Recapping the diastrous year for the 'Scientific Consensus' Peanut Gallery

Let's hope the True Believers' Bad Year/Everyone Else's Good Year repeats in 09.

From Ace of Spades:

"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.

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. ...

Secondly, 2008 was the year when any pretense that there was a 'scientific consensus' in favour of man-made global warming collapsed. ...

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. ..."

...and from Power Line, quoting William Katz:

"It is obvious that anthropogenic global warming is not science at all, because a scientific theory makes non-obvious predictions which are then compared with observations that the average person can check for himself. As we both know from our own observations, AGW theory has spectacularly failed to do this. The theory has predicted steadily increasing global temperatures, and this has been refuted by experience.

NOW the global warmers claim that the Earth will enter a cooling period. In other words, whether the ice caps melt, or expand --- whatever happens --- the AGW theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology."

It's time for True Believers of all stripes disavow the lies, manipulation, and drum-beating over their nonsensical and unsupportable agenda item, and concentrate their energy elsewhere, preferably in an area which does not involve massive wealth transfer schemes, and fraudulent "science".