HERO – AT 10:56 A.M. ET:  Occasionally we get a college professor, or even a retired college professor, willing to reveal corruption in the academic world.  We have waited, usually in vain, for academics to demand higher standards in the study of "climate change."  We have a new hero, although a retired one.  He must be heard.  From College Fix:   

While much of the debate over climate change surrounds whether or not it is occurring, one glaciologist and retired professor says the real issue is that the topic is being used as a political pawn to siphon money and votes.

Dr. Terry Hughes, in an interview with The College Fix, said researchers want to keep federal funding for climate change alive, and politicians want to earn environmentalist votes, and both predict global pandemonium to that end.

Hughes, a professor emeritus of earth sciences and climate change at the University of Maine, said for years his colleagues urged him to be in lockstep with former Vice President Al Gore – “the drum major in the parade denouncing global warming as an unmitigated disaster,” he told The College Fix.

But Hughes – who believes global warming is actually a good thing because more carbon dioxide is good for the environment in many ways – said he does not want to march to that beat.

“Too many (the majority) of climate research scientists are quite willing to prostitute their science by giving these politicians what they want,” he said.

Hughes – who worked for 35 years at the Department of Earth Sciences and the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine – said climate cycles overlap with election cycles, which helps politicians “get electoral visibility by pounding the panic drums.”

But what he wants people to understand is that climate change researchers and politicians collude to create fear of a disaster that will never happen.

"You will never read or hear any of this from the scientific and political establishments,” he said. “I’m now retired, so I have no scientific career to protect by spreading lies.”

COMMENT:  Read the whole thing.  There are plenty of people benefiting from the climate-change panic.  Some are "green energy" companies that produce little or no benefit.  Others are grant recipients. 

If a Republican becomes president in 2017, I hope he or she will impanel a presidential commission to look into the climate-change matter and determine 1) what we know; 2) what we don't know; and 3) what we need to know.  The global-warming "community" (I love that term) is asking for trillions of dollars to cure a problem that may actually not exist.  We'd like some unvarnished information.

January 10, 2015