THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XII, Issue # 32, February 20, 2010
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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THE MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR GLOBAL WARMING FRAUD
By Alan Caruba
THE VERY HIGH COST OF CLIMATE-CHANGE PUBLIC POLICY DESIGNED TO PREVENT SOCALLED GLOBAL WARMING:
THE MASSIVE WASTE OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS BY THE U.S.A. & OTHER SOVEREIGN STATES AROUND THE WORLD TO
AVOID MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING, A THREAT THAT NEVER EXISTED IN THE FIRST PLACE -- PARTICIPANTS IN &
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE GLOBAL WARMING FRAUD -- THE DAMAGE THAT HAS BEEN & IS BEING CAUSED BY
ENVIRONMENTALISTS, GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS, LEFTIST POLITICIANS, & THE POLITICALLY-BIASED MAINSTREAM
MEDIA
FULL STORY:
As the massive global warming fraud implodes, the one aspect of it that has not been explored in depth is the equally massive
waste of billions of dollars spent by the United States and nations around the world, we were told, to avoid global warming.
Whole industries, such as automobile manufacture, had demands and limits put on them. Some states required utilities to buy
“carbon credits” to offset their use of “fossil fuels.” The list of things attributed to global warming expanded to the point of
total absurdity.
The codification of the fraud into law began with the Kyoto Protocol, an element of the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change, the purpose which was to fight a global warming that we now know was not happening.
The data to support the fraud came out of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which specialized in
distorting climate data in every way possible to emphasize a normal warming cycle and then to minimize any indication of a
new cooling cycle dating to around 1998 or earlier.
The IPCC data, released periodically in reports purporting to be the work of some 2,500 scientists from around the world, were
actually based the handiwork of a few academic centers such as the Climate Research Center (CRU) at East Anglia University
in England, Penn State University, the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, and climate modeling
from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
Other participants in the fraud were NASA’s Goddard Institute and NOAA, both of which produced claims, predictions, and
questionable data to support “global warming.”
In the U.S.A., alone, I have heard figures in the area of $50 billion that have been spent on “climate change” over the course
of administrations dating back to Clinton. In England, between 2006 and 2008, the government spent the equivalent of nearly
$14 million (U.S.) on publicity stunts to convince Brits that global warming was real.
It is legitimate to ask if global warming has not, in effect, been a criminal enterprise.
The Kyoto Protocol required the sovereign nation-states that signed onto it to commit to a reduction of four “greenhouse”
gases -- carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride -- and two other groups of gases -- hydrofluorocarbons
and perflourocarbons. These gases occur in minimal amounts in the Earth’s atmosphere, which is composed primarily of 95%
to 97% water vapor!
The cost of accepting this commitment is measured in several ways, not the least of which was the sale to utilities and other
industrial enterprises" of carbon credits" that would permit them to function outside the limits imposed. The exchanges
created for this purpose prospered, but it increased the cost of providing electrical energy and the manufacture of all manner
of products.
The limitations, however, did not apply to either China or India, both of which were exempted, as were undeveloped Third
World nations.
The climate change fraud also affected major U.S. corporations, none of whom wanted to appear to be opposed to the fraud.
However, on Tuesday, February 16th, 2010, BP America, Conoco Phillips, and Caterpillar all announced they were dropping
out of the Climate Action Partnership that advocated energy-rationing. Some of the millions squandered on various global
warming and “environmental” projects and groups came from the bottom line of corporations across the American nation.
At this point, any corporation that speaks of “climate change” in its advertising and other public statements is part of the
global fraud that originated in the United Nations Environmental Program.
The carbon emissions limitations also served to justify huge public subsidies for U.S. producers of wind and solar energy,
called “clean” energy. Several nations, such as Spain, Germany and Great Britain, invested heavily in these alternative energy
sources, only to discover that they were massively inefficient and unreliable.
At the same time, the global warming fraud in the United States limited the building of coal-fired plants to generate electricity
when, in fact, coal provides 50% of the nation’s electricity needs. Combined with fears of nuclear energy dating back to the
1970s, the United States has essentially starved itself of the energy it needs.
According to a recently released study by the National Association of Utility Regulatory Commissioners, the U.S. gross
domestic product would lose $2.36 trillion and American consumers will pay an additional $2.35 trillion for energy, if the oil
and natural gas on federal lands remain off-limits through 2030. This constitutes a form of energy and economic suicide!
A British newspaper, the Daily Mail, in a recent interview with CRU Professor Phil Jones, revealed he knew there had
been no “statistically significant” warming for the past fifteen years. Little wonder Professor Jones and the CRU refused to
honor UK Freedom of Information requests for the data on which the IPCC claims were based. He and others who provided
IPCC data are under investigation.
In essence, the IPCC reports were all fraudulent and all were used to advance the global warming fraud. That is why
President Obama’s claim of “overwhelming evidence” of climate change, i.e., global warming, is particularly troubling.
It is essential to understand that the “Cap-and-Trade” legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and waiting
for a vote in the U.S. Senate and the threat by the Environmental Protection Agency to begin regulating carbon dioxide
emissions throughout the nation are based on the IPCC Reports and have no legitimate basis in science.
There are still billions at stake, if global warming-related laws, projects such as wind farms or the requirement that ethanol be
added to every gallon of gas purchased, are permitted to proceed or continue.
Global warming, as an issue or basis for any law or expenditure of public funding, no longer exists.
It’s long past the time when the nation’s news media should stop referring to global warming as anything other than a fraud
perpetrated on the people of the world.
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 writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, business and science writer, he is the
Founder of The National Anxiety Center.
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