Reason fights back
While the Bali-hoo plumbs ever greater depths of absurdity (see here, here and here, reason appears to have got its boots on at last. First the Pope denounces the man-made-global-warming prophets of doom for scare-mongering on the basis of dogma rather than science.
It is an irony to be savoured that -- not for the first time – religion is mounting a defence of reason against the modern dogma of scientism, which cloaks irrationality and ideology in the guise of science. Now science itself is fighting back against the abuse of its integrity. More than 100 prominent scientists have sent an open letter to the UN Secretary-General warning that trying to control the Earth’s climate was ‘ultimately futile’:
The scientists, many of whom are current and former UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) scientists, sent an open letter to the UN Secretary-General questioning the scientific basis for climate fears and the UN's so-called ‘solutions.’
‘Attempts to prevent global climate change from occurring are ultimately futile, and constitute a tragic misallocation of resources that would be better spent on humanity's real and pressing problems,’ the letter signed by the scientists read. The December 13 letter was released to the public late Thursday.
‘It is not possible to stop climate change, a natural phenomenon that has affected humanity through the ages. Geological, archaeological, oral and written histories all attest to the dramatic challenges posed to past societies from unanticipated changes in temperature, precipitation, winds and other climatic variables,’ the scientists wrote.
‘In stark contrast to the often repeated assertion that the science of climate change is ‘settled,' significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming,’ the open letter added…
‘The IPCC Summaries for Policy Makers are the most widely read IPCC reports amongst politicians and non-scientists and are the basis for most climate change policy formulation. Yet these Summaries are prepared by a relatively small core writing team with the final drafts approved line-by-line by government representatives. The great majority of IPCC contributors and reviewers, and the tens of thousands of other scientists who are qualified to comment on these matters, are not involved in the preparation of these documents. The summaries therefore cannot properly be represented as a consensus view among experts,’ the letter added.
It is only a matter of time before a new ‘consensus’ develops that that man-made global warming is a scam of the first magnitude.