Warmists recant while state-sized errors go forward
November 24, 2009 5:34 am Ecology, Political Correctness, Politics, ScienceAnd more will follow.
From the Australian Herald Sun, news that a major propagandist for man caused global warming recants.
None of this would matter in the least if trillions of dollars in cap and trade, and other major policy initiatives, were not at stake.
As one physicist said, if information is lost in black holes, that is a genuine scientific dispute. The second law of thermodynamics would be violated, and Stephen Hawking would have some explaining to do.
Whether the planet is cooling or warming is not really a genuine scientific dispute, unless the measurement is intended to drive a vast transfer of wealth from productive societies to unproductive ones. Who gives a damn if the planet cools or warms by two degrees centigrade? You care only if the warming is the harbinger of an irreversible crisis. If it is the normal variation (it is) in a planet wobbling between ice ages, then global warming should be relished while it lasts.
Meanwhile, the ships of state plow forward.The government of Quebec yesterday announced a major policy on greenhouse gas reductions, with the Premier of Quebec blasting Ottawa for failing to do more of the same. Premier Jean Charest said that climate warming was “real”. Probably he is judging climate change by how late the golf courses are open this year, the same way everyone else does.
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Dalwhinnie
duggan's dew :
Date: November 24, 2009 @ 7:59 AM
Some of the little comments from the climate hack are revealing.
From Phil Jones, head of the CRU.
> > Tim, Chris,
> > I hope you’re not right about the lack of warming lasting
> > till about 2020. I’d rather hoped to see the earlier Met Office
> > press release with Doug’s paper that said something like -
> > half the years to 2014 would exceed the warmest year currently on
> > record, 1998!
> > Still a way to go before 2014.
> >
> > I seem to be getting an email a week from skeptics saying
> > where’s the warming gone. I know the warming is on the decadal
> > scale, but it would be nice to wear their smug grins away.
> >