Global warning

Thus 'Ed' Miliband in the Observer (my emphasis) :

"It's worth saying that no doubt when the next (IPCC) report comes out it will suggest there have been areas where things have been happening more dramatically than the 2007 report implied," he said.

Well, of course it will.

Never mind the facts. It's what the IPCC will say that matters. And that has already been decided.

The worldwide public is ever more vocal in its scepticism. The sceptic murmuring is swelling into a low roar, and is now joined by sceptical scientists coming out of the closet - not before time - because finally, finally, the MSM are catching up and getting stuck into Climategate. Naturally, so to speak, the Warmists will ramp up their attack before too many more of their cards fall flat. It's so predictable. One does not need a computer model.

These people will not give in. We'll be fighting them for decades. Now that water vapour is getting a look in, the Next Ploy Big Thing will be 'acidification of the oceans'. Trust me.

But back to 'Ed'. When he was asked on TWTW whether he had faith in IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri, Miliband Two said. 'Look, he is a Nobel Laureate! Of course!'

Er, no, Ed. Railwayman Pachauri is not a Nobel Laureate. Just a quangocrat who chairs (for now) an organisation which was honoured.

Of course, that was before the IPCC was revealed as just one more corrupt UN quango which patronises lucrative boondoggles for its friends and - oh, look! - has destroyed the integrity and credibility of the world's entire scientific enterprise.

The Nobel award was before we knew about all the shoddy paperwork, unchecked source material, amateur input labelled 'from leading scientists', mutual back-scratching, grant-fiddling, lies, fraud, conspiracy to defraud, conspiracy to commit a daily-growing list of criminal offences and official cover-ups.

That was before Climategate, Himalayagate and Amazongate were revealed as unscientific arse-dribble from which this Nobel Laureate organisation forged a moonbat consensus of taxsuckers desperate to find something new to feed on because they have already taxed every other thing to fucking death and there's nowhere else to go.

In decades to come, though, when warble gloaming is no more than a morality tale of human gullibility in the face of determined and corrupt pressure, humanity will suffer actual damage - from Climategate in which

corrupt scientists, to prevent criticism of their work which might jeopardise their access to public funds, have cold-bloodedly corrupted the peer review process upon which science depends

and

they have been defended therein by the shambolic, corrupt and unimpeachable (sic) IPCC which even now is encouraging them to persist in their manifold malfeasance.

The legacy of the IPCC and of Climategate is the possibility that nobody will believe anything any group of scientists says, ever again. The cost to the common weal of the fall from grace of the scientific process is incalculable. MMR vaccine, anyone?

The blatant bias of each of (the IPCC's) four reports has been pointed out by scientists – notably the rewriting of key passages in its 1995 report after the contributing scientists had approved the final text. This provoked a magisterial blast from Professor Frederick Seitz, a former president of the US National Academy of Sciences, who wrote that in all his 60 years as a scientist he had never seen "a more disturbing corruption" of the scientific process, and that if the IPCC was "incapable of following its most basic procedures", it was best it should be "abandoned". Source.

There was a time when the Royal Society would have put the guilty in the stocks and exerted its authority to flush out these Augean stables but there is clearly no hope of salvation from that quarter. The pontifications of some of leading FRSs show them to be as deep in the trough as the University of East Anglia crew.

Well done, IPCC, and well done all you fellow travellers like the ubiquitous 'Dave' King - incidentally just one of too many trouble-making 'government' scientists whose advice in so many areas has proved to be nothing more than grand-standing.

Not to worry, though - eh, Minister Miliband? Let's all look forward to the next IPCC report which, as you so rightly say, will say that we're more doomed than we were before. They you will say that the only way to save the dear little chiiiiiiiiiiiiildren (and their puppies) from drowning in a boiling sea is for us all to pay higher taxes and hand control of our lives to liars who treat us with contempt.

No. Fuck off. No.