Global Censorship - Climate of Fear

One clear example of censorship is the Global Warming debate. The proponents of the proposition that global warming is is significantly affected by human use of fossil fuels have unilaterally claimed victory by declaring the debate over. Al Gore refuses to debate the issue, even though his movie is full of incorrect data. Now the major focus of the climate change alarmists is on vilifying anyone who disagrees with them.

One seriously disturbing aspect of the debate is the unscientific behaviour of the pro-AGW "scientists". Many do not make their data and the details of their models available for checking in a timely manner, or at all. This is the opposite of science. Michael Mann, author of the infamous 'hockey stick' graph only gave up his data years later, and under congressional subpoena.

Mann's graph was hurriedly included in the 2001 IPCC report to dramatic effect and victory in the debate was claimed. Subsequently the discredited graph was quietly dropped by the IPCC.

The censorship in this debate consists of the closed-minded refusal to discuss the issues, with the insinuation that anyone who wants to continue the discussion is rejecting science. In fact the opposite is true. The very essence of good science is robust discussion. Those who prefer to denigrate their opponents rather than to debate with them are unscientific. This issue is all politics and little science.