Lucijan Rejec: Comment on Watts Up With That?

Happy New Year from Slovenia, Mr Anthony, your team and all participants on this blog!

I am a retired mechanical engineer and for a long time I believed the story of AGW. OK, since many years ago I did not read the usual trash of slovenian left wing media (the legacy of the ex communist time) but I was subscribed to The Economist, New Scientist and Der Spiegel, believing their objectivity. I was even happy,expecting the climate to get milder in my home town. So far so that I even planted an olive tree in my garden!

However, after my retirenment, I decided to study this subject a little more. Now, I have colected a library of some 20 books, among them from Roy Spencer, Fred Singer, Henrik Svensmark etc. In addition, I am following related blogs in 7 languages (I very much like the blog of the Czech President Vaclav Klaus - the only intelectual and honest politician to openly speak his mind!) and so I discovered WUWT some months ago.

As a result, I became a convinced sceptic on AGW and WUWT is my dayly read.

FrontPage mag: THE TOP TEN OVERREPORTED STORIES OF 2008

5. Global Warming Deniers
The media continue to demonize those who question the human contribution to global warming – and the necessary, socialist policies the Left offers to correct it. This year saw an increase in mainstream media use of the term “Global Warming Deniers,” a phrase intended to chill rational discourse and place those on the other side on equal par with neo-Nazis.

However, the cast of “deniers” hardly reads like a roster of George Lincoln Rockwell enthusiasts. Czech Republic President Vaclev Klaus has written curtly, “Global Warming is a Myth.” The late Michael Crichton voiced healthy skepticism. Sammy Wilson, the Irish Environment Minister, has become the most recent social leper. He recently told the European press, “I think in 20 years’ time we will look back at this whole climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all.”

The fact that 2008 was the coldest year in the decade, possibly longer, should throw cold water on their hot air – but as with any religious faith, it is merely explained away and its blasphemers burnt at the stake.

Chris Horner interview: A New Year's Resolution for the Global Warming Crowd

There's more and more evidence the global warming alarmists are full of it.

700 WLW host Mike McConnell recently spoke to one analyst, and he gave some interesting views as to why. It boils down to:

1. Follow the money.
2. Mold scientific data to conveniently fit your own viewpoints.

Here's the podcast containing McConnell's interview. You'll find it about halfway through the hour. [It's about 15 minutes long, starting at the 20 minute mark.]