Harsanyi column: Tables turned on global warming zealots

Today brings us another insightful column by the Denver Post's David Harsanyi, this time about global warming.

Problems keep popping up for the true believer. Phil Jones, the former
director of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia
(and the only one held responsible for Climategate), admits that much
of his decades-worth of data was sloppy, missing or, in other words,
not very scientific.

Jones, when recently asked if the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than
the current period, admitted that it had not been proven — and the
importance of this can't be stressed enough.

Is Jones just being careful now? Probably. Which is more than can be
said for others.

The important Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claimed that
Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035. Turns out this was based on the
conjecture of a single researcher. The 2007 IPCC report also warned
that by 2020, global warming may reduce crop yields in Africa by 50
percent, though there was no real science to back the claim.

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