Article Tags: Peter Foster
Snow in the east, no snow in the west: Eureka! Al Gore and Gordon Campbell see the connection
This past week has seen two wonderful examples of that psychological phenomenon known as “confirmation bias,” that is, interpreting whatever evidence presents itself as proof of what you believe. On Sunday, in The New York Times, Al Gore deemed it disgraceful that “deniers” were suggesting that this year’s East Coast Snowmageddon had undermined the Inconvenient Truth of man-made global warming. More snow was clear evidence of the pernicious hand of industrial man. The next day, B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell told The Globe and Mail that the lack of snow at the Vancouver Olympics was due to … man-made global warming.
These deliciously inconsistent claims also spring from the growing desperation of policy entrepreneurs and politicians in the face of greater public skepticism, which is in turn based in mounting evidence of scientific manipulation by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC.
Premier Campbell has been coming under mounting pressure — ahead of yesterday’s provincial budget — to ditch burdensome carbon taxes. As for Mr. Gore, both his reputation and green investments are on the line, hence we can take his avowal that he would be delighted if the IPCC were wrong as pure baloney.
Source: network.nationalpost.com