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The great global warming collapse
Margaret Wente
Globe
& Mail
Monday, February 8th, 2010
In 2007, the most comprehensive report to date on global warming,
issued by the respected United Nations Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change, made a shocking claim: The Himalayan glaciers
could melt away as soon as 2035.
These glaciers provide the headwaters for Asia's nine largest
rivers and lifelines for the more than one billion people who
live downstream. Melting ice and snow would create mass flooding,
followed by mass drought. The glacier story was reported around
the world. Last December, a spokesman for the World Wildlife
Fund, an environmental pressure group, warned, “The deal
reached at Copenhagen will have huge ramifications for the lives
of hundreds of millions of people who are already highly vulnerable
due to widespread poverty.” To dramatize their country's
plight, Nepal's top politicians strapped on oxygen tanks and
held a cabinet meeting on Mount Everest.
But the claim was rubbish, and the world's top glaciologists
knew it. It was based not on rigorously peer-reviewed science
but on an anecdotal report by the WWF itself. When its background
came to light on the eve of Copenhagen, Rajendra Pachauri, the
head of the IPCC, shrugged it off. But now, even leading scientists
and environmental groups admit the IPCC is facing a crisis of
credibility that makes the Climategate affair look like small
change.
“The global warming movement as we have known it is dead,”
the brilliant analyst Walter Russell Mead says in his blog on
The American Interest. It was done in by a combination of bad
science and bad politics.
The impetus for the Copenhagen conference was that the science
makes it imperative for us to act. But even if that were true
– and even if we knew what to do – a global deal
was never in the cards. As Mr. Mead writes, “The global
warming movement proposed a complex set of international agreements
involving vast transfers of funds, intrusive regulations in
national economies, and substantial changes to the domestic
political economies of most countries on the planet.”
Copenhagen was never going to produce a breakthrough. It was
a dead end.
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