Global Warming this morning

A Tangled Web posts that 2005 data from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide “ice caps” near Mars’s south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row. So it would seem to add to the evidence that the long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars which of course rather undermines the human Co2 global warming scam.

Also this morning Tim Worstall links to a Guardian article by their Science editor Robin McKie who puts the boot into Channel 4 The Great Global Warming Swindle, which is described as a documentary which says claims that carbon emissions are causing global warming are ‘lies’ and that attempts to debate the subject are being suppressed.

In order to undermine any effect this program might have on the global warming debate and yes to close down the debate, McKie places the suggestion that the ICCP might have got it wrong, alongside other well known conspiracies. “Princess Diana was killed by Nazis; 9/11 was the work of the US government, while the manned lunar landings were hoaxes filmed in TV studios. To this list of internet-fuelled daftness, we can now add a new plot: that the world’s scientific community is not just wrong about global warming, but is collectively lying when it says industrial carbon dioxide emissions are heating up the planet”

Then misinterpreting as Tim Worstall points out the recent ICCP summary for policymakers as. “Given that the world’s climatologists have just published a careful, sober report showing global warming is real and worrying,” (The full report is still a couple of months away, currently being rewritten to make sure it accords with that summary.)

McKie says “the programme is an astonishing foray into the debate. Certainly, there many reasons to deride it. Its contents are largely untrue, for a start. That is Channel 4’s problem. Yet a couple of important points do emerge from this nonsense and we should not make the mistake of ignoring them.”

Before launching into a virulent Ad Hominem attack

“To back his case, director Martin Durkin interviews climate-change deniers including Phillip Stott, Piers Corbyn, Nigel Calder and Nigel Lawson who reveal their antipathy to the idea we are altering Earth’s weather systems.

These names are scarcely unknown. Listeners to Today and viewers of Newsnight have been hearing Stott and the rest promote their views for years. Indeed, they have dominated and distorted the whole global warming debate, a point stressed by Alan Thorpe, head of the Natural Environment Research Council. ‘These people are never off the radio or TV, yet now they claim debate is being suppressed? It is preposterous.’ So what, we might ask, is the deniers’ problem? Examine their movement and you see a common thread: most proponents are elderly, only a few are scientists and several have pronounced pro-market views. And hereby hangs a tale.”

Later in the article McKie tries a little bit of double think when he writes;

The problem is that denial – in all its ludicrous glory – makes it easy for us to gloss over genuine concerns about society’s right reaction to global warming and carbon emissions. And that is what is wrong with Durkin’s programme. It opts for dishonest rhetoric when a little effort could have produced an important contribution to a critical social problem.

Society’s right reaction is most likely reliant on the acceptance of real scientific proof and not on a political controlled UN summary of the state of scientific knowledge. More so when the last two summaries issued by the ICCP in 2001 and 1995 have both been comprehensively shown to be biased towards the human causes of global warming and the Mann Hockey stick graph on which the ICCP based its claims last time out, has been proved to be totally unreliable.

But the morsel which I found most instructive was Mckie`s attemt to justify himself against any suggestion of double standards, when he says

“I refuse to feel guilty because I have a family holiday in Spain and then write about the threatened glories of the Great Barrier Reef.” As “air travel accounts for only 2 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions”

If we are to accept this basis then why on earth should we in Britian feel guilty at all, as according to government figures in Britain humans contribute only 0.06% of total world output of Co2.

It also seems according to Eureferendum that the EU is doing its bit for global warming by claiming a bit of Hollywood glamour. Because the Oscar winning Al Gore documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” drew on some results produced by the EU-funded EPICA environmental project.

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