Whenever I write about “climate change,” a week or two later there’s a flurry of letters whose general line is: la-la-la can’t hear you. Dan Gajewski of Ottawa provided a typical example in our Dec. 28 issue. I’d written about the East Anglia Climatic Research Unit’s efforts to “hide the decline,” and mentioned that Phil Jones, their head honcho, had now conceded what I’d been saying for years—that there has been no “global warming” since 1997. Tim Flannery, Australia’s numero uno warm-monger, subsequently confirmed this on Oz TV, although he never had before.
In response, Mr. Gajewski wrote to our Letters page: “Steyn’s column on climate change was one-sided, juvenile and inarticulate.”
Yes, yes, but what Steyn column isn’t? That’s just business as usual. A more pertinent question is: was any of it, you know, wrong?
Well, our reader didn’t want to get hung on footling details: “The disproportionate evidence supports the anthropogenic cause of global warming,” he concluded.
Yes, but how did the “evidence” get to be quite so “disproportionate”?
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Updates:
3:36 pm EST, February 5th, 2010 — U.N. Climate Chief: Critics Should Rub Their Faces With Asbestos
4:29 pm EST, February 5th, 2010 — Arctic ice melting faster than feared: study
4:30 pm EST, February 5th, 2010 — 2 to 1 odds for Prof. David Barber
Right and wrong, good and evil share a common source truth and lies.
Brainwashing of the masses has been very effective, the key has been to target the guilty consience, it’s a Judeo-christian tradition. Global warming propagandists want us to feel guilt for our good fortune to be alive and wealthy Westerners.