Posted by
The Conservative Manifesto on Monday, March 10, 2008 5:51:39 PM
From the Telegraph:
Last
week, virtually unreported in Britain, the extraordinary winter weather
of 2008 elsewhere in the world continued. In the USA, there were
blizzards as far south as Texas and Arkansas, while in northern states
and Canada what they are calling "the winter from hell" has continued
to break records going back in some cases to 1873. Meanwhile in Asia
more details emerged of the catastrophe caused by the northern
hemisphere's greatest snow cover since 1966.
In Afghanistan,
where they have lost 300,000 cattle, the human death toll has risen
above 1,500. In China, the havoc created by what its media call "the
Winter Snow Disaster" has continued, not least in Tibet, where six
months of snow and record low temperatures have killed 500,000 animals,
leaving 3 million people on the edge of starvation.
It might
have seemed timely that in New York an array of leading climatologists
and other experts should have gathered for the most high-powered
international conference yet to question the "consensus" on global
warming. After three days of what the chairman called "the kind of
free-spirited debate that is virtually absent from the global warming
alarmist camp", the 500 delegates
issued the Manhattan Declaration, stating that attempts by governments
to reduce CO2 emissions would "markedly diminish further prosperity"
while having "no appreciable impact" on the Earth's warming.
This
inevitably attracted the kind of hysterical abuse that has become so
familiar from warmist fanatics, tellingly contrasting with the measured
arguments put forward by the scientists present. One was Anthony
Watts, the meteorologist who last year famously forced Nasa's Goddard
Institute to correct a fundamental error in its data on US surface
temperatures, to show that the hottest decade of the 20th century was not the 1990s but the 1930s. (all emphasis mine)