What do you think was the most costly intelligence failure of
all time? No, was is not the world’s leading intelligence
agencies’ failure to notice that Saddam had few, if any, weapons
of mass destruction. It was the failure of many leading climate
model builders to be modest enough about their predictions, and
the politicians’ and media’s failure to ask the tough questions
of these climate experts. As a consequence of what we now know
was an overblown global-warming scare, everyone on the planet is
paying substantially more for food and fuel than is necessary.
Despite the prediction of all the major climate models, the
Earth has been getting cooler since 1998. At first, it was not
considered a big deal because temperatures fluctuate from year
to year. However, the drop has now been going for a decade, with
another big drop last year. The global warming zealots have just
been handed another rude shock, when the peer-reviewed journal,
Nature, reported on May 1 that according to a new (and hopefully
improved) c