Following the ClimateGate scandal the global warming scaremongers couldn’t get more unhinged, could they? Get a load of these recent articles putting the warmers in the spotlight. You can’t make this stuff up, except, well, they did make it up.
UK Times: The United Nations’ expert panel on climate change based claims about ice disappearing from the world’s mountain tops on a student’s dissertation and an article in a mountaineering magazine.
… In its [United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] most recent report, it stated that observed reductions in mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and Africa was being caused by global warming, citing two papers as the source of the information.
However, it can be revealed that one of the sources quoted was a feature article published in a popular magazine for climbers which was based on anecdotal evidence from mountaineers about the changes they were witnessing on the mountainsides around them.
The other was a dissertation written by a geography student, studying for the equivalent of a master’s degree, at the University of Berne in Switzerland that quoted interviews with mountain guides in the Alps.
Oh, it gets better. Honest mistake, one may say. Well, turns out the UN knew of the source issues prior to publishing their report, but they published it anyway. Just how stupid do they thing people are?
UK Times: The chairman of the leading climate change watchdog was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit, The Times has learnt.
Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment that the glaciers would disappear by 2035 was wrong, but he waited two months to correct it. He failed to act despite learning that the claim had been refuted by several leading glaciologists.
The IPCC’s report underpinned the proposals at Copenhagen for drastic cuts in global emissions.
Mr. Pachauri was sent several e-mails questioning the data as early as November of last year, but disregarded the critics saying, “I don’t have anything to add on glaciers.” Perhaps because he’s received hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money..?
Among some other errors by the IPCC:
[WSJ] … that 1998 was the warmest year on record in the United States (it was 1934); that sea levels could soon rise by up to 20 feet and put Florida underwater (an 18-inch rise by the year 2100 is the more authoritative estimate); that polar bears are critically endangered by global warming (most polar bear populations appear to be stable or increasing); that—well, we could go on without even mentioning the climategate emails. For the record, most Himalayan glaciers do seem to be retreating, and they have been “since the earliest recordings began around the middle of the nineteenth century,” according to a report from India’s ministry of environment and forests.
Finally, you’ll never believe who’s become a global warming jihadist! Literally!
CAIRO (AP) – Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has called for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States and other industrialized countries for global warming, according to a new audiotape released Friday.
In the tape, broadcast in part on Al-Jazeera television, bin Laden warned of the dangers of climate change and says that the way to stop it is to bring “the wheels of the American economy” to a halt.
Right, because Indians and Chinese don’t use a lot of energy… well, nobody ever accused bin Laden of being rational. Apparently, he values the lives of polar bears more than people. After all, he has no problem blowing people out of the sky or collapsing buildings upon them. Sounds like your everyday Earth Liberation Front sociopath to me. Maybe extreme leftists have more in common with jihadists than we first thought.