Pointing in the wrong direction

[RAENORTH]

Given a choice between a heatwave in southern Australia, which is reckoned to have cost the lives of 19 people, and a severe ice storm in mid-Western USA, killing at least 42 people and leaving 1.3 million without power, which story would you run?

Well, for the warmist Telegraph, that is a no brainer. You run not one, nor two but three stories in quick succession, making sure all your readers are told that this is the "worst heatwave in more than 150 years", where the temperature has climbed to 43°C for three successive days in Melbourne, about 7°C less than a typical summer in southern Iraq.

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[permanentexpat]

It snowed here recently...last time was 28 years ago. ...I am really concerned now.

http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/po ... dhNmE4NjE=

[pipesmoker]

What the press always fail to point out is that alleged global warming, which they now appear to prefer the term climate change for, is all about global MEAN temperatures and not local extremes.

The problem is that many journalists do not understand the science, if the do they deliberately mislead the public with their reports.

[Oz]

Good grief! Australian summers are supposed to be hot. In my area we have had some hot days lately but on balance it has not been a hot summer.
Despite being in the south of the country, Adelaide is particularly prone to scorching summer days,

One of the best known Australian poems is by Dorothea Mackellar. It includes the lines:

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of drought and flooding rains.

Note: sunburnt; drought; flooding rains.

The poem was written around 1908, ie a hundred years ago, pre all the AGW nonsense.

[Adi Blake]

Will there be tax for the population to pay on the areas of Global Freeze? Or is it just in the areas of natural warming, tagged lobal warming?

[Guest]

There'as a priceless letter in the Sunday Telregrasph by Dr Mike Edwards of CAFOD (The Catholic Agency For Overseas Development) who describes himself as "working on climate change" who moves the argument quite openly from Climate Change (formerly Global Warming) to resource management! Perhaps we are getting somewhere after all for his letter is based on the proposition that it is uncertain whether or not "the climate scientists are proved wrong or the "warmists or the sceptics are rightr"

What does matter to him is that we continue doing all the things which waste scarce resources by countering the non-existent threat from carbon emissions as if they were true. Totally mad! But he's looking after his job I suppose.

[John Page]

Booker has another go today at the BBC's supposed impartiality on global warming - there's a link to it on the home page of the Telegraph's web site too.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/colu ... rming.html

'Global warming' was a subject in 'Just a Minute'. While Sue Perkins said 'Of course there's global warming', it was interesting that both Paul Merton and the other speaker (Gyles Brandreth, I think) chose a 'some say, others say' approach.

Only an entertainment programme, of course, but maybe the more significant for that!

The rest of this comment goes off in a different wrong direction. Booker's main attack is on a Newsnight item. I rarely bother with Newsnight, but we were shocked by their introduction to an item about the recent proposals on extending broadband. "If you thought broadband was only for geeks..." started the presenter.... She got no further in our household. What a patronising insult to viewers' intelligence! Is this condescending attitude typical of Newsnight nowadays?

[Peter]

The onus is on the warmistas to prove their case.If untold billions are to be spent satisfying their carbon fetish,their carbonophobia,then much more than religious zeal is required.

[iciparis]

From the link given by permanentexpat

“bring a screeching halt to human civilization and threaten the fiber of life everywhere on earth.”

He gained a reputation for exaggeration during his 2000 campaign, and he’s unable to shake it—because he’s proud of it, saying that it’s just fine to emphasize extreme global warming scenarios because they get people’s attention.

This kind of language and attitude coming from someone in his position is totally irresponsible. Goodness knows what the senators thought about it and how they wil react. It is very worrying to think that this crackpot has the ear of boychild obambi.

I'm of the view that this kind of alarmist claptrap is one of the drivers of the economic downturn. People riddled with guilt about consuming energy or buying a new car, for example, waiting for the next generation of clean machine to come along. Of course these clean machines are still a long way off. In the meantime people are being thrown out of work.

A more measured tone and language indicating the need for a gradual change, if indeed that is his view, would be a lot more responsible. He should also be forced to prove his current position given that the science and data underpinning his argument has been shown to be deeply flawed. The Gore, Hanson, Mann, Schmitt racket - the science is setled, because we say so - can't be allowed to go on, nor can the muzzling or ridiculing of qualified 'sceptics'. Hopefully, with the wave of sceptisim gaining momentum all the time, 2009 will be a watershed year and the facts will emerge.

[Bert Rustle]

A comment on Lawrence Auster's blog http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/012444.html

Alex K. writes: David Attenborough's attack on the book of Genesis as the supposed cause of environmental devastation gave me this idea. If I had a lot of money to spare I think it would be funny to buy ads on London buses that said:

THERE'S PROBABLY NO GLOBAL WARMING.
Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.

[SandyRham]

Silly little game for Brits.
Check the rain radar here
Play sequence and estimate when you next get Gored.
UK Met. office giving real-time unadjusted data

[RAENORTH]

A comment on Lawrence Auster's blog http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/012444.html

Alex K. writes: David Attenborough's attack on the book of Genesis as the supposed cause of environmental devastation gave me this idea. If I had a lot of money to spare I think it would be funny to buy ads on London buses that said:

THERE'S PROBABLY NO GLOBAL WARMING.
Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.

The problem with that is that when there is real global warming like today, all the busses stay tucked up in their nice wam garages.