Prodicus: And they say this is about 'science'

Q: What do these people have in common? Associate Professor of Resource and Environmental Geology, University of Oslo Professor of Physics and Director Emeritus, University of Alaska Delaware State Climatologist Associate Professor of Climatology, University of Delaware Associate Professor, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Member of United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Consulting Climatologist, Australasian Climate Research Professor of Geology, University of Ottawa Professor of Chemistry, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine Former US Senator Hon. Harrison Schmitt, Ph.D Assistant Director, Programs & Science & Technology Policy, US Department of the Interior Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences in the Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences Department, University of Missouri, Columbia Professor, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University Research Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia Fellow in Environmental Studies, Pacific Research Institute Professor Emeritus of Meteorology and Oceanography, The Florida State University Professor of Physics, University of Hartford Full Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Applied Mathematics, The University of Western Ontario Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University Emeritus Professor of Geology, Western Washington University Chief Energy Economist and Head of the Center for Energy Economics, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas, Austin Professor of Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor of Physics in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, University of Rochester Research Professor, James Cook University

A: They are contributors to the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change in New York which, mysteriously, has not been reported by the BBC.

This conference is not to be confused with the concurrent Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen from which the BBC has broadcast daily bulletins. The list of plenary speakers at this conference is headed by the new masters of the universe, the IPCC chairman who shared Al Gore's Nobel Prize, and Nicholas Stern.

Oh, yes, without doubt Copenhagen is a convention of the Great and the Good. So the BBC is there in force. Not just its science people - its news team. This is important news.

The 800 luminaries of the New York conference, on the other hand, are not presided over by the Gore-ists. They are not part of 'the consensus' which the Socialist International, the BBC and Al Gore want you to believe in, in order that they may frighten you into ceding control of your liberty to them.

Therefore you are not permitted to know anything of their opinions, discussions or findings. The BBC is not there.

But never mind all that. Back to what the Righteous permit you to hear. I mean, what they insist on telling you.

Yesterday, the BBC gave us an almost unintelligible 'report' from the 'approved' meeting in Copenhagen. The gist was almost totally obscured by the sheer density of qualifiers taken from the BBC Environment Handbook entitled Cover your arse, the licence-fee-paying bastard deniers are making notes. The torrent of ifs, mights, coulds, perhapses and every other variant in Roget was hilarious. Once you stripped them out, only about 20 seconds of air time remained.

The point was made though. In a crowded news schedule, packed with some of the gravest news in living memory, with a world depression coming upon us, the printing of money, mass murder in Northern Ireland and Germany, mass unemployment and the political myths of the European Union stressed to buggery, the BBC found time for a non-item about non-news about a piece of non-science because it's on their alarmist agenda. Job done.

And the message? Well, apparently, the inhabitants of Indonesia, Bangladesh, Holland and even Manhattan itself (!) are all doomed to die by drowning or else they will be on the march to sanctuary in the Rockies and the Alps because sea levels are going to rise by, oh, anything from 10 cm to 100 cm in the next 90 years. Depending on a lot of things we can't predict. According to 'models'. Most models. Some models. Possibly.

I mean, it's terrifying.

The [UK] Environment Agency official in charge of coastal protection, David Kemp, said that even small rises in sea level could be overwhelming. We could be looking at devastation. "It looks very benign today but the North Sea can turn into a very ferocious beast."

Do pop over to the website of the main annual biggie among BBC-approved climate conferences, Copenhagen 2009. The main image - the main image - on the index page is this one: