THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume VII, Issue # 16, January 21, 2005
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
GLOBAL WARMING: FICTION VERSUS FACT
By Alan Caruba
GLOBAL WARMING THEORY: A MAJOR PILLAR OF THE POLITICAL IDEOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENTALISM -- THE FICTITIOUS
CHARACTER OF GLOBAL WARMING THEORY EFFECTIVELY DEMONSTRATED BY A WORK OF FICTION
FULL STORY:
The famed novelist, Michael Crichton, may achieve what mountains of scientific data produced by meteorologists and others have not.
He may get the public to understand that the UN Kyoto Climate Control Protocol is, itself, a work of fiction.
His novel, State of Fear (HarperCollins, 603 pages, $27.95), is a technopolitical thriller based on the widely ignored data that
global warming is a hoax, but worse than that, it is a hoax specifically designed to harm the lives and the economy of people living in
industrialized nations. It may well be the first novel to come complete with a section devoted to the data that demonstrates not only
how false global warming is, but the impact it would have if the UN Protocol was strictly enforced.
When first proposed, the U.S. Senate unanimously rejected the global warming treaty and, in his first term, President George W. Bush
withdrew the Kyoto Protocol from consideration in 2001. If this action had not been taken and the treaty applied to the U.S.A., the
country would have been required to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 7% below its 1990 level. The only way to achieve this
would have been to impose strict energy use limits.
Take away energy or greatly reduce it and you create the conditions for an economic disaster and an adverse impact on the lives and
health of Americans from coast to coast. You invite draconian “solutions,” such as limiting the use of air conditioning, gas rationing,
and restricting how many hours factories can operate.
State of Fear begins with the murder of an American graduate student studying ocean-wave dynamics. Other murders follow,
but the UN Kyoto Protocol is tantamount to murder, too. Recall the deaths of Frenchmen when a heat wave hit that nation a few
years ago. The lack of air conditioning literally killed countless elderly and others. Consider how the East Coast of the United States
shut down when a massive electrical blackout occurred. Only the backup generators in hospitals prevented the deaths of seriously
ill patients.
The novel references the same bogus computer models that are cited by global-warming proponents, such as Carl Pope of the Sierra
Club, Kevin Knobloch of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and John Passacantando of Greenpeace, USA. They predict melting
glaciers, rising sea levels, and other catastrophes. They are as reliable as a deck of Tarot cards. Here again, scientific data amply
demonstrates that, though the temperatures in Greenland and Iceland have been falling at 2.2 degrees Celsius since 1987, there has
been no affect on the ice in those nations -- ice that has actually been accumulating, not melting. The same is happening in
Antarctica.
With the Russian Federation's approval of its participation in the UN Kyoto Protocol, the treaty is to go into effect on February 16,
2005. Its requirements for the reduction of energy use exempts Red China and India -- each country home to a billion or more people
-- as well as some 130 Third World nations. Happily, the U.S.A. will not participate, but UN treaties have saddled us with laws such
as the Endangered Species Act -- laws that have proven a great hindrance to economic growth. Most certainly, the U.S. Constitution
does not authorize such laws, although it does bind us to honor idiotic treaties conjured up by the UN.
There are, however, those in the Congress and in various states of the Union who would impose these harmful restrictions on
Americans. Chief among them in Congress is John McCain and Joseph Lieberman, the two U.S. senators who introduced “The
Climate Stewardship Act” (S. 139), which would cap CO2 emissions at 2000 levels by 2010. It is estimated this would cost the
American economy $106 billion.
Colluding for the same pupose are nine northeastern states -- Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Attorneys general of other states are using a public nuisance lawsuit against five
utilities to achieve this goal. All this is more than curious, given the U.S. Senate resolution that rejected the UN Kyoto Protocol.
And, of course, they based their action on the same bogus data put forth by the UN and the many NGOs behind the global warming
hoax. If these misguided, ideological environmentalists succeed in their efforts, the end result will be a significant slowdown in
economic growth, combined with a rise in the cost of energy.
I hope Michael Crichton’s novel (which is soundly rooted in documented science) becomes yet another big bestseller. I hope lots
of people who remain susceptible to the lies of the Greens will read it and discover what is known by those of us who have
fulminated against the UN Kyoto Treaty since the Greens first conjured it up in the early 1990s. Our speeches, our articles, our
books, based on real science and real economics, have not slowed or stopped its ratification or implementation. Perhaps, a work
of fiction will achieve what we could not?
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, Communications Director of the American Policy Center,
and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly
column, "Warning Signs," posted on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center
(www.anxietycenter.com). A compilation of his past columns, entitled Warning Signs, is published by Merril Press. In addition
to Warning Signs, Caruba is the author of A Pocket Guide to Militant Islam and The United Nations vs. the United States,
both of which are available from the National Anxiety Center, 28 West Third Street, Apartment 1321, South Orange, New Jersey, 07079.
© Alan Caruba 2005
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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