Global Warming? Global Hoax? It's A Throw Down - You Decide

These folks feel like it's all a huge hoax, there's nothing to worry about and more to talk about than the boring global warming issues. Are they right? There's growing evidence that it's just too soon to know anything, we don't even know if human beings are the cause - things might be exactly as they're supposed to be, and the media and do-gooders like Al Gore are just using scare tactics and half truths to justify their cause. What do you think?

globeandmail.com: Think Gordon Campbell is a global warming guru? Read on

"Let's be honest," Michael Ignatieff told young followers last week in Vancouver. "We got killed at the doorstep with the Green Shift."

Mr. Ignatieff is clear that campaigning on a carbon tax was suicide. But, in British Columbia, Premier Gordon Campbell is sticking with his own carbon tax as he leads his Liberals into a May election.

Does that make him an idealist, willing to go down fighting if it means showing how to save ourselves from global warming? More likely, he's crazy like a fox, having crafted a political image that doesn't match his actions.

Australian Climate Madness: Wong defends GG's comments on climate change

OK then. Here's a little poser for you... what do you think Penny Wong would have said if the GG had come out as an AGW sceptic? Can you imagine Penny saying that the GG has every right to participate in the debate? It would be outrage on all sides, "shouldn't meddle in politics", not her place, inappropriate for representative of the Queen to get involved, harumph harumph...

As usual, double standards rule in the climate change debate.

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- At a climate change conference. This problem gets scarier the more you know about it.

"We must get rid of Antarctica"

We must get rid of the Medieval Warm period" was an early cry from Warmists. The period concerned is of course a complete refutation of Warmism so it had to be "got rid of" somehow. And, with his now discredited "hockeystick" graph, Michael Mann seemed to have done it. When that came unstuck they started to say that the period was just a "local" phenomenon. As there are now findings that it extended to both Argentina and New Zealand, that sure is a big locality!

Meanwhile, another big embarrassment in recent years has been the pesky non-melting of the Antarctic icecap. All observations show it as INCREASING in mass overall. But never fear! A way has now been found around that! And who is in on the fix? None other than that same old statistical faker, Michael Mann. Below is a popular report of the "research" followed by the journal abstract.

What they have done seems pretty clear. They have used one of the old dodges that Prof. Brignell calls "chartmanship". They have taken a distant and unusually cold year and shown that there has been warming since then. Utterly meaningless, of course.