Exposing "the greatest lie ever told"

Oh dear! If you are a fervent believer in climate change/global warming/whatever else you want to call it, you might want to go elsewhere. Because you're not going to like this!

The Telegraph in the UK reports on the work of Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner. And his findings are in stark contrast to those of so-called experts like - ummmm - Al Gore - read this:

But if there is one scientist who knows more about sea levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change. And the uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story.

Despite fluctuations down as well as up, "the sea is not rising," he says. "It hasn't risen in 50 years." If there is any rise this century it will "not be more than 10cm (four inches), with an uncertainty of plus or minus 10cm". And quite apart from examining the hard evidence, he says, the elementary laws of physics (latent heat needed to melt ice) tell us that the apocalypse conjured up by Al Gore and Co could not possibly come about.

The reason why Dr Mörner, formerly a Stockholm professor, is so certain that these claims about sea level rise are 100 per cent wrong is that they are all based on computer model predictions, whereas his findings are based on "going into the field to observe what is actually happening in the real world".

And, oh dear, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) might have been using dodgy data to press its case forward:

One of his most shocking discoveries was why the IPCC has been able to show sea levels rising by 2.3mm a year. Until 2003, even its own satellite-based evidence showed no upward trend. But suddenly the graph tilted upwards because the IPCC's favoured experts had drawn on the finding of a single tide-gauge in Hong Kong harbour showing a 2.3mm rise. The entire global sea-level projection was then adjusted upwards by a "corrective factor" of 2.3mm, because, as the IPCC scientists admitted, they "needed to show a trend".

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! We should be very, very grateful that experts such as Dr Mörner are prepared to expose the untruths which have been perpetuated in the last decade or so. It makes us even more reassured that the incoming National government has put New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme on hold, thereby fulfilling yet another election promise. We reckon that it is Dr Mörner, not Al Gore who is speaking an Incovenient Truth!


Hat-tip: WhaleOil