THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume X, Issue # 66, March 4, 2008
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
AN EXTRAORDINARY EVENT
By Alan Caruba
EXPOSING THE HOAX OF GLOBAL WARMING -- THE MESSAGE OF THE 2008 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE
CHANGE: ABSOLUTELY NO SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL WARMING THEORY -- AMERICA IN THE GRIP OF
A FORM OF INSANITY PERPETRATED BY THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS & LEGISLATED BY POLITICIANS WHO HAVEN'T A CLUE
ABOUT THE WAYS THEY ARE WRECKING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY IN THE NAME OF SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT FROM
THE SUPPOSED ILL EFFECTS OF HUMAN-INDUCED GLOBAL WARMING
FULL STORY:
For the last two days, March 2-4, I and about five hundred other people attended the 2008 International Conference on
Climate Change, including some of the world’s leading authorities on climatology, meteorology, economics, energy, and
other fields of knowledge.
It was an extraordinary event, held in New York City and sponsored by the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based think
tank that has been among those leading the effort to educate and inform the public about the mountain of lies that have
led them to believe that the Earth is experiencing a huge increase in heat, a "global warming", that is allegedly the direct
result of human activities, primarily from the use of energy that includes coal, natural gas, and oil.
The Conference message is simplicity itself: There is no “consensus” on global warming. The science is not “settled.”
Indeed, this conference marks a highpoint in the effort to rescue the planet from people who regard their fellow human
beings as a cancer afflicting the Earth.
This hoax, generated out of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, actually included some
IPCC members who have labored long and hard to dispute the IPCC reports on the basis of real science, not the spurious
claims based largely on flawed and even deliberately false computer models.
In breakfasts, luncheons and dinners, some of these now-famed global warming “dissenters” and “deniers” presented
talks complete with power-point presentations filled with statistics and charts that disputed the alleged facts of the IPCC.
These presentations were then augmented by a series of panels on paleoclimatology, climatology, the impacts of the
global warming hoax, its affect on the economics of both developed and developing nations, and how it twists the
politics of our nation and others.
What made this event so extraordinary was that it is, to my knowledge, the first time since the global warming hoax was
perpetrated back in the 1980s -- it had been preceded by a campaign in the 1970s asserting, correctly, that we are closer
to the next Ice Age -- that such a gathering has occurred. It has taken three decades to bring together these experts and
the reason why is fairly simple.
The forces behind the global warming hoax, the environmentalist organizations, have been heavily funded by foundations
and, as in the United States, by billions of government dollars directed to research on the climate. These groups have
garnered more money from membership and the sales of all manner of books, publications, DVDs and other items. Still
others have made their money by suing the government and having their legal fees reimbursed along with any other
rewards.
The “stars” of the conference were men with impeccable credentials, but largely unknown to the general public because
the media has been enthraled by the global warming hoaxers, either deliberately or by virtue of being disinterested in the
actual science involved. Too many have failed their commitment to journalism’s high standards and they have failed a
public that depends on them to explain these complex issues.
For decades, the headlines have heralded all manner of crises to the point of absurdity, whereby now blizzards are
attributed to warming tends. This pass year has seen significant and unusual blizzard conditions worldwide and this too,
the public has been told, results from a dramatic warming that is not occurring.
For me, there was the particular pleasure of actually meeting many of those who have been on the front lines of disputing
the hoax, but our work is far from finished.
Much damage is being done to America by legislation based on the global warming lies, particularly as regards their impact
on the provision of the energy this nation requires to be competitive in the global marketplace and to sustain our lifestyle.
Our political candidates all subscribe to the global warming hoax. The leaders in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of
Representatives all advocate it as well.
The result is legislation that forces the nation to literally burn its food crops — notably corn — in order to turn it into an
efficient fuel additive, ethanol. This, in turn, is forcing up the cost of food. It is legislation that does not permit for the
exploration and extraction of energy reserves such as oil and natural gas along 85% of our nation’s continental shelf, nor in
Alaska, where billions of barrels of oil remain untapped. It is legislation that grants huge subsidies — a form of hidden tax
— to wind and solar energy, the two most inefficient and unreliable forms of energy. It is legislation that bans the future use
of incandescent light bulbs.
In short, America is gripped by a form of life-threatening insanity perpetrated by the Greens and legislated by politicians
who haven’t a clue about the ways they are wrecking our economy in the name of global warming.
So, this extraordinary conference, drawing men and women from as far away as Australia, New Zealand, China, the United
Kingdom and Europe, may well be the last best hope to turn away from a future that will be marked by the undermining of
America’s and Europe’s economies.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
The Earth's Natural History, Global Climate Changes,
& the Future of Human Life & Civilization on the Planet:
Science, Ideology, & Public Policy
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba has a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
Caruba’s new book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press.
© Alan Caruba 2008
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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