Reality -vs- Computer Models

More bad news for the Global Warming crowd: Reality is contradicting the hysterical computer models showing the Earth's temperature approaching that of the sun if we all don't repent and send our dollars to Reverend Al Gores's Church of Gaia. Yes, global temperatures in all parts of the world are falling, except in the fevered imaginings of the climate change crowd.

Reality can be intrusive like that. Christopher Booker sums it all up in his Daily Telegraph article:

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. 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.

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.

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.

Personally, I think it was the election of Mr. Obama. Didn't he say the oceans would recede?

One More Reason The Press Stinks

Sarah Palin thought Africa was a country. Remember that one, along with the other anonymous smears? It was all a hoax, and our lazy, ignorant press bought it all hook line and sinker. Most surprising is that the New York Times is actually reporting this press stupidity. I figured they'd use the old Dan Rather "The faked documents are real" defense.

“Turns out it was Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, who has come forward today to identify himself as the source of the leaks,” Mr. Shuster said.

Trouble is, Martin Eisenstadt doesn’t exist. His blog does, but it’s a put-on. The think tank where he is a senior fellow — the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy — is just a Web site. The TV clips of him on YouTube are fakes.

And the claim of credit for the Africa anecdote is just the latest ruse by Eisenstadt, who turns out to be a very elaborate hoax that has been going on for months. MSNBC, which quickly corrected the mistake, has plenty of company in being taken in by an Eisenstadt hoax, including The New Republic and The Los Angeles Times.

I wouldn't be too proud of myself if I were the hoaxsters. Fooling the press isn't really that hard. They go after anti-Republican propaganda like a dog on its hind legs going after a dangling sausage.