What do you know Charles Hanley of No Gun Ri fraud fame has now set his eyes on yet another fraud to sensationalize in hopes of Pulitzer I guess:

This decade is on track to become the warmest since records began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five warmest years, the U.N. weather agency reported Tuesday on the second day of a pivotal 192-nation climate conference.In some areas — central Africa and southern Asia — this will probably be the warmest year, but overall 2009 will “be about the fifth-warmest year on record,” said Michel Jarraud, secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization.

Only the United States and Canada experienced cooler conditions than average, it said, although Alaska had the second-warmest July on record.

The U.N. agency noted an extreme heat wave in India in May and a heat wave in northern China in June. It said parts of China experienced their warmest year on record, and that Australia so far has had its third-warmest year. Extremely hot weather was also more frequent and intense in southern South America.

The decade 2000-2009 “is very likely to be the warmest on record, warmer than the 1990s, than the 1980s and so on,” Jarraud told a news conference, holding a chart with a temperature curve pointing upward.  [Associated Press - Charles Hanley]

What annoys me even more than someone like Charles Hanley writing about global warming is the inability of anyone in the media to call the Europeans on their own emissions cutting fraud:

The European Union has pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by 2020, compared with 1990, and is considering raising that to 30 percent if other governments also aim high. Climate change will be high on the agenda at an EU summit this Thursday and Friday in Brussels.

The European Union had called for a stronger bid by the Americans, who thus far have pledged emissions cuts much less ambitious than Europe‘s. The U.S. has offered a 17 percent reduction in emissions from their 2005 level — comparable to a 3-4 percent cut from 1990 levels.

As I mentioned before, President Obama’s emission cut promise is just a way to pay these people lip service and you can’t blame the President for doing this since the Europeans are the masters of it.  The Europeans have been demanding the 40% cuts based off of 1990 levels because they would not have to do anything themselves.  The Kyoto Protocol was agreed upon in 1997, why did they decide to base emission cuts off of 1990 levels when the agreement was signed in 1997?  Likewise why are the Europeans still demanding cuts be based off of 1990 levels today?  Think about it, what happened just after 1990?  The Soviet Union collapsed along with the entire industrial based economies of Eastern Europe.

The Europeans have cleverly grouped themselves together into one big European block for emissions targets because Western Europe’s continuing rise in greenhouse gases is offset by the collapse of the Eastern European economies after the fall of the Soviet Union.  If Western Europe was their own block they would not meet the Kyoto Protocol’s requirements because of their rising greenhouse gas emissions.  That is why they are demanding the 1990 level for cuts.  This allows them to continue with their rising greenhouse gases and then play the holier than thou card against the United States.

Just further evidence that global warming movement has little to actually do with the climate.