New Antarctic `Warming' study is a guesstimate that defies the known facts

The whole thing is based on "estimates" and "reconstructions" of Antarctic temperatures, not on actual measurements! How surprising that the authors come up with "estimates" that confirm their well-known beliefs! Excerpts from one commentary below. See the original for links. First however, see below an amusing graph taken from the home page of one of the authors of the new "study". It is a graph of actual warming and shows -- wait for it -- that Antarctica COOLED. These crooks cannot even keep their own story straight! I'm saving a copy of the graph in case they delete it

Marc Gunther » Sheikh it up, baby!

I can tell you that the Sheikh has several things going for him that American CEOs don’t. He doesn’t have to worry about quarterly earnings, so he can invest for the long term. He doesn’t have to answer to shareholders. He doesn’t have to get elected. And no one will tell him publicly that he’s crazy to be spending money on solar power and green buildings because he can’t be criticized in the press.

National Post editorial board: Uninvited advice from four unsuccessful leaders - Full Comment

It’s the second time in less than six months that the quartet have lent their signatures to an environmental initiative designed to embarrass the government of Stephen Harper. The first time was back in September, during the federal election campaign, when the same four ex-prime ministers joined with Naomi Klein, Margaret Atwood, union, student and ethnic leaders to push an initiative known as “Time to Get Serious on Climate Change,” an effort that fell with a thud as soon as it was launched.

Like most calls for green spending, this current demand for eco-based stimulus is big on rhetoric and short on detail. For instance, Rick Smith, executive director of Environmental Defence, one of the campaign’s sponsoring organizations, called the package a “no-brainer” that would combat both the recession and global warming: “There are jobs just waiting to be created and businesses poised to grow.” Really? Where?

Much of the campaign’s projections for new jobs and economic growth are based on magic-wand reasoning that imagines the only barrier between us and a post-industrial, green nirvana to be a lack of imagination and public funding. If we just throw enough federal cash at the problem, the theory goes, the dream of a carbon-free future will wondrously materialize.