By Mr. Curmudgeon
Addressing the climate conference in Copenhagen, former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore was out to make an impression. He insisted that unless world governments agree to turn their citizens into surfs of the United Nations climate bureaucracy, the polar icecaps will melt. “Some of the [computer] models suggest to Dr. [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.” Unfortunately, someone asked Dr. Maslowski about Gore’s claim. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this,” Maslowski told the Times of London. Apparently, even pseudo-scientists have standards.
It has not been a good few weeks for global warming advocates. The release of e-mails proving the fraudulent manipulation of temperature data by leading climate scientists has called into question the necessity of giving UN functionaries unprecedented power to turn the Earth into a carbon-free gulag.
Yesterday, members of the poor G77 nations walked out of the climate summit in a huff. They were angry that summit delegates were unlikely to pass a legally binding agreement to transfer vast sums of wealth from productive to nonproductive nations.
Some believe Gore’s fabricated claims were intended to scare the superstitious climate conferees into enacting a bolder climate treaty. Instead, Gore speech added an exclamation point to the charge that global warming is the invention of agenda-driven climate scientists bearing apocalyptic computer models.
Understanding the gravity of Gore’s pratfall, Professor Jim Overland, of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was beside himself. “This is an exaggeration that opens the science up to criticism from skeptics.” What Overland is really saying is that for global warming enthusiasts, Gore’s fictional tale inadvertently points to an inconvenient truth.
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