"The right policy to address a non-problem is to have the courage to do nothing."

So sayeth Christopher Monckton in a recent letter to the committee on energy and commerce, US House of Representatives.

Monckton recently testified before the committee and disputed the testimony of Tom Karl, the Director of the US National Climatic Data Center, a Democrat witness. Each of the gentlemen were then asked to write the committee to give support to their testimony.

Monckton shows the satellite data is showing global cooling, in spite of the IPCC's predictions:

Monckton then shows how there is no correlation between CO2 levels and temperatures over the past 600 million years:

Is 'global warming' causing hurricanes to increase? Nope.

Are tornadoes increasing? Nope, not those either.

There is no "climate change" crisis. Actually, there is very little that mankind can do to alter the earth's climate. But there is a political crisis. Caused by the fact that most scientific research is government-funded. According to Monckton, the result is:

Nearly all of your nation’s scholars and scientists owe their primary livelihood to the involuntary generosity of the taxpayer. Some of your rent-seeking, scientific-technological elite, taking willful and shameless advantage of the taxpayer’s largesse and of the scientific illiteracy that is now widespread, are mightily enriching themselves by misleading your Congress into apropriating disproportionately large sums to permit them to address the non-problem of anthropogenic “global warming”.

And among the left, there is a ready audience for the nonsense being put out by phony 'scientists' like Hansen and Mann. Anything that will allow them to increase the extent of government control over people's lives and decrease freedom.