THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XI, Issue # 1, January 4, 2009
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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THE PLAIN TRUTH ABOUT GLORIOUS CARBON DIOXIDE
By Alan Caruba
WHY WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CARBON DIOXIDE: THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY, A CONGRESS DOMINATED BY
ENVIRONMENTALISTS & LIBERAL DEMOCRATS, THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX, & CARBON TAXES -- FEDERAL
LEGISLATION & REGULATIONS THAT WILL FURTHER BANCKRUPT THE U.S.A. -- WHY MOST SCIENTISTS DO NOT AGREE
WITH THE CO2 GLOBAL WARMING PREMISE -- WHY WE SHOULD NOT BE RULED BY LAWS & REGULATIONS THAT HAVE NO
SCIENTIFIC MERIT
FULL STORY:
Okay, children, let’s all sit up straight at our desks. We are going to begin 2009 with a lesson about carbon dioxide (CO2).
Why do we need to know about CO2? Because the President-elect, several of his choices for environmental and energy
agencies, the U.S. Supreme Court, and much of the U.S. Congress has no idea what they are talking about and, worse,
want to pass legislation and regulations that will further bankrupt the United States of America.
Do I have your attention now?
For the purpose of the lesson, I will be borrowing heavily from a paper written by Robert A. Ashworth
[http://www.ilovemycarbondioxide.com/pdf/No_Evidence.pdf]. It requires some understanding of science, but anyone
with a reasonable education and common sense should be able to read it on their own. Ashworth is a chemical engineer.
Suffice it to say, if any of the nitwits babbling about CO2 and global warming ever went to any of the several dozen
excellent websites that provide accurate scientific data and analysis, they would cease and desist from their abusive
manipulation of the public and perhaps find honest work.
To begin at the beginning, at the heart of the global warming hoax is the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC). While it purports to represent the views of thousands of scientists, it does not. As Ashworth
notes:
“Most scientists do not agree with the CO2 global
warming premise. In the United States, 31,072
scientists, including the author, have signed a
petition rejecting the Kyoto global warming
agreement.”
An additional 1,000 scientists are being verified to be added to the list. Existing are thousands more scientists who find
the assertion that CO2 will destroy the Earth totally absurd.
Here’s what you need to know. If an increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) is directly related, i.e. causes changes in the Earth’s
temperature, there would be a direct correlation between the two. As CO2 rose, we would see a comparable rise in the
Earth’s temperature. This correlation does not exist.
Global warming liars, however, insist that CO2 builds up in the atmosphere over a 50 to 250 year period, but this is untrue.
“Every year around April, increased CO2 absorption by plants in the Northern Hemisphere starts reducing the CO2 in the
atmosphere,” notes Ashworth, “and the reduction continues until around mid-to-late August, when plants start to go
dormant.”
“It is clear that nature reacts very fast in its consumption of carbon dioxide.” Farmers call this the growing season,
followed by the harvest season, followed by snow and cold during which nothing grows. Modern civilization, beginning
about 5,000 years ago, is predicated on the ability to provide food to both humans and livestock, all based on these
obvious seasonal cycles.
The ancient Egyptians and Mayans understood the seasons, but they are apparently too difficult a concept for today’s
many ex-politicians, some PhD’s, United Nation’s flunkies, and high school teachers.
Warming and cooling cycles are well known throughout human history, reaching back to the days of ancient Rome. There
were Viking settlements in Greenland because they arrived in warmer times. By 1410, the place froze up. Shakespeare lived
during a Little Ice Age when the Thames would freeze too. The man-made emissions of CO2 had nothing to do with these
climate events.
The IPCC, however, with its agenda to tax and control energy use that produces CO2, operates on assumptions not based
on either the obvious or more complex science involved. Its “data” is the invention of computer models that are deliberately
manipulated to produce false results which, in turn, can be announced and repeated worldwide.
In March, 2008, The Heartland Institute brought together more than 500 climatologists, meteorologists, economists, and
others for two days of seminars and addresses that totally destroyed the IPCC’s lies. It will do so again for a second time,
March 8-10 of this year in New York City. Suffice it to say, the mainstream media did it best to ridicule or ignore the event,
and will no doubt do so again.
Here, then, is a fundamental fact about CO2 you need to commit to memory. “Nature absorbs 98.5% of the CO2 that is
emitted by nature and man.” Nature is a totally self-regulating mechanism that dwarfs any mindless effort to “control” the
amount of CO2 produced by coal-fired utilities, steel manufacturers, autos and trucks, and gasoline fueled lawn mowers -- not
to forget fireplaces where logs glow or just about any human activity you can name, including exhaling two pounds of the
stuff every day!
Ashworth says:
“Further, no regulation by man is necessary because
CO2 is not a pollutant; it is part of the animal-plant life
cycle. Without it, life would not exist on Earth.
Increased CO2 in the atmosphere increases plant
growth, which is a very good thing during a period of
world population growth and an increasing demand
for food.”
“Taxing carbon,” Ashworth adds, “would do absolutely nothing to improve the climate, but would be devastating hardship
to the people of the world.” For example, U.S. Representative John Dingell’s plan to tax carbon would add 13% to the cost
of electricity and 32% to the cost of gasoline; just what we need during a Recession that threatens to become a Depression.
Dr. Tim Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg, recently asked:
“How many failed predictions, discredited assumptions,
and evidence of incorrect data are required before an
idea loses credibility? CO2 is not causing warming or
climate change. It is not a toxic substance or a pollutant.”
It is time to rebuke everyone attempting to foist the global warming hoax and carbon taxes on the United States and the rest
of the world. It is time let Congress and the White House know that Americans will not be ruled by laws that have no
scientific merit.
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 most recent book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press. Books
previously authored by Caruba include A Pocket Guide to Militant Islam, The United Nations Versus the United States: The
UN's Plan to Control Planet Earth, and America: A Nation Without Borders -- A Pocket Guide to Immigration Issues.
© Alan Caruba 2009
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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