James Delingpole:
You might think this would be great news for all those scientists who have been warning us over the last few years about the impending horrors of “man-made global warming” but in fact they are not happy about it, not one bit.
Here for example is Dr Jay Zwally, the lead author of this week’s surprising Nasa study that confirms that the Antarctic is gaining far more ice than it is losing.
“I know some of the climate deniers will jump on this and say this means we don’t have to worry as much as some people have been making out. It should not take away from the concern about climate warming.”
Does that sound to you like a neutral scientific opinion? Do you sense any relief at the good news that the climate apocalypse of melting ice caps and rising sea levels may not be quite so imminent after all? No, me neither.
Rather it reminds me of the disappointment of Harold Camping, the notorious American evangelist who solemnly warned his listeners that the world was going to end on September 6, 1994.
When that didn’t happen he decided Judgment Day had been postponed to May 21, 2011, and subsequently to October 21 of the same year. Still the world survived and Camping (and the poor fools who believed him) was left with egg all over his face.
Just like all those climate doomsayers who have been making such a big deal of our supposedly disappearing polar ice caps. If the climate alarmists weren’t such a devious bunch I would almost feel sorry for them.
But they are dishonest and they don’t play fair. Not so long ago some supposed climate expert reported me to Australia’s press complaints commission because I’d dared to suggest that the Antarctic ice mass was increasing not decreasing.
As it turns out I was right but this angry alarmist was not going to let a few facts get in the way of his doomsday narrative.
That is because along with the polar bears, the glaciers, the drowning Pacific islands, the rising sea levels and so on the Antarctic has become one of the main characters in the great global warming scare story.
The supposedly disappearing ice was part of the regular drip-drip-drip of bad news that the alarmists so desperately need in order to persuade the public that “climate change” is real and urgent and that only the most radical solutions can save us from its horrors.
But the Antarctic has always been a bit of a problem for the alarmists. Unlike with the floating ice caps around the North Pole, which really did look for a time like they were vanishing (though they have since staged a recovery), the evidence for Antarctic ice loss has never been strong.
“Just because there is more ice than predicted does not mean that there is not less ice.” Liberal-think.
Political Quantum theorists say the the country is both heading in the right way and wrong way simutaneously. 😉
“the first EVIDENCE”
No, it isn’t.
It is merely the first evidence that is so overwhelming that the Greenies cannot ignore it as usual.
There has been plenty of evidence all along that the climate change narrative is just so much pixie dust.
To claim that this is the first evidence is to validate everything that the Greenies have said and done until now.
“Squirrel!”
@Ditto: Hey people they already told you the science is proven, case closed, no discussion. Its a fact no matter what new data there is they have computer models (tell that chick in the swimsuit to get off the keyboard)So forget about any vast right wing conspiracy throwing a fact based monkey wrench in the works.
Squirrel?? where???
Why is southern sea ice increasing?
@Greg: It is increasing because there is more snow. It takes warmer air to carry water that turns into snow. The issue is global warming, not hemisphere warming. It is the average temperature that matters. That is why the satellite temperature measurements are the only accurate measurements and there has been no warming since they have been measuring!
What more proof do we need than Exon has stopped donating to the clinton foundation