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Remember Y2K?

Y2K was the greatest hoax of the 20th century.

Climate change looks like being the greatest hoax of the 21st century!

November 4 2009





The cult back then comprised computer experts.

They predicted disaster.

Planes would fall from the skies.

People would be caught in halting elevators.

Chaos would descend on anything that relied on a computer, from financial
markets to utilities. Governments duly prepared for disaster with the BBC
reporting that global preparations for the millennium bug were estimated to
have cost more than $US300 billion.



All for nought.

Nothing happened.

It was, as James Taranto wrote in The Wall Street Journal, the hoax of the
century.



Maurice Newman, who was chairman of the federal government's Y2K committee
told The Australian last week that "in pressing the urgency for compliance,
the committee members relied heavily on confirmatory bias. Most of this came
from so-called experts who had much to gain from creating a sense of alarm.
The consequence of widespread inaction was claimed to result in chaos and
systemic failure. As there was no alternative authoritative voice, this
became perceived wisdom and was certainly believed by the committee. As such
the Y2K phenomenon took on a life of its own."



Deja vu?



Preparing for the deluge of rising sea levels, we were treated to footage
last week from parliamentary question time starring Julia Gillard and her
gumboots.



Appropriately she was followed on ABC1 by Bananas in Pyjamas.



Could man-made climate change turn out to be the greatest hoax of the
present century?



Certainly, ordinary people are beginning to ask questions.



http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/janetalbrechtsen/index.php/theaustralian/comments/s
eeing_through_hoax_of_the_century





Warmest Regards



Bon z0



"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps
US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists
worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct
from natural variation."

Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville

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