In the ancient world emperors and kings would rely on superstitions and the lies of self-proclaimed prophets to determine how to appease vengeful gods that threatened their world. Always driven by the desire to retain their political power, leaders forced their own people to sacrifice (sometimes even sacrificing the people themselves) in the name of some unproven, nonsensical fantasy. In light of the unfolding Climategate scandal, the beginning of the climate change summit in Copenhagen tomorrow proves that not much has changed since those ancient rulers' time.

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For those of you who are only getting your news from the liberal media, Climategate refers to over 3,000 documents from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) which were posted on the Internet. The documents, including e-mails between the researchers who authored the United Nations' global warming reports and fueled the political movement to regulate carbon, show data being made to fit their theories, squelching scientists who disagreed, punishing academic journals that didn't toe the apocalyptic line, and hiding their work from public view. (source)

Undeterred by the revelation that these "researchers" have no more proved that man has caused climate change than their ancient counterparts proved that earthquakes and droughts were caused by angry gods, those with vested political and financial interests in the hoax push forward. Representative Edward Markey (D-Massachusetts), head of the House Global Warming Committee, said during a recent hearing that Republicans "sit over here using a couple of e-mails to [tell us] how to deal with a catastrophic threat to our planet." (source)

Over 1,000 e-mails proving the data has been manipulated and that consenting opinions have been squelched, over 2,000 other documents still being reviewed this is what Mr. Markey refers to as "a couple of e-mails" while he keeps propagating the international fraud that there is a "catastrophic threat to our planet".

Representative Candace Miller (R-Michigan) has called for hearings into Climategate saying "The e-mails are an inconvenient truth, perhaps, an embarrassment on the brink of Copenhagen." She added the obvious statement that "There is at least a debate on whether or not climate change is human-induced." (source)

Yet our president still plans to attend the later stages of the Copenhagen summit. According to a statement by White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, "There is progress being made towards a meaningful Copenhagen accord in which all countries pledge to take action against the global threat of climate change." (source)

Considering the lack of any valid scientific data that the threat exists or that the action of human beings can affect such things, that action might as well be the ceremonial tossing of a live chicken into a volcano.