Falsified Data Inevitable Result of Foregone Conclusions

If you begin with a desired conclusion, you may find it difficult to work backwards to logic to support it. So it goes with the anthropogenic climate warming hypothesis. Certain individuals believe it is just plain obvious that emissions produced by coal processors or vehicle exhaust or even ungulate flatulence, being visible and smelly, are harmful and undesirable. These emissions are externalities to the producers (i.e. waste they create but do not have to bear the expense of cleaning up). Rather than enacting laws to require producers to absorb the full costs of their operations, the climate change activists want to shut them down altogether. So they declare that the emissions will cause catastrophic harm to the earth (who, after all, wants the earth to self-destruct?). This plays on real fear of the unknown, as well as on the guilt some people seem to feel for even inhabiting this world. And it is difficult to disprove in the same way as it is impossible to prove. So the loudest, most insistent advocates for climate change control become the most persuasive in the public forum.

These advocates want to cripple economic growth in the name of saving the earth even though their "evidence" is tainted and sometimes falsified. Makes one wonder if there is another agenda behind their protestations - like making money on carbon credits or harming business interests because they consider "business" to be selfish, evil, destructive. Some folks believe people harm the balance of nature and should really just disappear. What better way than to undermine means of production.