Before the Deluge, Part 2 | Power Line

...Still, that hasn’t stopped Bill McKibben, the perfect embodiment of Churchill’s definition of a fanatic (“someone who can’t change their mind, and won’t change the subject”), from declaring that “Irene’s got a middle name—and it’s global warming.”

This is all too much even for Andy Revkin at the New York Times. Andy tends toward global warming alarmism, though he has ever so slightly been backing away from this, more or less since the East Anglia “Climategate” scandal broke. But above all Andy reports the issue fairly straight. (That’s one reason why a prominent climate campaigner told Revkin last year that “We can no longer trust you.”) Here’s Revkin’s blog post about this

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Regardless of their causes – whether you believe in anthropogenic drivers, like fossil fuels from power plants and cars or not — the observed changes in climate are scientific facts that have grave implications for the future of natural and human systems.

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The fact that gets lost in the squabbling over numbers is that sea level doesn’t have to rise a single millimeter for a Katrina-like disaster to strike New York.

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Supposed ill effects of more CO2 are from flawed computer models in which water vapour and clouds multiply the modest direct warming by factors of up to 10