A little over four months ago, I posted about second-rate has-been Danny Glover’s idiotic decision to dabble in politics (if you thought he was bad at acting…). Well, it seems he can’t keep his big mouth shut for too long.

Now, after the devastating disaster in Haiti, he amazingly came to the conclusion that he knows why this happened (a la Pat Robertson)! And what, pray tell, is the reason for this, Danny?  Drum roll, please………. It’s the earth’s retribution for mankind not coming out of the Copenhagen climate summit with the usual onslaught of bizarre resolutions, programs, pacts, and treaties.

Seriously, here’s what he said:

When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I’m sayin’?

And here’s the video:

This whole Climategate scandal is just getting better and better. What started with some leaked emails showing a few scientists in cahoots with one another to thwart opponents (sometimes with physical violence) has now turned into disgraceful revelations of scientists and entire research centers and networks cooking the books to artificially support their ill-supported claims and then destroying the original data so that only the cooked data is accessible.

The London Times is reporting that scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. The findings of the university’s CRU (Climatic Research Unit) are one of the main pieces of evidence used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which says global warming is a threat to humanity, and now it has been revealed that this foundation that is supposed to be holding up the whole theory is not at all solid.

Something tells me, though, that this won’t slow down some of those global warming alarmist nuts one bit.

I love to laugh at those global warming hypocrites. You know the ones I mean: those idiots you read about in the news or see on TV preaching about global warming, only to then head off stage into their waiting private jet.

The most famous one is probably Al Gore, who came out with a whole pseudo-documentary to try to convince people to change their evil carbon-emitting ways—and had the sheer audacity to actually ask people (via the camera): “Are you ready to change the way you live?”—when the blathering moron flies around in a private jet and lives in a mansion that sucks up power like Good Humor on a hot day, complete with an indoor swimming pool that costs $500 a month to heat. I guess that’s one hypocrite just not yet ready to change the way he lives.

Well, the London Times put together a great list of these hypocrites (probably the most comprehensive such list I’ve seen so far), including John Travolta; Oprah Winfrey; Sting’s wife, Dame Trudie Styler; Tom Cruise; Sheryl Crow; Jennifer Aniston; Coldplay’s Chris Martin; and others.

If only this sort of public ridicule would get these people to finally shut up.

In a pretty interesting discovery, it has been found that Obama’s EPA administration has blocked the release of a scientific report questioning the science behind global warming, which would embarrass the Obama administration and all his Democrat cronies in Congress, especially now that they just voted for the Cap and Trade Energy Tax bill with a lot of beating-the-global-warming-drum fanfare.

Apparently, the researcher who authored the report has been forcibly “reassigned” and the report has been “suppressed”. Is it just me or is this very reminiscent of Soviet tactics for controlled propaganda and keeping the “people” in the dark about the dirty secrets the leader-knows-best government doesn’t want you to know?

Props to Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) for ordering an investigation into this alleged suppression.

UPDATE:
Kimberley Strassel picked this up with even more detail for an excellent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal.

It has taken many years, but it looks like it’s finally happening! I’m talking about the voice of reason being heard in the whole global warming hysteria.

Al Gore has been viciously beating his tired old drum for years now and pushing ridiculous taxes and ridiculous policies (I’m not even going to get into his hypocrisy in all this), and, in the process, has been very careful to use all his power and the power of his cronies to silence all critics.

Watch his ridiculous fictional documentary and you’ll see that he wants everyone to believe that his bizarre notion that we’re screwing up the earth’s climate is practically a scientific consensus out there, that there is no sound opposition to this.

Up until recently, he and his cronies have done a very good job of marginalizing and ridiculing any scientist opposing them. But, as Kimberley A. Strassel writes in a hope-inspiring opinion piece in today’s Wall Street Journal, the tide is finally turning and people (and governments) are starting to see the hype in it all and are starting to give real scientists the audience they deserve.

Some key excerpts of her piece:

Among the many reasons President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly jamming a cap-and-trade system through Congress is because the global warming tide is again shifting. It turns out Al Gore and the United Nations (with an assist from the media), did a little too vociferous a job smearing anyone who disagreed with them as “deniers.” The backlash has brought the scientific debate roaring back to life in Australia, Europe, Japan and even, if less reported, the U.S. . .

The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. — 13 times the number who authored the U.N.’s 2007 climate summary for policymakers. . .

The collapse of the “consensus” has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth’s temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans. . .

Republicans in the U.S. have, in recent years, turned ever more to the cost arguments against climate legislation. That’s made sense in light of the economic crisis. If Speaker Nancy Pelosi fails to push through her bill, it will be because rural and Blue Dog Democrats fret about the economic ramifications. Yet if the rest of the world is any indication, now might be the time for U.S. politicians to re-engage on the science. One thing for sure: They won’t be alone.