Here’s a bit of news that you probably won’t be reading on the front page of the New York Times…

The scare over global warming, and our politicians’ response to it, is becoming ever more bizarre. On the one hand we have the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change coming up with yet another of its notoriously politicised reports, hyping up the scare by claiming that world surface temperatures have been higher in 11 of the past 12 years (1995-2006) than ever previously recorded.

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This carefully ignores the latest US satellite figures showing temperatures having fallen since 1998, declining in 2007 to a 1983 level - not to mention the newly revised figures for US surface temperatures showing that the 1930s had four of the 10 warmest years of the past century, with the hottest year of all being not 1998, as was previously claimed, but 1934.

It’s an interesting bit of commentary don’t you think? Christopher Booker of the Telegraph finishes this little tidbit with the following:

This year will be remembered for two things.

First, it was the year when the scientific data showed that the cosmic scare over global warming may well turn out to be just that - yet another vastly inflated scare.

Second, it was the year when the hysteria generated by all the bogus science behind this scare finally drove those who rule over us, including Gordon "Plastic Bags" Brown, wholly out of their wits.

"Plastic Bags" — not that’s an interesting tag don’t you think? It sort of reminds me of the lunacy going on in San Francisco. They’re…

• Banning plastic bags to "save the environment".
• Mandating compact fluorescent lights to "save the environment".
• Considering banning home fireplace use to "save the environment".

None of these things will "save the environment". They’re just feel-good measures that inconvenience ordinary people for no benefit other than securing power and assuaging the guilt of the elites.

Of course we already know that the elites are "above" the rules. Just look at today’s foremost prophet of global warming for an example.

A tip of the hat to Nancy Morgan for the link to the Telegraph article.

Originally posted at Perri Nelson’s Website.