The unexpected snow at the Copenhagen climate talks, followed by record cold in much of the northern hemisphere, was just the tip of the iceberg.
Over the last few months we've had the following signs that the climate change gravy train is becoming a slow motion train wreck.
First there was "climate-gate" the documentary proof of the falsifying of the temperature data at the heart of the scientific consensus on climate change. These leaked emails show so-called scientists using "tricks" to massage data to achieve the results they wanted, their shock at the real decline in temperatures, their attempts at bullying the scientific journals to suppress dissenting articles. While there might be argument around the context of the emails, the smoking gun is the actual computer code used to produce the "correct" data, deliberately fudged to make warming in the 1990s appear far more significant than it really was.
In Australia we had the opposition basically have a leadership fight over supporting the Emissions Trading Scheme and Tony Abbott winning on a "sceptical" platform.
In recent days we have seen the BBC consider dropping services from the Met Office in favour of private forecasters because the Met, so captivated by its adherence to climate change ideology, has consistently and wrongly forecast "barbecue summers" and mild winters.
The IPCC has now admitted that the Himalayan glaciers won't be melting any time soon. This forecast, that there would be no glaciers by 2035, was based on a phone conversation by a journalist with a scientist who was speculating that the glaciers would be gone by 2350 not 2035 and was picked up by WWF as a fund-raiser to terrify us into thinking that a billion people would soon be left without water. So much for peer reviewed science.
The CSIRO now admits that there is some doubt about whether the long drought in eastern Australia is a sign of climate change. Again the IPCC in its reports labelled the Murray-Darling basin as a place where the signs of climate change are already present. The next time Penny Wong says "Climate change is here" remember that the CSIRO is now not so sure.
Now the icing on the cake is that the Greens are suggesting an interim carbon tax of $20 per tonne for the next two years while the politicians fight out a more permanent ETS. That's a big back-pedal over summer from the people who were just a few weeks ago screaming for immediate action and deep cuts to our emissions. Of course they are still lying about emissions stating that our emissions are still increasing despite a 2% drop last year, mainly due to the economic downturn.
Also today the head alarmist at the Copenhagen talks has dropped the demand that countries announce their carbon reduction targets by January 31st. Climate change is now such an urgent challenge that the next UN conference isn't scheduled until the end of the year.
By then the wheels should have well and truly fallen off the whole wagon and the real scientists can get back to studying the hugely complex system called the Earth without being pressured to blame one small trace element which exists in the air in a dynamic equilibrium with CO2 stored in the ocean and the rocks.
I wonder what the next catastrophic fear campaign will be.
:yikes: Anything that makes money!
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