By Mr. Curmudgeon
Wake-up calls are going off all over the world; the election of Scott Brown as the 41st no-vote on ObamaCare, trillions of dollars in stimulus producing no demonstrable results and now global warming. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) announced that its prediction Himalayan glaciers were destined to melt into one big puddle by 2035 was, well, all wet. “In drafting the paragraph in question the clear and well-established standards of evidence, required by the IPCC procedures, were not applied properly,” read a statement released by the UN panel. The paragraph in question was contained in a 2007 report that won the errant members of the IPCC the Noble Peace Prize.
As the Times of London reported, “Monitoring Himalayan glaciers is extremely difficult because most of them lie in some of the most inhospitable terrain in the word at an altitude of more than 5,000 metres (16,000ft). Most studies until now have therefore been based necessarily on a mixture of outdated and incomplete data, satellite imagery, photography, and anecdotal evidence.”
If UN climatologists are in need of “anecdotal evidence” global warming is a load of hooey, they need do no more than step away from their climate modeling computers and walk outside.
Christopher Booker at the London Daily Telegraph observes, “Easily one of the most important stories of 2008 has been all the evidence suggesting that this may be looked back on as the year when there was a turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming. Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most costly and damaging measures politicians have ever proposed…all over the world, temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the scare. Last winter, as temperatures plummeted, many parts of the world had snowfalls on a scale not seen for decades. This winter, with the whole of Canada and half the US under snow, looks likely to be even worse. After several years flat lining, global temperatures have dropped sharply enough to cancel out much of their net rise in the 20th century.”
When in the 1920s British mountaineer John Mallory was asked, “why do you want to climb Mr. Everest?” he replied, “Because it’s there.” Mallory didn’t have to prove the existence of the world’s highest peak, the evidence of its existence was clear for anyone to see. That is clearly not the case for the hysterical claims made by global warming buffoons.
