The Great Global Warming Collapse

The Globe and Mail ^ | 02/06/2010 | Margaret Wente

[mkleesma]

In 2007, the most comprehensive report to date on global warming, issued by the respected United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made a shocking claim: The Himalayan glaciers could melt away as soon as 2035.

These glaciers provide the headwaters for Asia's nine largest rivers and lifelines for the more than one billion people who live downstream. Melting ice and snow would create mass flooding, followed by mass drought. The glacier story was reported around the world. Last December, a spokesman for the World Wildlife Fund, an environmental pressure group, warned, “The deal reached at Copenhagen will have huge ramifications for the lives of hundreds of millions of people who are already highly vulnerable due to widespread poverty.” To dramatize their country's plight, Nepal's top politicians strapped on oxygen tanks and held a cabinet meeting on Mount Everest.

But the claim was rubbish, and the world's top glaciologists knew it.

[Marine_Uncle]

Idiots. Pulling off a real publicity stunt. Oxygen masks.

[TigersEye]

By exaggerating the certainties, papering over the gaps, demonizing the skeptics and peddling tales of imminent catastrophe, they've discredited the entire climate-change movement.

The fact that the only way to accurately characterize defenders of Anthropogenic Global Warming is to call them a "climate-change movement" is proof that it is an ideological political position not a scientific theory. Science does not create or promote "movements."