THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume IX, Issue # 193, October 16, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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DIMINISHING THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
By Dennis T. Avery
PARTISAN POLITICS, POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM, GLOBAL WARMING THEORY & THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE: THE
LATEST NOBEL PEACE PRIZE GOES TO ALBERT ARNOLD GORE, JR. -- FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A., 2002
DEMOCRATIC PARTY CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT, LIBERAL LEFTIST POLITICIAN, MEDIOCRE PROPAGANDIST,
PRETENTIOUS CHARLATAN, POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST, & GLOBAL WARMING ALARMIST -- KNOCKING THE PROPS
OUT FROM UNDER AL GORE'S PREDICTIONS OF IMMINENT CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE
FULL STORY:
In 1964, Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace Prize for leading the non-violent crusade against racism and slavery —
bettering not only America but the entire world.
In 1971, Willi Brandt won the Peace Prize for leading Germany’s peaceful reintegration back into the “world family of
nations,” healing the destruction caused by Kaiser Wilhelm and Adolf Hitler with two World Wars that resulted in at least
70 million deaths.
In 1970, it went to my friend Norman Borlaug, the Green Revolution plant-breeder who: (1) saved 1 billion people from
almost immediate starvation, (2) prevented the plowdown of 16 million square miles of wildlands for more low-yield crops;
and (3) just incidentally laid the foundation for the material abundance now spreading around the planet.
Now fast forward to look at recent Peace Prize winners:
In 1994, Yasser Arafat, the thuggish Islamic zealot who was
lavishly paid to perpetuate Muslim-Jewish conflict in the
Middle East. Arafat helped lay the groundwork for today’s
round-the-world suicide bombings.
In 2001, the UN’s Kofi Annan. Did he end the genocide in
Darfur? Stop the war in Kosovo? How about the
billion-dollar UN corruption of Saddam Hussein’s “oil for
food” program, assisted informally by his son?
Now we get Al Gore, a ho-hum U.S. politician catapulted to rock-star status by a moderate and natural global warming cycle,
which has been hysterically inflated by the Green movement, willing media collaborators, and massive government funding
for unproven computerized climate “models.” (Note: Mr. Gore’s movie has just been found guilty in a British court of 11
serious untruths and/or unsubstantiated claims.)
Gore says:
Ice core evidence shows rising carbon dioxide levels raise earth’s
temperatures. In fact, ice cores show the temperatures rising
about 800 years before the CO2 levels go up.
Mt. Kilimanjaro’s melting glacier is proof of man-made warming.
In fact, the melting is due largely to local deforestation.
The Antarctic ice is melting. Most studies say it’s stable or
adding ice.
Hurricane Katrina was caused by global warming. Historic
records show far more major, landfalling Caribbean hurricanes
per decade from 1700-1850, during the Little Ice Age, than now.
Global warming could stop the Gulf Stream, and cause an Ice
Age in Europe. Recent studies offer no support to help Mr.
Gore on this one.
Global warming is causing species extinctions and coral reef
bleaching. In fact, not one species has gone extinct due to
warming. Coral reefs adjust to new temperatures — by
bleaching.
A study shows polar bears drowning due to vanishing ice.
In fact, four polar bears drowned in a bad storm.
Greenland’s ice could melt suddenly, causing a dangerous rise
in sea levels. In fact, it will take thousands of warming years to
melt Greenland’s ice cap.
Global warming is drying up Africa’s Lake Chad. The UK
government agrees this is not true.
Rising seas have forced people to flee Pacific islands to New
Zealand. There is no record of any evacuation triggered by sea
level rise.
Gore’s scary graphics show cities drowning in a 7-meter sea level rise, creating millions of refugees. In fact, the 20th.
Century increase was 6 inches and we’ve seen no acceleration. Even the UN climate change panel doesn’t agree with
Mr. Gore’s scenario.
Just one last question for our new Nobel Peace laureate: Why did most of our moderate modern warming take place before
1940 (with 1934 being the warmest year) and why haven’t we had any warming over the last nine years? Could it possibly
be the moderate, natural 1,500-year warming cycle revealed in the ice cores and seabed sediments is approaching the point
at which the cycle will soon come to an end?
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
American Politics & Political Competition:
Elections, PACs, & Political Parties
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
Dennis T. Avery is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., and is the Director of the Institute's Center for
Global Food Issues (www.cgfi.org). 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 the co-author, with
atmospheric physicist Fred Singer, of the book, Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years (Blue Ridge Summit,
Pennsylvania: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006). Readers may write Avery at Post Office Box 202, Churchville, Virginia, 24421. Email:
cgfi@rica.net
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