India tells Al Gore to "shove it"

In this new century full of talk about global warming and how any day now Arizona really will have oceanfront property, we get a breathe of fresh air. You see my friends, the Indian government has moved to establish its own body to address and monitor science surrounding climate change, saying it "cannot rely" on the official United Nation panel. What that really means is that they don't want the world sticking its nose into Indian affairs. Who can blame them?

The move is a severe blow to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) following a claim of the UN that the Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035. Sounds like vintage Al Gore doesn't it? But this claim was not repeated in any peer-reviewed studies and was completely rebuffed by scientists. India's environment minister Jairam Ramesh announced that the Indian government will establish a separate National Institute of Himalayan Glaciology to monitor climate change in the region. "There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism," Ramesh said. "I am for climate science."

I like the term "climate evangelism".... it has a nice ring to it and is fairly true. That has been the basic theme of all this global warming nonsense, spreading a false gospel and predicting the end of the world. At least India, a third world nation that this IPCC is supposed to be helping, woke up to the realities. What India also failed to mention is that they would like to continue the industrialization of their country, without the bothers of "cap and trade" type legislation. They also would like to continue building coal fired power plants at their current rate or faster to support that industrialization. That is something the big bad UN would frown upon.

Its too bad that our President can't see the UN for what it is, but then again he's beholden to the "climate evangelists" until the next election in 2012. Perhaps he should take a look outside the window of the White House and see the effects of one of the coldest winters in 25 years. Then tell me, Mr. President, that the Earth is getting hotter. But just in case, I think I'll buy some more land in South Georgia, as that will be the new Gulf Coast in 2035, according to the UN.