Christopher Booker writes that we are on a course of "planet-saving madness."
The scare over global warming, and our politicians' response to it, is becoming ever more bizarre. On the one hand we have the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change coming up with yet another of its notoriously politicised reports, hyping up the scare by claiming that world surface temperatures have been higher in 11 of the past 12 years (1995-2006) than ever previously recorded.
Driest-ever autumn to follow wettest summer Families face energy bill rise in climate fight Britain's worst polluters This carefully ignores the latest US satellite figures showing temperatures having fallen since 1998, declining in 2007 to a 1983 level - not to mention the newly revised figures for US surface temperatures showing that the 1930s had four of the 10 warmest years of the past century, with the hottest year of all being not 1998, as was previously claimed, but 1934.
One might wonder if Al Gore got his Nobel Peace Prize just in time. Gore was among other Nobel Prize winners who were received by George Bush in the Oval Office. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on Global Warming. The rationale, if you can believe it, is that Global Warming will drive people of the world to fight wars, presumably for the right to occupy the cooler places on the earth, and Gore is saving us from all that. No kidding. Be thankful it was a bogus Nobel Peace Prize that Gore won and not the Oval Office.
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