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...and never mind the GIGO computer models that the green left and Al Goreful use to predict climatastrophe, take a look around.. Ever vigilant PKH spotted this, from Christopher Brooker in the UK Telegraph...It was delightfully appropriate that, as large parts of Argentina were swept by severe blizzards last week, on a scale never experienced before, the city of Nashville, Tennessee, should have enjoyed the coolest July 21 in its history, breaking a record established in 1877. Appropriate, because Nashville is the home of Al Gore, the man who for 20 years has been predicting that we should all by now be in the grip of runaway global warming.
His predictions have proved so wildly wrong – along with those of the Met Office's £33 million computer model which forecast that we should now be enjoying a "barbecue summer" and that 2009 would be one of "the five warmest years ever" – that the propaganda machine has had to work overtime to maintain what is threatening to become the most expensive fiction in history...more here...

...and here in NZ, Climate Change Minister Nick Smith may yet develop into a very satisfactory greenbaiter. His latest press release on climate change basically says "we are as wet and concerned and green as the greenest, but we know all our efforts to influence the climate are smoke and mirror stuff, so we're going to do f*** all...." ...attempting to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent by 2020 would cause too much economic hardship. Appearing on TVNZ's Q&A programme yesterday Smith was concentrating on what will happen when the Kyoto agreement expires and a new deal comes into place after 2012. Smith said while decisions were yet to be made, targets of around 40 per cent by 2020 in comparison to 1990 were neither achievable nor affordable. Asked if a 40 per cent reduction would have too great an economic impact, Smith said it would...more here...