If Not Now, When?

Yet more disturbing revelations surrounding IPCC global warming claims:

In its most recent report, it stated that observed reductions in mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and Africa was being caused by global warming, citing two papers as the source of the information.

However, it can be revealed that one of the sources quoted was a feature article published in a popular magazine for climbers which was based on anecdotal evidence from mountaineers about the changes they were witnessing on the mountainsides around them.

The other was a dissertation written by a geography student, studying for the equivalent of a master's degree, at the University of Berne in Switzerland that quoted interviews with mountain guides in the Alps.

I was once told I should "assume the worst." Not a bad tip. Tim Blair has more examples of the rather unsciency approach used by AGW "scientists." It would be funny if it hadn't caused such terror in typically rational people.

Would You Like Some Praise With That Manhole Cover?

A reader inquires whether, perhaps, Loafer is someone I simply made up, and adds:

If you did make up Loafer, that's a work of genius. He offers an interesting foil, albeit an unrepresentative one (perhaps along the lines of Alan Colmes).

Oh!

Harsh!

I feel confident the Fox News comparison will be a direct hit on the Loafman.