CLIMATEGATE: The biggest "scientific" scandal ever

This news is so big that it should have been featured prominently on the front pages of every newspaper and splashed on every TV channel. Assuming of course it is their business to really inform the public and not to push agenda. So, just how big is the climategate? To use an analogy closer to home, suppose the secular brigade had known all along and had incontrovertible proof that the Gujarat riots were a spontaneous orgy of violence and that the Government had nothing to do with it and didn't make the facts public? Yes, it is that big.

Scientists working on the phenomenon known as anthropogenic global warming had known all along that there was no global warming. And they cooked up data and facts, suppressed evidence to the contrary, engineered fake experiments, destroyed data to keep the bogey of an impending global warming led catastrophe alive. It all changed when a few days ago a hacker broke into a climate laboratory and stole emails and data files. Those emails and data files revealed a sordid tale of how politics compromised scientific integrity.

For a quick intro to what really transpired, please peruse this or use the friendly google search.

Coming in days before the Copenhagen meet where world leaders will negotiate a binding treaty to control greenhouse gas emissions, this assumes enormous importance, especially since India is trying its best to avoid signing any such treaty. Yet Indian newspapers have blacked out this explosive news.

A binding climate treaty will be catastrophic for India, especially when we are stuck with the Nuclear Deal. It is now clear that the Nuclear Deal did not come with all the bells and whistles that were promised, it comes in with a laundry list of new compliance requirements instead. Even then, signing the deal with the US is politically important for the secular party. The secular party has willfully put us into this unenviable situation, we are stuck with a lemon and they know it.

The attitude of Indian media and opinion makers on the climategate is worrying because it raises uncomfortable questions about their loyalty to the country. Globalization of politics has ensured that they will throw a crumb to anyone who supports the big ticket global "liberal" agendas and there are signs people in the Indian Government and bureaucracy are working to get some of those crumbs.

The biggest tragedy of the global warming scandal is that no field of human knowledge or endeavor is sacrosanct anymore. It also shows any dogmatic ideology, be it religious or secular, is ultimately detrimental for scientific advances.