THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XIV, Issue # 103, May 15, 2012
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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BIG CITY LIBERAL
By Dennis T. Avery
ENVIRONMENTALIST IDEOLOGY & THE THEORY OF CATASTROPHIC, ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE: STIRRING UP CONTROVERSY OVER THE
SOCALLED "SETTLED SCIENCE" OF ENVIRONMENTALISTS & GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS -- THE OPPOSING THEORY OF GLOBAL WARMING: THE
NATURAL, SOLAR-DRIVEN CLIMATE CYCLE EXPLAINS MOST OF THE EARTH'S RECENT WARMING.
FULL STORY:
The Heartland Institute, a Chicago Libertarian think-tank, put up a billboard outside Chicago on May 3, 2012, that showed a photo of a raddled-looking Ted
Kaczynski, the Unabomber. The cut line said, “I believe in man-made global warming. Do you?”
The Heartland Institute had hoped to stir controversy over the “settled science” of the global warming alarmists, and it succeeded — but the billboard was
removed after the first day, amid a fluster of outrage from global warming alarmists. A flow of harsh emails is being sent to everyone ever associated with the
Heartland Institute.
I am listed as a Heartland Expert and have spoken on the natural 1,500-year climate cycle at two of the Heartland Experts' international global-warming skeptics’
conferences. It’s my contention, and that of many well-qualified scientists, that the natural solar-driven cycle explains most of the earth’s recent warming. My
book, with co-author Fred Singer, is Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years.
I got the following this week from a blog called BigCityLib:
“Dear Mr. Avery, I am wondering if you are aware (1) that you are
listed as a 'Heartland Expert;' and (2) that Heartland
recently ran a billboard campaign comparing AGW [1] believers to
mass murders (in particular to the Unabomber)?"
“A number of scientists have asked that they be removed from
the HI list of experts because of this billboard campaign, and a
number of sponsors have withdrawn their funding. I wonder if
you will continue to be associated with them (Heartland)? And
may I publish any response here: http>//bigcitylib.blolgspot.ca/?
M. J. Murphy, BCL”
I respond:
“Dear BigCityLib: I am a senior fellow of the Hudson Institute,
and proud of my association with Heartland. I continue to agree
with Heartland that man-made warming is a tiny element of the
planet’s warming since the Maunder Minimum ended about 1715.
The real warming factor is the 1,500-year Dansgaard-Oeschger
cycle, whose centuries-long “little ice ages” collapsed virtually
all human cultures after they enjoyed short periods of success
during the global warming phases of the cycle. That’s why world
cultures have lasted an average of about 500 years each. The
Little Ice Age officially ended about 1850."
“The earth’s hundreds of previous global warmings have been
the good times, for humans and other life forms, and this will
continue to be true. The appropriate policy today is to produce
still more fertilizer and invest in research to get still-higher crop
yields to feed a peak population of 8.1 billion people in 2050.
Without displacing more of the planet’s wildlife. (By 2300, the
UN’s Low Variant Projection says human numbers will have
declined to 2.3 billion, due to the low birth rates that accord
with low death rates. Your frantic fear of 'overpopulation' will
have faded into the mists.)"
“Do not destroy our vital energy systems: Relying on solar
and wind would achieve the Greenpeace goal of fewer people,
through ghastly hardships. Would that qualify as mass murder?
Nor would this ‘save the planet.’ Hungry people eat the wildlife
before they starve."
"I think the billboard was an effective way to carry this message
beyond the current 'skeptic' ranks. I continue to be amazed at
the “religious” belief of BigCityLiberals in a theory that has
been betrayed by (1) the existence of the D-O cycle, which has
been known now for the 28 years it won for Dansgaard and
Oeschger the “environmental Nobel,” the Tyler Prize; (2) the
non-warming of the past 15 years, which defies the Greenhouse
Theory; (3) the falsification of the global climate models’
predictions; and (4) the historical pattern of the Pacific Decadal
Oscillation, which tells us that the current global cooling is
likely to last decades more and will thus destroy the man-made
warming campaign."
“May I publish your decision to renounce the man-made warming
campaign and thus spare the public some of the anguish that has
been inflicted by this well-meant but now obviously misguided
effort? Dennis Avery”
NOTE:
[1] AGW: anthropogenic global warming.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Science, Ethics, & Human Health:
Human Health & Public Policy
Agriculture, the Economy, & Human Health & Welfare:
Policy Issues Relating to Food Production & Consumption
Dennis T. Avery is an environmental economist for the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., as well as Director of the
Institute's Center for Global Food Issues (CGFI) and Editor of Global Food Quarterly, the newsletter of the CGFI.
Formerly, he was a senior policy analyst for the United States Department of State, where he won the National Intelligence
Medal of Achievement. He is co-author, with atmospheric physicist Fred Singer, of the book, Unstoppable Global
Warming: Every 1500 Years (Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006). Avery's book, Saving
the Planet With Pesticides and Plastic: The Environmental Triumph of High-Yield Farming (Washington, D.C.: Hudson
Institute, 1995 and 2000), continues to be popular as a readable overview of realistic agriculture for the future and for today.
Readers may write Avery at Post Office Box 202, Churchville, Virginia, 24421; email to cgfi@hughes.net; or visit the CGFI
website at www.cgfi.org
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