Climategate gets a new name from cap-and-trade’s author Boxer

4. December 2009 by admin.

In a major meltdown within the global warming community, emails were leaked before the up coming U.N. global warming summit in Copenhagen, rebuking the fact that climate change is nothing more than a hoax used to gin up political bases. That’s not the way Senator Barbara Boxer-D CA sees it; “You call it ‘Climate gate’; I call it ‘E-mail-theft-gate.”

Not exactly as catchy as climate gate, but nevertheless telling with how Senator Boxer feels about purported global warming pact. Boxer said she would like to see the e-mail hackers punished for their shenanigans and did not bother questioning the science behind the e-mails. “I’m looking at these e-mails that, even though they were stolen, are now out in the public.”

The e-mails in question were hacked from scientists at the University of East Anglia, England’s equivalent to NASA and know has disputed the facts contained in the emails. “Several thousand scientists have come to the conclusion that climate change is happening. I don’t think that’s anything that is, quite frankly, among most people, in dispute anymore,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.

However, the unearthed e-mails quickly gave Republicans new hope in the battle to fight Senator Boxer’s prized cap and trade legislation.

Drafts of the technical documents and photos were discovered that could spark major debates in the world of science and administrations that are promoting economic policy based on the results of that scientific theory. For those who remain leery about whether the globe is actually warming or cooling, these documents could shed negative light within the scientific community. Keep reading

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