Monday, February 02, 2009

Christopher Monckton - "Warming freezes the Southern Ocean,"Another Mann-made Climate Change
In late January 2009, the once-respected “science” journal Nature published the results of a computer model apparently showing that nearly all of the Antarctic continent had not cooled over the past 50 years, as the real-world observational data showed, but had warmed instead...
Washington Times - MURRAY/CALZADA/STAGNARO: Lessons from Europe
And what is the upshot of all these huge costs and market distortions? A minuscule cut in emissions - 4 percent by 2020, far below the ambitious 20 percent target. As the Romans said, the mountains went into labor, and gave birth to a ridiculous mouse.

It is often said American Democratic politicians are more eager than their Republican counterparts to learn from Europe. In the case of global warming policy, such learning would be welcome, because the lessons from Europe are clear: Rhetoric can outpace action, and the action itself can be much more painful than rhetoric suggests.
Let them first predict next month’s weather | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
...Funnily enough, though, the Bureau of Meteorology - which shares Wong’s faith in man-made warming - was caught by surprise. On January 22, only a week before the heat wave hit, it issued this prediction for February to April:
The outlook for daytime temperatures for the February to April period shows no significant shift towards either warmer or cooler than normal conditions over most of southeastern Australia with the exception of northwestern South Australia where the odds slightly favour cooler days.

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