Some inconvenient facts

Imagine for argument’s sake if I told you that Melbourne was getting hotter, but forgot to mention that I expanded the city’s borders to encompass, say, Mildura.

Colouring temperature readings is an old trick. Still, no account of bad history supporting bad science is complete without reference to Leonardo Di Caprio’s green sermons. But to summarise: Bush is a meat-eating, rainforest rapist.

The former Santa Barbara soap star turned Titanic heartthrob, asserts in one of his stirring fan site essays that: “The alarm bells are ringing across the globe (e.g., the melting Arctic, parts of Antarctica breaking off, the disappearing glacier on top of Mt Kilimanjaro, etc.).” Also, Bush kills pretty flowers.

So, the glacier on top of Mount Kilimanjaro is disappearing because of global warming? History begs to differ.

In the International Journal of Climatology, 2004, for example, G. Kaser asserts: “Retreat from a maximum extent of Kilimanjaro’s glaciers started shortly before Hans Meyer and Ludwig Purtscheller visited the summit for the first time in 1889,” and this was “caused by an abrupt climate change to markedly drier conditions around 1880”.

In addition to pointing to inconvenient historical facts and observations (made during two fieldwork trips to Kilimanjaro), Kaser’s findings can’t be overruled by know-nothing movie stars. “Positive air temperatures, have not contributed to the recession process on the mountain so far,” maintains the scientist.

More than ever before, crusading actors are manipulating histories. I could go on. And, in addition to using bad history to support bad science, they do not care for fieldtrips.

From Pieter “illustrator of nature” Brueghel’s Hunter’s of the Snow painting (February, 1565), to extreme weather periods cited in the ancient Torah, or the Christians’ Old Testament, history, after all, is replete with examples of harsher conditions.

I would encourage all free minds to not only challenge the global warming industry, but to see this as an opportunity to stand up for history. In some ways, we’re mere ants in this unfolding picture called Life. Weather is weather. Acting is acting. And, falsifying temperature readings is a dirty scam concocted by fat cat, eco-socialists.