Friday, September 24th 2010, 7:43 PM EDT
THIS newspaper has long been in the sceptical camp when it comes to the great man-made global warming scare.
It is not the warnings of some scientists about the possible impact of climate change that are most objectionable but rather their elevation into an orthodoxy that it is not permissible to challenge.
Yet there has always been the whiff of hyperbole surrounding claims made by the high priests of the climate change
movement.
One of the most alarming predictions was the forecast of Dr Rajendra Pachauri that the Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035, causing an environmental disaster. As chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the official United Nations body in this area, Dr Pachauri’s warning commanded massive attention. But now even he admits it was not justified.
Updated with comments below by Piers Corbyn
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So no wonder he is under pressure to step down. In Britain even adherents of the climate change panic wish him to depart. As Tim Yeo, chairman of the all-party Commons committee on the subject, observes: “Climate science needs a guarantee of utmost reliability and Dr Pachauri can no longer guarantee that.”
It is obvious that Dr Pachauri should resign and take the rest of his discredited panel with him. But there is a very good reason why those who first challenged his views need not bother to press the issue: while Dr Pachauri and his allies remain in place few people will believe future IPCC scare stories about the world drastically overheating.
And that is a much bigger problem for climate change fanatics than for those inclined to take their warnings with a large pinch of salt.
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An excellent editorial! The Express has consistently backed evidence-based science against fiction and fabrication while other papers have peddled nonsense.
Of course it is right Pachauri AND the whole of the IPCC brainwashing machine must go.
They have no evidence for their claims or so-called 'science' and as I challenged George Monbiot - the Green Taliban inquisitor who has the scientific knowledge of a mouse but a loadspeaker to squeak down - If they have observational data evidence for the theory - using available data for the last hundreds, thousands and millions of years - LET'S HAVE IT.
This request has been made in good faith in many forums but the answer is nothing; nothing other than bluster, irrelevant or falsified data and innuendo and opinions on the attitudes and mental states of people who ask for what any thinking adult or child wants - EVIDENCE.
EVIDENCE-BASED SCIENCE AND POLCY must be our guide and when its not we are headed down a very dangerous path.
There are three key points which must be be understood:
1. The theory of Man-made Global Warming & Climate Change is failed science based on fraudulent data. IT JUST DOESN'T ADD UP!
All the dire predictions of the UN (IPCC) since 2000 have failed. CO2 does not cause extreme weather. The world is cooling not warming. There is no evidence in 600, 600,000 or 600million years of data that changes in CO2 levels in the real atmosphere drive world temperatures or change climate; indeed it is temperatures which generally drive CO2 levels. - See http://bit.ly/9UKlBD . Extra CO2 has ZERO effect, and any concession to the notion there is somehow some 'weak' effect waiting to happen falls into the trap the Climate hype industry machine has set for the ill-informed and the usual Appeasement brigades who surface in all political conflicts.
2. The driver of all important weather extremes is solar activity.
In the end it is extreme weather that matters rather than averages and this is controlled by Jet stream shifts and extra activity of weather fronts, and These are driven by changes in solar activity and largely predictable – See ongoing discussion in Comments as link above, http://bit.ly/bpZDlp - espec comments in red eg Aug 8th concerning predicted changes in the jet stream + records of the solar activity that caused them.
3. MORE CO2 is GOOD not bad.
CO2 is plant food and more CO2 increases the productivity of agriculture. Carbon fixing policies are madness which if carried out in the name of ‘Clean coal’ [NB Smoke from coal is easily removed and should be, but that is another issue] would double the cost of electricity and double the amount of coal used to produce power because carbon fixing (‘sequestration’) is very energy intensive.
Thanks Piers Corbyn