UK Telegraph: 2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved

Christopher Booker writes a synopsis of his previous year's articles on "Climate Change", "Global Warming", (insert global environmental emergency vernacular here), and comes to the conclusion that the theory, "consensus", religion of Global Warming has indeed collapsed... dare I say "disproved". (See article here.)

Quoting in part:

"Easily one of the most important stories of 2008 has been all the evidence suggesting that this may be looked back on as the year when there was a turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming. Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most costly and damaging measures politicians have ever proposed, to combat this supposed menace, the tide has turned in three significant respects.

First, all over the world, temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the scare. Last winter, as temperatures plummeted, many parts of the world had snowfalls on a scale not seen for decades. This winter, with the whole of Canada and half the US under snow, looks likely to be even worse. After several years flatlining, global temperatures have dropped sharply enough to cancel out much of their net rise in the 20th century. ..."

He continues...

"Secondly, 2008 was the year when any pretence that there was a "scientific consensus" in favour of man-made global warming collapsed. At long last, as in the Manhattan Declaration last March, hundreds of proper scientists, including many of the world's most eminent climate experts, have been rallying to pour scorn on that "consensus" which was only a politically engineered artefact, based on ever more blatantly manipulated data and computer models programmed to produce no more than convenient fictions. ...

Thirdly, as banks collapsed and the global economy plunged into its worst recession for decades, harsh reality at last began to break in on those self-deluding dreams which have for so long possessed almost every politician in the western world. As we saw in this month's Poznan conference, when 10,000 politicians, officials and "environmentalists" gathered to plan next year's "son of Kyoto" treaty in Copenhagen, panicking politicians are waking up to the fact that the world can no longer afford all those quixotic schemes for "combating climate change" with which they were so happy to indulge themselves in more comfortable times.

Suddenly it has become rather less appealing that we should divert trillions of dollars, pounds and euros into the fantasy that we could reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by 80 per cent. All those grandiose projects for "emissions trading", "carbon capture", building tens of thousands more useless wind turbines, switching vast areas of farmland from producing food to "biofuels", are being exposed as no more than enormously damaging and futile gestures, costing astronomic sums we no longer possess. ..."

In addition, the 80% reduction he refers to in his article, is the commitment to reduce carbon emissions by 80% of levels "measured" in 1990. To put that in context for you... that would be the equivalent of the post-Civil War period here in the US. That would be horse and buggies, folks... No iPods, no Latte's, no concrete and steel towers... and ESPECIALLY... NO AIR CONDITIONING!!!... But of course, Obama and the Socialist Elites around the world wouldn't dare swelter in the heat of summer when they have so much of "The People's Business" to attend to.

With the Manhattan Declaration assailing "consensus" by the critical view of REAL Climate Scientists... the Global Warming pundits are now in desperate attack-mode to attempt to "disprove" real science with pseudo-scientific psycho-babble. Al Gore... your days... are numbered. But of course, he lives in that cushy 20,000sq ft mansion with the 100ft houseboat in Tennessee, and all on your dime. To the Global Warming zealots out there... how does it feel to be taken for a fool, by the biggest ne'er do well that ever suckered his constituents into voting for him?

I think you folks should get your money back for those "diplomas" you acquired from PC U... HEHE!! ;-)