Global “Climate Change”

UN meteorologists say average global temperatures will drop this year.

You can see the BBC story about it here.

The BBC article admits that global temperatures haven’t risen a bit in the last 10 years, then dissembles and tries desperately to explain why this doesn’t mean global warming is just hot air.

Adam Scaife, lead scientist for Modelling Climate Variability at the Hadley Centre in Exeter, UK, said their best estimate for 2008 was about 0.4C above the 1961-1990 average, and higher than this if you compared it with further back in the 20th Century.

And the 17th Century was higher compared with the 16th Century. And the 15th was higher than the 14th, and so on back to the beginning of the end of the Little Ice Age in the 12th Century.

 The public is becoming aware of the environmentalists’ hysteria and hyperbole about this issue. That’s why we’re beginning to see an evolution in the rhetoric. The problem is not Global Warming–it’s Global Climate Change, and always has been. We’re not at war with Eurasia, it’s Eastasia.  

Der Environment Fuhrer

Sen. Barack Obama said today in Pennsylvania that he would want Al Gore to be involved in forming administration policy on global warming. A Global Warming Czar?

Obama said he wants to form a cap-and-trade system, and admitted it could mean higher electricity bills for consumers. Maybe the Democrats’ new campaign slogan should be: “Vote for us, and we’ll increase your energy costs.” (See prior post about gas prices.)

When asked about involving Gore in his administration, Obama had this to say:

“I would. Not only will I, but I will make a commitment that Al Gore will be at the table and play a central part in us figuring out how we solve this problem. He’s somebody I talk to on a regular basis. I’m already consulting with him in terms of these issues, but climate change is real. It is something we have to deal with now, not 10 years from now, not 20 years from now.”

No Senator. Entitlement reform is something we need to deal with now, not 10 or 20 years from now. Not Al Gore’s fetishes.