Oooops! The U.N. IPCC published predictions by its climate models: The UN Climate
Models Got it
Wrong: No Warming Yet
This Century
The Washington Post writer Joel Achenbach fears the fashion of blaming every disaster on Global Warming threatens The True Faith. Global Warming
Did It! Well, Maybe Not
But it won't stop as long as scientists in almost any field can win funding and feed media hysteria with some far-fetched global warming
connection in their research:
Melting ice
caps will lead to shellfish invasion but read the whole story: it's a good thing!
Canadian
Govt: Global warming
means more raw sewage in local water, maybe, someday. Meanwhile let's raise taxes to pay for it now!
Most Egregious Claim of the Week:
Usually this section features some sort of snarky comment but I'm afraid all the snark in world couldn't do justice to this column from the Guardian
in the UK:
"...the idea
that we could adapt to a 4C rise is absurd and dangerous. Global warming
on this scale would be a catastrophe that would mean, in the immortal
words that Chief Seattle probably never spoke, "the end of living and
the beginning of survival" for humankind. Or perhaps the beginning of our extinction.
"The collapse of the polar ice caps would become inevitable, bringing long-term sea level rises
of 70-80 metres. All the world's coastal plains would be lost, complete
with ports, cities, transport and industrial infrastructure, and much
of the world's most productive farmland. The world's geography would be
transformed much as it was at the end of the last ice age, when sea
levels rose by about 120 metres to create the Channel, the North Sea
and Cardigan Bay out of dry land. Weather would become extreme and
unpredictable, with more frequent and severe droughts, floods and hurricanes. The Earth's carrying capacity would be hugely reduced. Billions would
undoubtedly die."
You hear that? Billions. I don't think Mr. Tickell got Mr. Achenbach's memo.
Patrick Gallagher, Editor
Richard Vigilante, Publisher
