A Bad Day for Global Warming

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/19/AR2010021903046.html?referrer=emailarticle

George Will continues his efforts to be reasonable about "global warming" as he chronicles a bad few months for the global warmers.

First, he chronicles the voice of Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, denouncing persons skeptical about global warming: "They are the same people who deny the link between smoking and cancer. They are people who say that asbestos is as good as talcum powder - and I hope they put it on their faces every day."

Here, I would like to quote George Will: "Do not judge him as harshly as he speaks of others. Nothing prepared him for the unnerving horror of encountering disagreement."

As Will says, the global warming industry is having a bad few months, a period which began last November 19 with the publication of e-mails indicating attempts by scientists to massage data and suppress dissent in order to strengthen "evidence" of global warming. So, what happened to the broad and deep and unassailable consensus?

Then we have "The World's Last - We Really, Really Mean It - Chance" : the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit which, we believe, created more of a "carbon footprint" than it mitigated. As Will says, those at Copenhagen were "... trying to stampede the world into a spasm of prophylactic statism."

After that, we have the various US climate initiatives that are coming apart: the Western Climate Initiative, the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), etc.

This leaves us with the following - wait for it - global warming "skeptics" have erred! AHA! They have said there has been no statistically significant warming for 10 years (Alas, that has certainly been our perspective.). Wrong! Phil Jones, former director of Britain's Climate Research Unit (source of the leaked documents), admits it has been 15 years!!

Now, who is Todd Stern? Todd is America's special envoy for climate change - we didn't realize there was such a position. "Todd" has warned that those interested in "... undermining action on climate change will seize on whatever tidbit they can find." So, a "tidbit" would be that there has been NO WARMING for the past 15 years? So, the absence of any "warming" still confirms that there is warming.

We've actually heard that the blizzard in DC (and the 12.5" in 24 hours in Dallas) helps to confirm "warming". George Will has heard that too. Our opinion is the same as his: it is just a little bit of a stretch to advocate that "any" aberrant weather is caused by global warming. How about, it was just aberrant weather? What a concept!