Even more "Science Is Religion": The Goran

Tim Blair:

ABC News reporter David Wright wonders at those who would defy a small panel of Norwegians:

Even the Nobel Prize is not going to be enough to silence the naysayers ...

It’s called dissent, pal, and for your information it happens to be the greatest form of patriotism. Among the sayers of nay remains Mark Steyn:

A schoolkid in Ontario was complaining the other day that, whatever subject you do, you have to sit through Gore’s movie: It turns up in biology class, in geography, in physics, in history, in English.

Whatever you’re studying, it’s all you need to know. It fulfils the same role in the schoolhouses of the guilt-ridden developed world that the Koran does in Pakistani madrassas.

In the West, they study the Goran.

In actual global warming news, the GISS Land-Ocean temperature for September plunged to +49 Celsius (above mean), the lowest in more than a year. Go make a trade at the Global Warming Exchange (link also embedded in the charcoal panel in the upper right of this blog).

UPDATE: Interesting WSJ piece on Climate Geo-Engineering:

Expressed in terms of the metaphor of the "greenhouse effect," it would work like this: Geo-engineering would put a "parasol" over the greenhouse to deflect 1% or 2% of the sunlight that now affects the Earth. Scattering this small fraction into space would reduce global warming. In the language of climate science, we would increase by a few percent the Earth's "albedo" -- the ratio of incoming sunlight reflected back into space relative to the total inbound from the sun.

We know it would work because it happens naturally all the time. Clouds routinely deflect sunlight and thereby cool the Earth. Volcanoes -- when they erupt and inject millions of tons of fine particulate material into the stratosphere (mostly sulfate aerosols) -- have also cooled large regions of the globe. Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted in 1991 and cooled most of the Earth for a few years, erasing for a short time roughly half of the global warming that took place during the entire 20th century.