Denial Down Under

Dr. David Evans, a former consultant to the Austrailian Greenhouse Office has recently penned an intresting commentary for the The Australian newspaper that is being conisdered by many on the climate debate circuit, quite the eye-opener...

No Smoking Hot Spot

Dr. Evans, the self-proclaimed "rocket-scientist" was in charge of developing and implmementing the Australian Governments FullCAM carbon emissions accounting program which measured the country's Kyoto Protocol compliance efforts. When he initially began the job in 1999, Dr. Evans, like most of his collegaues truly belived that there was a very strong link between human-borne CO2 emissions and increases in global tempreatures despite the fact there was virtually no emprical evidence to prove so...

"When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects."

But hey, why be so critical when you're on the government gravy train?

"The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly? Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created. We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save the planet."

Little did Dr. Evans know however, that over the next few years he would invaribly come to the conclusion that the empircal evidence on which any reprutable scientist relies, still had not surfaced...

"...since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming."

And so unlike many of his other colleagues, Dr. Evans has made the decision to publicly announce his dissent from the so-called consensus on human-borne climate change. A move often rife with ridicule and character assasination. And for all the political hyperbole about saving the planet and it's inhabitants. Dr. Evans brings to light something very, very sobering...

"The world has spent $50 billion on global warming since 1990, and we have not found any actual evidence that carbon emissions cause global warming. Evidence consists of observations made by someone at some time that supports the idea that carbon emissions cause global warming. Computer models and theoretical calculations are not evidence, they are just theory."

That's $50 Billion with a "B" folks. Tell the people starving in Africa and other parts of the World to chew on that for a while...