Another one for the global warming alarmism file, as <a href=”

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=16632851&m

ethod=full&siteid=50082&headline=-global-warming–to-cloak—wales-in-ic

e–name_page.html”>this chap sees Wales covered in ice, possibly “within years.” The scientific consensus, which we are repeatedly told is a good thing, except when it inconveniently refutes alarmism, is that global warming is very unlikely to lead to a new ice age.

The piece is also an excellent example of the fallacy of appeal to authority. The glaciologist has a regulatory policy recipe to avoid this fictitious future, presumably informed by his impressive background in, erm, glaciology:

“It’s never too late to change, and you can’t be drawn into a state of apathy. The answer probably lies in money, in a global system of carbon trading in conjunction with a direct tax on carbon dioxide emissions.
“There may need to be consumer-led embargoes on goods from countries which are the worst polluters, and there should be curbs on air travel, which makes such a huge contribution to total emissions of CO . Aircraft should not be flown with empty seats and there must be cleaner aircraft engines. Sports cars should be heavily taxed and consumers should rebel against things like excess packaging on goods.”

Guess I missed the course Glaciology 203: Taxation of sports cars and excess packaging in the mid-Holocene.

Watch for him to be appointed as an adviser to the Conservative Party next week.