Climate agency going up in flames
Exit of Canada’s expert a sure sign IPCC in trouble
A catastrophic heat wave appears to be closing in on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. How hot is it getting in the scientific kitchen where they’ve been cooking the books and spicing up the stew pots? So hot, apparently, that Andrew Weaver, probably Canada’s leading climate scientist, is calling for replacement of IPCC leadership and institutional reform.
If Andrew Weaver is heading for the exits, it’s a pretty sure sign that the United Nations agency is under monumental stress.
Mr. Weaver, after all, has been a major IPCC science insider for years. He is Canada Research Chair in Climate Modelling and Analysis at the University of Victoria, mastermind of one of the most sophisticated climate modelling systems on the planet, and lead author on two recent landmark IPCC reports.
For him to say, as he told Canwest News yesterday, that there has been some “dangerous crossing” of the line between climate advocacy and science at the IPCC is stunning in itself.
Not only is Mr. Weaver an IPCC insider. He has also, over the years, generated his own volume of climate advocacy that often seemed to have crossed that dangerous line between hype and science.
As the monolithic AGW / Climate Change religion crumbles and the rats, such as Canada’s leading climate scientist, Andrew Weaver and the UK government’s chief scientist, Sir John Beddington, prepare to cover their butts and jump ship, a schism has developed between the CO2 purists, those that believe that they have discovered the Earth’s thermostat and can fine tune it to any temperature they wish and the environmentalist Greens.
As the predictions of doom do not seem to be panning out, the CO2 purists are calling for a negotiated truce. We need not de-industrialise, walk to work or turn vegetarian. Apocalypse can be averted, the high priests of the religion can wave a magic wand to reduce CO2, all they require is to be allowed to practice their religion in peace and continued state support for it.
The environmentalist Greens are incensed by this treachery. They will not be satisfied by the prospect of the majority of humanity not being wiped from the face of the Earth. They want Armageddon now.
When the insane fight amongst each other this can only be good for sanity.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ethicalman/2010/01/is_the_green_movement_bad_for_the_environment.html
boxman (11:01:16) : “NASA will be focused on terrestrial science, such as monitoring global warming”
When I heard this last night during the speech I almost spit blood at the TV.
Un-@ur momisugly#$%^&*((((( believable !!!
Allan M (12:34:21) :
Bravo ! Bravo !!