More on AGW

WSJ has a perspective on AGW today. What is unnerving is how MUCH MONEY has already been spent on this "settled" science, which even its proponents must admit now is not really settled. Follow the money; wherever there's money being doled out for favorite projects, you can guarantee people are going to want to hang on to it. 

The IPCC report made aggressive claims that "extreme weather-related events" had led to "rapidly rising costs." Never mind that the link between global warming and storms like Hurricane Katrina remains tenuous at best. More astonishing (or, maybe, not so astonishing) is that the IPCC again based its assertion on a single study that was not peer-reviewed. In fact, nobody can reliably establish a quantifiable connection between global warming and increased disaster-related costs. In Holland, there's even a minor uproar over the report's claim that 55% of the country is below sea level. It's 26%.