According to Senator James Inhofe of the US Senate Environment & Public Works Committee, the “global warming consensus” continues to melt away:
“We are witnessing an international awakening of scientists who are speaking out in opposition to former Vice President Al Gore, the United Nations, and the media-driven “consensus” on man-made global warming. In May, I released a report detailing scientists who were former believers in catastrophic man-made climate change but who have recently reversed themselves and are now skeptics.
“I will also be releasing a list of the hundreds of scientists, many of them affiliated with the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) process, who have spoken out recently to oppose climate alarmism. It is ironic that the media’s climate hysteria grows louder as the latest scientific reports grow less and less alarming. Even the alarmist UN has cut sea level rise estimates in half since 2001 and has reduced man’s estimated impact on the climate by 25%. Meanwhile, a separate UN report found that cow emissions are more damaging to the planet than all of the CO2 emissions from cars and trucks.
“The New York Times is now debunking aspects of climate alarmism. An April 23, 2006, article in the Times by Andrew Revkin stated: “few scientists agree with the idea that the recent spate of potent hurricanes, European heat waves, African drought and other weather extremes are, in essence, our fault (a result of manmade emissions). There is more than enough natural variability in nature to mask a direct connection, [scientists] say.” The Times is essentially conceding that no recent weather events are outside of natural climate variability. So all the climate doomsayers have to back up their claims of climate fears are unproven computer models. Of course, you can’t prove a prediction of the climate in 2100 wrong today.
Read the rest of the article in the latest issue of Power magazine here. Click on ‘Commentary.’
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
Marco Solo hasn’t worked out that the denialist creeps have been done like dinners. Inhofe ain’t chairman anymore – go liberal Democrats! Bush believes, Howard believes. The public have turned off. Gore will run for President and everyone who voted Republican gets a 2x carbon tax and denialists investigated for sedition. All kids get a free copy of his excellent documentary and it WILL be taught as a compulsory subject in schools. Lists have been drawn up. Basically the debate is settled. It’s over Marc – time to shill for some other cause. The only thing better would be UN world government. Basically unless you do exactly what we say you’re going to climate hell.
Hey I don’t get it – in the post above Marc is banging on about climate alarmism, but here suggesting a solution – so it’s a problem but it’s not a problem. I’m confused. Which is it. How was your day at work Marc “Well – I pooned a few of those climate change denialists but have also come with a cure simultaneously”. WOW
Really it’s not a problem for the US heartland. I reckon like in Iraq this is Dick Cheney stuff – the NSA have their own climate models and they know that everywhere in the world except the USA will be worse off. US will be warmer and wetter – bumper wheat crops. This is just a neo-con plot to take over.
It’s payback for the AWB scandal.
Exclude Florida (full of drug runners and expensive for tax-payer retirees so a few collateral damage hurricanes wouldn’t hurt).
“media driven consensus”?