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[Yaya]

The first, on May 21, headed "Climate change threat to Alpine ski resorts" , reported that the entire Alpine "winter sports industry" could soon "grind to a halt for lack of snow". The second, on December 19, headed "The Alps have best snow conditions in a generation" , reported that this winter's Alpine snowfalls "look set to beat all records by New Year's Day".

Easily one of the most important stories of 2008 has been all the evidence suggesting that this may be looked back on as the year when there was a turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming. Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most costly and damaging measures politicians have ever proposed, to combat this supposed menace, the tide has turned in three significant respects.

First, all over the world, temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the scare. Last winter, as temperatures plummeted, many parts of the world had snowfalls on a scale not seen for decades. This winter, with the whole of Canada and half the US under snow, looks likely to be even worse. After several years flatlining, global temperatures have dropped sharply enough to cancel out much of their net rise in the 20th century.

Ever shriller and more frantic has become the insistence of the warmists, cheered on by their army of media groupies such as the BBC, that the last 10 years have been the "hottest in history" and that the North Pole would soon be ice-free � as the poles remain defiantly icebound and those polar bears fail to drown. All those hysterical predictions that we are seeing more droughts and hurricanes than ever before have infuriatingly failed to materialise.

Even the more cautious scientific acolytes of the official orthodoxy now admit that, thanks to "natural factors" such as ocean currents, temperatures have failed to rise as predicted (although they plaintively assure us that this cooling effect is merely "masking the underlying warming trend", and that the temperature rise will resume worse than ever by the middle of the next decade).

Secondly, 2008 was the year when any pretence that there was a "scientific consensus" in favour of man-made global warming collapsed. At long last, as in the Manhattan Declaration last March, hundreds of proper scientists, including many of the world's most eminent climate experts, have been rallying to pour scorn on that "consensus" which was only a politically engineered artefact, based on ever more blatantly manipulated data and computer models programmed to produce no more than convenient fictions.

Thirdly, as banks collapsed and the global economy plunged into its worst recession for decades, harsh reality at last began to break in on those self-deluding dreams which have for so long possessed almost every politician in the western world. As we saw in this month's Poznan conference, when 10,000 politicians, officials and "environmentalists" gathered to plan next year's "son of Kyoto" treaty in Copenhagen, panicking politicians are waking up to the fact that the world can no longer afford all those quixotic schemes for "combating climate change" with which they were so happy to indulge themselves in more comfortable times.

Suddenly it has become rather less appealing that we should divert trillions of dollars, pounds and euros into the fantasy that we could reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by 80 per cent. All those grandiose projects for "emissions trading", "carbon capture", building tens of thousands more useless wind turbines, switching vast areas of farmland from producing food to "biofuels", are being exposed as no more than enormously damaging and futile gestures, costing astronomic sums we no longer possess.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/3982101/2008-was-the-year-man-made-global-warming-was-disproved.html

[bassexpander]

But we're continually reminded of all of the polar ice chunks breaking off.

[Gimpokid]

I've always wondered the motivation for lying about climate change was.

[OnTheOtherSide]

Wow. I can't believe some people are still clinging to the idea that climate change is not happening. It definantly is happening, it's a fairly simple concept. Do you really think that all this industrial technology is having no effect at all?

Most of these "clean" technologies are not too clean though. The fact is that we are destroying the environment. The solution to the problem is what is lacking. For billions of people to surive in a modern world, we gotta destroy the Earth a bit. The solution will probably not come soon enough before we destroy ourselves though.

We're all gonna die, be very afraid.

[pkang0202]

There is a reason Global Warming people changed their tune from "Global Warming" to "Climate Change". By using the term "Climate Change", they can account for Global Cooling also.

[asylum seeker]

So one article from the notoriously right wing Daily Telegraph and you're convinced global warming is a hoax.

Even if global warming were a hoax this doesn't address the fact the oil is a finite resource and it is not possible to indefinitely consume greater and greater amounts of it as the world's population grows and the number of cars multiplies.

[jkelly80]

The only thing I read here is politicians backing off their support because of the 'anti-growth' stigma that goes along with climate change policy. Until the IGPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reverses their stance, all this bluster is just journalists blowing hot air.

[OnTheOtherSide]

Wow, I can't believe this.

Why do you all think climate change is a hoax?

[Beeyee]

[aka Dave]

Climate change happens over long periods, and projections have to account for static which is inherent in any system as complex as the global climate. So, essentially, you're disproving your argument with your title, op. If you said "Global warming proved in 2008" I'd say it would be just as misinformed.

And about special interests, come on. The petroleum industry is an industry that rakes in trillions. Yeah, them hippy scientists must have bought out the media from poor Exxon, Gulf, etc. There are a lot of scientists making a lot of money to prove some way, some how, all the data is false, reaching for straws.

To be honest, I hope the right wingers are right. But remember how these people operate. They have an ideological point of view that *does not* vary based on empirical evidence; it's sort of a political religion. The Bush administration is a classic example of ideology trumping reality.

The Daily Telegraph? I call BS. When the Cambridge University atmospheric science dept. calls global warming bogus, okay, I'll listen. But not a right wing rag.

[asylum seeker]

[jkelly80]

http://www.ipcc.ch/press/popup_news2.htm

Speech by Mr Rajendra Pachauri, IPCC Chairman, at the Opening Ceremony of the UNFCCC COP 14, Pozn�n

A few snips:

[Gimpokid]

[Sir John Hawkins]

[asylum seeker]