Monday, 7 December 2009

The Emperor's new clothes...

...are on display. They're dirty threadbare rags, full of patches and holes. Even the pro-green NZ Herald has noticed, with climategate on the front page, and this amazing and very brave cartoon on the op-ed page...and now this in depth analysis and comment on what passes for modern day scientific ideals from the online Weekly Standard...

..Slowly and mostly unnoticed by the major news media, the air has been going out of the global warming balloon. Global temperatures stopped rising a few years ago, much to the dismay of the climate campaigners. The U.N.'s upcoming Copenhagen conference--which was supposed to yield a binding greenhouse gas emissions reduction treaty as a successor to the failed Kyoto Protocol--collapsed weeks in advance and remains on life support pending Obama's magical intervention. Cap and trade legislation is stalled on Capitol Hill. Recent opinion polls from Gallup, Pew, Rasmussen, ABC/Washington Post, and other pollsters all find a dramatic decline in public belief in human-caused global warming...The climate campaigners continue to insist this is because they have a "communications" problem, but after Al Gore's Nobel Prize/Academy Award double play, millions of dollars in paid advertising, and the relentless doom-mongering from the media echo chamber and the political class, this excuse is preposterous. And now the climate campaign is having its Emperor's New Clothes moment...
...One of the things the CRU emails prove is that the oft-cited figure of 2,000 top scientists is misleading; the circle of genuinely active scientists in the work of CRU and related institutions in this country is very small. Nonetheless, Al Gore and other climate campaigners have leaned heavily on the IPCC process as proof for their assertions that human-caused global warming is a matter of "settled" science. This, even though, in the last IPCC report on the science of climate change in 2007, the terms "uncertain" or "uncertainty" appear over 1,300 times in 900 pages, and the report describes our level of scientific understanding of key aspects of climate as "low" or "very low." The IPCC chapter on the climate models that are the principal tool predicting our future doom refers to "significant uncertainties" in all the models, and admits that "models still show significant errors..." more here...

...and on the first, second and third days of Christmas...my true love sent to me three hockey sticks , two tricks to play, and a cross section of a pine tree...

5 comments:

Nessa said...

I just read on another blog how someone was upset with their Canadian government because they haven't jumped on the desperate climate control bandwagon.

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Ayrdale said...

Hi Nessa, yes I think Copenhagen will be an amazing exercise in spin doctoring, but the scam is over and its cover blown.

Kaboom said...

It is satisfyingly ironic that Copenhagen is where Hans Christian Anderson's "The Emperor's New Clothes" was first published, on 7th April, 1837.

Delicious irony indeed.

Ayrdale said...

Nice one Kaboom. Welcome back !

Ron Russell said...

Cute cartoon, reminded me of the old "daisy ad" from the 1964 presidental race between Goldwater and LBJ. "A little girl pulling the petals and then cutting to a thermo-nuclear explosion" message being that Goldwater was an extremist who would get us into WWIII. Global warming activist are using that same tactic today---fear, to force their agenda on a frightened public.