The Coup de Grace for Global Warming

For billions of people, the “truth” about global warming was established by the Dr. Michael Mann's Tree Ring data, that became the centerpiece of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, the incontrovertible evidence for 20th century warming. Last week, a mathematician in Canada finally obtained the data (after seeking it for 11 years) from which Mann developed his theory. The data came from Russia. On replicating the work, mathematician Steve McIntyre discovers that somebody had cherry picked 10 tree data sets out of a much larger set of trees sampled by the Russians. When pulling all of the data together, Steve finds the 20th century global temperatures didn't increase. He discovered just the opposite effect.

In this segment, Kevin Swanson examines the worldviews behind the data crunching. Why does man seek salvation from problems that do not exist? Why does he always gravitate towards government to save him? Why the diversions from the real problems that face mankind?