The interest in Antarctic climate change models stems from the purported potential of a melt-down there increasing global sea levels by 200 feet. Avoiding such a catastrophe is a major sales pitch in the global warming scare campaign for reduced standards of living, and forestalling development in developing countries. But the models the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) relied on for the Antarctic projections have proven to be to be flawed.
While not baking away from the global warming theory, David Bromwich, professor of geography at Ohio State University did acknowledge that: “It does imply that with the ocean north of Antarctica and the continent itself, there are some significant issues with the current climate models.”1 Those issues can be expressed like this: models producing climate change figures two and a half to five times greater than what they are in reality. Any warming that can be detected is occurring at a much slower pace than the IPCC models forecasted.
Even more at issue now is the credibility of those who tout scientific “consensus” for the global warming theory, and whether or not credibility itself will reemerge as more important to scientific research than politics. The forecast, however, for this warranted about face is bleak; as politics also equals grant money.
Notes:
1. Paul Eccleston, “Antarctic ‘not as warm as feared’,” Telegraph.co.uk, May 8, 2008.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth
/2008/05/08/eatemp108.xml
