February 17, 2010 07:51 by
KRMIn a February 14th story in The Daily Mail out of London, the former director of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, Professor Phil Jones detonated twin nuclear bombs under the twin foundations of the so-called science behind global warming. Jones admitted that there had been no statistically significant warming, world-wide, since 1995. He also admitted that the scientifically acknowledged Medieval Warm Period, between 800 and 1300, may have been global.
These refutations of two of the most core tenets of the Global Warming faith fly in the face of American liberal political will. If there hasn’t been any warming in the last 15 years, then there is no immediate crisis and the alarmists can stop hyper-ventilating. If there have been other periods in earth’s history that have been warmer, then that is proof that global warming, even if it is real, is not greatly affected, one way or the other, by us. But Obama, during his January State of the Union address, commented that “I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change.” With such a luminary in anthropogenic global warming circles as Professor Jones casting major doubts on the validity of much of the “overwhelming scientific evidence” on climate change, it will be interesting to see if Obama and other AGW believers recant of their misguided ways.
My bet is that such pronouncements will be ignored. In fact, I think political reaction to these startling, yet commonsensical, views will be a telling litmus test on why politicians latched on to the global warming movement. Most conservatives believe it is all about more government control in our lives. If those politicians who have called for cap and trade continue to support it and other such controlling legislation, we will know that they have failed the test.
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