THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume IX, Issue # 162, September 2, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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THE YEAR THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX DIED
By Alan Caruba
POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM, GLOBAL WARMING THEORY, & THE COMING END TO AN IDEOLOGICAL MYTH:
DISCREDITING THE PSEUDO-SCIENCE THAT WAS USED TO CREATE THE POLITICAL MYTH OF HUMAN-INDUCED GLOBAL
WARMING IN ORDER TO FURTHER THE PUBLIC POLICY AGENDA OF THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS & GLOBAL
SOCIALISTS -- THE AVALANCHE OF RECENT SCIENTIFIC STUDIES & THE CUMULATIVE IMPACT OF SCIENTISTS WHO HAVE
PUBLICLY JOINED THOSE WHO DEBUNKED THE LIES & PROPAGANDA ON WHICH ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING
NOTIONS HAVE BEEN BASED -- KNOCKING THE IDEOLOGICAL PROPS OUT FROM UNDER THE RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST
MOVEMENT
FULL STORY:
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.
It took some forty years to unmask the Piltdown Man hoax that began in 1912, the hoax 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 global warming 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 (CO2), a “greenhouse” gas 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, attributed to the
use of socalled “fossil fuels” such as oil, natural gas, and coal.
The United States of America 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.A. from spending billions on socalled “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, 2007, 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.A. 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 theory have been unable to include in their analyses the actions and
impact of clouds, thus rendering the analyses 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:
“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.”
There will be dying gasps to this hoax, not the least of which is a planned $100 million 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.
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
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’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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