Now even the former high priests of the Church of the Gorebecile are abandoning ship (h/t Ace). Why don’t we let the author introduce himself?

I DEVOTED six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia’s compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, in the land use change and forestry sector.

Not your average GLOBAL WARMING DENIER HERETIC NAZI REVISIONIST RAPIST OF GAIA™, we dare say, and certainly not somebody who embraced skepticism from the start either:

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.

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.

Note the emphasis that we added. This is what we’ve been saying all along, that you need only follow the money to find out how support for the Glowbull Wormening hysteria came about, so we’re quite pleased to hear a former member of that crowd saying so himself.

So what happened to turn this scientist to The Dark Side?

You’ll have to read the article yourself for that. It’s all good, and you won’t regret it.

A few teasers, however, in case you’re still reluctant to do so: He states, categorically, that there is no actual evidence that carbon emissions have a significant effect on global temperatures, NONE, and that any and all attempts, and they have been numerous, to locate such evidence have come up empty.

If you don’t believe him, and why anybody would not believe such a statement coming from somebody who for years was looking for such evidence to vindicate his own theories is beyond us, he offers the following:

If there really was any evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming, don’t you think we would have heard all about it ad nauseam by now?

Quite.

He also notes that the only objective, reliable means we have of measuring global temperature changes show that the warming trend stopped around 2001 and that we’ve seen actual cooling since then.

And, finally, before you go read the whole thing, he also notes that the much vaunted ice core samples that show a correlation between CO₂ levels and global temperature, the very same “evidence” that the Gorebecile used as conclusive proof in his 2005 propaganda flick “An Inconvenient Truth”, show a correlation alright. It’s just that the correlation is that CO₂ levels follow warming rather than precede it. What’s worse, this has been known since 2003, two years prior to the Gorebecile causing the watermelons to cream their undies and declare the debate “over.” Yet nobody ever mentioned that.

Funny, no?

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