INCREDIBLE – AT 12:05 P.M. ET:  Twice in a 24-hour period The Times of London has broken a story revealing another scandal in the murky world of "global-warming science": 

THE United Nations climate science panel faces new controversy for wrongly linking global warming to an increase in the number and severity of natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods.

It based the claims on an unpublished report that had not been subjected to routine scientific scrutiny — and ignored warnings from scientific advisers that the evidence supporting the link too weak. The report's own authors later withdrew the claim because they felt the evidence was not strong enough.

The claim by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), that global warming is already affecting the severity and frequency of global disasters, has since become embedded in political and public debate. It was central to discussions at last month's Copenhagen climate summit, including a demand by developing countries for compensation of $100 billion (£62 billion) from the rich nations blamed for creating the most emissions.

Ed Miliband, the energy and climate change minister, has suggested British and overseas floods — such as those in Bangladesh in 2007 — could be linked to global warming. Barack Obama, the US president, said last autumn: "More powerful storms and floods threaten every continent."

COMMENT:  As we've said here before, we're dealing, not with real science, but with political science.  Yet, American media has been lethargic in exposing the cracks in the wall that the global-warming industry has erected to protect itself. 

The Times of London has become one of the major "go to" places for the latest on the collapsing theories.  Fox News plays a bit of that role here, but only a bit.  We need major press attention, and we need some major investigations to be launched in Washington.  There are too many scandals breaking.  We can't even keep up.

Reader David B. Havanich, Sr. refers us to still more juicy information on the global-warming industry and its followers, here.

January 24, 2010