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.<\/p>\n
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. . . .<\/p>\n
\nSecondly, 2008 was the year when any pretence that there was a \u201cscientific consensus\u201d 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\u2019s most eminent climate experts, have been rallying to pour scorn on that \u201cconsensus\u201d 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.\n
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\u2019s Poznan conference, when 10,000 politicians, officials and \u201cenvironmentalists\u201d gathered to plan next year\u2019s \u201cson of Kyoto\u201d treaty in Copenhagen, panicking politicians are waking up to the fact that the world can no longer afford all those quixotic schemes for \u201ccombating climate change\u201d with which they were so happy to indulge themselves in more comfortable times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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