The corrosive impact of environmental dogma

Go over to Devil's Kitchen to read some truly astonishing stuff. HERE
My bullshit detector has been signalling for a while now - probably triggered by Gordon Brown's discovery that green issues could be a great tax generator - but these leaked documents appear to show that the data is being manipulated to fit the theory, namely that Global Warming is man made.
Like the majority of people I simply don't know enough to pretend to any serious knowledge on this subject. What I do know, however, is that there was a significant global warming during the Middle Ages and that there was global cooling during the ice age followed by global warming and so on. None of these were caused by human population. I also grew up during the years of the smoke stack economy when huge amounts of carbon were being pushed into the atmosphere. No global warming then.
My own view now is that we should be responsible in our treatment of the environment. We can limit waste and air and water pollution and we should do everything we can in this regard. Talk to most people and they will find this reasonable. Ask them to wear a hair shirt, live in unheated homes, pay so-called "Green taxes" and you will get a different answer.
And this is more likely to be the answer when zealots overstate the case. We are not saving the planet. The planet will save itself. What we want to do is to save our lifestyle - that is, we want warm and air-conditioned environments, personal transport, easy access to good and services, choice of family size. If that requires some adjustment, we will adjust. But don't expect us to adjust on the basis of fraudulent theories and dodgy data!