Doom Now Inevitable… But, Wait. What’s This Fine Print?
Posted by papundits on 11/16/2009
By Andrew Bolt
So this must mean it’s all over, right? No need to even try to save ourselves now:
Any last chance of the Copenhagen climate change conference producing a binding target for the world to cut greenhouse gases has evaporated…
No, that was our last chance gone, if we were to believe Prime Minister Gordon Brown last month:
Gordon Brown said negotiators had 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the “impasse”… Mr Brown said: “If we do not reach a deal at this time, let us be in no doubt: once the damage from unchecked emissions growth is done, no retrospective global agreement, in some future period, can undo that choice…”
No hope left of saving ourselves, if European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas spoke the truth:
… the Copenhagen agreement is almost certainly the world’s last chance to put global emissions onto a trajectory that can keep us out of the danger zone.
If these people weren’t lying, the warming apocalypse is now unstoppable.
But … what’s this? From Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s own Department of Climate Change comes this first, tiny admission that … well, well, well … that the planet hasn’t been warming for most of this past decade, after all:
While there remains some ongoing questioning of whether the observed warming over the 20th century has continued over the past decade, it is inappropriate to use short term data sets to determine long term trends.
How interesting that Rudd now admits what many warning journalists refuse to even discuss.
UPDATE
Associate Professor Chris de Freitas identifies nine myths pushed by warming alarmists.
UPDATE 2
It’s an exquisite dilemma. The more the public demands action on climate change, the more they’ll soon doubt they actually want it:
Ask Vicky Pope, head of climate change advice at Britain’s Met Office, as she tries to explain why less than half the public now doubts man is warming the world:
“Being confronted with the possibility of higher energy bills, wind farms down the road and new nuclear power stations encourages people to question everything about climate change,” she said. “There is a resistance to change and some people see the problem being used as an excuse to charge them more taxes.”
So when Rudd says the public wants his colossal tax on emissions, he’s right – but very soon wrong.
Andrew Bolt is a journalist and columnist writing for The Herald Sun in Melbourne Victoria Australia.
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