You might be asking yourself why you haven't heard about this. That is a very important question. As Klein Verzet puts it, the answer is that "This one isn't about making you feel guilty about being alive, earning a living and enjoying the fruits of your labour." The picture says it all.
Hat-tip The Anglo Saxon Chronicle
The most troubling aspect is that politicians have been:
1. not only taken in by this, but they have
2. bought into it wholescale and have then
3. found it to be a powerful tool to manipulate, scare and tax their subjects
4. hiding behind the new found power of so called "Expert Groups"
[See Climategate on YouTube]
... and with only 40 days left for saving the world!
The BBC has maintained a united Global Warming front, in all its news stories, until recently, but the cracks are beginning to show. It started with its scientific correspondent, Paul Hudson, on 9 October 2009 saying What happened to global warming?
"This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise."
Deep in the BBC's web pages is a little report that says "What happened to global warming?" By Paul Hudson, Climate correspondent, BBC News, Friday, 9 October 2009 16:22 UK. He reports:
What is really interesting at the moment is what is happening to our oceans. They are the Earth's great heat stores. According to research conducted by Professor Don Easterbrook from Western Washington University last November, the oceans and global temperatures are correlated. The oceans, he says, have a cycle in which they warm and cool cyclically. The most important one is the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO).
For much of the 1980s and 1990s, it was in a positive cycle, that means warmer than average. And observations have revealed that global temperatures were warm too. But in the last few years it has been losing its warmth and has recently started to cool down. These cycles in the past have lasted for nearly 30 years.
