Man-Made Global Warming Shot Down

I just listened to a great interview on CKNW between host Jon McComb and guest Christopher Monckton. He discusses a very detailed technical paper he wrote for the American Physical Society. To hear the interview, click here and tune your media player to 35:40 and then later to 46:30.

Here's one key quote by Lord Monckton:

One of the most disfiguring parts of the deliberations of the UN's Climate Panel has been the insistence of the bureaucrats that run it that a particular orthodoxy shall be reflected in the scientific documents it produces. The scientists are not, repeat, not in charge of the UN Climate Panel. It is political representatives who agree on the final text and it is bureaucrats who prepare that final text for them after the scientists have all signed off the final version.

And when I got my final version of it and read through it I saw that these bureaucrats had inserted, among many other things, a table of figures in which, by ingenious manipulation of 4 decimal points, they had succeeded in exaggerating the contribution of melting ice sheets and glaciers - the sort of thing that Al Gore is always banging on about - not just a little exaggeration but a ten-fold exaggeration, a thousand percent exaggeration.

And so I wrote to the IPCC and said, "Look, once we've signed off on this document it is not for you to insert tables like this without our sanction and without having drawn our attention to it.

CO2: European Hypocrisy

I burst out laughing when I read this story about how carbon dioxide emissions from Europe's heavy industry sectors rose by 1.1% in 2007. And keep in mind this after carbon trading programs have been implemented and some of this industry has been offshored to China.

Personally, I have yet to hear any tangible proof that CO2 emissions are the primary cause of global warming but for those people who do believe it, they're sure not walking their talk!

400 New Climate Change Deniers

And lo and behold, each of them is a prominent scientist! You've got to read this. Here's an excerpt:

Even some in the establishment media now appear to be taking notice of the growing number of skeptical scientists. In October, the Washington Post Staff Writer Juliet Eilperin conceded the obvious, writing that climate skeptics "appear to be expanding rather than shrinking." Many scientists from around the world have dubbed 2007 as the year man-made global warming fears “bite the dust.” (LINK) In addition, many scientists who are also progressive environmentalists believe climate fear promotion has "co-opted" the green movement. (LINK)