Even though News Ltd gowdows in public to the new warming religion, The Australian does what any proper newspaper should do, and indeed what any real scientist does - it asks questions.
And aren't those question multiplying?
Today's issue is full of them. It also lays bare the fact that in Peter Garrett we have an environment minister who is a clueless scientific illiterate. What an embarrassment.
Revealed: Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking
And aren't those question multiplying?
Today's issue is full of them. It also lays bare the fact that in Peter Garrett we have an environment minister who is a clueless scientific illiterate. What an embarrassment.
Revealed: Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking
"ICE is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap.
"The results of ice-core drilling and sea ice monitoring indicate there is no large-scale melting of ice over most of Antarctica, although experts are concerned at ice losses on the continent's western coast."
"RUSSIAN sea captain Dimitri Zinchenko has been steering ships through the pack ice of Antarctica for three decades and is waiting to see evidence of the global warming about which he has heard so much.
"Zinchenko's vessel, the Spirit of Enderby, was commissioned in January last year to retrace the steps of the great Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, marking the century of his Nimrod expedition of 1907-09.
"Spirit of Enderby was blocked by a wall of pack ice at the entrance to the Ross Sea, about 400km short of Shackleton's base hut at Cape Royds. Zinchenko says it was the first time in 15 years that vessels were unable to penetrate the Ross Sea in January. The experience was consistent with his impression that pack ice is expanding, not contracting, as would be expected in a rapidly warming world. "I see just more and more ice, not less ice.""
The essential message here is that it is a mistake to attribute to climate change everything that happens that might be outside our immediate or short term experience. There is in fact nothing unusual about glaciers either shrinking or growing or for there to be fluctuations in ice cover over time.
As the paper editorialised this morning "DELIGHTED doomsayers who applauded the announcement last week that an ice sheet on the west Antarctic cost was collapsing should leave the champagne on ice."
Also, one of Australia's most distinguished scientists, the academic geologist Professor Ian Plimer, is interviewed in relation to his just released book Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science.
Plimer is famous for his robust arguments with Christian fundamentalists over creationism, the subject of an earlier book of his - Telling Lies for God.
"Plimer, 62, see parallels with his fight with the Christian fundamentalists. "The creationists were trying to teach a religious fundamentalism dressed up as science ... and they totally changed the nature [of the] science," he says.
""The science is now based on consensus, and we have thousands of scientists who have got everything to gain by saying the world is going to end. We have lost the tie to evidence. So I make [the] great comparison ... between the way creationists operate and the way some of the rabid environmentalists and global warmers operate. The parallels are quite similar.""
"NEXT Wednesday I will be honoured to serve as the master of ceremonies at the Adelaide launch of a book that promises to be a cause celebre. It is Ian Plimer's Heaven and Earth: Global Warming - The Missing Science.
"I expect that when the history of global warming as a mass delusion comes to be written, Australia's leading geologist will be recognised as a member of the international sceptical pantheon. As far as the progress of what passes for national debate is concerned, in all likelihood 2009 will be seen as the turning point and divided into the pre and post-Plimer eras.
"Mind you, I think this year would have been a turning point in any event because global recessions have a way of forcing the great powers to behave pragmatically. Neither the US nor China is going to pay more than lip-service to global warming alarmism and even the bien-pensant Rudd Government has stopped pretending to accept the advice of its preferred adviser, Ross Garnaut, at face value.
"But none of that detracts from Plimer's achievement in giving sceptics a campaign document containing all the scientific ammunition they could want, packed into 493 eloquent pages. Heartened by it, perhaps some timid politicians in both main parties will at last feel at liberty to own up to their private reservations about warmist catastrophe and all those drowning polar bears we keep reading about in the Fairfax press."
And finally, there's a new film out and Al Gore and the other climate shysters and shonks are not going to like it.
"Al Gore is about to feature in a new movie, but he’s not going to like it very much. Titled Not Evil Just Wrong: The True Cost of Global Warming Hysteria, the film presents a devastating account of the shaky foundations and hefty price of Mr. Gore’s brand of self-interested and hypocritical alarmism.
"Created by the Irish film making duo of Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney — who made another excellent documentary about the “dark side of environmentalism” called Mine Your Own Business — Not Evil provides the perfect rebuttal to Mr. Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.
"Despite being chock-a-block with inaccuracies and misrepresentations, Mr. Gore’s movie has frightened schoolchildren all over the world, driven the public policy debate, and garnered both an Academy Award and a Nobel Peace Prize for its star."
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