The Never-Ending Story

See the "quirky" :^) Andy Revkin post here.

Two points:

1. Revkin writes:

The one thing all the attendees seem to share is a deep dislike for mandatory restrictions on greenhouse gases.

How about rephrasing that as:

The one thing all the attendees seem to share is a sound understanding of the vast mismatch between the media's climate hysteria and real-world climate data.

2. Revkin also writes:

One of the unavoidable realities attending global warming — a reality that makes it the perfect problem — is that there is plenty of remaining uncertainty, even as the basics have grown ever firmer (my litany: more CO2 = warmer world = less ice = rising seas and lots of climate shifts).

I wish Revkin would take some time to tell us specifically how those "basics have grown ever firmer" since January '07.

A bio of Revkin is here.

Update: From a related post at Junk Science blog here:

Despite his protestations of "fair and balanced" reporting "making no one happy" check out the way he phrases his descriptions.

Here’s the bottom line for you Andy: really crappy models say there’s a potential problem — the real world says there’s not. If you actually get around to reporting in a fair and balanced manner I’d suggest the story is the gargantuan industry built on virtual world scare stories that is siphoning vast sums out of of society’s coffers.