December 27, 2008

The death of ManBearPig?

There's a great column in today's Telegraph which suggests that this year may actually be the "turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming."  One can hope...

Ever shriller and more frantic has become the insistence of the warmists, cheered on by their army of media groupies such as the BBC, that the last 10 years have been the "hottest in history" and that the North Pole would soon be ice-free – as the poles remain defiantly icebound and those polar bears fail to drown. All those hysterical predictions that we are seeing more droughts and hurricanes than ever before have infuriatingly failed to materialise.

Even the more cautious scientific acolytes of the official orthodoxy now admit that, thanks to "natural factors" such as ocean currents, temperatures have failed to rise as predicted (although they plaintively assure us that this cooling effect is merely "masking the underlying warming trend", and that the temperature rise will resume worse than ever by the middle of the next decade).

And that's the problem. This has become a cult, and its most devoted followers haven't just drunk the Kool-Aid, they're swimming in it.  Besides, there's still money to be made from the crisis.

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1 It's always mystified me how we are winning the science battle but losing the political war.

Posted by: steveegg at December 27, 2008 08:33 PM (LvEFt)

2 Because they're winning the culture.

Posted by: doubleplusundead at December 27, 2008 08:44 PM (D2cBI)

3

Conservatives win with sound logic, morals, and better (by a lot) solutions.  Unfortunately, the GOP doesn't represent conservatism any more.  That's the real problem.  When one appeals to emotion, the Dems will always win ... their hopey-changey trumps the half-assed approach of Bush.

Eventually, of course, logic will always win out ... the question is if America realizes that before driving over the cliff and going the way of Rome.

Posted by: Hermit Dave at December 27, 2008 09:57 PM (WhFvm)

4 In "polite" society, I'm regularly told to not express my opinions.

Not just family, but in general.

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Posted by: wickedpinto at December 28, 2008 04:48 AM (ul7te)

5 Oh, leave him alone.  Al Gore doesn't have any friends. - Stan, South Park

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 28, 2008 03:22 PM (bsKYG)

6 I've been fighting the AGW religion since about 2000, when I engaged in a lengthy debate over in on my defunct blog, "The Safety Valve" with David Appell of Scientific American.  Before it degenerated into hysterical emails from Appell, I posed a Simon/Ehrlich bet: I said that I'd pony up $1000 that global temperatures would fall on average over the next ten years (I was well aware of the upcoming Maunder Minimum, Appell clearly was not).  It says something very clearly that Appell would not agree to the bet, muttering something about it being "beneath his dignity."
After all these years of following AGW, I've come to realize that it stopped being about the actual climate debate within about two or three years.  It is now almost entirely a political and financial game.  Socialists see it as the best chance they've ever had to impose government control of everything, and it has been openly stated by pols such as Chiraq that it represents a crucial first step to a world government.  And the financial motivations are obvious.  Hundreds of millions are donated to enviro groups or spent lobbying in Washington for regulations that will benefit the company making the effort (T. Boone Pickens is a classic example, although BP is second place).  The enviros hail this naked money grab as "responsible corporate leadership."
So, yes, we are well on our way to smashing the "consensus" and being able to move ahead on the science.  But like the "second hand smoke" fiasco (note that it has been exonerated as a dangerous pollutant by the EPA, OSHA, and WHO, to name just a few) the regulations are in place for pushing others around, charging obscene taxes, and grabbing political power.  The science is long forgotten.

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