When Osama Bin Laden announced on Friday that he was essentially swapping Al Qaeda for Al Gore with his latest rant being on Global Warming (despite the pure evil of this man, it is hard not to find that funny!), it would seem that the world (and specifically the US Government) is willing to continue to accept the now disgraced UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's outrageous claims on the "changing planet".
Not only do we know that laws were broken with regards to the destruction of raw data; not only do we know via thousands of e-mails and 72 actual documents that the so-called scientists were having repeated discussions on how to manipulate date specifically to get rid of a warming period in the Middle Ages, but now we find out that the claims regarding the Himalayas were based solely on one student's dissertation and a magazine article!
It will not come as a shock that the Swiss geography student based his dissertation on chats he'd had with mountain guides in the Alps and that the magazine article was anchored in casual observations by its readers!
None of that stopped the IPCC from claiming that ALL the ice would disappear from the world's mountain tops by 2035 as a result of Global Warming! It even went so far as to say that two papers were the source of the information. Now you have to understand that when this panel cites "sources" it is claiming scientific studies!
This revelation by the UK's Sunday Telegraph newspaper, comes hot on the heels of the apology the IPCC issued earlier this month over a claim it had made that the glaciers on the Himalayas were melting! They are not!
Even some of the scientists who still hang on by their fingertips to the notion that we humans are causing the planet to heat up, are embarrassed. The Telegraph spoke to one of them:
Professor Richard Tol, one of the report's authors who is based at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin, Ireland, said: "These are essentially a collection of anecdotes.
"Why did they do this? It is quite astounding. Although there have probably been no policy decisions made on the basis of this, it is illustrative of how sloppy Working Group Two (the panel of experts within the IPCC responsible for drawing up this section of the report) has been.
"There is no way current climbers and mountain guides can give anecdotal evidence back to the 1900s, so what they claim is complete nonsense."
But it is important to understand that when the IPCC issues a report every six years, Governments around the world DO INDEED base their policies on it. Cap and Trade (which hopefully is now dead in the water here) is a direct result of the report issued in 2007.
So now we know that Billions of Dollars in taxes and changes in the United States are based on casual conversations between a university student and mountain guides and reader submissions to a magazine!
Very much like Bin Laden and his views on Global Warming (I'm waiting for him to let us know whether he thinks the Big Mac or the Whopper is the better burger!) - this is funny. BUT the seriousness of the consequences should not be underestimated. Perhaps the worst part of this is that our President and Congress continue to talk about the need for us to act now. The UN Secretary General said before the climate conference in Copenhagen that we had - and I'm quoting him directly now - "FOUR MONTHS TO SAVE THE PLANET" (the caps were mine!).
With so much going on it is easy for us to ignore things like this. But we must all understand that if our Government makes law or issues Executive Orders then it is our children and grand children and even their children who will pay the price. They will look back at this time and be embarrassed that their ancestors allowed the "flat earthers" to hijack the world.
We are the guardians of their future, but we MUST be good guards. Don't let them get away with it. Ask questions! Demand answers from your elected representatives. And right here in Florida, don't let them bring in a train we don't want or need on the back of saving the planet.
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The picture is of Everest Base Camp and is a link from bbc.co.uk
The Telegraph story can be read by clicking here.
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