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Volume V, Issue # 154, June 10, 2003
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REVISITING THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX
By Alan Caruba
There has been no spring on the East Coast of the United States this year. Even into the early days of June, the weather
has remained cold and damp. One is tempted to ask: "Where is the global warming that has been predicted?"
However, this cold spell in the U.S.A. is offset by a heat spell in India, one that has killed dozens of people. Is global
warming occurring there in India, but not here in the U.S.A.?
Is global warming occurring at all?
No. The entire global warming hoax is based on computer models, and they are de- signed to produce the kind of data that
supports the claims by political environmental- ists that the Earth is warming at an alarming rate. The blame is assigned to the
com- bustion of fossil fuels, the basis for the provision of energy to heat our homes, service manufacturing, and fuel our
transportation needs.
We are told that the main culprit in the purported global warming is the increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's
atmosphere. Testifying on May 13, 2003, before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Resources, Dr. John
Christy, a professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Center at the University of Alabama, said:
"CO2 is not a pollutant. In simple terms, CO2 is the lifeblood of the planet. The vegetation we see around us would
disappear, if not for atmospheric CO2. This green world largely evolved during a period when the atmos- pheric CO2
concentration was many times what it is today. In other words, carbon dioxide means life itself."
This raises the obvious questions: If CO2 is integral to all life on Earth, why have the political environmentalists been striving to
put restrictions on it through such instru- ments as the United Nations Kyoto treaty? Why have they been propagandizing CO2's
supposed danger?
Why have the Greens consistently produced bogus "computer models" that predict a massive, swift "warming" when,
in truth, it is virtually impossible to know with any certitude the overall temperature of the Earth's surface? Whole aspects
of knowing or predicting this remain largely a mystery to the best meteorologists and climatolo- gists. "Fundamental
processes (for example, heat transfer) are not adequately de- scribed in the models," Dr. Christy noted. He could have
added that little is under- stood or known about the actions of cloud formation worldwide.
His testimony is particularly significant because Dr. Christy recently served as a lead author of the UN's'
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, frequently cited as proof that global warming is occurring. Little known
to the public is the fact that most of the scientists involved with the IPCC do not agree that global warming is occurring.
Instead, its findings have been consistently misrepresented and/or politicized with each succeeding report.
Dr. Christy's latest paper, published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, revealed that estimates
of global warming "show much less warming, less than half, observed at the surface. The real world shows less warming
in the atmosphere, not more, as models predict." He told the House Resources Committee that computer models should be "viewed
with great skepticism."
Despite the IPCC claims, studies have clearly demonstrated that "large temperature swings have been common in the past
1,000 years, and that temperatures warmer than today were common in 50-year periods about 1,000 years ago. These studies
suggest that the climate we see today is not unusual at all."
The global warming hoax is not about the Earth's climate. It is about an attack on the economies of those nations that
produce much of the world's wealth. Dr. Christy noted: "Our country is often criticized for producing 25% of the world's anthropo- genic
CO2. However, we are rarely recognized and applauded for producing, with that same CO2,
31% of what the world wants and needs; its food, technology, medical advances, defense of freedom, and so on."
The industrialized nations of the world are the target of the political environmental- ists, as is the entire population of the world.
By every means possible, they have sought to undermine economic growth and to enhance the reduction of human
life on this planet. Those of us who defend growth, who oppose the Greens' efforts to keep vast portions of the Earth's
population in poverty and subject to lethal diseases, are assailed as "tools of multinational corporations" and
advocates for "pollution." Nothing could be further from the truth.
What we want is the worldwide spread of prosperity and, importantly, the spread of freedom that underwrites it.
What we don't want is for people to suffer from the Big Lie of Global Warming being perpetrated out of the United
Nations and propagandized by political environmental- ists worldwide.
More on Policy Issues Relating to
Energy, Environment, & Natural Resources
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, Communications Director of the American Policy Center,
and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly
column, "Warning Signs," posted on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center (www.anxietycenter.com). He is the author of A
POCKET GUIDE TO MILITANT ISLAM and THE UNITED NATIONS VS. THE UNITED STATES, both available from the National Anxiety
Center, 9 Brookside Road, Maplewood, New Jersey, 07040.
Copyright 2003 Alan Caruba
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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