THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XI, Issue # 135, June 7, 2009
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
WEATHER MALARKEY
By Alan Caruba
THE THEORY OF CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE & HUMAN-INDUCED GLOBAL WARMING RECONSIDERED & REFUTED:
THE 2009 REPORT OF THE NONGOVERNMENTAL INTERNATIONAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE OFFERS A VERY
DIFFERENT PICTURE THAN THE ENDLESS SCARE CAMPAIGNS OF THE ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT & ITS LIBERAL
LEFTIST ALLIES IN CONGRESS & THE WHITE HOUSE -- REVEALING THE LACK OF MERIT OF THE KYOTO PROTOCOLS & THE
2009 CONGRESSIONAL ENERGY & CLIMATE BILL -- EXPOSING THE UNRELIABILITY OF THE OFFICIAL RECORD OF
TEMPERATURES IN THE CONTINENTAL U.S.A. -- INACCURATE WEATHER INFORMATION & FALSIFIED "SCIENTIFIC" DATA
AS THE STOCK-IN-TRADE OF ENVIRONMENTALISTS, GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS, & THEIR LEFTWING LIBERAL ALLIES
IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
FULL STORY:
I have never been able to figure out why people who know that the forecast for the local weather is likely to be wrong
by the afternoon of the same day or within 48 hours still believe that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change can accurately predict what it will be ten, twenty, or fifty years from now.
At the third Conference on Climate Change held last week in Washington, D.C., an event sponsored by the non-profit,
free market think tank, The Heartland Institute, “Climate Change Reconsidered: The 2009 Report of the
Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change” (NIPCC) was announced. It offers a very different picture
from the endless scare campaigns of the leading environmentalist organizations or, for that matter, from the U.S. White
House and the U.S. Congress.
Edited by Craig Idso and S. Fred Singer, two climatologists, it runs a whopping 900 pages that includes 35 contributors
and reviewers of climate data. Its final 200 pages are mostly appendices, including a directory of all scientists who
signed the Global Warming Petition that, in March, 2009, numbered 31,478 of them.
The Petition urged the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto,
Japan, in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. One of those proposals is a nation-destroying epic “climate”
bill intended to limit greenhouse gas emissions, mainly carbon dioxide, with an absurd “cap-and-trade” program that is
little more than a huge tax on all use of energy by Americans.
Suffice it to say that the original Kyoto Protocols were rejected unanimously by a former U.S. Senate when they were
first announced and, since they are allegedly directed at saving the Earth from “global warming,” the threat of this
calamity ended around 1998, when the Earth began to cool. It has been in a cooling cycle ever since.
Is the U.S. Temperature Record Reliable?
Neither the Kyoto Protocols nor the current congressional “climate” bill have any merit whatever. Both are based on
falsified “scientific” data, courtesy of the UN Panel. Bad, inaccurate weather information seems to be the stock-in-trade
of environmentalist organizations and, thanks to Anthony Watts, a meteorologist with some 25 years in the forecasting
business and chief meteorologist for KPAY-AM radio, a publication, Is the U.S. Temperature Record Reliable? is
available from The Heartland Institute ($12.99 per copy for 1-10 copies.)
As Watts points out, “The official record of temperatures in the continental United States comes from a network of 1,221
climate-monitoring stations overseen by the National Weather Service, a department of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).”
Until now, however, “no one had ever conducted a comprehensive review of the quality of the measurement environment
of those stations.” Watts recruited 650 volunteers and their findings are astounding and disturbing.
“We found stations located next to the exhaust fans
of air conditioning units, surrounded by asphalt
parking lots and roads, on blistering-hot rooftops,
and near sidewalks and buildings that absorb and
radiate heat. We found 68 stations located at
wastewater treatment plants, where the process of
waste digestion causes temperatures to be higher
than in surrounding areas.”
The report found that 89 percent of the stations, nearly 9 out of 10, failed to meet the National Weather Service’s own
requirements that stations must be 30 meters (about 100 feet) away from an artificial heating or radiating/reflecting heat
source.
So, based on these monitoring stations, very little of the temperatures reported by the U.S. Weather Service are accurate
and, more importantly, provide false data which has been used to underwrite the “global warming” hoax.
Filled with photos of the stations and charts of the data they produce, the conclusion is inescapable: “The U.S.
temperature record is unreliable.”
When one considers that, during the course of a single day and night, the temperature anywhere can vary widely, the
notion that anyone can determine the nation’s or entire Earth’s average temperature based on such stations around the
world is literally impossible.
Weather satellites provide a better gauge and, as noted, they have been reporting a cooling Earth since 1998.
The Greens, or environmentalists, aren’t the only ones who can make predictions, albeit for the purpose of scaring
people into believing the bogus “global warming” hoax. I can do that too. I predict that the Greens will unleash an
unholy attack on The Heartland Institute’s NIPCC report in order to discredit it.
Now, who are you going to believe? The thermometer your home or apartment uses to determine the temperature
outside or the Greens? As for your local weather report, it is useful for perhaps a day, maybe two. After that, it’s
anyone’s guess.
For more information, visit www.surfacestations.org.
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, science and political 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 most recent book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press. Books
previously authored by Caruba include A Pocket Guide to Militant Islam, The United Nations Versus the United States: The
UN's Plan to Control Planet Earth, and America: A Nation Without Borders -- A Pocket Guide to Immigration Issues.
© Alan Caruba 2009
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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