But nothing has been more exposed than the politics surrounding global warming. First, just before the summit on climate change in Copenhagen (which enjoyed a record blizzard during the summit), it was revealed that the basic raw data of the Climate Research Unit had been lost or deleted, leaving no way to reproduce and validate independently its principal conclusions about global warming. It was also revealed that one scientist at the Research Unit e-mailed other scientists to exclude skeptics of global warming from peer-review panels.

Lucky for all of us, this came out before Pres. Obama could use this data to push his expensive Cap and Trade legislation. But that was just the beginning.

Earlier this month, the IPCC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) had to admit that their Assessment Report that the glaciers in the Himalayas could vanish in 30 years was actually based on one conversation between a journalist and a single Indian scientist a decade ago. They admitted the report had been “poorly substantiated.” Gee. Ya think? Anything to promote one’s political agenda, right?

This week, It gets more embarrassing for the IPCC.

In a recent report, the IPCC observed reductions in mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and Africa were caused by global warming.

You would think that that kind of an amazing report would be backed by years of serious study and scientific data.