Sunday, September 13, 2009

The Great Copenhagen Liar's Conference

By Alan Caruba

From December 6 through the 18th, a conference sponsored by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will gather in Copenhagen, Denmark, to explore ways to “prevent global warming” and I would like to be among the first to tell all those idiots checking their passports and deciding what to pack that they can all stay home.

This is not an original thought on my part and, in fact, is occasioned by Prof. Henrik Svensmark. He is director of the Center for Sun-Climate Research at the Technical University of Denmark and, not surprisingly, knows a lot about the Sun and climate.

Permit me to share some of his thoughts. In a September 9th opinion titled, “While the Sun Sleeps”, Prof. Svensmark wrote, “Last week, the scientific team behind the SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) reported that the number of sunspot-free days suggest that solar activity is heading towards its lowest level in about 100 years.”

“Everything indicates that the Sun is moving into a hibernation-like state and the obvious question is whether it has any significance for us on Earth.” Good question, Professor! Particularly since the Sun is the sole source of heat for the Earth. When it takes a nap, everybody takes notice.

The professor then had a little professorial fun describing the Little Ice Age that occurred after a period of medieval warmth that had begun around 1000 AD. After 1300, however, it got a lot colder. Settlements in Greenland disappeared. The Thames froze over repeatedly. And here’s where we need to pay attention, there were “long periods of crop failure.” Between starvation and disease, it reduced the population of Europe by about a third.

“It is important to note that the Little Ice Age was a global event,” said Prof. Svensmark. It did not end until the mid-to-late 19th century; around 1850 in America. Do your math. That’s five centuries. As the Earth began to warm up and particularly in the last fifty years, “solar activity has been the highest since the medieval warmth of 1,000 years ago.”

Now, keep in mind that a couple of hundred, perhaps a thousand or more diplomats, scientists, and environmentalists are going to gather in Copenhagen for the single purpose of extending or expanding the Kyoto Protocols that are based on the assertion that the Earth is warming even though it is not.

Moreover, the IPCC will announce that, if the industrialized nations do not dramatically reduce the production of “greenhouse gases” (carbon dioxide), we are all doomed. In the United States, the Cap-and-Trade bill which passed the House by a slim margin will be up for consideration in the Senate. It is based on the global warming lie. It will drive up the cost of energy for all Americans and basically wreck the economy!

Like the witches in Macbeth, for years the IPCC has been stirring a cauldron of lies about global warming and the world’s media, intoxicated by the fumes rising from the pot, have never ceased from telling us that the Earth is warming when it is not.

The Sun, however, is not cooperating.

“It now appears that the Sun…is heading towards what is called ‘a grand minimum’ as we saw in the Little Ice Age,” says Prof. Svensmark.

“Indeed, global warming has stopped and cooling is beginning.” At a recent World Climate Conference in Geneva one of the participants predicted the cooling will likely continue through the next 10 to 20 years.

All those IPCC computer models that have been predicting global warming were wrong, are wrong, and will remain wrong for all time until the Earth actually begins to warm again.

If, however, the Earth slips into a new Ice Age and not just a "little" one, it will be several hundred thousand years before they are valid.

The Copenhagen conference is, like global warming, a hoax.

I hear it's very cold in Copenhagen in the winter.

8 comments:

Ayrdale said...

Note that even the UK New Scientist, a past cheerleader for the green left is starting to hedge its bets...

http://mickysmuses.blogspot.com/2009/09/global-warming-contortions-and.html

Alan Caruba said...

We're going to see lots of people and publications back off of the global warming hoax and, indeed, my sources reveal a rush to join longtime "deniers" like myself and more credentialed folk.

Thanks for the URL to Mickey's Musings.

Anonymous said...

I'd like to compare the coming IPCC conference and its end in Copenhagen with Napoleon's exit from Moscow in
1812.
They will be defeated in their quest and then scatter to their homelands amid blizzards and humiliation in the face of a 'cooling' sun, their numbers vastly reduced by cold, hard facts, impossible to sidestep. The once victory hyped green army will be decimated and in disarray.
Get the "End is Nigh" placards out, march the streets; AGW is going to be laid to rest.

Alan Caruba said...

A perfect analogy, Clive!

Jacques Voorhees said...

I'm quite certain all those gathering in Copenhagen are aware that the Earth has been cooling for ten years. It isn't exactly a secret anymore. So one wonders: how will they be able to give their speeches with a straight face? We already know the content of the speeches, of course. Various prophecies of doom unless the politicians act now. But, truly, how will they say these words without laughing? Some day whole departments at universities will be dedicated to studying the mass delusion that seized humanity during the 21st century, and trying to explain how it could have happened. It will be like Ethnic Studies, or Holocaust studies, or whatever. Our grandchildren will one day ask us: "But, I don't get it...didn't anyone notice it was cooling while everyone said it was warming?" What will our answer be?

Alan Caruba said...

The answer will be that the United Nations perpetrating a huge fraud on the world, leaders of nations went along with it, and billions were expended on propaganda to spead the lies. Then add that the media colluded to spread the lies. And that it took a handful of courageous scientists to tell the truth until people were forced the environment itself to listen.

Cumbre del Clima said...

YOU are the hoax, Alan! ;)

Alan Caruba said...

Calling names doesn't change the FACTS.

It only demonstrates that you have none.