THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume IX, Issue # 231, December 9, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
GLOBAL WARMING LIES CREATE A CLIMATE OF CRISIS
By Alan Caruba
POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM, GLOBAL WARMING, & THE BALI PROTOCOL: THE PUBLIC POLICY AGENDA OF THE
POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS & GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS -- WHY SEVERE LIMITS ON CARBON DIOXIDE
EMISSIONS WOULD HAVE NO IMPACT ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE, BUT WOULD ADVERSELY AFFECT HUMAN LIFE ON
PLANET EARTH -- THE NEED TO REJECT PUBLIC POLICY PROPOSALS INTENDED TO DEPRIVE PEOPLE OF THE FUTURE
BENEFITS THAT ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENERGY USE, IMPROVED TRANSPORTATION, TECNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS,
EXPANDED FOOD PRODUCTION, & IMPROVED HEALTH PORTEND
FULL STORY:
The United Nations conference in Bali, attended by some 10,000 participants and observers, is likely to make future
generations conclude that ours was deranged to be discussing how humans could have any affect whatever on the climate.
They will, in retrospect, agree that the global warming theory was a lie whose agenda was to retard anything that might
extend and enhance life on earth.
The Bali Protocol is based entirely on a lie that predicts dramatic and imminent global warming caused by the buildup of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Although global warming alarmists insist that carbon dioxide emissions must be reduced,
the fact is that carbon dioxide does not cause climate change. Climatologists will tell you that any rise in carbon dioxide in
the atmosphere does not precede, but follows warming cycles.
The science is well known, but hucksters like the odious Al Gore and those behind the original Kyoto Protocol, with the
media as accessories, have created a climate of crisis.
It’s a very good thing that United States Senate voted unanimously in 1997 against binding America to the United Nations
Kyoto Protocol on Climate Control and that both the Clinton and Bush administrations refused to act on the proposed limits.
The reason for the U.S. Senate resolution was to avoid “serious harm to the economy of the United States.”
A November 30, 2007, Bloomberg News article by Kristian Rix and Mathew Carr reported that Japan, Spain, and Italy
face as much as $33 billion in fines as the result of having agreed to reduce socalled “greenhouse gas” emissions and failed.
These three nations are deemed the “worst performers among 36 nations that agreed to curb carbon dioxide gases that
cause climate change.”
Among the nations exempt from the Kyoto Protocol are China and India, both of whom represent two of the six billion people
on planet Earth. The idea that limits on carbon dioxide emissions could be achieved without their participation is idiotic.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) plays a minor role in determining the Earth’s climate but, at the same time, plays an essential role in the
maintenance of all of the Earth’s vegetation, whether it takes the form of crops, jungles, forests, or just someone’s front lawn.
Without CO2, all animal life, including our own, dies because of its dependence on food crops.
The Earth’s atmosphere is composed of 78% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.038% carbon dioxide, and trace
amounts of other gases, including water vapor. We call this “air” and, humans depend on the oxygen content for life. At the
same time, all six billion of us individually exhale about two pounds of carbon dioxide every day. By contrast, Nature emits
about 30 times more CO2 than humans. The oceans of the world absorb and release CO2 all the time. This is Nature’s balance
that maintains all life, animal and vegetable, on earth.
Consider, now, how many schools, hospitals, bridges, roads, and other benefits to their citizens that $33 billion represents to
Japan, Spain, and Italy. Such fines will be transferred to the coffers of the United Nations, penalizing three nations for having
failed to curb CO2 emissions that are actually a benefit to the Earth!
An entirely bogus system of “carbon credits” has been created to transfer huge amounts of money from industrialized nations
accused of producing too much CO2 to those nations that, for lack of development — failed economies — will garner funding
as they “sell” their excess credits. The same system would allow various industries to sell the same worthless credits to those
— primarily producers and users of energy — deemed to be major CO2 “polluters.”
Even though the U.S. Supreme Court has fallen prey to the lie that CO2 represents a form of “pollution” and should be
regulated, the known science renders this decision an egregious juridical error
The Earth, over billions of years, has gone through cycles of warming and cooling that are well established. It has gone
through periods when the CO2 content in the atmosphere was far higher than today. The latest cooling period is called the
mini-ice age and lasted from around 1300 to 1850. The Earth has been warming naturally since then.
There is no dramatic warming occurring. Predictions of this are based on totally flawed computer models, none of which can
begin to approximate the sheer chaos and complexity of the Earth’s weather system.
These computer models, put forth by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control, have been repeatedly
revealed to be inaccurate to the point of deliberate deception. The constant assertion that there is a “consensus” among
scientists that global warming is caused by humans is yet another part of the lie.
As the anti-capitalist forces meet in Bali, the rest of us must demand that we shall not be penalized and threatened by limits
imposed on industries and agriculture around the world.
The people of the world must not submit to a lie of global warming that is intended to deprive them of the future benefits that
energy use, improved transportation, technological innovations, and the expanded production of food portend.
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
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.
Caruba has a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
Caruba’s new book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press.
© Alan Caruba 2007
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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