Sox First: Global warming a last priority

Clearly, if the climate crisis is not addressed, there will be no economy as we know it.

Lord Monckton: Global Warming Science and Public Policy - Global Cooling Under-reported, Says SPPI

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Earth has shown an under-reported cooling trend for eight straight years, raising serious questions about the accuracy of the UN’s climate projections, since not one of the computer models on which it relies had predicted so long and steep a cooling, says a new review paper -- Temperature Change and CO2 Change – A Scientific Briefing --from the Science and Public Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. think tank.

The paper posits that “The chief reason for scepticism at the official position on “global warming” is the overwhelming weight of evidence that the UN’s climate panel, the IPCC, prodigiously exaggerates both the supposed causes and the imagined consequences of anthropogenic “global warming”; that too many of the exaggerations can be demonstrated to have been deliberate; and that the IPCC and other official sources have continued to rely even upon those exaggerations that have been definitively demonstrated in the literature to have been deliberate.

“In short,” writes Monckton, “science is being artfully manipulated to the point of what are in essence political and not scientific conclusions – a conclusion that is congenial to powerful factions whose ambition is not to identify scientific truth but rather to advance the special vested interests with which they identify themselves.

The Political Octagon » Global Warming Ranked Dead Last as Policy Priority

Al Gore & Co. had better start yelling even louder. Despite recent assurances that the planet is doomed if totalitarian measures aren’t employed to suppress harmless CO2 emissions within the next 4 years, the global warming farce has been ranked dead last in a list of the public’s priorities, according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center.

The Goracle and his environmentalist Kool-Aid brigade can take heart that global warming is considered a more serious concern than the threat of disco coming back.

More climate idiocy from alarmist Bryan Walsh and Time

Others would argue there's value in getting giant corporations on board with carbon caps, even if it means offering them a watered-down proposal. But even that may be onerous: As difficult as it was convincing the public that climate change was a clear and present danger — and a majority of conservatives are still doubtful — the political fight to really cut carbon emissions will be knottier. Although Obama has surrounded himself with scientists who believe that global warming is our biggest threat — including Nobel Prize-winner Steven Chu as Energy Secretary, and Harvard's John Holdren as White House science adviser — members of the President-elect's economic team reportedly remain doubtful that cutting carbon is worth the money. And even though Obama has pledged to listen to his scientists "even when it's inconvenient — especially when it's inconvenient," it's the economy that remains front and center in the public realm.

Meanwhile the science on climate change grows more dire...