It's been a while in the making, but the Warmists who've continually derided "man-made global warming" skeptics as "Deniers" are now finding the shoe on the other foot, as The Australian points out:
DEBATE about the reality of a two-decade pause in global warming and what it means has made its way from the sceptical fringe to the mainstream.
Even prominent warmist prophet James Hansen has been obliged to admit that planetary warming stopped some twenty years ago, although of course he cautions that the effects of increased carbon dioxide loads are simply being masked by increased emissions from coal-burning power plants in China and India, so the halt won't last and the effects will be vewy, vewy bad. Wait - what? Wasn't he one of the folks railing against burning coal to produce electricity because the emissions power man-made global warming? Suddenly, global warming stopped because more countries like China and India are burning more coal? Nothing like trying to have it both ways, is there, doctor?
Actually, given that the cold weather in formerly Great Britain is anticipated to kill 30,000 people there this year - many of them ill or elderly - and that over 14,000 a year die in the USA each year due to cold, maybe folks like AlGore and Hansen have been barking up the wrong tree all along:
Deaths linked to extreme cold account for 0.8 percent of the nation's annual death rate and outnumber those attributed to leukemia, murder and chronic liver disease combined, the study reports.
Yet these deaths are disregarded; apparently because they don't fit well with fear-mongers.
The reaction to the 2003 heatwave was extraordinary. It was blamed for 2,000 deaths, and taken as a warning that Britain was horribly unprepared for the coming era of snowless winters and barbecue summers. The government’s chief scientific officer, Sir David King, later declared that climate change was “more serious even than the threat of terrorism” in terms of the number of lives that could be lost. Such language is never used about the cold, which kills at least 10 times as many people every winter.
Had there been any lingering question in your mind regarding the fomenting of hysteria by politicians and money-grubbing grant-grabbers masquerading as scientists, you should now be disabused: it's all about money, power, and control.
