Stubborn Facts

Costa Climatica Listing Dangerously

Years ago they used to speak of the "rust belt" to refer to states in the US which were experiencing an economic cold winter.  It referred to rusting industrial sites, long abandoned.  We are starting to wonder how long it will be before the term "rusting green belt" comes into common usage.  No, we are not referring to swathes of greenery protected by town planning rules, but to relics of green energy projects such as wind farms and factories producing solar panels and electric cars.

It is gradually dawning on climate scientists that the data does not support their confabulations and conjectures.  A growing number are defecting.  But because crony capitalists and big government have colluded in pouring vast amounts of tax payers money into the pockets of companies and universities promoting our carbon Armageddon the global warming ship will not stop suddenly.  But stop it inevitably will.  And then the rust will set in. 

Here are some of the latest leaks to spring in the grand ship SS Global Warming: 


This, from Climate Change cheerleading rag, US News and World Report:

Nearly 230 billion tons of ice is melting into the ocean from glaciers, ice caps, and mountaintops annually—which is actually less than previous estimates, according to new research by scientists at the University of Colorado, Boulder. . . .  While vast quantities of ice melting into the ocean is not exactly good news . . . according to . . . estimates, about 30 percent less ice is melting than previously thought.  (Emphasis, ours)

Mmm.  We thought Global Warming was going to be making the planet devoid of ice in a few short decades.  Not so, it would seem.  Now, this from the Guardian:

The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows.  The discovery has stunned scientists, who had believed that around 50bn tonnes of meltwater were being shed each year and not being replaced by new snowfall.

The study is the first to survey all the world's icecaps and glaciers and was made possible by the use of satellite data. Overall, the contribution of melting ice outside the two largest caps – Greenland and Antarctica – is much less than previously estimated, with the lack of ice loss in the Himalayas and the other high peaks of Asia responsible for most of the discrepancy.

Remember all those horror scenarios about the 1.4bn of relatively impoverished people mortally dependant on the water flow from the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau--how their lives would be degraded and diminished unless "something was done".  Sorry, it was all a mistake.  The climate scientists and NGO's and UN plutocrats "misspoke".  Oh, well.  Never mind.