Check out this headline:
GREAT SCOTT!
How long do we have?
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN body regarded as the world’s top authority on climate change, has warned Himalayan glaciers could “disappear altogether by 2035″ and experts say the effects of global warming are already being felt in the region.
That is a scary, scary headline followed by a terrifying story.
Some might say it is written to scare the reader. If the melting glaciers threaten that many people, and the glaciers are melting because I like to run my patio heater when cooking my steaks, or watch the Califonia wildfires on my gigantic plasma television with my five kids, then by gosh, I need to change my lifestyle to one more like Ed Begley, Jr.
Then again, it could simply be scare tactics based on nothing:
Rather than accept the findings of foreign scientists alone, Jairam Ramesh, India’s environment minister, appointed a panel of Indian scientists on Himalayan melting. “My concern is that this comes from western scientists … it is high time India makes an investment in understanding what is happening in the Himalayan ecosystem.”
The Indian panel, headed by V K Raina, looked at 150 years of data gathered by the Geological Survey of India from 25 Himalayan glaciers. It was the first comprehensive study of the region. It concluded that while Himalayan glaciers had long been retreating, there was no recent acceleration of the trend, and nothing to suggest that the glaciers would disappear. In short, the IPCC had perpetrated an alarmist hoax without scientific foundation.
Surely not. There has to be more to this story.
The IPCC admitted that the prediction was based on a report written in a science journal and even the scientist who was the subject of the original story admits it was not based on fact.
The article, in the New Scientist, was not even based on a research paper – it evolved from a short telephone interview with the academic.
Dr Syed Hasnain, an Indian scientist then based at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, said that the claim was “speculation” and was not supported by any formal research.
Once again, the “science” behind the global warming myth has been exposed to be not only erroreous, but in this case, “speculation” that is “not supported by any formal research.”
Perhaps someone needs to get these stories to the desk or e-mail inbox of Sen. Lindsey Graham, the RINO Senator from South Carolina who is ready to work with Democrats to pass the Cap and Trade bill.
Of course, if he’s a true believer, there is no convincing him. But we should still try. Click here to email Sen. Graham. Ask him if he supports skyrocketing electrical prices based on “speculation.”
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