April 22, 2008
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/warming_worriers_snowed_under/
So how did global warmenists in Canada celebrate Earth Day?:
So much for global warming. Earth Day festivities went ahead despite the
blast of frigid weather yesterday. Vendors and presenters from various
eco-friendly groups, including Bullfrog Power, CO2 Reduction Edmonton
and the local solar energy society, crammed into a lone tent in Hawrelak
Park after a blizzard forced them to abandon their original locations.
That was Edmonton.
At Vancouver:
The flakes that fell across the Vancouver region Friday night and
Saturday represent the latest snowfall ever on record.
But the warmeners refused to let the weather have the last say in this
debate:
"Obviously we'll have fewer people than we would have liked, but to
cancel an Earth Day event because of weather would kind of be the
antithesis of what this is all about," said organizer Janice Boudreau.
Lorne Gunter would be glad. He was so looking forward to the show, even
as the show started to fall:
In the past, Edmonton's one-day Earth Day has been one of the biggest
enviro-festivals in the country. So perhaps scores of local advocacy
groups and "green" businesses managed to erect their tents and displays,
and tens of thousands of Edmontonians trudged through knee-deep snow to
visit them, eat "Earth-friendly food" and sit in on lectures about stuff
like composting your own human waste and applying used engine oil as a
night-time facial moisturizer.
But it seems the weather is just not doing what all the climate models
predicted. Gunter again:
Indeed, if you use 1998 as the base year, the Earth has cooled in the
last decade. Even if you use 2002 as Year Zero, there has been no
discernable warming. We have entered a "temperature plateau" so far this
decade. Even Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change, grudgingly had to admit as much a couple of months
ago.
Talking with Britain's Guardian newspaper in January, Dr. Pachauri
admitted he and the UN climate body he heads are looking into the
flat-lining temperatures. All the computer models of climate say we
should still be warming, but we're not.
UPDATE
Meanwhile, a calm exposition from Professor Bob Carter on whether global
warming has been cancelled:
And here is the impressive list of signatories so far to the Manhattan
Declaration that Carter helped to draft, which among other things
asserts:
that there is no convincing evidence that CO2 emissions from modern
industrial activity has in the past, is now, or will in the future cause
catastrophic climate change.
--
Warmest Regards
Bonzo
The Fourth Re****t of the IPCC might just as well decree the
suppression of all climatology textbooks, and replace them in our
schools with press communiqués. ... Day after day, the same mantra -
that 'the Earth is warming up' - is churned out in all its forms. As
'the
ice melts' and 'sea level rises' the Apocalypse looms ever nearer!
Without realizing it, or perhaps without wi****ng to, the average
citizen in bamboozled, lobotomized, and lulled into mindless acceptance.
.... Non-believers in the greenhouse scenario are in the
position of those long ago who doubted the existence of God ...
Marcel Leroux
It should be abundantly clear by now that the AGW hypothesis is
contradicted by the facts/measurements/observations and should
therefore be abandoned and be substituted by a hypothesis which
better matches the facts.
- Hans Labohm
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