It's sure to produce a piercing shriek of the usual babble, dribble, drool and spew from the True Believers, and their faithful followers in the lame stream media, as illustrated here.
Typical of the nonsense that's sure to follow:
"In the end, there was little debate on the strength of the wording about human activity most likely to blame."
As if the IPCC had any credibilty on this subject!
Meanwhile, reports like this one will get no mention at all in the True Believers' rush to splooge all over themselves as they clamor over the New Gospel, which they feel validates their nonsense.
Key point:
"The media’s lack of interest hardly reflects upon the importance of Svensmark’s experiment so much as it reflects upon the media’s and global warming lobby’s excessive investment in greenhouse gas hysteria."
Those who benefit from climate change alarmism have no shame.
They also have no intellectual credibility.
UPDATE 2-2-07
The expected pushback in the local blogosphere came over at Cone's.
Jim Capo came up with a little tidbit that I had forgotten all about.
Meanwhile, here's an interesting piece from Don Surber.
Excerpt:
"Robert Giegengack, 67, seemed to tell the Philadelphia magazine what his younger colleagues are afraid to say: The science ain’t there.
'I always get sidetracked because, first of all, the science isn’t good. Second, there are all these other interpretations for what we see. Third, it doesn’t make any difference, and fourth, it’s distracting us from environmental problems that really matter.'"
UPDATE 2-5-07
WSJ's Opinion Journal weighs in with some common sense analysis.
Excerpts:
"Last week's headlines about the United Nations' latest report on global warming were typically breathless, predicting doom and human damnation like the most fervent religious evangelical. Yet the real news in the fourth assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may be how far it is backpedaling on some key issues. Beware claims that the science of global warming is settled."
"Written mainly by policymakers (not scientists) who have a stake in the issue, the summary was long on dire predictions."
"Meanwhile, new scientific evidence keeps challenging previous assumptions. The latest report, for instance, takes greater note of the role of pollutant particles, which are thought to reflect sunlight back to space, supplying a cooling effect. More scientists are also studying the effect of solar activity on climate, and some believe it alone is responsible for recent warming."
Those are sensible, well thought out opinions, and stand in stark contrast to the nonsense knee jerk responses by supposedly intelligent people who should know better, as evidenced by the advanced state of denial about "denial, as evidenced on many other blogs locally and nationally regarding this subject.
The case for "scientific consensus" on "global warming" is by no means closed by this latest round of propaganda. Indeed, it's safe to say that the sacred cow "cause" of the True Believers has been undercut by this preliminary report.
Of course, they'll never admit it, but fortunately there are plenty of people who will keep them academically and intellectually honest on this subject.
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