All it took was a bad ski season in Australia three years ago - right after a great one - for The Age and other alarmists to blame global warming. The CSIRO, once Australia’s top science body, fanned the fear by claiming resorts such as Mt Hotham and Mt Buller could lose a quarter of their snow by 2020.

In fact, this year was another boom one for skiing, with Mt Hotham and Mt Buller covered in snow five weeks before the season started. What's more, a study this year in the Hydrological Sciences Journal checked six climate models, including one used by the CSIRO.

It found they couldn't even predict the regional climate in Australia: "Local model projections cannot be credible . . ."

It also confirmed the finding of a study last year in the International Journal of Climatology that the 22 most cited global warming models could not "accurately explain the (global) climate from the recent past".

As for predicting the future, doomsayers like Greenpeace and the FOE could win a world championship, more for the inaccuracies than the objectivity of their “reports”.

FOE came up with a “report” called “The Oil for Ape (i) Scandal” and alleged that without urgent intervention, the palm oil trade will probably cause the extinction of the orang-utan within 12 years.

The trouble with the “report” is that it conceals the fact that the current orangutan population in the wild in Borneo alone is estimated at between 45,000 and 69,000.  Even a casual observer would have deduced that it is just not even remotely possible for the orang utan, by any leap of logic or stretch of imagination, to go extinct within 12 years.  

This does not even take into account the many conservation programs and orang utan enclaves established by Malaysia and Indonesia. Orang utan conservation centres had been established in Indonesia including those at Tanjung Puting National Park in Central Kalimantan, Kutai in East Kalimantan, Gunung Palung National Park in West Kalimantan, and Bukit Lawang in the Gunung Leuser National Park on the border of Aceh and North Sumatra. In Malaysia, conservation areas have been set up and they include the Semenggoh Wildlife Centre in Sarawak and Matang Wildlife Centre also in Sarawak, and the Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary near Sandakan in Sabah.

Not to be outdone, Greenpeace quickly jumped on the lunatic bandwagon!  Donning monkey suits and screeching like the juvenile delinquents that they really are, monkey suited Greenpeacers scaled the walls of Unilever factories throughout Europe, on the grounds that Unilever was a major consumer of palm oil, despite Unilever having helped initiate the RSPO (ii).

In the view of Deforestation Watch, unless the main stream media is willing to cut through the layers of pseudo-scientific hype and rampant ecomania to uncover the scientific realities, the economic considerations and ethical options that really matter, the world will always be subject to the machinations of the lunatic fringe like Greenpeace and FOE.  In a time of global economic crisis, to throw billions of dollars into perceived and scientifically discredited and unproven environmental programs as the green loonies would have it is gross mismanagement of scarce resources and social irresponsibility!  THE END.

References
(i)  http://www.ekfoe.org.uk/Docs_foe/EK%20FoE%201.pdf
(ii) Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil