THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XI, Issue # 149, June 22, 2009
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S CLIMATE CHANGE CON-JOB
By Paul K. Driessen
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION "REPORT" ON CLIMATE CHANGE: DECEITFUL, SCARE-MONGERING, BOGUS SCIENCE --
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX PERPETRATED ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: LOOMING PASSAGE BY
CONGRESS OF JOB-KILLING FEDERAL REGULATORY & TAX LEGISLATION -- A MASSIVE POLITICAL PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN
ADVOCATING BAD ENERGY & ECONOMIC POLICY, THE ADOPTION & IMPLEMENTATION OF WHICH WILL RUIN THE
AMERICAN ECONOMY
FULL STORY:
Suppose a company doctored data, misrepresented study findings, replaced observations with computer simulations,
and hired PR flacks to promote its new “wonder drug.” News stories, congressional hearings, and congressional
subpoenas would be in overdrive. Fines and jail sentences would follow. And rightly so.
But the standards change when “climate catastrophe” propaganda is involved.
The White House has made global warming the centerpiece of its revenue-raising and energy policies. A U.S. House
of Representatives 942-page bill would tax, regulate, and penalize all U.S. hydrocarbon energy use, to “save the
planet from climate disaster.” The U.S. Senate promises an August vote on the bill..
But average global temperatures peaked in 1998 and, since then, have fallen slightly, even as carbon dioxide levels
continue to climb. Thousands of scientists say CO2 has little effect on planetary temperatures, and there is no climate
crisis. Few developed countries are ready to commit economic suicide, by agreeing to reduce their CO2 emissions by
a fraction of what the House bill demands for the United States.
Americans are beginning to realize the legislation would cost millions of jobs and trillions of dollars for a hypothetical
0.1 degree Fahrenheit reduction in global temperatures. Most put global warming dead last in a Pew Research list of
20 concerns.
The U.S. government’s answer to these inconvenient truths is simple.
Issue another report by government scientists carefully selected to exclude any who don’t subscribe to climate
Armageddon. Ignore contrary data and analyses. Crank out more bogus computer-generated worst-case scenarios.
Hire an activist media firm that specializes in environmental scare campaigns. And spend tens of millions hyping
every imaginable climate disaster:
Rising sea levels, floods in lower Manhattan, California beaches permanently submerged. Ferocious hurricanes,
floods, and droughts. Food shortages, epidemic diseases, a quadrupling of heat-wave deaths in Chicago. Aged
sewer systems convulsing from massive storm runoff. Wildflowers disappearing from Rocky Mountain slopes and
polar bears from the Arctic. Leisure time gone, as people struggle to survive.
Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States is the “most up-to-date, authoritative, comprehensive”
analysis ever done on how human-caused warming affects the United States, deadpans Obama “science” advisor
John Holdren.
Actually, it’s the most flagrant attempted con-job and propaganda campaign in U.S. history.
If it helps Congress enact cap-and-tax legislation, it will give activists, courts, and bureaucrats control over
virtually every aspect of our lives. It will enable them to confiscate hard-earned dollars, convert them to payoffs for
activists and companies that get on the climate-crisis bandwagon, consign uncooperative companies and scientists
to the ash heap of history, and conceal the exorbitant costs of restrictive energy policies – on families, industries,
jobs, and transportation – until long after the bill becomes law.
The bogus “report” conflates and confuses human activities and emissions with the powerful natural forces that
have caused major and minor climate changes and weather anomalies since the dawn of time – from the
Carboniferous Period to the Age of Dinosaurs, from the Big Ice Ages and interglacial periods to the Little Ice Age,
Roman and Medieval Warm Periods, Dust Bowl, and countless others. It relies on conjecture, conformist thinking,
and conspicuous elimination of contrary, skeptical, realist scientists and studies that do not support climate
cataclysm conjecture and ideology.
The authors “largely ignored” critical comments to earlier drafts and made the final version “even more alarmist”
than infamous UN “summaries” of global warming “crises,” says Joseph D’Aleo, first Director of Meteorology at
the Weather Channel and former Chairman of the American Meteorological Society’s Weather Analysis and
Forecasting Committee. The report is simply “wrong on many of its claims” and marks “an embarrassing episode
for the authors and NOAA,” D’Aleo concludes.
University of Colorado environmental studies professor Roger Pielke, Jr., says the report “misrepresents” his
own work, makes claims that are not supported by citations provided, relies heavily on analyses that were never
peer reviewed, ignores peer-reviewed studies that reach opposite conclusions from those proclaimed by the report,
and cites analyses that do not support conclusions rendered.
“I didn’t notice a single recognized hurricane expert in the list of authors,” says National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) Hurricane Research Division scientist Stanley Goldenberg. The report relies heavily on
surface temperature data from monitoring stations located next to parking lots and air conditioning exhaust ports –
falsely skewing temperature records upward – other experts noted. It is lead-heavy on assumptions, assertions,
and speculation – hydrogen-light on evidence.
But the most egregious miscarriage of science in this agit-prop exercise is its near-total dependence on worst-case
scenarios conjured up by computer models. That’s where it gets its litany of “Day After Tomorrow” Hollywood
disasters.
These climate models have never been validated by actual observations, notes Professor Robert Carter of the
Marine Geophysical Laboratory at Australia’s James Cook University. Indeed, Australia’s own climate modeling
agency (CSIRO) stresses that climate change scenarios are based on computer models that “involve
simplifications of [real world] processes that are not fully understood. Accordingly, no responsibility will be
accepted … for the accuracy of forecasts inferred” from its reports.
“Modeling results are interesting – but worthless for setting public policy,” says Carter. But that is exactly how
they’re being used.
Sure, it’s conceivable that Antarctica could melt, and cause sea levels to rise 20 feet, as Al Gore and the
government con-artists suggest. Greenhouse gases would merely have to increase average annual Antarctic
temperatures from their current –50 degrees Fahrenheit to +40 degrees for a century or two, to melt 200,000 cubic
miles of South Pole icecaps. A mere 90-degree swing.
That may be as likely as having the planet overrun by raptors and T-rexes cloned from DNA in fossilized
mosquitoes. But it’s conceivable. And, in the realm of global warming politics, that’s all that matters. As MIT
atmospheric physicist Richard Lindzen observes, “global warming has developed so much momentum that it has
a life of its own, quite removed from science.”
One climate activist group put it as follows:
“The task … is not to persuade by rational argument.
[It is] to work in a more shrewd and contemporary way,
using subtle techniques of engagement. The ‘facts’
need to be treated as being so taken-for-granted that
they need not be spoken.” [The strategy is to treat]
climate-friendly activity as a brand that can be sold.
This is the route to mass behavior change.”
This is the kind of science, transparency, honesty, and accountability we have come to expect over
“human-caused climate chaos.”
If the congressional, administration, and activist conspirators behind this massive deceit were in the private
sector – peddling bogus drugs, rather than bogus science – they’d quickly become convicts. Instead of jail time,
though, they’ll probably get bonus checks.
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
Paul K. Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and Congress of Racial
Equality, and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death.
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