Oranges are freezing in Florida. Cold weather in India kills 23 people. For the first time in 100 years, it snowed in Baghdad. The warmest year on record was 10 years ago, and in the US, the warmest year on record was more than 70 years ago.
All of this is proof of global warming.
“Global warming has not stopped,” said Amir Delju, senior scientific coordinator of the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) climate program. … “The more frequent occurrence of extreme events all over the world — floods in Australia, heavy snowfall in the Middle East — can also be signs of warming,” he said.
Riiiight. If this is true, couldn’t it be just as true that melting glaciers are a local weather anomaly related to global cooling?
This is the problem with a religion like global warming. No matter what happens, no matter what the data shows (or doesn’t), their faith cannot be moved. And unlike faith in, say, the divinity of Jesus, the Evangelical Church of Global Warming demands heavy tithes from us all (except the priests of their own faith, of course).
Science requires rigorous and constant skepticism of theories, with all available data being used in an attempt to disprove – not prove – the theory. If it stands up in the face of that, then it can fairly be considered an accurate theory. But when new data is obtained, then the rigorous assault on the theory must begin anew.
No one who still believes in the “crisis” of anthropogenic global warming is doing this. No one. Not honestly, anyway. Anyone who does falls out of the “consensus,” which is one of the reasons the IPCC report went from having “thousands of scientists” contributing to only being signed by 51 in its final, Peace Prize winning form. (That’s right. 51 scientists and a former veep tell us that the debate is over, and we’re supposed to toss the Industrial Revolution out the window.)
The most telling quote in that article, though, is this one:
Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the U.N. Panel that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, said he would look into the apparent temperature plateau so far this century. “One would really have to see on the basis of some analysis what this really represents,” he told Reuters, adding “are there natural factors compensating?” for increases in greenhouse gases from human activities.
What Mr. Pachauri is in fact admitting is that he doesn’t know enough about the major variables in the climate system to adequately predict or even understand global temperature changes. I mean, shouldn’t he have “looked into” “natural factors that might be compensating” before he published his big doomsday report? This accidentally honest concession should tell us all we need to know about the reliability of these faith-based alarmists, and the insanity of trusting them to justify endangering our economic well-being in the name of “saving the planet”.
