On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 23:32:55 -0400, James wrote:

columbiaaccidentinvestigation wrote:
On Oct 2, 7:34 pm, "Eric Gisin" wrote:
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/b...chive/2009/10/...

October 2, 2009, 17:26:00 | NP Editor
The media, polls and even scientists suggest the global warming
scare is all over but the shouting By Lawrence Solomon

The great global warming scare is over - it is well past its peak,
very much a spent force, sputtering in fits and starts to a
whimpering end. You may not know this yet. Or rather, you may know
it but don't want to acknowledge it until every one else does, and
that won't happen until the press, much of which also knows it,
formally acknowledges it.

I know that the global warming scare is over but for the shouting
because that's what the polls show, at least those in the U.S.,
where unlike Canada the public is polled extensively on global
warming. Most Americans don't blame humans for climate change - they
consider global warming to be a natural phenomenon. Even when the
polls showed the public believed man was responsible for global
warming, the public didn't take the scare seriously. When asked to
rank global warming's importance compared to numerous other concerns
- unemployment, trade, health care, poverty, crime, and education
among them - global warming came in dead last. Fewer than 1% chose
global warming as scare-worthy.

The informed members of the media read those polls and know the
global warming scare is over, too. Andrew Revkin, The New York Times
reporter entrusted with the global warming scare beat, has for
months lamented "the public's waning interest in global warming."
His colleague at The Washington Post, Andrew Freedman, does his best
to revive public fear, and to get politicians to act, by urging
experts to up their hype so that the press will have scarier
material to run with.

The experts do their best to give us the willies. This week they
offered up plagues of locusts in China and a warning that the 2016
Olympics "could be the last for mankind" because "the earth has
passed the point of no return." But the press has also begun to tire
of Armageddon All-The-Time, and (I believe) to position itself for
its inevitable attack on the doomsters. In an online article in June
entitled "Massive Estimates of Death are in Vogue for Copenhagen,"
Richard Cable of the BBC, until then the most stalwart of
scare-mongers, rattled off the global warnings du jour - they
included a comparison of global warming to nuclear war and a report
from the former Secretary General of the UN, Kofi Annan, to the
effect that "every year climate change leaves over 300,000 people
dead, 325-million people seriously affected, and economic losses of
US $125-billion." Cable's
conclusion: "The problem is that once you've sat up and paid
attention enough to examine them a bit more closely, you find that
the means by which the figures were arrived at isn't very
compelling. The report contains so many extrapolations derived from
guesswork based on estimates inferred from unsuitable data."

The scientist-scare-mongers, seeing the diminishing returns that
come of their escalating claims of catastrophe, also know their
stock is falling. Until now, they have all toughed it out when the
data disagreed with their findings - as it does on every major
climate issue, without exception. Some scientists, like Germany's
Mojib Latif, have begun to break ranks. Frustrated by embarrassing
questions about why the world hasn't seen any warming over the last
decade, Latif, a tireless veteran of the public speaking circuits,
now explains that global warming has paused, to resume in 2020 or
perhaps 2030. "People understand what I'm saying but then basically
wind up saying, 'We don't
believe anything,'" he told The New York Times this week.

And why should they believe anything that comes from the global
warming camp? Not only has the globe not warmed over the last decade
but the Arctic ice is returning, the Antarctic isn't shrinking,
polar bear populations aren't diminishing, hurricanes aren't
becoming more extreme. The only thing that's scary about the science
is the frequency with which doomsayer data is hidden from public
scrutiny, manipulated to mislead, or simply made up.

None of this matters anymore, I recently heard at the Global
Business Forum in Banff, where a fellow panelist from the Pew Centre
on Global Climate Change told the audience that, while she couldn't
dispute the claims I had made about the science being dubious, the
rights and wrongs in the global warming debate are no longer
relevant. "The train has left the station," she cheerily told the
business audience, meaning that the debate is over, global warming
regulations are coming in, and everyone in the room - primarily
business movers and shakers from Western Canada - had better learn
to adapt.

Her advice was well accepted, chiefly because most in the room had
already adapted - they are busy trying to cash in by obtaining
carbon subsidies, building nuclear plants, or providing services to
the new carbon economy.

My assessment for those wondering where we're at: Yes, the train
left the station some time ago. And it is now off the rails.

Financial Post


laughing, he is so emotional...

Thanks for you interest Eliza.

"Their failure in this regard is abysmal. They want to tell the world
changes thought - as a matter of fact, they do not respect the world, they
want to tell taxpayers and the domestic public to keep them deceived. We
will embroil them, confuse them and keep them in the quagmire. They have
begun to tell more lies so that they might continue with the perpetration
of their crimes. May they be accursed." - Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf