Here's Some Recommended Viewing

Urban Koda, in a comment on my last climate rant, asked for some web references so he can be better informed.

I'll give a couple to you, but before I do, if you're interested in really getting up to speed, there's a film, "Climate Catastrophe: Cancelled" that's been put out by the Canadian organisation "Friends of Science".

It's a MUST WATCH for anyone remotely interested in the whole climate debate. The thrust of that film is much as it has been here on my blog... the earth may well be warming but to blame human CO2 output for the change is dangerously wrong. There are a couple of other statistical "corrections" in that film too, that bring into questions the entire basis of the pro Climate Change argument.

Click HERE to watch that doco. It's in 5 easily downloaded parts and really is worth the effort.

As for that "error" in my last rant, first, go to the website of the guy who discovered the mistake. Steve McIntyre is a statistician who runs a blog called Climate Audit. His work, in auditing the statistical analyses that the climate doomsayers trot out to "prove" their theory, has brought some real balance into the debate. The blog's HERE.

If you really must, you can go to the Goddard Institute site, where the data is published. It's HERE, but finding any reference to the change in the nubers will be hard, because the scientists at Goddard are True Believers, so this error is just a minor inconvenience to them.

And finally, for a very good comment on the change in NASA numbers, go HERE to an article in Canada's National Post, and then go HERE to a well written article at News Busters. In that article, by the way, there are some references not just to the way the doomsayers misinterpret data, but how they're deliberately and calculatingly selective about the data they choose to use to support their cause. It's scary.

I'll say this one more time (and no, it won't be the last time I say it)...
There can be no argument that humans have been reckless with the environment. There is no doubt we've squandered precious resources and we need to change our ways.

However, to blame changes in our climate on human activity, and in particular, on human produced CO2, is arrogant in the extreme. It's also dangerous, because politicians (who are not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier) are making serious, far-reaching changes based on junk science.