The CRU emails that have made their way to the internet clearly show that the UN IPCC is a political advocacy group rather than a scientific enterprise. Here is some discussion of their malfeasance. It appeared to me that many of the world's scientists just assumed that the basic research being done was sound. But now, more and more scientists are beginning to recognize that the IPCC was cooking the books. It may be that Al Gore and the Democrats have enough momentum to force through their agenda that will cripple the economy of the US. (Is this part of the Cloward-Pivens strategy? It could be.) The Democrats acknowledge that they have a political goal of making energy very expensive to drastically reduce energy consumption. There is a strong positive correlation between energy consumption and standard of living. Obama and the Democrats say they are so clever that they can reverse this centuries long trend. Some of them are honest enough to admit that they want to do this even if AGW is not a problem.