And it seems you failed the Ethics 101 course too.

National wants the taxpayer to pay the cost of climate change, that’s the problem.

Global warming is over. It’s a dead man walking.

The computer programs that were leaked with emails from the Climate Research Centre (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, the very home of global warming research, have now been shown to be perpetrating a callous fraud. A Congressional investigation is now underway in the States.

Here’s a gem from the files:

“Eric S. Raymond is a software developer and advocate of the open source software movement. He wrote a seminal paper called The Cathedral and the Bazaar, which explained why open processes are more effective than top down ones. He has been studying the code used by the scientists at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, whose work raised serious questions about the quality of the research being used to underpin the proposed $1 trillion Cap’n Trade bill stalled in Congress. Here’s what Eric found in the computer code:

“From the CRU code file osborn-tree6/briffa_sep98_d.pro , used to prepare a graph purported to be of Northern Hemisphere temperatures and reconstructions.

;
; Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline!!
;
yrloc=[1400,findgen(19)*5.+1904]
valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,- 0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,$
2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor
if n_elements(yrloc) ne n_elements(valadj) then message,’Oooops!’
;
yearlyadj=interpol(valadj,yrloc,timey)

“This, people, is blatant data-cooking, with no pretense otherwise. It flattens a period of warm temperatures in the 1940s — see those negative coefficients? Then, later on, it applies a positive multiplier so you get a nice dramatic hockey stick at the end of the century.

“All you apologists weakly protesting that this is research business as usual and there are plausible explanations for everything in the emails? Sackcloth and ashes time for you. This isn’t just a smoking gun, it’s a siege cannon with the barrel still hot.”

He is a fine chap at getting along with people, but the challenge NZ and the world faces needs more than fine chaps right now. Fine chaps are good at toasting the Queen, but not much else . .

He should be at Copenhagen, but at a personal level does not believe in AGW, just like he supported the Springbok Tour.

He’s already done his masters bidding. We are doomed to pay Carbon tax for merely breathing out CO2 while this week the scandal that is the climate change scam broke.

Here’s a climategate for dummies for those of you who want to do right by our planet and are willing to take the consequences of your behaviour and who have been conned by the international banksters into believing that a carbon credits will help fight our destructive behaviour.

‘Cause that would be like, oh I dunno, democracy or something.

Meanwhile, in the real world, if I do something which makes a real and lasting contribution to reducing CO2 I won’t be getting $$ in the shape of carbon credits. No. What I’ll get is ignored at best and in all probability financially penalised for kicking against the pricks.

NZ is not going to say anything without the say so of the US.

You can see him already lining up the possibility and clearing awat the previous debris.

He’s not a world leader, he’s just a fast follower.

Subsequently he changed his public stance in order to come across as that nice uncontroversial smiling Mr Key, but privately nothing has changed… and it shows because even now he says as little as possible about the topic as possible.

Worse still Key knows that attending Copenhagen would not only be a sustained exercise in personal hypocrisy, but deeply stressful having to smile nicely at rooms full of high-powered AGW believers… while inwardly he seethed.

Doing nothing no doubt seems by far the easier choice.