the environmentalists may be forced to drop their phantom threat of global warming and go back to the phantom threat of global cooling.
Most disturbingly the CRU-affiliated scientists were caught red-handed conspiring to kill the careers and reputations of scientists who dissented from the religion of global warming. Indignant that scientific journals were publishing papers skeptical of global warming the cult members plotted to get editors ousted and the publications discredited.
This sabotage of global-warming dissenters may be more galling than their manipulation of the data. Until now the global-warming cults sole argument has been to demand that everyone shut up in response to the scientific consensus that human activity was causing global warming.
Thats their idea of a free and open debate.
Its always the same thing with primitive people voodoo practitioners rain dancers and liberals. In lieu of facts debate and a weighing of the evidence religious fanatics respond to all counterarguments by invoking a higher authority: the witch doctor a scientific consensus the Constitution or historians are agreed.
Liberals wont tell us why Congress passed a law outlawing incandescent light bulbs by 2014 a bill solemnly delivered to the president in a Prius hybrid (making it the slowest-moving bill in U.S. history). Instead they tell us theres a scientific consensus that we have to use fluorescent light bulbs or well all die.
They wont tell us why Ten Commandments monuments must be stripped from every public space in America. Instead they tell us the Constitution says so (according to the high priests who interpret it to mean things the document doesnt remotely say).
They wont tell us what Sen. Joe McCarthy lied about. They say: Historians are agreed that McCarthy was a liar. (These are the same historians who also stated as fact that few American Communists were spies until decrypted Soviet cables proved that the Communist Party was awash with Soviet spies.)
This is precisely what liberals accuse Christians of doing but which Christians never do. We dont cite the Bible as authority and then refuse to let anyone read it. We certainly dont claim to have lost it so you cant check for yourself. But thats exactly what the CRU has done with its secret data allegedly showing a warming Earth.
Also biblical data on the Great Flood and Noahs ark have held up remarkably well.
Even if the Earth were warming which apparently it is not the idea that humans using energy-efficient light bulbs would alter the temperature of the globe is approximately as plausible as the Aztecs belief that they were required to wrench the beating heart out of living breathing humans in order to keep the sun on its path.
Sadly the human sacrifice deniers lost the argument to Aztec CRU scientists who explained that there was a scientific consensus on the benefits of ritual murder.
But at least the Aztecs only slaughtered tens of thousands of humans in the name of climate change. The global-warming cultists want us all dead.