"All industrial nations, mainly the big ones, are responsible for the crisis of global warming," he says in the tape, which has not been verified but is thought to be Bin Laden, according to the BBC. "This is a message to the whole world about those who are causing climate change, whether deliberately or not, and what we should do about that." He added that "Bush the son, and the [US] Congress before him, rejected this agreement [the Kyoto protocol] only to satisfy the big companies."

The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules or took a few liberties with our female party guests. We did.

The Continuing Global-Warmist Crack-Up 
London's Mail on Sunday reports on the latest climate-science scandal:

The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.

Dr Murari Lal also said he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research.

In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Dr Lal, the co-ordinating lead author of the report's chapter on Asia, said: "It related to several countries in this region and their water sources. We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.

"It had importance for the region, so we thought we should put it in."

London's Times, meanwhile, reports that the IPCC's head, Rajendra Pachauri, "admitted that there may have been other errors in the same section of the report":

"I know a lot of climate sceptics are after my blood, but I'm in no mood to oblige them," he told The Times in an interview. "It was a collective failure by a number of people," he said. "I need to consider what action to take, but that will take several weeks. It's best to think with a cool head, rather than shoot from the hip."

The Sunday Times turns up more errors:

The United Nations climate science panel faces new controversy for wrongly linking global warming to an increase in the number and severity of natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods.

It based the claims on an unpublished report that had not been subjected to routine scientific scrutiny--and ignored warnings from scientific advisers that the evidence supporting the link too weak. The report's own authors later withdrew the claim because they felt the evidence was not strong enough.

But politicians have picked up on these false claims:

Ed Miliband, the [British] energy and climate change minister, has suggested British and overseas floods--such as those in Bangladesh in 2007--could be linked to global warming. Barack Obama, the US president, said last autumn: "More powerful storms and floods threaten every continent."

We are supposed to believe the politicians when they warn us about global warming because they have the authority of scientists behind them. The more we learn, however, the more it seems that scientists are merely playing politics.

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The Brutal Afghan Winter Vacation


Here's a blast from the past--an excerpt from a New York Times story of Dec. 24, 2001:

The Predator has problems. It is slow- moving and operates at relatively low altitudes, making it easy prey for antiaircraft fire. At least two Predators have crashed in Iraq this year, presumably shot down, officials said. They are also extremely vulnerable to icing, and it is not clear whether they can operate in the brutal Afghan winter.

"The brutal Afghan winter" became a punch line for early "warbloggers" mocking the defeatism of the media. But today's Times reports that the Afghan winter isn't brutal enough:

Afghanistan's high mountains and harsh weather once meant that winter was a respite from much of the war's violence, but as the deaths of six Western soldiers in three separate attacks on Monday show, this winter is proving to be different.


American military leaders and Taliban commanders are vowing to carry the fight to each other and skip the traditional winter vacation, and there is every sign that they are doing just that.

Why does the Times even bother mentioning the weather? All we need to know is the globe is warming and America is losing.

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