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The Year the Global Warming Hoax Died
It took some forty years to unmask the Piltdown Man hoax that began in 1912 alleging that the skull of an ancient ancestor of man had been found in England. Any number of British anthropologists unwittingly contributed to the hoax by confirming the authenticity of the skull until it was found that the jaw of an orangutan had been cunningly attached. The unmasking of "global warming" has taken less than half that time. The hoax has mainly been a creation of the United Nations Environmental Program and took off in earnest with the 1992 Earth Summit. It culminated in 1997 with the Kyoto Climate Control Protocol, an agreement to reduce the generation of carbon dioxide, a "greenhouse" gas (CO2) said to be the cause of an accelerated warming of the earth. By 2005, 140 nations had ratified the pact, agreeing to reduce CO2 emissions. Notably exempt from the pact were nations such as China and India. Few, if any, nations have ever met the limits that require reductions in CO2 production, primarily the result of the use of so-called "fossil fuels" such as oil, natural gas, and coal. The United States refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and, at one point, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution rejecting it. This has not kept the U.S. from spending billions on so-called "climate research" intended to address climate change with the aim of reducing or capturing CO2 emissions. Had that money been devoted to maintenance of the nation’s infrastructure, tragic events such as the collapse of the Minnesota bridge over the Mississippi might have been averted. In August, it was revealed that NASA scientists had corrected an error that resulted in 1934 replacing 1998 as the warmest year on record in the U.S. Repeatedly the data put forth to justify the global warming hoax has been debunked. As Dr. David Wojick recently noted, "The real significance is that such a small correction can make such a big difference. The reason is that the much touted warming of the last three decades is merely a return to earlier warm times, after an equally long period of cooling…There is no way this pattern constitutes a warming trend…In short, there is no evidence for human-induced global warming in the U.S. temperature record." "Anthropogenic (man-made) global warming bites the dust," declared astronomer Dr. Ian Wilson after reviewing a new study that has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research authored by a Brookhaven National Lab scientist Stephen Schwartz. A former Harvard physicist, Dr. Lubos Motl, said the new study has reduced global warming fear-mongers to "playing the children’s game to scare each other." The new research concludes that the Earth’s climate is only about one-third as sensitive to carbon dioxide as a series of reports by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has asserted for years. The IPCC reports have been increasingly dismissed as deliberate distortions of data that amount to little more than propaganda to advance the "global warming" hoax. Having testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, paleoclimate scientist, Bob Carter, noted in a June 18, 2007 essay that global warming has stopped. There has been little, if any, global warming since 1979, a period over which atmospheric CO2 has increased by 17 percent. Thus, the connection between CO2 and "global warming", the key to the claims that it is occurring and will increase has been proven wrong. Dr. Roy Spencer, another critic of the global warming hoax, has noted that "At least 80 percent of the Earth’s natural greenhouse effect is due to water vapor and clouds, and those are largely under the control of precipitation systems." The computer models used by advocates of global warming have been unable to include the actions and impact of clouds, thus rendering them seriously flawed. Prior to and during 2007, one research study after another revealed that the central premise of "global warming" lacks any scientific merit. One by Dr. Tim Patterson concluded that, "The earth temperature does respond to the solar cycle as confirmed by numerous studies." The solar cycle is known to be about eleven years in length and reflects increased or decreased sunspot (magnetic storms) activity. It is the Sun that largely determines the Earth’s temperature, which is never the same throughout the planet, given seasonal and solar changes. In 2007, meteorologist Anthony Watts who led a team of researchers revealed that, "The U.S. National Climate Data Center is in the middle of a scandal. Their global observing network, the heart and soul of surface weather measurement, is a disaster." It had been discovered that many of the measuring stations were placed in locations such as on hot black asphalt, next to trash burn barrels, beside heat exhaust vents, and even attached to hot chimneys and above outdoor grills! Determining the Earth’s temperature, says Bjarne Andresen, a professor at The Niels Borh Institute, University of Copenhagen, collaborated with two other professors to write an article in Science Daily, saying, "It is impossible to talk about a single temperature for something as complicated as the climate of the Earth." Indeed, "differences in temperature drive the processes and create the storms, sea currents, thunder, etc. which make up the climate." In May 2007, Dr. Reid Bryson, the founding chairman of the Department of Meteorology at the University of Wisconsin dismissed fears of increased man-made CO2 in the atmosphere. He called the "global warming" argument "absurd." As to any increase in the Earth’s temperature, he said, "Of course it’s going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the industrial Revolution, because we’re coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we’re putting carbon dioxide in the air." On August 15, 2007, meteorologist Joseph D’Aleo, the first Director of Meteorology at The Weather Channel and former chairman of the American Meteorological Society’s Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, said, "If the atmosphere was a 100 story building, our annual anthropogenic (man-made) CO2 contribution today would be equivalent to the linoleum on the first floor." When Newsweek magazine recently devoted a cover story calling the growing international body of scientists debunking global warming "deniers", it was forced to debunk itself when one of its own editors called the article "highly contrived" and "fundamentally misleading." Thus, it will be people like former Vice President Al Gore or actor Leonardo DiCaprio, whose reputations are now heavily invested in the "global warming" hoax, who will continue to fight a rear-guard action. The mainstream media is likely to be supportive until it too is forced to admit the truth of the science regarding the Earth’s climate. There will be dying gasps to this hoax, not the least of which is a planned $100 million a year media blitz by Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection, but the public is already far more concerned about instability in the Middle East, the forthcoming national elections, and shocks to the U.S. economy to accord such an effort much credibility. Hoaxes have a life of their own and "global warming" is now coming to an end. Mark 2007 as the year it began to seriously bleed to death. The Center depends on donations to bring you information that blows away the endless predictions of Earth’s destruction and explains the natural world in which we live. No amount is too small to help us maintain this website and our communications programs. Thanks! Climate Change: The Real Peril Guest Contributor: Phil Brennan They used to call it global warming, but cooler heads appear to have decided to hedge their bets and re-christen the problem "climate change" a description that covers all kinds of eventualities. After all, if the warnings that the world is getting colder instead of warmer (actually it's doing both) turn out to be accurate, they can claim to have been on the side of the angels no matter what happens. The battle, however, still rages. On one side you have the likes of Sir David King, who served as chief scientist in Tony Blair's government, making the absurd claim that global warming is a greater threat to mankind than terrorism. On the other side there are scientists such as Reid Bryson, known as the father of scientific climatology, who said of Al Gore's movie about global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," which he refused to watch, "Don't make me throw up, It is not science. It is not true." One side says that increasing atmospheric levels of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) are causing the earth to heat up dramatically, while the other side scoffs at the notion. Moreover, one side blames the increased levels of CO2 on human activity and the use of fossil fuels, while the other side describes that idea as nonsense. In the midst of all this sturm und drang something else is going on to which neither side is paying much, if any, attention. Like Nero, they are fiddling around while the world around them is burning. Personally, I couldn't care less which side is right. What I do care about is where Mother Nature is leading us and it isn't paradise on earth. Look at it this way. In recent months we have watched places like Texas and Great Britain being drowned by seemingly never-ending multiple inches of rainfall and the raging floods the rainfall creates. Recently some areas in the United States have been devastated by tornadoes of unimaginable destructive capacity. Last winter snowfall in some areas reached levels as much as 13 or 14 feet high. Taking into consideration the fact that an inch of rain amounts to a foot of snow, you can get an idea of what's going to happen when all that precipitation falls as white stuff next winter. In the West and around the world millions of acres of forestland are being incinerated at a rate faster than ever in all of recorded history. There is a very simple fact of nature behind all of this violence. It's what happens when extremes of temperature clash. Super heated air from the tropics meets frigid air masses from the Polar Regions and all hell breaks loose. Mr. Gore and his minions keep telling us that the Polar Regions are warming. They fail to mention that the snow pack in the northern regions of Canada keeps growing and providing the medium for those bitter cold blasts of frigid air coming south in the winter, and the cold air being experienced right now in much of the northern U.S. They just ignore all that and keep chanting the mantra that the polar ice is melting and we're all going to be barbecued unless we surrender most of our liberties to the Marxist commissars in the U.N. As far back as 1982, in the book "The Survival of Civilization" John Hammaker wrote that "the growing intensification of all storm effects, including unusually heavy rains and snows, record cold and heat, drought, hail, tornadoes are all symptomatic of increasing temperature and pressure differentials, greater evaporation of moisture, and an overall speeding up of global atmospheric circulation." In short, superheated air from the tropics is running head on into bitter cold air from the Polar Regions. It's hot in the tropics because of solar heating and underwater volcanic activity heating the oceans and it’s cold in the polar areas because the increased moisture rising from the oceans is creating cloud cover that moves north and keeps the sun from melting the snow packs which keep getting deeper. Hammaker was alerting the world that we are in the transition period between the current interglacial period and the return of glaciation—which just happens to be the planet's normal state. Interglacial periods such as the one we are now enjoying last anywhere from a mere 10,000 to 12,000 years. Glaciation—ice ages—last about 90,000 long, cold years. Most of the planet's history has happened in those 90,000-year ice ages. The present interglacial period has lasted about 12,000 years. If the history of this planet's climate over millions of years is any guide, we are about to enter a new ice age. History tells us our time is about up. I don't want to get into a discussion over Hammaker's work. It left a lot to be desired when it dealt with measures he insisted could stop Mother Nature in her tracks and hold off glaciation for just about forever, but when it came to presenting evidence that the iceman does indeed cometh, he makes a prima facie case. Briefly, he explains that glaciation is Nature's way of re-mineralizing the soil which, over tens of thousands of years, is depleted of vital nutrients. The glaciers move over the soil grinding rocks into a fine dust filled with nutrient filled microorganisms and the soil is remineralized and fertile. When the soil slowly depletes over the 12,000 year interim, vegetation is weakened and becomes unhealthy. More and stronger chemical fertilizers are needed to replace the natural microorganisms. In that weakened state, trees and other forms of plant life become susceptible to fire and pestilence. As Hammaker points out, healthy trees don't burn and you don't get the massive destruction by fire of forests throughout the Western states that we are seeing today. Ice ages are Mother Nature's rather extreme method of doing her spring cleaning. Studies such as those done by Genevieve Woillard in 1978 showed that the transition period between interglaciation and glaciation lasts about 175 years with the final 20 years a period of increased violence. It is that period of time that must concern us because all of the signs point to the fact that we are living in its the final phase. And it is that vital fact that is being obscured by the debate surrounding climate change. When we should be facing the unpleasant fact that the world we know is about to vanish in a maelstrom of violence, we are engaged in a meaningless struggle that blinds us to the nasty fate Mother Nature has in store for us. It is important to understand that glaciation is a gradual process. Advancing glaciers move at a snail's pace. Nobody alive today will witness even the beginning of actual glaciation. What we will see is what should concern us—a huge increase in storms becoming more and more violent, monster tornadoes that devastate large areas creating unimaginable wreckage in their wake, more volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of increasing violence, and massive amounts of precipitation causing floods and snowfall towering far above us. Doubt it? Look around you, it is happening now and getting worse with each passing year. Spring and fall are slowly disappearing, winters last longer and summers get shorter. Then one day in the very near future, in the winter much of the northern tier of states will be buried in mountains of snow that do not melt for months, while more and more snow piles on top of them. These are not wild imaginings. History validates them, as does each passing year when climatic and tectonic violence grow exponentially. In view of this reality, the hysteria over global warming engendered by the likes of Al Gore and his fellow Marxist, Mikail Gorbechev, is nothing short of criminal. When we should be contemplating what awaits us and how we shall deal with it both spiritually and materially, we are being blinded by a false dichotomy over global climate that ignores the reality of what it actually happening to the earth and its people. If I had to guess, I'd say the next five years will be the worst in all the history of mankind, with each year more terrible than the last. After that? Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist and editor/publisher of the Internet site, Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com). In the 1960s, he was Washington columnist for National Review magazine. He is a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute and a member of the Association For Intelligence Officers. He can be reached at pvb@pvbr.com. In the tradition of "Warning Signs", the predictions made by Phil Brennan are worthy of serious consideration because they are supported by a vast body of scientific data. You can learn more by visiting http://www.iceagenow.com. The Center is able to bring this kind of insight and information to you only because of the donations we receive that permit us to maintain this website. Please give what you can. Thank you!
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2007 Alan Caruba. |
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When did the "global warming" hoax die? Historians are likely to pinpoint 2007. It will take another decade to insure it cannot be revived, but the avalanche of scientific studies and the cumulative impact of scientists who have publicly joined those who debunked the lies on which it has been based will be noted as the tipping point.