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December 09, 2009

The Wednesday Update

December 9, 2009  Volume 3, Number 46  IN THIS ISSUE:  Trust Your Lying Eyes, Doyle Goes to Gabfest

Dec. 9, 2009 Vol 3, Number 46	Wednesday Update
In This Issue: 1. Trust Your Lying      Eyes 2. Doyle Goes to     Gabfest 3. No Kris In That     Kringle	Trust your Lying Eyes We indulge ourselves in one brief moment of self-congratulation, to point out that we referred to global warming as a “fraud running on fumes” three weeks before the Climategate e-mail scandal broke. It wasn’t hard. Anyone who’s been paying attention could have done it. The real satisfaction belongs to the millions who have stoically endured years of redundant, groundless claims that global warming is “worse than previously believed,” and who now can see that the political abuse of climate science has been worse than previously believed. Saturday’s London Times brought word that the Met Office, Britain’s official government weather service, will re-evaluate160 years of temperature data “after admitting that public confidence in the science on man-made global warming has been shattered by leaked e-mails.” According to the Times, this re-evaluation will take three years, and of course the pressure is on to enact massive tax and regulatory schemes before anyone can verify whether there’s been a meaningful warming trend at all. If there isn’t you can count on the fact being reported on Christmas Eve 2012, below the fold on page D 29. Especially revealing has been the despicable performance of the U.S. media. You would expect major newspapers and broadcast networks to take interest in a potentially fraudulent plan to reorder the global economy at a cost of trillions of dollars. Further, you would think that honest reporters would seize the chance to break The Story of the Century. Instead, news organizations have gone out of their way to miss the story altogether. Fortunately, the pretense that “there’s nothing to see here” isn’t working. A Google search on “global warming” late Monday night returned 10.2 million hits. A Google search seconds later on “Climategate” returned 31 million. The spread between the two numbers had been widening for a week. People know there’s something to see here. Doyle goes to Gabfest Just as Governor Doyle was getting ready to head for the United Nations climate confab in Denmark, two dozen of Wisconsin’s most consequential centers of commerce and employment asked him to consider the consequences before introducing legislation based on his Global Warming Task Force’s recommendations. Recommendations that were promoted two years ago as some of the most urgent policy ideas of all time, are likely to be introduced next year. Contributing to the delay are objections by the state's largest business groups, citing studies that say the proposed legislation could cost Wisconsin another 50,000 jobs. As for the Copenhagen conference, London’s Daily Telegraph—a firm believer in global warming—reported the gabfest will be serviced by more than 1,200 hired limousines, some driven in from neighboring countries, 140 private aircraft, some that will have to be parked at airports in neighboring countries, and the slaughter of innumerable shellfish and salted, embryonic sturgeon to soothe the sensitive palates of the world leaders, Hollywood climate experts and assorted environmental freeloaders assembled there to decide what’s good for the rest of us. The UN itself has estimated the event will result in more than 40,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions that wouldn't otherwise occur. Saving the planet from the ravages of other peoples’ lifestyles can be a messy business. No Chris in that Kringle! The Danish Foreign Ministry has decreed that no Christmas tree may be displayed anywhere within sight of the venue where Copenhagen climate conferees will perform their vital work. The trees are a symbol of a religious holiday that “has no place” at a United Nations gathering, the Ministry said. Perhaps the ministry wishes to protect the sensibilities of the global warming priesthood against challenges--expressed or implied--by other religions. But non-Kool Aid-drinking Danes have at least one luxury that’s unavailable to us: The Danes can turn to their nation’s top-ranking lawmaker for a dose of common sense. The Speaker of the Danish Parliament has a somewhat jaundiced view of the planet-saving circus that’s rolled into his town. Thor Pedersen told the Copenhagen Daily Politiken last week the unending assertions that observed changes in climate are brought on by human activity are “a very dangerous claim.” “I’m not saying that the decade that the temperature has fallen or stagnated is enough to evaluate developments. But one should only say what one knows.” Pedersen told a Politiken interviewer. “You should say that although we believed in our [computerized climate] models, that the temperature would rise from 1998 to 2008, we have to admit that it has not risen,” he added. Washington could use a good dose of Pedersen’s common sense.