The Ice is Freezing, Right Under Their Feet Back in 2007, we were told that this weekend in September of 2013, would be the moment when the Arctic was “ice-free”. In reality, this summer’s ice-melt has been the smallest in seven years, and the global extent of polar sea ice is currently equal to its average over the past 34 years. Tuvalu and the Maldives are not vanishing beneath the waves. Hurricanes and tornadoes have not become more frequent or intense, their incidence is lower than it has been for decades. The Himalayan glaciers are not on course to have melted by 2035. In fact, nothing has changed except that the IPCC itself, as the main driver of the scare, has been more comprehensively discredited than ever as no more than a one-sided pressure group, essentially run by a clique of scientific activists committed to their belief that rising CO2 levels threaten the world with an overheating which is not taking place. The real global disaster is the billions wasted on green taxes, useless windmills and incoherent energy policy - killing jobs and taking lives that could have been saved with this money.
Posted on: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 19:33:16 +0000