THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VII, Issue # 134, June 20, 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: MORE SCARE THAN SCIENCE
By Alan Caruba
THE GLOBAL WARMING THEORY ADVANCED BY THE ADHERENTS OF ENVIRONMENTALISM: POLITICAL IDEOLOGY &
PROPAGANDA, RATHER THAN TRULY SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS, DEFINED AS CONCLUSIONS BASED UPON OBSERVED & PROVEN
FACTS -- NO SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS SUPPORTING THE GLOBAL WARMING CLAIMS OF POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS -- ONLY
THE ENDEAVOR TO FRIGHTEN PEOPLE, MANIPULATE PUBLIC OPINION, & INFLUENCE PUBLIC POLICY
FULL STORY:
On June 13, USA Today declared that "The debate's over: Globe is Warming." That's another headline you can ignore. The
world has been warming ever since the last Ice Age, but it is not rapidly warming in ways that threaten our existence, nor warming in
a way that requires the industrialized nations to drastically cut back on their use of energy to avoid the many scenarios of
catastrophe the Greens, or political environmentalists, have been peddling since the 1980s.
Global warming is a classic scare campaign initiated by the Greens after a previous effort in the 1970s to influence public policy by
declaring a coming Ice Age failed to generate any response. What we are seeing now is yet another worldwide coordinated campaign
by the Greens to rescue the global warming theory from the junk heap to which it should be consigned.
In early June, the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), one of the large Green organizations, declared that, "Global warming
is fast becoming the number one environmental problem of our time." It has organized an Internet campaign led by Robert F. Kennedy,
Jr., Senator John McCain, and other socalled environmental leaders to drum up the fears of people who know little of the real science
of the Earth, seeking to drum up people's fears in order to force the U.S.A. to implement the United Nations Kyoto Protocol on
"climate control." Anyone who thinks humans have any control over the Earth's climate is willfully ignoring the evidence that we have
none.
The NRDC declared:
"The world's leading scientists now agree that global warming is real and is
happening right now. According to their forecasts, extreme changes in climate
could produce a future in which erratic and chaotic weather, melting ice caps
and rising sea levels usher in an era of drought, crop failure, famine, flood and
mass extinctions."
Scary, eh? One huge volcanic eruption could do this. As to the weather, it is the very definition of chaos and has been for billions of
years.
The good news is that leading climatologists and meteorologists are actively debunking this nonsense. One of them, Dr. F. Fred Singer,
President of the Science and Environmental Policy Project, is in the forefront. He debunks a June 7 statement issued by several national
academies of sciences just before Britain's Tony Blair arrived for talks with President Bush, saying:
"The Statement simply regurgitates the contentious conclusions of the (UN)
International Panel on Climate Change report of 2001, which has been disputed
by credible scientists. The socalled scientific consensus is pure fiction."
Among the data he cites, is the fact that, "Since 1940, there has been a 35-year-long cooling trend and not much warming in the past
quarter-century, according to global data from weather satellites." Moreover, "an extrapolation of the satellite data gives at most a
fraction of a degree rise for the 2lst century," adding:
"The IPCC further claims that the 20th century was the warmest in the past 100
years, but this myth is based on a seriously flawed publication. The IPCC also
claims that sea levels will rise by up to nearly a meter by 2100; but every
indication is that they will continue to rise inexorably and much less, as they
have for nearly 20,000 years since the peak of the last Ice Age."
Bear in mind that the IPCC is a creation of the United Nations, and we have all seen how corrupt that institution has become, failing to
fulfill its mandate for a more peaceful world, while seeking to become a world government that would destroy the sovereignty of the
United States and all other nations.
Other scientists have joined Dr. Singer to dispute the global warming claims. Paul Knappenberger, of the University of Virginia, says
of the claims made by the science academies:,
"What is missing is the scientific assessment of the potential threat. Without a
threat assessment, a simple scientific finding on its own doesn't warrant any
change of action, no matter how scientifically groundbreaking it might be."
What passes for a threat assessment is simply the claims being made. Knappenberger noted, "The fact of the matter is that there does
exist a growing body of scientific evidence that the climate changes in the coming decades will be modest and proceed at a rate that
will lie somewhere near the low end of the IPCC projected temperature range."
Here's what you must keep in mind: The IPCC claims are based on what virtually every scientist knows to be seriously flawed computer
models for its projections. In short, we are being asked to believe what computer engineers are telling us, not what credible
climatologists and meteorologists are telling us. There isn't a computer model for the world's weather that can reliably predict the future
by more than a week at best. This is why tracking the routes of hurricanes proves so difficult. This is why blizzards often turn out to be
better or worse than initial projections.
Iain Murray, another scientist, laid into the statement of the national academies for having committed the sin of advocacy.
"Climate alarmists in the scientific community now face a long retreat, while
the victory of President Bush's position on the issue seems assured. Even
the hopes of European intervention are dashed."
The US Senate unanimously rejected signing the Kyoto Protocol many years ago. "Rational nations will not take action, if the costs of
the action outweigh the benefits," said Murray of the Kyoto Protocol's demand for energy caps on emissions, while exempting nations
like China and India, each with more than a billion people.
Meanwhile, in Congress, we have people like Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), the ranking minority member of the Energy and Natural
Resources Committee, seeking to introduce legislation that would put "caps" on emissions of greenhouse gases and implement what is
essentially the Kyoto Protocol that the Senate rejected long ago. The U.S. Department of Energy has estimated that a cap-and-trade
program such as Bingaman proposes would cost $331 billion in lost GDP between 2010 and 2025. Other Senators like John McCain and
Joseph Lieberman have similar strategies. Caps are idiotic and, in my view, treasonous.
There is no scientific consensus. There is only the manipulation of public opinion and the effort to influence public policy. There is no
rapid global warming and no way that any limits on energy use could have any effect on it, if it did exist. Global warming is a classic
scare campaign and we may well be witnessing its last desperate gasps as more and more scientists step forward to debunk it.
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, 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.
© Alan Caruba 2005
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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