The 'Global Warming Three' are on thin ice
The only problem with a project to prove that Arctic ice is disappearing is
the fact that it is actually getting thicker, says Christopher Booker.

By Christopher Booker
Last Updated: 5:30PM GMT 22 Mar 2009

What a wonderful parable of our time has been the expedition to the North
Pole led by the explorer Pen Hadow. With two companions, he is measuring the
thickness of the ice to show how fast it is "declining". His expedition is
one of a series of events designed to "raise awareness of the dangers of
climate change" before December's conference in Copenhagen, where the
warmists hope to get a new treaty imposing much more drastic cuts on CO2
emissions.

Hadow's Catlin Arctic Project has top-level backing from the likes of the
BBC, the WWF (it could "make a lasting difference to policy-relevant
science") and Prince Charles ("for the sake of our children and
grandchildren, I pray that we will heed the results of the Catlin Arctic
Survey and I can only commend this remarkably important project").

Christopher Booker's NotebookWith perfect timing, the setting out from
Britain of the "Global Warming Three" last month was hampered by "an
unusually heavy snowfall". When they were airlifted to the start of their
trek by a twin-engine Otter (one hopes a whole forest has been planted to
offset its "carbon footprint"), they were startled to find how cold it was.
The BBC dutifully reported how, in temperatures of minus 40 degrees, they
were "battered by wind, bitten by frost and bruised by falls on the ice".

Thanks to the ice constantly shifting, it was "disheartening", reported
Hadow, to find that "when you've slogged for a day", you can wake up next
morning to find you have "drifted back to where you started''. Last week,
down to their last scraps of food, they were only saved in the nick of time
by the faithful Otter. They were disconcerted to see one of those polar
bears, threatened with extinction by global warming, wandering around,
doubtless eyeing them for its dinner.

But at least one of the intrepid trio was able to send a birthday message to
his mum, via the BBC, and they were able to talk by telephone to "some of
the world's most influential climate change leaders", including Development
Secretary Douglas Alexander in front of 300 people at "a conference on world
poverty".

The idea is that the expedition should take regular radar fixes on the ice
thickness, to be fed into a computer model in California run by Professor
Wieslaw Maslowski, whose team, according to the BBC, "is well known for
producing results that show much faster ice-loss than other modelling teams".
The professor predicts that summer ice could be completely gone as early as
next year. It took the Watts Up With That? science blog to point out that
there is little point in measuring ice thickness unless you do it several
years running, and that, anyway, Arctic ice is being constantly monitored by
US Army buoys. The latest reading given by a typical sensor shows that since
last March the ice has thickened by "at least half a metre".

"In most fields of science," comments WUWT drily, "that is considered an
'increase' rather than a 'decline'."

An unhealthy moral climate

A London employment tribunal has ruled that Tim Nicholson, right, was
wrongly dismissed as a property firm's "head of sustainability" because of
his fervent commitment to "climate change". Mr Nicholson had fallen out with
his colleagues over his attempts to reduce the company's "carbon footprint".
The tribunal chairman David Neath found the company guilty of discriminating
against Mr Nicholson under the 2006 Equality (Religion and Belief)
Regulations, because his faith in global warming was a "philosophical
belief". Recalling how "eco-psychologists'' at the University of the West
of England are pressing for "climate denial" to be classified as a form of
"mental disorder", one doubts whether the same legal protection would be
given to those who fail to share Mr Nicholson's "philosophical belief".

"Eric Swanson" wrote in message
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The 'Global Warming Three' are on thin ice
The only problem with a project to prove that Arctic ice is disappearing
is the fact that it is actually getting thicker, says Christopher Booker.

By Christopher Booker
Last Updated: 5:30PM GMT 22 Mar 2009

What a wonderful parable of our time has been the expedition to the North
Pole led by the explorer Pen Hadow. With two companions, he is measuring
the thickness of the ice to show how fast it is "declining". His
expedition is one of a series of events designed to "raise awareness of
the dangers of climate change" before December's conference in Copenhagen,
where the warmists hope to get a new treaty imposing much more drastic
cuts on CO2 emissions.

Hadow's Catlin Arctic Project has top-level backing from the likes of the
BBC, the WWF (it could "make a lasting difference to policy-relevant
science") and Prince Charles ("for the sake of our children and
grandchildren, I pray that we will heed the results of the Catlin Arctic
Survey and I can only commend this remarkably important project").

Christopher Booker's NotebookWith perfect timing, the setting out from
Britain of the "Global Warming Three" last month was hampered by "an
unusually heavy snowfall". When they were airlifted to the start of their
trek by a twin-engine Otter (one hopes a whole forest has been planted to
offset its "carbon footprint"), they were startled to find how cold it
was. The BBC dutifully reported how, in temperatures of minus 40 degrees,
they were "battered by wind, bitten by frost and bruised by falls on the
ice".

Thanks to the ice constantly shifting, it was "disheartening", reported
Hadow, to find that "when you've slogged for a day", you can wake up next
morning to find you have "drifted back to where you started''. Last week,
down to their last scraps of food, they were only saved in the nick of
time by the faithful Otter. They were disconcerted to see one of those
polar bears, threatened with extinction by global warming, wandering
around, doubtless eyeing them for its dinner.

But at least one of the intrepid trio was able to send a birthday message
to his mum, via the BBC, and they were able to talk by telephone to "some
of the world's most influential climate change leaders", including
Development Secretary Douglas Alexander in front of 300 people at "a
conference on world poverty".

The idea is that the expedition should take regular radar fixes on the ice
thickness, to be fed into a computer model in California run by Professor
Wieslaw Maslowski, whose team, according to the BBC, "is well known for
producing results that show much faster ice-loss than other modelling
teams". The professor predicts that summer ice could be completely gone as
early as next year. It took the Watts Up With That? science blog to point
out that there is little point in measuring ice thickness unless you do it
several years running, and that, anyway, Arctic ice is being constantly
monitored by US Army buoys. The latest reading given by a typical sensor
shows that since last March the ice has thickened by "at least half a
metre".

"In most fields of science," comments WUWT drily, "that is considered an
'increase' rather than a 'decline'."

An unhealthy moral climate

A London employment tribunal has ruled that Tim Nicholson, right, was
wrongly dismissed as a property firm's "head of sustainability" because of
his fervent commitment to "climate change". Mr Nicholson had fallen out
with his colleagues over his attempts to reduce the company's "carbon
footprint". The tribunal chairman David Neath found the company guilty of
discriminating against Mr Nicholson under the 2006 Equality (Religion and
Belief) Regulations, because his faith in global warming was a
"philosophical belief". Recalling how "eco-psychologists'' at the
University of the West of England are pressing for "climate denial" to be
classified as a form of "mental disorder", one doubts whether the same
legal protection would be given to those who fail to share Mr Nicholson's
"philosophical belief".




if you watch a ice cube melt on the table, it melts faster as it gets
smaller,
Washington state as with many states was once covered in ice... whats the
fuss, a bunch of uneducated democrats think its new.... ****

"Eric Swanson" wrote in message
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belief". Recalling how "eco-psychologists'' at the University of the West
of England are pressing for "climate denial" to be classified as a form of
"mental disorder",

Makes you wonder at what means would the average Joe take such a position?
Hold his wet finger into the wind? Vacation at the poles annually? Or, I
know, put blind faith in the Anthropogenic Global Warming lobby? Yeah,
sure.
Seems the 'mental disorder' is to be established by 'faith' in persons like
A Gore. Not me, where's my straight jacket?

On Mar 22, 1:32 pm, "Eric Swanson"
wrote:

A London employment tribunal has ruled that Tim Nicholson, right, was
wrongly dismissed as a property firm's "head of sustainability" because of
his fervent commitment to "climate change". Mr Nicholson had fallen out with
his colleagues over his attempts to reduce the company's "carbon footprint".
The tribunal chairman David Neath found the company guilty of discriminating
against Mr Nicholson under the 2006 Equality (Religion and Belief)
Regulations, because his faith in global warming was a "philosophical
belief". Recalling how "eco-psychologists'' at the University of the West
of England are pressing for "climate denial" to be classified as a form of
"mental disorder", one doubts whether the same legal protection would be
given to those who fail to share Mr Nicholson's "philosophical belief".

Isn't this a hoot! Now a court of law has come openly down on the side
of "faith-based physics"! I can only wonder how long it will be
before AGW "denying" will be added to Holocaust denying as a major
crime. Reminds me of the famous "slander" trial over whether or not
there were gas chambers at Auschwitz. Neither side was able to
produce any credible evidence since the Russians leveled the place
after the war. No matter. The judge sided with the gas chambers saying
that his reason was "everybody knows" there were gas chambers there!
So goes what passes for "justice" in the Yoo Kay.