Friday, 13 February 2009

Here's a "tipping point"...

...alarmists like eco-pornographer Al Bore and James Hansen like to warn that we must act immediately to save the planet. "Tipping points" are frequently mentioned; the moment in time where calamity is an imminent inevitability, but note this...
...Sceptics now have a tipping point of their own, a moment in time where the crack in the alarmist case widens to a chasm. From WattsupWithThat...

...today’s Guardian has a lead story unlike anything we have seen before.
‘Apocalyptic climate predictions’ mislead the public, say experts’
Experts at Britain’s top climate research centre have launched a blistering
attack on scientific colleagues and journalists who exaggerate the effects of global warming. The Met Office Hadley Centre, one of the most prestigious research facilities in the world, says recent “apocalyptic predictions” about Arctic ice melt and soaring temperatures are as bad as claims that global warming does not exist...
...The Met Office has been badly burned by their seasonal mispredictions of warm UK weather, particularly during the current winter and the last two summers. But particularly interesting to me are the comments about Arctic Ice. (Caption above... "Dr Vicky Pope claims losses of Arctic ice could be due to natural fluctuations in the weather")
I was about to write an article forecasting the return of the Arctic to near normal ice conditions this summer, based on the light polar drift this winter. It appears that The Met Office agrees with that prognosis.The walls are tumbling down in the UK. President Obama promised to align with the Europeans about global warming. Will he keep his promise?
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall... Pink Floyd

The (AGW) walls are tumbling down in the UK...more, here...
...and the original article from the Guardian, here...

3 comments:

KG said...

Good stuff! Thanks a lot for posting that, and for the links Ayrdale.:-)
I'll put up a link to your post at CR.

Anonymous said...

Ditto, ( ie ditto KG's comments ). Shit, it's a good feeling to come home after a night on the tiles and read some sense, esp after an argument with an AGW twit. I take it that KG is the celebrated academic from Mt Roskill.....

Ayrdale said...

...no, no, no I don't think so...

My friend KG is I think a Pongolian, and a fellow supporter of St George.

KG, beg your indulgence, excuse this sotto voce aside, (if you get my drift.)

Can you hear me mother ?