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Another setback to Al Gore and his politically correct, forced-to-comply-or-we-all-DIE! AGW misanthropy...

Climate scientists withdraw journal claims of rising sea levels
Study claimed in 2009 that sea levels would rise by up to 82cm by the end of century – but the report's author now says true estimate is still unknown

Announcing the formal retraction of the paper from the journal, Siddall said: "It's one of those things that happens. People make mistakes and mistakes happen in science." He said there were two separate technical mistakes in the paper, which were pointed out by other scientists after it was published. A formal retraction was required, rather than a correction, because the errors undermined the study's conclusion.

Will the sea's level rise or not? Will yes, the sea's level has risen and fallen over the course of the millennia, for various reasons, warming being one of them. Is it caused by humans?  Is it my fault for enjoying air conditioning?

These recent problems with the 'settled science' Al Gore trumpeted (don't you know he's wishing he hand never said that?) hasn't changed any leftist's minds. What they have is an issue that they can embrace because they simply do not like industry or people who make money with industry. They are misanthropic; they would have people limited to just enough consumption or production as they themselves are comfortable with (never to exceed their output, they cannot stand the comparisons).  An editorial at today's NYT...

Yvo de Boer’s resignation on Thursday after nearly four tumultuous years as chief steward of the United Nations’ climate change negotiations has deepened a sense of pessimism about whether the world can ever get its act together on global warming. Mr. de Boer was plainly exhausted by endless bickering among nations and frustrated by the failure of December’s talks in Copenhagen to deliver the prize he had worked so hard for: a legally binding treaty committing nations to mandatory reductions in greenhouse gases.

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The underlying thought is that the ultimate goal is a safe planet, and that absent a top-down global treaty, that goal is probably best achieved by aggressive, bottom-up national strategies to reduce emissions. Not that these are a sure thing; the United States, embarrassingly, has no national strategy. Until it gets one, it can hardly lecture anyone else. Nor will the world stand a ghost of a chance of bringing emissions under control.

Seems this opinion writer personage wants all of us in the USA to unilaterally cut our own economic throats. For to lead the world!

The leftists at the NYT want to implement unilateral mandatory and misanthropic 'global warming' strategies that would harm Team USA. Who knew they were of this mindset?

Where is Al Gore? Doesn't he need to be out front and center, in this time of setbacks to his religion; should he actually come out of his self-imposed hibernation and address the nation, maybe take the lead role left open by that UN Climate Change negotiator? Where are you, big Al?

Oh. It's still winter. He won't show until it warms up a bit.

Summer's coming. It's almost time for Al Gore to make an appearance. When he's sure that there won't be an embarrassing snowfall to greet him.

In the meantime, we, the evil 'denialists', have won several points. The most important being THE SCIENCE IS NOT SETTLED; another, THERE IS NO LONGER A CONSENSUS.

Sorry, Al Gore. You seem to be losing again.