Warmists pull their heads in

Posted on March 31, 2014 by KG

‘THE UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will shortly publish the second part of its latest report, on the likely impact of climate change.
Government representatives are meeting scientists in Japan to sex up — sorry, rewrite — a summary of the scientists’ accounts of storms, droughts and diseases to come. But the report, known as AR5-WGII, is less frightening than its 2007 predecessor.
….Almost every environmental scare of the past half-century proved exaggerated, including the population “bomb”, pesticides, acid rain, the ozone hole, falling sperm counts, GM crops and killer bees. In every case, institutional scientists gained a lot of funding from the scare and then quietly converged on the view the problem was much more moderate than the extreme voices had argued. Global warming is no different.’
Matt Ridley, writing in the Wall Street Journal
The zealots and cultists are still shrieking and whining, but the tide is turning.
UPDATE: Oh no! Global warming is going to cause more golfers!
This is serious.

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11 Responses to Warmists pull their heads in

  1. mawm says:
    March 31, 2014 at 12:53

    The NZ press is pushing the “we are staring into the face of disaster” over climate change.

    – rising seas – http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11229566

    – increased risk of wildfire, storms, floods, landslides and sea level rises. – http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/9887196/Climate-change-Report-a-wake-up-call-for-NZ

    – the warming climate ride has just begun -http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/9887611/Climate-change-We-need-to-act-now

    They are all so desperate to make this final push to a disbelieving public.

    • KG says:
      March 31, 2014 at 13:40

      When their cult fails, will they have the grace to do a Jonestown? :twisted:

      • The Gantt Guy says:
        March 31, 2014 at 15:58

        Not a single one of them has either the intestinal fortitude or the integrity.

        They’ll blame the rest of us for not believing hard enough, or they’ll claim the “abatement measures” implemented – even half-hearted ones like NZ’s emissions trading scam – averted the worst of the effects.

    • Wombat says:
      March 31, 2014 at 13:56

      Disbelieving, or simply don’t give a crap?

      I would bet my bottom dollar it’s the latter, and frankly that’s the better of the two.

      I suspect few people in the west has any more money or patience for another round of collectivist taxation strategies. They don’t give a damn about the science one way or another, and though they’d never admit it, their empathy for struggling third world victims has been completely tapped out.

      The bottom line in most households has never been closer to breaking point, and people are dog-tired of being told that we live in an age of technology that we ought to feel guilty about powering.

      But we could sum it up a lot more neatly.

      Abbott won. Gillard/Rudd lost. So clearly the climate scaremongers can go eat s#*t and die as far as the Australian voters are concerned. http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_good.gif

      • KG says:
        March 31, 2014 at 14:17

        Something that concerns me, Wombat, is that polls show that the coalition is leading by only a slim margin.
        Yeah, I know, polls…….but the relentless media war on this government is having an effect.
        It pays to remember that the vast majority of people still get their “news” from the MSM.
        Even when the enquiry into unions turns up a huge amount of dirt about them and the ALP, how much of it will make its way into television news and current affairs programs?
        Stuff-all is my guess.

        • Wombat says:
          April 1, 2014 at 09:53

          Shrugs all ’round AFAIC. I hate them all by varying degrees.

          The politics is irrelevant. The masses have reached a saturation point for taxation and interference. We’ve been robbed of any hope of a comfortable future. Most of us live week to week. Any further nonsense from the government, whoever it happens to be, is going to result in noticeable shittification of lifestyle for almost everyone concerned.

          Discontent breeds rebellion, and I for one live for the day that people en-masse begin to seriously question whether they need all these career bureaucrats at all, and just how easy it would be to get rid of them.

          • KG says:
            April 1, 2014 at 10:00

            “Discontent breeds rebellion, and I for one live for the day that people en-masse begin to seriously question whether they need all these career bureaucrats at all, and just how easy it would be to get rid of them.”
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  2. Mathew says:
    March 31, 2014 at 15:59

    Thank the lord we had the brains to elect a conservative government recently who won’t spend another extra cent more than they committed to on this useless crap. If they had any additional balls they’d start scrapping everything they’ve committed to. We can’t afford this stupidity no matter how many marchers squeal and whine for it.

  3. KG says:
    March 31, 2014 at 18:35

    ‘Britain’s secret bid to ‘fix’ UN climate report:
    British officials were last night accused of ‘political interference’ in a crucial report on international climate change.
    The economic impact of global warming was ramped up in the final draft by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
    Shortly before authors wrote the final version, a British Government official passed scientists a note complaining about an earlier, more moderate draft..’
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2592992/Britains-secret-bid-fix-UN-climate-report-Impact-economy-ramped-up.html