Global Warming Nonsense

Oh, the irony is too rich. Frostbite ends Bancroft-Arnesen trek:

A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. [...]

Then there was the cold — quite a bit colder, Atwood said, then Bancroft and Arnesen had expected. One night they measured the temperature inside their tent at 58 degrees below zero, and outside temperatures were exceeding 100 below zero at times, Atwood said.

Now we can all sit around and chuckle at these chuckleheads. But if you really want your head to explode, check out this quote:

"They were experiencing temperatures that weren't expected with global warming," Atwood said. "But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability."

There you have it folks. Apparently warm temperatures "expected with global warming" are indicative of global warming. But cold temperatures are "unpredictable," which is likewise ... indicative of global warming.

Apparently, there is NO WEATHER EVENT WHATSOEVER that can be used to refute the global warming crowd, which is why they have wisely changed their mantra to "Climate Change." And this rot is being sold to us as "settled science."

Update: Czech President Vaclav Klaus gets it:

Proponents of the environmental ideology were attempting to sell the public on "catastrophic scenarios" that could be used to justify the restoration of statist practices, he said.

"The hypothesis of global warming, and the role of man, is the most powerful embodiment of environmental ideology," Klaus observed. Although the environmental movement invokes science as a way of advancing policy goals, the arguments in favor of catastrophe rest on "ill-founded assumptions," he said.

"Environmentalism is a religion. It does not belong in the natural sciences and is more connected with social science."

Klaus said very few politicians and journalists understand that environmentalism is a political ideology masquerading as a natural science.