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Via Prison Planet.com \u00bb Commentary<\/p>\n

James Delingpole
\nLondon Telegraph<\/a>
\nWednesday, May 19th, 2010<\/p>\n

Well of course I would write a headline like that having just spent the last three days in Chicago at the Heartland Institute\u2019s 4th International Conference on Climate Change. This is the event the cackling, cloak-wearing, befanged AGW-denying community attends every year to glorify in their own evil. And naturally, in the wake of Climategate, a mood of uproarious triumphalism has prevailed as distinguished skeptical scientists, economists, and policymakers from around the world \u2013 Pat Michaels, Richard Lindzen, Ian Plimer, Bob Carter, Fred Singer.. you name them, they\u2019re here \u2013 have gathered to dance on the smouldering ashes of the mythical beast ManBearPig.<\/p>\n

Except we shouldn\u2019t use that word \u201csceptic\u201d any more. Richard Lindzen \u2013 Godfather of Climate Realism \u2013 told us so in one of the keynote addresses.<\/p>\n

\u201cScepticism implies doubts about a plausible proposition,\u201d he said. \u201cCurrent global warming alarmism hardly represents a plausible proposition.\u201d Not least, he pointed out, because the various activist scientists, greenies and government institutions pushing AGW theory have failed to \u201cimprove their case over 20 years.\u201d So paper thin are the AGW movement\u2019s arguments that pretty much the only defences left to them are desperate techniques like the appeal to authority (\u201cthe Royal Society believes in AGW and the Royal Society is, like, really old and distinguished, so AGW must be true\u201d) and cheap slurs.<\/p>\n

Consider, as examples of the latter technique, how this conference has been reported in the liberal media. Both the BBC and the Huffington Post have decided to write off the expertise of the dozens of PhDs and professors speaking at this event to concentrate on the issue that really matters: it was funded by Big Oil. (Except it isn\u2019t. Unfortunately Big Oil stopped funding the skeptical side of the argument a long time ago. The Heartland Institute is a conservative leaning think tank funded by a number of business donors, and the main funder of the conference is a local libertarian millionaire who just happens to want a bit of openness and honesty in the debate on AGW. But hey, never let the facts get in the way of a libtard story).<\/p>\n

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