Marginal Mistakes Add Up

The true believer will continue on faith long after all reasonable justification for the belief has been washed away. Never has that been more obvious than with the scrambling of the global warming alarmists. Yet, we don't really see a lot of the erosion in the American media. They have bought into the plans. We've got to look to the British press which apparently is considerably more skeptical that the New York Times:

The Iconic Issues Iced Up

There's just been a few minor mistakes but otherwise the "science is settled" apparently:

OK, they say, it might have been wrong to predict that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035; that global warming was about to destroy 40 per cent of the Amazon rainforest and cut African crop yields by 50 per cent; that sea levels were rising dangerously; that hurricanes, droughts and other "extreme weather events" were getting worse. These were a handful of isolated errors in a massive report

Just those little assertions were false. Nothing much there.

Well, there's also that pesky period that was so much warmer during the Middle Ages, but we'll just overlook that for the greater good:

Almost as revealing as the leaked documents themselves, however, was the recent interview given to the BBC by the CRU's suspended director, Dr Phil Jones, who has played a central role in the global warming scare for 20 years, not least as custodian of the most prestigious of the four global temperature records relied on by the IPCC. In his interview Jones seemed to be chucking overboard one key prop of warmest faith after another, as he admitted that the world might have been hotter during the Medieval Warm Period 1,000 years ago than it is today, that before any rise in CO2 levels temperatures rose faster between 1860 and 1880 than they have done in the past 30 years, and that in the past decade their trend has been falling rather than rising.

See, the important thing is to spend a few trillion dollars hobbling the world economy so that Gore-istas can reap billions of profit out of their "green" industries:

In other words, in crucial respects the IPCC's 2007 report was no more than reckless propaganda, designed to panic the world's politicians into agreeing at Copenhagen in 2009 that we should all pay by far the largest single bill ever presented to the human race, amounting to tens of trillions of dollars.

Now, let's get to the healthcare reform destruction and November elections.