India has set up its own body to monitor climate change, because it can’t rely on the IPCC.
I think it’s going to be very difficult to set up such a thing that won’t be politicized. The economic and power stakes are simply too high.
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What is really melting is their credibility. Well, that’s certainly indisputable, though I suspect that there will be a lot of skeptics and deniers among the watermelons.
[Update a few minutes later]
Why climate science is on trial, and investigation of actual criminal liability in England.
Really, as I wrote when the story first broke, it is the people who propose to pauperize us in furtherance of their political agenda, based on falsified data and flawed techniques, who are the real criminals:
…when scientists become politicians but continue to pretend to be doing science, that is the real crime. The theory being promoted by these men was being used to justify government actions that would result in greatly diminished future economic growth of the most powerful economy on earth (and the rest of the world as well). It would make it more difficult and less affordable to address any real problems that might be caused in the future by a change in climate, whether due to human activity or other causes. It could impoverish millions in the future, with little actual change in adverse climate effects. And when such a theory has the potential to do so much unjustified harm, and it has a fraudulent basis, who are the real criminals against humanity?
I think that the scam is over. I certainly hope so.
I think that the scam is over.
Uh, no. Too much money is already on the table, too much political influence. There will be a period of retrenchment, then the campaign will continue from a more secure base.
It’s not about science, or the weather. It’s about power, and that hasn’t changed one bit.
No, the scam is not going to die. I paraphrased the relevant movie quote on another board:
Sure, just like people are still receiving e-mails from the widows of wealthy Nigerian princes. They’ll still be picking off stragglers for years to come — but they are increasingly seen for the vermin they are, and their dream of the big score is dead.
I agree with K and Bart. They won’t stop, not for facts, not for reason, not for anything…except a relentless and remorseless counterattack.
Speaking of inconvenient facts it now appears the East Antarctica ice sheet is not melting as predicted by global warning.
http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2010/world/glimmer-of-optimism-for-polar-ice-in-antarctica/
Glimmer of Optimism for Polar Ice in Antarctica
January 22, 2010
[[[The Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) found that seawater temperatures beneath the Fimbul Ice Shelf are hovering slightly above freezing. This data indicates the water is actually “icier” than temperature projections made by an Antarctic regional computer model, according to Dr. Nalan Koc of NPI.]]]
Darn Mother Nature, she is not following the computer models again…