Gee… That’s a Hard One

Lucy would have a hard time splainin this one to Ethel Mertz, much less Ricky Ricardo:

Last week the IPCC refused to com­ment so it has yet to explain how some­one who admits to lit­tle exper­tise on glac­i­ers was over­see­ing such a report.

I’m get­ting a clearer pic­ture of how it hap­pened that the UN pub­lished its report’s Sum­mary of Con­clu­sions before the study was over.

I would gen­er­ally would pre­fer that peo­ple who have a lot of say in how the world works, and and can at least tan­gen­tially influ­ence my life, have at least mod­er­ate lev­els of exper­tise and judg­ment and be right most of the time.  But I must admit to a wee bit of schaden­freude as these aggres­sively pro­moted houses of cards seem to be tum­bling down as one per­son after another feels it safe to tip­toe out of the waters of Global Warm­ing ortho­doxy with­out get­ting gunned down.

This report from the Times of Lon­don makes one scary aspect of the UN IPCC Report, the con­tention that the Himalayan glac­i­ers will be gone in 25 years, seem anal­o­gous to the Whis­per­ing Game.  It also bears a strong resem­blance to Chicken Lit­tle, only in this ver­sion Foxey Loxey, instead of get­ting a tasty poul­try ragout, ends up with a Nobel Prize, an Oscar, and a for­tune.

There is fur­ther dis­cus­sion which men­tions the strate­gic impli­ca­tions in The Amer­i­can Inter­est.

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Tags: climate, global warming