Sunday, May 31, 2009

Paddling Furiously Against a Tide of Climate Lies


By Alan Caruba

The whole notion of “global warming”, a dramatic increase in the overall temperature of the Earth, always struck me as the most absurd nonsense.

I knew enough about climate trends to know that they are subject to cycles ranging from a full-fledged ice age to the interglacial period of the past 11,000 or more years. I confess I have no idea how early hominids survived the last ice age unless most were in the warmer climes of Africa and Asia, but those in North America and Europe surely faced enormous odds.

The way the “global warming” advocates claimed daily that everything, just everything, was the result or proof of this enormous hoax always seemed to me sufficient proof that (a) they had no idea what they were talking about, (b) they were making lots of money telling these lies, or (c) had climbed on the “global warming” wagon in order to enhance their careers in some fashion.

A small group of climatologists and meteorologists waged war on the lies and they did so for a very long time. Global warming is the invention of the United Nations which launched it with the formation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 1988 via its Environment Program in association with its World Meteorological Organization.

Al Gore climbed on board around 1992 with his farcical book, “Earth in the Balance” in which he advocated an end to the internal combustion engine among other absurd ideas. Apparently, stupidity is no obstacle to receiving a Nobel Peace Prize as he did in 2007, sharing it with the IPCC.

One non-profit, free market think tank, The Heartland Institute, took up the challenge of debunking “global warming” despite the animus of the mainstream media and various environmental organizations that exist for no other purpose than to smear those courageous enough to challenge the hoax. The Institute is headquartered in Chicago and led by Joe Bast.

In 2008, it sponsored for the first International Conference on Climate Change, a two-day marathon of seminars led by some of the world’s leading authorities on climate, all of whom offerred scientific papers demonstrating that the IPCC and others had simply fabricated the “evidence” for “global warming.” I attended and I did so again in March of this year for the second Conference. Those newspapers and other media that covered the event devoted most of their time trying to make it look like a gathering of screwballs.

By then, however, the public had long grown weary of the many “solutions” to “global warming”, the primary one of which involved the UN Kyoto Protocol that demanded that industrial nations like America, the United Kingdom and European nations all severely limit the use of energy on the grounds that “greenhouse gas” emissions such as carbon dioxide, were causing “global warming.” The great lie of the Protocol is demonstrated in the way it exempts China, India and third world nations from participating. The other lie is that C02 plays any role in climate change. It doesn’t.

People all over the world had begun to notice that, since 1998, the world had grown cooler and, in fact, it has been in a cooling cycle. Snow fell in desert kingdoms where it never had been seen before. Glaciers were expanding along with the ice in both the Arctic and Antartcic. Polling organizations in the United States began to report that Americans increasingly felt that “global warming” wasn’t happening despite the torrent of desperate propaganda to prop up this vast deception.

On June 2nd in Washington, D.C., The Heartland Institute is sponsoring another international conference because it knows that “global warming” is being used to impose a huge tax on Americans in the form of the “Cap-and-Trade” 900-plus-page bill just voted out of a House committee. This bill requires the same limits on energy use as the UN Kyoto Protocol.

In 1997 the U.S. Senate voted unanimously against signing on to this villainous treaty, but now we have a Congress and White House controlled by Democrats who, like Al Gore, continue to lie to Americans about “global warming.”

Prepare to read and hear it slandered by the craven “journalists” who continue to report that a warming that is not happening is happening.

Among those participating will be Harrison Schmitt, PhD, a former U.S. Senator and NASA astronaut. The indominable S. Fred Singer, PhD, president of the Science and Environmental Policy Project will speak as will Willie Soon, PhD, an astrophysicist with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Courageous men like Richard S. Lindzen, PhD, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Patrick Michaels, PhD, a senior fellow on Environmental Studies with the Cato Institute, will speak as well as Roy W. Spencer, PhD, the Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama, Huntsville.

This is not a full account of the distinguished speakers, but it is absolutely necessary that those in Congress hear what they have to say regarding the “global warming” hoax. If they do not, the continued destruction of our nation’s economy will continue apace and more millions in our nation’s schools will continue to be taught lies about the Earth’s climate.

It costs lots of money to underwrite the costs of these conferences and, if you have some to spare, you should donate at http://www.heartland.org/donate/index.html and become a member and supporter of this brave think tank.

In the interest of full disclosure, Heartland has in the past provided me with a small grant to continue my own work on behalf of my clearinghouse for information about “scare campaigns”, The National Anxiety Center. We too are dependent on donations to continue our work. If you know anyone who can provide a grant let them know about the Center.

We are all at a critical moment in the history of the greatest hoax of the modern era, masterminded by the United Nations and designed to do as much harm as possible to freedom-loving, industrialized nations like America.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am aghast at the barefaced effrontery in which this unscientific garbage is promulgated with the full expectation that we are stupid enough to believe it.
I am absolutely gob-smacked to know that not only top-drawer scientific institutions but our own governments are peddling such deception.
I am horrified to know that newspapers and TV stations, formerly held in such high esteem for what I believed were high standards of independence and veracity, are nothing more than sounding platforms for State propaganda.
I am shocked when informed through the Web of the despicable way so many so-called ‘scientific’ journals cherry-pick only the articles that subscribe to the AGW hoax, deliberately and openly denying a debate of the alternate view and especially supportive of ad-hominen attacks on the bearers of the true science.
I am bloody angry that such garbage is being aimed, deliberately and blatantly, at our children when we parents are pushed to the sidelines amid a feeding-frenzy of juvenile pseudo-science.
I am climbing the walls with abject frustration for answers as to why, why, why those that rule are rail-roading us all to Hell, eyes wide-open.
Why do they want to see the demise of our civilization; so wantonly expose our species to the margins of life?
In denying and trying to eliminate the life properties of CO2 they are denying our right to life, but more sinister still they are denying life to our very planet and all its life if their crackpot ideas come to fruition.
The fight back is coming; mine is to help spread the word via sites like yours, Alan. In addition I am tutoring all my children (29, 24, 13, 11, 4 ) in the Truth by copying my library of 100s of downloaded papers and articles onto their USB flash drives as well as giving detailed answers to their questions. They all laugh at Al Gore et al – but now they know WHY they laugh (youngest excepted of course).
Here in the Philippines your average Joe-six-pack is more concerned with feeding his family each day than the esotericism of the AGW hoax – even if he is aware.
However, how much longer will populations sit back and allow a forced situation in which they will be prodded back in time to a loincloth, fur bootees, and a hunter-gatherer lifestyle before the worm turns?

Under The Hood said...

"Alice Springs has had its coldest May day on record ..."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/01/2586166.htm?section=australia

Ayrdale said...

It is a perversion of science aided by a compliant news media that has allowed this nonsense to continue for so long.

Bravo to everyone involved with the forthcoming conference, and to every sympathiser I would have to say, GET ORGANISED AND START A BLOG !

I make no apologies for shouting !

Kendra said...

Alan, it's good to be back online (5 days away!) and catch up - I knew it was about the time for another conference. I have a quick question:

How do they and others like them keep their jobs in the current academic "climate" (haha):

...S. Fred Singer, PhD, president of the Science and Environmental Policy Project will speak as will Willie Soon, PhD, an astrophysicist with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Courageous men like Richard S. Lindzen, PhD, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....