The crackup of the climate 'consensus'

NY Post ^ | February 19, 2010 | STEVEN F. HAYWARD

[Scanian]

The climate-change campaign is in catastrophic free fall.

Nearly every day brings a new embarrassment or retraction for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the supposed gold standard for "consensus" science. The withdrawal this week of BP, ConocoPhillips and Caterpillar from the main US business lobby for greenhouse-gas controls is the latest political blow to the campaign.

The anti-warming lobby long demonized skeptics as the moral equivalent of Holocaust deniers while warning of climate "tipping points." Now, the "Climategate" scandal that broke in November is looking like a true tipping point: The leaked e-mails have done to the climate-change debate what the Pentagon Papers did for the Vietnam War debate 40 years ago -- changed the narrative decisively.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Clive]

Climate alarmism has become a religion. Any evidence to contrary to their dogma is heresy. It shakes their world view.

[InterceptPoint]

The withdrawal this week of BP...

Hopefully BP will now stop running those Mushy Green commercials that make me want to throw a brick through my TV.

[Nateman]

[neverdem]

But the whole climate campaign now resembles a Broadway musical that has run too long, with sagging box office and declining enthusiasm from a dwindling audience. Someone needs to break the bad news to the players that it's closing time for the climate horror show.

I don't think it's that simple, not if criminal fraud is involved with federal funds.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the post; ping. BUMP-TO-THE-TRUTH!

[Scanian]

Glad you liked the post.