UK: Five things that won't happen in 2009 :: Janet Daley - Telegraph blogs

4. There will be no official admission that the case for anthropogenic (caused by man) global warming has been largely discredited. Demands for reduced carbon emissions, recycling, etc, etc will continue (primarily because there is now a huge political and financial investment in the programmes which they have generated) until they finally fade away out of sheer absurdity and irrelevance. Their demise will be accelerated by the desperate need to remove any obstacles to economic growth over the next few years.

T J Olson, environmental scientist: Global warming ‘facts’ | SummitDaily.com

To check a letter skeptical of man-made global warming (by R. A. Geise, “Global warming: Bah, humbug!,” Dec. 23), the editors of The Summit Daily quoted the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the high-level of certainty for the claim that recent man-made global warming is pretty definite to them. Authority in science was therefore invoked to counter an ordinary citizen’s doubts.

But who checks the authorities? In science, evidence does, because if the science is any good, evidence always trumps theory. To our good fortune, the founding director of the satellite division of the U.S. Weather Service, S. Fred Singer, did so only a few days ago.
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Since the Summit Daily buttressed the IPCC’s authority by calling them the “Nobel Prize-winning” IPCC, would that be a Nobel Prize in “science?” Ah. No. The Nobel Peace Prize — same as the one given to PLO terrorist Yasser Arafat, who never quit practicing terror for actual “peace.”

Glad we could clarify the strength and reliability of that “Nobel Prize” award to the IPCC for all concerned!