Will 2008 Be Considered the Year That Global Warming Was Disproved?

 2008 may eventually go down as the year that man-made global warming was disproved. At least that is the basis of this article, and I hope it proves true.

Easily one of the most important stories of 2008 has been all the evidence suggesting that this may be looked back on as the year when there was a turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming. Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most costly and damaging measures politicians have ever proposed, to combat this supposed menace, the tide has turned in three significant respects.

 That is music to my ears and I only hope that it is true when the author claims that the tide is turning. The article then lists the following three reasons why the momentum is being lost by the global warming alarmists.

First, all over the world, temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the scare. Last winter, as temperatures plummeted, many parts of the world had snowfalls on a scale not seen for decades. This winter, with the whole of Canada and half the US under snow, looks likely to be even worse. After several years flatlining, global temperatures have dropped sharply enough to cancel out much of their net rise in the 20th century.

 The alarmists don’t let that little fact get in the way of their argument as they claim that falling temperatures are proof that the earth is warming. Go figure.

Secondly, 2008 was the year when any pretence that there was a “scientific consensus” in favour of man-made global warming collapsed. At long last, as in the Manhattan Declaration last March, hundreds of proper scientists, including many of the world’s most eminent climate experts, have been rallying to pour scorn on that “consensus” which was only a politically engineered artefact, based on ever more blatantly manipulated data and computer models programmed to produce no more than convenient fictions.

 That is something that I have been writing about since I began this blog almost two years ago. There is no scientific consensus on global warming just political consensus.

 Here is a post that I wrote about 650 scientists who dissent from the whole notion that global warming is man-made. The most telling quote in that post is by a scientist who says that now that he is no longer affiliated with an organization or receiving funding he can now speak frankly about global warming. In other words while he was receiving funding he had to claim global warming was man-made or face the threat of losing that funding.

 That isn’t scientific consensus no matter what the politicians or the media or the UN tell us.

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Thirdly, as banks collapsed and the global economy plunged into its worst recession for decades, harsh reality at last began to break in on those self-deluding dreams which have for so long possessed almost every politician in the western world. As we saw in this month’s Poznan conference, when 10,000 politicians, officials and “environmentalists” gathered to plan next year’s “son of Kyoto” treaty in Copenhagen, panicking politicians are waking up to the fact that the world can no longer afford all those quixotic schemes for “combating climate change” with which they were so happy to indulge themselves in more comfortable times.

Suddenly it has become rather less appealing that we should divert trillions of dollars, pounds and euros into the fantasy that we could reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by 80 per cent. All those grandiose projects for “emissions trading”, “carbon capture”, building tens of thousands more useless wind turbines, switching vast areas of farmland from producing food to “biofuels”, are being exposed as no more than enormously damaging and futile gestures, costing astronomic sums we no longer possess.

 Every solution we hear about by the politicians involve those same politicians separating us from our money and now that the economy has taken a downturn people don’t want to lose even more of their money, Especially to a scam such as global warming.

 While I don’t agree that the downturn in the economy has anything to do with the disproving of global warming I am all for any excuse to stop the hoax from being perpetrated on the people. So if the economic downturn stops politicians from implementing their disastrous and nefarious plot to subjugate the people through taxes, fees, and restrictions I say at least there is one upside to the downturn in the economy.

 Will 2008 go down as the year that global warming was disproved? I doubt is but let’s hope that it was at least the year when the tide turned against the global warming hoax. And let’s hope that the tide continues to turn.