Recently in climate change Category

Heritage Foundation has an interesting piece on the myriad meteorological anomalies blamed on climate change.

No snow, too much snow. It does not matter to the enviroleft crowd. For them, global warming always is to blame. That is the whole reason the movement made a deliberate decision earlier this decade to stop calling it "global warming" and start calling it "climate change." That way they could expand the universe of terrible things they could plausibly blame on global warming. One British citizen even maintains a comprehensive list of everything the enviroleft has tried to blame on global warming including: Atlantic ocean less salty, Atlantic ocean more salty, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning faster, fish bigger, fish shrinking, and (most importantly) beer better, beer worse.

The links are all there. It's pretty exhaustive, and exhausting. Among the ones I found most interesting, was the column by Robert F. Kennedy Jr blaming global warming for anemic winters in Washington DC in Sept. 2008.

Doesn't quite add up with this.

None of this disproves man-made climate change. But how many different things can be blamed on this boogeyman, honestly?

Mike Papantonio wrote a column Feb. 11 in the Huffington Post attesting that the threat of catastrophe has long been used to deny human advancement. He cites the Dark Ages' fear that the ships would fall off the edge of the earth as an example, and blames conservatives for such trepidation.

Yet it seems to be certain members of the left who claim that there are so many things man cannot do, like drill for oil, or rely on traditional energy sources to build new infrastructure even in the short term, because of a fear based on science that some say is settled but on which others disagree. Such energy sources have created enormous opportunities for just the kind of progress that progressives on the left claim they want. Yet it is climate change-believing progressives who warn of impending doom if humans today continue to use the resources they have been given to advance themselves.

It's not surprising that fewer people now believe that global warming is caused by man, or that big energy and fuel companies are pulling out of bigtime initiatives to address climate change. The whole theory is so amorphous and confused, if they made it into a movie, I suspect it would be what my dad calls an "idiot plot."

Oh wait, they already did.

Well, Washington D.C. is now recovering from what President Obama has called "Snowmageddon." Apparently our Nation's Capitol was snowed very much under this past week, grinding business to a halt.

They're back at work now. All good things must come to an end.

Anyway, climate change questioners have been having a great ol' time pointing out that, hey, it's cold outside! Not just in Washington D.C., but in other places, like Austin, and Lubbock, and Dallas, Texas! Even annoyingly so. I'm sick and tired of how long and cold this winter has been. The front driver-side window of my truck will not roll down now, because it's been so cold for so many weeks straight.

How has the press responded? Well, one by complaining about the questioners daring to use the snowstorm to joke about global warming. Yes, the nerve!

And two, by trying to convince readers that climate change (originally named "global warming" but that was most inconvenient for circumstances like this) is causing the blizzards. Of course! Why didn't I think of that?

Actually, it's not really surprising that global warming believers would say that. See that's the thing: If you dare to question global warming, there's no way to win, no matter what the weather happens to do. In fact, whatever the weather happens to do, that will actually prove that climate change is real. The fact that "March of the Penguins" could have been filmed in Washington D.C. this past week proves that the world will self-destruct if you don't buy a plug-in. If Washington D.C. was (better) warmer than it normally is, that would prove that you must buy a plug-in.

You know what? Just buy a plug-in.

The United Kingdom's Telegraph has discovered a few more errors in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) report on man-made global warming. Here's a few:

The publication of inaccurate data on the potential of wave power to produce electricity around the world, which was wrongly attributed to the website of a commercial wave-energy company.
Claims based on information in press releases and newsletters.
New examples of statements based on student dissertations, two of which were unpublished.
More claims which were based on reports produced by environmental pressure groups.

At that time, the EPA administrator "relied heavily" upon the recent assessments of the IPCC.

The Heritage Foundation has more.

Aaaaand more from the Times Online in the United Kingdom.