Montreal, 2005: Tens of thousands of people ignored frigid temperatures Saturday to lead a worldwide day of protest against global warming. Sydney, 2006: Thousands of people have marched through central Sydney, ignoring wet and windy weather to protest against global warming. As required by protest report law, the piece prominently mentions strollers: Families pushing strollers, elderly couples, dreadlocked activists and vocal youngsters joined forces to call for action on climate change. Peak temperature today? Only 18.1 celsius, about 5.5 degrees below the average maximum.
UPDATE: Those Data-Twisting Cowboys
As P.J. O'Rourke once said, "I wanna see the logic AND the lab equipment."
One of them let his guard down. A major person working in the area of climate change and global warming sent me an astonishing email that said: 'We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.' " So they did.
The UN's second assessment report, in 1996, showed a 1,000-year graph demonstrating that temperature in the Middle Ages was warmer than today.
But the 2001 report contained a new graph showing no medieval warm period. It wrongly concluded that the 20th century was the warmest for 1,000 years.h/t Kathy Shaidle
