Remember how the world was warming uncontrollably and humans were to blame becasue of all our evil fossil fules and CO2? The cheer-leaders fo rthe big scare include Britain's Met Office and our own CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology.

The Met Office, despite a lot of denials and double-speak finally admitted that the warming seen since 1880 is statistically insignificant- that means it is likely to be as much random variations as human intervention. Can we finally shut down this monumental scare that is costing the world trillions of dollars in useless taxes, levies and schemes?

From Andrew Bolt:

It took six attempts in the House of Lords before the Met Office finally revealed the rise in temperature we’d seen seems statistically insignificant, despite all the claims of an apocalypse in the making:

The issue here is the claim that “the temperature rise since about 1880 is statistically significant”, which was made by the Met Office in response to the original Question (HL3050). The basis for that claim has now been effectively acknowledged to be untenable. Possibly there is some other basis for the claim, but that seems extremely implausible: the claim does not seem to have any valid basis.

Plainly, then, the Met Office should now publicly withdraw the claim. That is, the Met Office should admit that the warming shown by the global-temperature record since 1880 (or indeed 1850) might be reasonably attributed to natural random variation….

Lastly, it is not only the Met Office that has claimed that the increase in global temperatures is statistically significant: the IPCC has as well. Moreover, the IPCC used the same statistical model as the Met Office, in its most-recent Assessment Report (2007)…

To conclude, the primary basis for global-warming alarmism is unfounded. The Met Office has been making false claims about the significance of climatic changes to Parliament—as well as to the government, the media, and others — claims which have seriously affected both policies and opinions. When questioned about those claims in Parliament, the Met Office did everything feasible to avoid telling the truth.