The London Telegraph has an interesting editorial this week. It’s titled “Watch the web for climate change truths” and highlights what I have been saying for the last year and a half here.

A notable story of recent months should have been the evidence pouring in from all sides to cast doubts on the idea that the world is inexorably heating up. The proponents of man-made global warming have become so rattled by how the forecasts of their computer models are being contradicted by the data that some are rushing to modify the thesis.

Proponents are doing more than just modifying their thesis, they are modifying their terminology as well. We no longer hear of “global warming” as the impending crisis, alarmists have now chosen to describe it as “climate change”, leaving the door open for them to raise concerns even after a dramatic decrease in temperature.

A little vignette of the media’s one-sided view was given by recent events on Snowdon, the highest mountain in southern Britain. Each year between 2003 and 2007, the retreat of its winter snow cover inspired reports citing this as evidence of global warming.

Yet virtually no coverage has been given to the abnormally deep spring snow which prevented the completion of a new building on Snowdon’s summit for more than a month, and nearly made it miss the deadline for £4.2 million of EU funding. (Brussels eventually extended the deadline to next autumn.)

The media had trumped up the lack of snowfall in Snowdon along with the alarmist forecasts of a snowless mountain by the end of the decade. Yet when excessive snowfall delays the completion of a new building on the mountain, the media remains virtually silent.

On April 24 the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), another body keen to keep the warmist flag flying, published a study warning that Arctic sea ice was melting so fast that it may soon reach a “tipping point” where “irreversible change” takes place. This was based on last September’s data, showing ice cover having shrunk over six months from 13 million square kilometres to just 3 million.

What the WWF omitted to mention was that by March the ice had recovered to 14 million sq km (see the website Cryosphere Today), and that ice-cover around the Bering Strait and Alaska that month was at its highest level ever recorded. (At the same time Antarctic sea ice-cover was also at its highest-ever level, 30 per cent above normal).

Record level ice coverage in Bering Strait and Alaska, and the mainstream media ignored it. I must say this does not shock me, the media has ignored any story that would make people question global warming as often as they ignore any story which would show progress in Iraq.

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