Game, set, match
UK Times:
Now they're admitting that the temperature records can't be relied on to accurately represent past changes in temperature. Hockey stick, Shmockey stick. This is the killer, the nail in the AGW coffin.
It's the killer because the whole enterprise was established to explain past temperature changes, and from that to stampede governments with all those frightening predictions of imminent disaster. But since, as it turns out, there are no reliable data on past global temperature changes, then there was never anything to explain in the first place!
It's like launching a huge, expensive effort to explain why unicorns have only one horn. The difference being, of course, that nobody would stand to make billions of dollars from the Horn Question. Nor could the Horn Question energize the International Left's assault on capitalist economics. And we wouldn't have an entire generation of school kids propagandized into spending their time trying to Save the Unicorns. All things considered, a mass Unicorn delusion would have been by far preferable to this climate change fiasco.
A boondoggle for the ages, one for the textbooks. Will Al Gore show up on Oscar night to give his back? Probably a little too inconvenient. What about the Nobel Peace Prize he shared? To make the Peace Prize episode even funnier, the UN's disgraced IPCC was the joint recipient!
Can't make it up.
Byron
The United Nations climate panel faces a new challenge with scientists casting doubt on its claim that global temperatures are rising inexorably because of human pollution.
“The temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of global change,” said John Christy, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a former lead author on the IPCC.
The doubts of Christy and a number of other researchers focus on the thousands of weather stations around the world, which have been used to collect temperature data over the past 150 years.
These stations, they believe, have been seriously compromised by factors such as urbanisation, changes in land use and, in many cases, being moved from site to site.
Now they're admitting that the temperature records can't be relied on to accurately represent past changes in temperature. Hockey stick, Shmockey stick. This is the killer, the nail in the AGW coffin.
It's the killer because the whole enterprise was established to explain past temperature changes, and from that to stampede governments with all those frightening predictions of imminent disaster. But since, as it turns out, there are no reliable data on past global temperature changes, then there was never anything to explain in the first place!
It's like launching a huge, expensive effort to explain why unicorns have only one horn. The difference being, of course, that nobody would stand to make billions of dollars from the Horn Question. Nor could the Horn Question energize the International Left's assault on capitalist economics. And we wouldn't have an entire generation of school kids propagandized into spending their time trying to Save the Unicorns. All things considered, a mass Unicorn delusion would have been by far preferable to this climate change fiasco.
A boondoggle for the ages, one for the textbooks. Will Al Gore show up on Oscar night to give his back? Probably a little too inconvenient. What about the Nobel Peace Prize he shared? To make the Peace Prize episode even funnier, the UN's disgraced IPCC was the joint recipient!
Can't make it up.
Byron
posted by Byron | Sunday, February 14, 2010
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