The climate alarmists have lost the debate: it's time we stopped indulging their poisonous fantasy

the telegraph ^ | 10/6/2013 | James Delingpole

[Signalman]

The story so far: with the release of its Fifth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has proved beyond reasonable doubt that it cannot be taken seriously.

Here are a few reasons why: IPCC lead author Dr Richard Lindzen has accused it of having "sunk to a level of hilarious incoherence." Nigel Lawson has called it "not science but mumbo jumbo". The Global Warming Policy Foundation's Dr David Whitehouse has described the IPCC's panel as "evasive and inaccurate" in the way it tried dodge the key issue of the 15-year (at least) pause in global warming; Donna Laframboise notes that is either riddled with errors or horribly politically manipulated – or both; Paul Matthews has found a very silly graph; Steve McIntyre has exposed how the IPCC appears deliberately to have tried to obfuscate the unhelpful discrepancy between its models and the real world data; and at Bishop Hill the excellent Katabasis has unearthed another gem: that, in jarring contrast to the alarmist message being put out at IPCC press conferences and in the Summary For Policymakers, the body of the report tells a different story – that almost all the scary scenarios we've been warned about this last two decades (from permafrost melt to ice sheet collapse) are now been graded by scientists somewhere between "low confidence" to "exceptionally unlikely;" and this latest from the Mighty Booker.

And there's plenty more where that came from.

[rktman]

Rust never sleeps. Much like climate alarmists. Always rotting away at things.

[Dick Bachert]

Global Warming guru Algore – wearing his ever present Nobel medal – is seen here en-route to an important “scientific” conference in Nassau hosted by the UN/IPCC where he was to be the keynote speaker.

Topics on the agenda were to have included “Finding a Good Bail Bondsman,” “Not ALL Criminal Lawyers Are Sharks,” “Changing Careers for Dummies,” “You Want Fries With That?,” “How To Encrypt Emails,” “The Best Prison Jobs,” “Getting Along With Your Cellmate” and “Getting Used to Sleeping On Your Back.”

A sudden – and unfortunate – blast of what the “scientist” in charge of the conference termed “global warming” caused the meeting to be rescheduled until Algore can be thawed some time next Spring – assuming there will BE one.

Our reporter has learned that the influential conservative web site Free Republic has launched a contribution drive to rent a freezer locker in which to keep Gore for the 10 to 15 years estimated it will take for the so-called “mainstream media” to begin covering the Climategate story.

[pluvmantelo]

Since the progressive takeover, I find myself thinking of Baghdad Bob on a daily basis.

[rktman]

Story? What story?

[justa-hairyape]

Over 3,000 comments to that article. He must have hit a nerve.

[a fool in paradise]

It is a "hysteria" that was far more toxic than the so-called "paranoid fears of the Red Scare". The Communist menace was documented and had infiltrated academia, the state department, the VP office, labor unions, mass media, etc. Some agents served the Soviets knowing full well the weight of their involvement in working against Western civilization, others were useful idiots serving Stalin without realizing it.

The log books on Global Cooling, er Global Warming, er Global Climate Change, have been cooked, the peer review has been censored to silence and blacklist the critics.

[chesley]

I’ve never understood why people fell for it to begin with. It was obvious BS from the beginning. I know because I remember thinking it at the time.

[Revolting cat!]

It’s a damn religion for the modern atheists, that’s what it is. Skeptical against traditional organized religion, fully into modern New Age beliefs.

[a fool in paradise]

Doomsday prophecy as revealed to them by Karl Marx and Chairman Mao.

[andy58-in-nh]

I’ve never understood why people fell for it to begin with. It was obvious BS from the beginning. I know because I remember thinking it at the time.

Progressives are especially disposed to mysticism - denying the evidence of their own senses - and also to believe, deterministically, that powerful forces beyond their control shape their lives, as opposed to actions taken under their own free will.

Their attitude is frequently one of despair and hopelessness. Such people are vulnerable to the manipulations of others who seek to control them by promising protection against that which they fear, and which their new "protectors" conveniently validate.

In this manner, many Progressives gravitate toward powerful people, especially in government and grow distrustful of, and frequently hostile toward fellow citizens and groups that profess both independence and skepticism toward central authority.

[longfellow]

Al Gore is a genius. He now wants to put vacuums on the wings of planes and this will help with air pollution and it will only raise tickets another $169.

[chesley]

Sounds sorta pagan, or even animist, to me. Oh, wait!