Sensationalism in the Service of Scientism

realclearpolitics.com ^ | February 12, 2007 | David Warren

[neverdem]

The more I think about "global warming", in light of the most recent United Nations report, the more confident I become in averring that it is a fraud, a political stunt, a criminal imposture, that every intelligent journalist should be helping to expose. We need more reporting on the circular assumptions built into the IPCC's ludicrous computer models, on their use of misleading and conveniently changing baseline years, and on the trends within their own trends. (For instance, they have quietly reduced their middle-range prediction of temperature rise in the coming century by more than one-third; their mean sea-level rise prediction by more than one-half, since the last IPCC report in 2001. Yet this was not the headline.)

We have, I confidently predict, a repeat of the "ozone layer" imposture. The ozone layer is like a cloud in the upper atmosphere, that thickens and thins, disappears and reappears, constantly. But by selective readings of it, a scare was put about that, "The ozone layer is shrinking!" That controversy has itself blown over, because there was nothing to it. Likewise, the extrapolation of long-term trends from short-term temperature variations will blow over. The studies only misstate a truism: that the earth's climates are in constant flux. (It was warmer in Europe in the 13th century, than the IPCC now predicts it will become by the 22nd. Was that caused by uncontrolled CO2 emissions from rampant industrialization in the earlier Middle Ages?)

[Fred Nerks]

"Unless the planet is delivered immediately into the iron embrace of the environmental bureaucracies, we're all going to die!"

and now the islamofascist clerics are on the same bandwagon:

http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,21361640-5005940,00.html

A MUSLIM cleric has blamed the drought, climate change and pollution on the lack of faith Australians have in Allah. Sheik Mohammed Omran told followers at his Melbourne mosque that out-of-control secular scientific values had caused environmental disaster. “The fear of Allah is not there,” he said at a recent meeting. "So we now have a polluted earth, a polluted water, a wasteland...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the topic (ND) and ping (FN).

The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World by Bjorn Lomborg	The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 by Brian M. Fagan Paperback	Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations by Brian M. Fagan	The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization by Brian M. Fagan

[SunkenCiv]

[singing] "Let it rain, let it rain, let your love rain down on me..."

[Fred Nerks]

[singing] "Let it rain, let it rain, let your love rain down on me..."

[xcamel]

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