Unfortunately, I am in no rush to call the religion of “global warming” dead and buried quiet yet – there are still far too many fanatics and idiots alike who are firmly convinced of its unassailable veracity. However, Christopher Booker presents a very solid case as to why this year delivered at least a mortal wound to the myth:
Easily one of the most important stories of 2008 has been all the evidence suggesting that this may be looked back on as the year when there was a turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming. Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most costly and damaging measures politicians have ever proposed, to combat this supposed menace, the tide has turned in three significant respects.
First, all over the world, temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the scare. Last winter, as temperatures plummeted, many parts of the world had snowfalls on a scale not seen for decades. This winter, with the whole of Canada and half the US under snow, looks likely to be even worse. After several years flatlining, global temperatures have dropped sharply enough to cancel out much of their net rise in the 20th century.
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Secondly, 2008 was the year when any pretence that there was a “scientific consensus” in favour of man-made global warming collapsed. At long last, as in the Manhattan Declaration last March, hundreds of proper scientists, including many of the world’s most eminent climate experts, have been rallying to pour scorn on that “consensus” which was only a politically engineered artefact, based on ever more blatantly manipulated data and computer models programmed to produce no more than convenient fictions.
Thirdly, as banks collapsed and the global economy plunged into its worst recession for decades, harsh reality at last began to break in on those self-deluding dreams which have for so long possessed almost every politician in the western world. As we saw in this month’s Poznan conference, when 10,000 politicians, officials and “environmentalists” gathered to plan next year’s “son of Kyoto” treaty in Copenhagen, panicking politicians are waking up to the fact that the world can no longer afford all those quixotic schemes for “combating climate change” with which they were so happy to indulge themselves in more comfortable times.
I have never been a friend of the man-made global warming hysteria running rampant about the world – it was documentation of the ice caps melting that sealed the deal for me, and finalized in my mind just how ludicrous the theory is (the ice caps in question are on Mars…). However, now that the Manhattan Declaration is in play, maybe now we can start focusing on the economic boons granted by some of the available green technologies, rather than rampantly adopting anything “green”, at great cost to both finances and, ironically, the environment in some cases (see: CFLs).
Hat tip to Les Jones and The Liberty Sphere.
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