By Andrew Bolt
TonyfromOz prefaces …..
This is another startling example of how things snowball. Original data is falsified, incorrectly stated, not mentioned, and then covered up. The next level up the ‘tree’ then uses that data for its decisions, and then passes it further up to Government bodies who then make Legislation. If it’s all based in something that is incorrect from the start, it then becomes progressively more difficult to undo what has already been put into place. That original mistake is then brushed off as being unimportant. What is become apparent now is that more than one ’small’ mistake is being exposed, and that growing list is becoming harder and harder to just brush off.
Here, in Australia, the Rudd Labor Government called for Professor Garnaut to make recommendations, and he did this, based on what the IPCC used as its baseline, now being shot full of holes.
Here’s another reason the Opposition should demand an inquiry into the science behind the Rudd Government’s multi-billion-dollar global warming policies.
Kevin Rudd’s advisor on global warming, Professor Ross Garnaut, repeated in his influential report to the Government on its emissions trading scheme a wild claim on Himalayan glaciers from the green group WWF – a claim the IPCC has now admitted is fake:
Melting of the Himalayan glaciers
After the polar regions, the Himalayas are home to the largest glacial areas.Together, the Himalayan glaciers feed seven of the most important rivers in Asia—the Ganga, Indus, Brahmaputra, Salween, Mekong, Yangtze and Huang. These glaciers are receding faster than any other glaciers around the world, and some estimates project that they may disappear altogether by 2035 (WWF Nepal Program 2005).
Rivers fed from glaciers are projected to experience increased streamflows over the next few decades as a result of glacial melt, followed by a subsequent decline and greater instability of inflows as glaciers begin to disappear altogether, leaving only seasonal precipitation to feed rivers (WWF Nepal Program 2005).
Glacial retreat can also result in catastrophic discharges of water from meltwater lakes, known as glacial lake outburst
As we’ve learned, the claim that the Himalayan glaciers will disappear by 2035 is utterly false, is unsupported by any research and was included in the IPCC 2007 report (from where Garnaut clearly picked it up) only for political reasons.
Yet Garnaut not only fell for it, clearly without checking, but went on to discuss the purported catastrophic consequence of such melting at length, quoting from a paper by Grahan Pearman from the green activist Climate Institute and a security analyst Alan Dupont. An extract::
The melting of the Himalayan and Tibetan plateau glaciers illustrates the complex nexus of climate change, economic security and geopolitics. Well over a billion people are dependent on the flow of the area’s rivers for much of their food and water needs, as well as transportation and energy from hydroelectricity. Initially, flows may increase, as glacial
runoff accelerates, causing extensive flooding. Within a few decades, however, water levels are expected to decline, jeopardising food production and causing widespread water and power shortages.
This can’t be brushed aside as one trivial mistake in an otherwise carefully checked report. Garnaut has repeatedly shown he’s attracted to apocalyptic language and scenarios, and his report lavishly quotes those people and claims that suit his agenda – not least Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, whose predictions of warming disaster for the Great Barrier Reef have so far failed to come true, yet is quoted making yet another breathless claim:
Reef-building corals have already been pushed to their thermal limits by increases in temperature in tropical and subtropical waters over the past 50 years.
The Rudd Government’s White Paper picked up Garnaut’s panic over Himalayan glacial melt, warning of “decreased freshwater availability to more than a billion people” in the region.
So how carefully have the Government and its advisors ever checked the claims of warming catastrophe, when even the Himalayan hoax could get accepted?
With the IPCC, Rudd’s other major source of global warming advice, now mired in allegations of bias, exaggeration, censorship, collusion, false claims and conflicts of interest involving its chairman, we now desperately need an inquiry into the state of the warming science before we spend a single million more.
Andrew Bolt is a journalist and columnist writing for The Herald Sun in Melbourne Victoria Australia.
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