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Attention Olympians! Beijing pollution won’t kill you but don’t expect any silly records either. International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said, “It might be that some will have to have a slightly reduced performance, but nothing will harm the health of the athletes. The IOC will take care of that.” How Jacques? Take chunks of air before each event and dust them off?

Global Warming Profiteers Are Wrong
by Christopher Monkton
Friday, 04 April 2008

Climate alarmists are alarmed, scaremongers scared, for their predictions of catastrophe are not coming true. “Global warming” has stopped. For 10 years, average temperatures on earth have not risen. For seven years, the trend has been downward. The fall between January 2007 and January 2008 was the biggest since records began in 1880.

Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s climate panel, says it had better find out where it got its sums wrong. Lord Lawson, a former UK Treasury Secretary, says the panel should be scrapped.

Polls reveal that voters worldwide, bored with wolf-crying scientists, see “global warming” as just another pretext for more tax, regulation and empire-building. So the tiny clique of politicized scientists driving the scare are desperate to revive fear of doom. Otherwise, the multibillion-dollar climate-change industry is headed straight down the pan. skull and bones

A favorite tactic is to blame any passing extreme-weather event on “global warming.” This just in: “A 5,282-square-mile ice shelf has begun to collapse because of rapid climate change in the Antarctic Peninsula. The Wilkins is one of a string of ice shelves that have collapsed in the past 30 years. Larsen B disappeared in one month in 2002. Six similar collapses underscore the region’s unprecedented warming.”

Blood-curdling, but false. The Wilkins Ice Shelf, like its vanished neighbors, was not there in the medieval warm period, or in the 2,000-year-long Holocene Climate Optimum, when global temperatures were above today’s.

Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, who first spotted the disintegration in March, says the Wilkins has been in place for a few centuries. So it was not there before.

The Antarctic Peninsula represents just 2 percent of the continent, and still less of its ice mass. The vanished ice shelves covered a combined area just 1/55 the size of Texas. Massive chunks break away from Antarctica all the time, to re-grow in colder times. Whalers’ logs going back centuries report sightings of vast icebergs hundreds of miles long.

Since regular temperature records were first kept 50 years ago, most of the continent has been cooling. The Antarctic peninsula is an exception. Local undersea volcanic activity may be partly to blame.

Another factor is the warming effect of the recently ended 70-year Solar Grand Maximum, when the sun was more active, and for longer, than at almost any similar period in the past 11,400 years. Long-term ocean changes have also contributed.

In the Arctic, the media reported less summer sea ice than at any time since records began. Most did not report that records began only 30 years ago; that at both Poles there is more sea ice now than ever since records began; that there are five times more polar bears today than 50 years ago; that the Arctic was warmer in the 1940s than today; or that the average thickness of the vast Greenland ice sheet grew by 2 inches yearly from 1993-2003.

Even the UN’s climate panel says melting ice will not raise sea level by Al Gore’s imagined 20 feet for several millennia, largely through natural causes.

Excerpted from Science and Public Policy

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ABC News reporter Dan Harris did a hit piece on Global Warming Denier Singer. He started by saying “His fellow scientists call him a fraud, a charlatan, and a showman, but Fred Singer calls himself ‘a realist.’” Well Dan actually anybody who knows Dr. Singer calls him other stuff like: the first director of the National Weather Satellite Center and the first dean of the University of Miami’s School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences. The first along with James A. Van Allen to use rockets to make the measurements of cosmic radiation in space. The first to design instruments to measuring stratospheric ozone (1956). The first to develop the capture theory for the origin of the Moon and Martian satellites (1966). The first to calculate the increase in methane emissions due to population growth (1971). And the first to discover orbital debris clouds with satellite instruments (1990). But hey Dan, what are these credentials compared to Al Gore’s who says everybody who disagrees with him is a ‘flat earther’. I’m surprised Harris’ smears stopped there though. He should have taken it further and said Dr. Singer looks so suspicious, even his baby pictures came with a front and side view.

Earth Hour crashes to Earth
by Andrew Bolt
March 30, 2008

Credit the public with sense. Earth Hour, hysterically promoted by The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the ABC, SBS, Sky News and the federal and state governments, resulted in no significant fall in power usage.

The organisers will say never mind, this was about raising awareness (although not of raising awareness of the facts). But here’s the awareness it should raise: how difficult it is to get even a tiny cut in just electricity use for one lousy hour, in a country responsible for just 1.5 per cent of the world’s emissions.

And then think what the Rudd Government is promising: a 60 per cent cut in all emissions, all year. And it’s to be matched by every country around the world.

Meanwhile, the world has not warmed since 1998. Indeed, the oceans and atmosphere have cooled over the past couple.

When we try especially hard for just one Earth Hour on a Saturday evening, with factories closed anyway and stuff like washing the clothes already done or postponed, see how much we achieve by sitting in the dark:

There was a 3.5% reduction in energy use Victoria-wide, according to the National Electricity Market Management Company.

Wow. Just 56.5 per cent more to go to reach Rudd’s target of cutting emissions by 60 per cent - and not for an hour but permanently.

But what a difference that cut last night made to emissions, right?

According to estimates by AGL Energy, the energy saved slashed almost 30 tonnes of carbon emissions — equal to taking 61,320 cars off the road for the hour.

Or put it this way: that’s equal to taking just eight cars off the road for a year. In a country that sells a million new cars each year.

Sydney achieved even less:

In central Sydney energy use fell by about 8.4 per cent, slightly less than the 10.2 per cent claimed last year, but “statistically the same or very similar” said EnergyAustralia’s spokeswoman, Kylie Yates.

About 300 megawatts of electricity was preserved in Sydney… The reduction in electricity use in Sydney was equal to stopping the release of about 21 tonnes of carbon dioxide, slightly down on last year’s figure of 24.8 tonnes. The figures show that the amount of carbon emissions saved across the city in an hour was roughly equivalent to the total carbon footprint of a single average Sydneysider in a year.

They cut the emissions for just one person for just one year? If just one extra baby was created in the candle-lit frisky dark of Earth Hour on Saturday, that gain is gone.

Excerpted from The Herald Sun, Australia

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It’s a hot hot time in the Antarctic. An iceberg 7 times the size of Manhattan cleaved off from the South Pole and sent shivers of expectation down the backs of freezing Global Warmest everywhere. Now while this is a natural occurrence, it’s unusual - because - THEY SAY SO! A recent paper published in the Journal of Glaciology says it ain’t quite so simple as hot air. “Our new study shows that ice-shelf break up is not controlled simply by climate. A number of other atmospheric, oceanic and glaciological factors are involved. For example, the location and spacing of fractures on the ice shelf such as crevasses and rifts are very important too because they determine how strong or weak the ice shelf is”. At least as long as Global Warmest are around no one will starve. ‘Cause every time they open their mouths - you get fed up.

Scientific Consensus on Climate Change?
By Klaus-Martin Schulte
Monday, 24 March 2008

FEAR of anthropogenic “global warming” can adversely affect patients’ well-being. Accordingly, the state of the scientific consensus about climate change was studied by a review of the 539 papers on “global climate change” found on the Web of Science database from January 2004 to mid-February 2007, updating research by Oreskes (2004), who had reported that between 1993 and 2003 none of 928 scientific papers on “global climate change” had rejected the consensus that more than half of the warming of the past 50 years was likely to have been anthropogenic. In the present review, 31 papers (6% of the sample) explicitly or implicitly reject the consensus. Though Oreskes said that 75% of the papers in her sample endorsed the consensus, fewer than half now endorse it. Only 6% do so explicitly. Only one paper refers to “catastrophic” climate change, but without offering evidence. There appears to be little evidence in the learned journals to justify the climate-change alarm that now harms patients.

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Kitty death camps? China is a dirty dirty place. And to clean it up for the Olympics they’re forced to do some odd things. Factories in and around the city are being shut down or relocated to try and clean up Beijing’s choking smog. You can drive on city streets just 3 times a week. And then there’s the Kitty Death Camps. Even with the threat of punishment, some Animal Welfare Groups in China are speaking up. One cat lovers group’s founder Yan Qi was blunt about the kitty camps. “These cats are being left to die. It is very inhumane. When we went inside, we saw about 70 cats being kept in cages stacked one on top of the other in two tiny rooms. Disease spreads quickly among them and they die slowly in agony and distress. The government won’t even do the cats the kindness of giving them lethal injections when they become sick. They just wait for them to die. They are like death camps.” Let’s hope as the Games approach, Ms. Yan isn’t charged with maliciously get in way of a Beijing’s police officer’s fist.

The Fluid Envelope - A Case Against Climate Alarmism
by Dr. Richard Lindzen
February 2008

The notion of a static, unchanging climate is foreign to the history of the earth or any other planet with a fluid envelope. The fact that the developed world went into hysterics over changes in global mean temperature of a few tenths of a degree will astound future generations.

Such hysteria simply represents the scientific illiteracy of much of the public, the susceptibility of the public to the Goebbelian substitution of repetition for truth, and the exploitation of these weaknesses by politicians, environmental promoters, and, after 20 years of media drum beating, many others as well.

Climate is always changing. We have had ice ages and warmer periods when alligators were found in Spitzbergen. Ice ages have occurred in a hundred thousand year cycle for the last 700 thousand years, and previous warm periods appear to have been warmer than the present despite CO2 levels being lower than they are now. More recently, we have had the medieval warm period and the little ice age. During the latter, alpine glaciers advanced to the chagrin of overrun villages.

Since the beginning of the 19th Century these glaciers have been retreating. Frankly, we don t fully understand either the advance or the retreat. For small changes in climate associated with tenths of a degree, there is no need for any external cause. The earth is never exactly in equilibrium. The motions of the massive oceans where heat is moved between deep layers and the surface provides variability on time scales from years to centuries. Recent work (Tsonis et al, 2007), suggests that this variability is enough to account for all climate change since the 19th Century. Supporting the notion that man has not been the cause of this unexceptional change in temperature is the fact that there is a distinct signature to greenhouse warming: surface warming should be accompanied by warming in the tropics around an altitude of about 9km that is about 2.5 times greater than at the surface.

Measurements show that warming at these levels is only about 3/4 of what is seen at the surface, implying that only about a third of the surface warming is associated with the greenhouse effect, and, quite possibly, not all of even this really small warming is due to man. This further implies that all models predicting significant warming are greatly overestimating warming. This should not be surprising. According to the UN s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the greenhouse forcing from man made greenhouse gases is already about 86 % of what one expects from a doubling of CO2 (with about half coming from methane, nitrous oxide, freons and ozone), and alarming predictions depend on models for which the sensitivity to a doubling for CO2 is greater than 2C which implies that we should already have seen much more warming than we have seen thus far, even if all the warming we have seen so far were due to man.

This contradiction is rendered more acute by the fact that there has been no significant global warming for the last ten years. Modelers defend this situation by arguing that aerosols have cancelled much of the warming, and that models adequately account for natural unforced internal variability. However, a recent paper (Ramanathan, 2007) points out that aerosols can warm as well as cool, while scientists at the UK s Hadley Centre for Climate Research recently noted that their model did not appropriately deal with natural internal variability thus demolishing the basis for the IPCC s iconic attribution. Interestingly (though not unexpectedly), the British paper did not stress this. Rather, they speculated that natural internal variability might step aside in 2009, allowing warming to resume. Resume? Thus, the fact that warming has ceased for the past decade is acknowledged…

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Richard S. Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (http://web.mit.edu)

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Say it ain’t so Haile! Olympic marathon gold medal favorite Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie is withdrawing from the Beijing Olympics. He’s afraid the toxic city air will damage his asthmatic lungs. “The pollution in China is a threat to my health and it would be difficult for me to run 42km in my current condition.” Seems the games are scheduled during Beijing’s hottest and most humid time of the year. And Haile might not be too turned on by Red China’s red rivers either. Pollution has turned the Yangtze’s tributary Hanjiang River into a nice red bubbly oozing sore that’s forcing locals to buy bottled water from God knows what source. Now if China were honest, its Olympic opening ceremony bird release - would be a bunch of turkeys.

Series of blunders turned the plastic bag into global villain
by Alexi Mostrous
March 8, 2008

Scientists and environmentalists have attacked a global campaign to ban plastic bags which they say is based on flawed science and exaggerated claims.

The widely stated accusation that the bags kill 100,000 animals and a million seabirds every year are false, experts have told The Times. They pose only a minimal threat to most marine species, including seals, whales, dolphins and seabirds.

Gordon Brown announced last month that he would force supermarkets to charge for the bags, saying that they were “one of the most visible symbols of environmental waste”. Retailers and some pressure groups, including the Campaign to Protect Rural England, threw their support behind him.

But scientists, politicians and marine experts attacked the Government for joining a “bandwagon” based on poor science.

Lord Taverne, the chairman of Sense about Science, said: “The Government is irresponsible to jump on a bandwagon that has no base in scientific evidence. This is one of many examples where you get bad science leading to bad decisions which are counter-productive. Attacking plastic bags makes people feel good but it doesn’t achieve anything.”

Campaigners say that plastic bags pollute coastlines and waterways, killing or injuring birds and livestock on land and, in the oceans, destroying vast numbers of seabirds, seals, turtles and whales. However, The Times has established that there is no scientific evidence to show that the bags pose any direct threat to marine mammals.

They “don’t figure” in the majority of cases where animals die from marine debris, said David Laist, the author of a seminal 1997 study on the subject. Most deaths were caused when creatures became caught up in waste produce. “Plastic bags don’t figure in entanglement,” he said. “The main culprits are fishing gear, ropes, lines and strapping bands. Most mammals are too big to get caught up in a plastic bag.”

He added: “The impact of bags on whales, dolphins, porpoises and seals ranges from nil for most species to very minor for perhaps a few species.For birds, plastic bags are not a problem either.”

The central claim of campaigners is that the bags kill more than 100,000 marine mammals and one million seabirds every year. However, this figure is based on a misinterpretation of a 1987 Canadian study in Newfoundland, which found that, between 1981 and 1984, more than 100,000 marine mammals, including birds, were killed by discarded nets. The Canadian study did not mention plastic bags.

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Can hardly wait for Saint Obama to take over the White House and save us. The Happy Hollywood Dems already have a “Climate Change Legislation Design White Paper” detailing how the government will take over and control the “efficient use of government and societal resources.” The only charitable way to explain this need to save the world rather than run a financially efficient government is that their collective IQ is so low - you can only pick it up by sonar.

New light bulbs can poison you
February 26, 2008

WASHINGTON – Despite a congressional mandate banning the sale of common incandescent light bulbs by 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is warning that their compact fluorescent replacements are not safe to use everywhere.

The EPA says breakage of the energy-saving, mercury-containing CFLs can cause health hazards, especially for children and pregnant women, suggesting use of the bulbs over carpeted areas should be avoided. If bulbs break over carpeted areas, the cleanup may require cutting out pieces of the carpet to avoid toxic exposures.

Mercury is needed for the lamps to produce light, and there are currently no known substitutes. Small amounts of the toxic substance is vaporized when they break, which can happen if people screw them in holding the glass instead of the base or just drop them.

Mercury is a naturally occurring metal that accumulates in the body and can harm the nervous system of a fetus or young child if ingested in sufficient quantity.

For the Maine study, researchers shattered 65 compact fluorescents to test air quality and cleanup methods. They found that, in many cases, immediately after the bulb was broken – and sometimes even after a cleanup was attempted – levels of mercury vapor exceeded federal guidelines for chronic exposure by as much as 100 times.

In a new Maine study, mercury vapor released by the bulbs exceeded even those higher levels.

The study recommended that when a compact fluorescent breaks, consumers should get children and pets out of the room and ventilate it. It warned vacuums should never be used to clean up a broken compact fluorescent lamps. Instead, it recommends using stiff paper and tape to pick up pieces.

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Gotta love those ‘unintended consequences.’ In January, Europe’s steel industry threatened the EU. Force us pay through the nose for “CO2 pollution,” and we’ll take our profits, our plants and our jobs elsewhere. Now the European Commission has seen the errors of its ways. Temporarily. Since there’s no “international agreement” on the tactic yet. And EU industry can still escape their draconian CO2 taxes. The European Commission is going to exempt Europe’s steel, chemical and power sectors from ‘saving the world!’ You know, when Global Warmest think they’re ready again to set the world on fire and conquer carbon pollution. Let’s hope their matches are still all wet.

Ethanol policy threatens to starve the world
by Ernest Istook
February 23, 2008

Drought. War. Poverty.

These are leading causes of hunger, according to the United Nations. Soon we may add another.

Ethanol.

Across the globe, people are discovering it’s a new contributor to world hunger. Led by the United States, governments are paying companies billions to make ethanol from corn and other crops. The result: these crops are diverted from the food supply, creating artificial shortages and higher prices.

Even record harvests haven’t suppressed food prices. Instead, prices are soaring to all-time highs.

Corn that traded around $2 a bushel just two years ago is now well over $5 a bushel. The impact ripples through the food chain of milk, butter, eggs, flour, pasta and everything else, because dairy cattle, beef cattle, poultry and swine depend on the corn for their feed. When chicken feed doesn’t cost chicken feed anymore, then neither does anything else.

Other grains, like wheat, are also at record highs because farmers are planting less wheat and more corn, thanks to the ethanol incentives. Less supply, plus more world demand, means higher prices for wheat products, too, from flour to bread to pasta.

Full-scale food riots may arise in some parts of the world, as more and more grain is diverted into fuel production. The Earth Policy Institute reports that ethanol-related food protests occurred last year in Mexico, Italy, Pakistan and Indonesia. A price-driven stampede killed three and injured 31 at a supermarket in China.

“We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history,” the EPI proclaimed in January. “The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before.”

This problem became five times worse in December when the new “energy bill” became law. It dictates that Washington will pay a 51-cent-a-gallon subsidy on 36 billion gallons of ethanol each year, up from the previous 7.5 billion gallon limit. Even before this incentive expanded, official U.S. Department of Agriculture reports showed that ethanol was “eating up” 20 percent of the corn grown in America in 2006 – up from 6 percent in 2000 – a figure expected to rise in 2008 to 25 percent.

A 2007 report from International Food Policy Research Institute, or IFPRI, concludes that “Biofuel production currently adversely affects the poor through price-level and price-volatility effects.” IFPRI’s report also noted, “Since the beginning of 2000, butter and milk prices have tripled, and poultry prices have almost doubled.”

EPI’s president, Lester R. Brown, says, “We’re putting the supermarket in competition with the corner filling station for the output of the farm. The result is that more people will go hungry.”

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Where’s Global Warming when ya need it? 1,000 dead in Afghanistan from cold snap. 130,000 livestock dead. Hundreds of homes destroyed or damaged by the heavy snowfalls. Ice between Canada and southwestern Greenland highest level in 15 years. Greece paralyzed by heavy snows. USA midwest freezes butt off with a record 40 below zero in Northern Minnesota. Minnesota is also reporting that Rice Krispies on grocery shelves are going “Snap”, “Crackle” and “Damn it’s freezing!”

The Sun Also Sets
February 07, 2008
IBD Editorial

Solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. But so far in this cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet. The lack of increased activity could signal the beginning of what is known as a Maunder Minimum, an event which occurs every couple of centuries and can last as long as a century.

Such an event occurred in the 17th century. The observation of sunspots showed extraordinarily low levels of magnetism on the sun, with little or no 11-year cycle.

This solar hibernation corresponded with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming, until 1715. Frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to massive crop failures, famine and death in Northern Europe.

Tapping reports no change in the sun’s magnetic field so far this cycle and warns that if the sun remains quiet for another year or two, it may indicate a repeat of that period of drastic cooling of the Earth, bringing massive snowfall and severe weather to the Northern Hemisphere…

As we have noted many times, perhaps the biggest impact on the Earth’s climate over time has been the sun.

For instance, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar Research in Germany report the sun has been burning more brightly over the last 60 years, accounting for the 1 degree Celsius increase in Earth’s temperature over the last 100 years.

R. Timothy Patterson, professor of geology and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center of Canada’s Carleton University, says that “CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet’s climate on long, medium and even short time scales.”

Rather, he says, “I and the first-class scientists I work with are consistently finding excellent correlations between the regular fluctuations of the sun and earthly climate. This is not surprising. The sun and the stars are the ultimate source of energy on this planet.”

Patterson, sharing Tapping’s concern, says: “Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth.”

“Solar activity has overpowered any effect that CO2 has had before, and it most likely will again,” Patterson says. “If we were to have even a medium-sized solar minimum, we could be looking at a lot more bad effects than ‘global warming’ would have had.”
In 2005, Russian astronomer Khabibullo Abdusamatov made some waves — and not a few enemies in the global warming “community” — by predicting that the sun would reach a peak of activity about three years from now, to be accompanied by “dramatic changes” in temperatures.

A Hoover Institution Study a few years back examined historical data and came to a similar conclusion.

“The effects of solar activity and volcanoes are impossible to miss. Temperatures fluctuated exactly as expected, and the pattern was so clear that, statistically, the odds of the correlation existing by chance were one in 100,” according to Hoover fellow Bruce Berkowitz.

The study says that “try as we might, we simply could not find any relationship between industrial activity, energy consumption and changes in global temperatures.”

The study concludes that if you shut down all the world’s power plants and factories, “there would not be much effect on temperatures.”

But if the sun shuts down, we’ve got a problem. It is the sun, not the Earth, that’s hanging in the balance.

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While the world worries about a phoney CO2 catastrophe, a real one is swirling in the Pacific. Two areas of plastic waste twice the size of the USA sits on either side of the Hawaiian islands reaching almost to Japan. Swirling just below the water’s surface hidden from satellites, the UN Environment Program estimates this waste poisons more than a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals every year. “Syringes, cigarette lighters and toothbrushes have been found inside the stomachs of dead seabirds, which mistake them for food.” But hey, where’s the profit in cleaning up garbage when Global Warming makes for such a nice power grab. You know, if the UN holds another Convention on Climate Change with only HONEST brokers - instead of going to Bali, they could hold it in a phone booth.

Biofuels make climate change worse, scientific study concludes
by Steve Connor, Science Editor
Friday, 8 February 2008

Scientists have produced damning evidence to suggest that biofuels could be one of the biggest environmental con-tricks because they actually make global warming worse by adding to the man-made emissions of carbon dioxide that they are supposed to curb. Two separate studies published in the journal Science show that a range of biofuel crops now being grown to produce “green” alternatives to oil-based fossil fuels release far more carbon dioxide into the air than can be absorbed by the growing plants.

The scientists found that, in the case of some crops, it would take several centuries of growing them to pay off the “carbon debt” caused by their initial cultivation. Those environmental costs do not take into account any extra destruction to the environment, for instance the loss of biodiversity caused by clearing tracts of pristine rainforest.

“All the biofuels we use now cause habitat destruction, either directly or indirectly. Global agriculture is already producing food for six billion people. Producing food-based biofuel, too, will require that still more land be converted to agriculture,” said Joe Fargioine of the US Nature Conservancy who was the lead scientist in one of the studies.

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Stumping for wifey, Bill Clinton banged the drum for Global Warming saying, “We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions ’cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.” Is this the future HilBill big government version of spray painting buses, businesses and buildings with the civic minded message - STOP VANDALISM?

Will Media Expose Global Warming Con Job?
By Jerry Carlson
February 1, 2008

One of the first organized scientific counterattacks sounded on April 6, 2006. Sixty accredited experts in climate and related scientific disciplines signed a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, urging that billions of Canadian tax dollars appropriated to implement the Kyoto Protocol on climate change “will be squandered without a proper assessment of recent developments in climate science.”

They wrote that if today’s extensive climate knowledge and measuring capabilities had existed in the mid-1990s, the Kyoto treaty “would almost certainly not exist, because we would have concluded it was not necessary.”

That scientific challenge received little prime-time media attention. The Canadian government’s administration and legislature mostly ignored it.

Film Exposes Gore’s Deceptions

Then, in March 2007, the UK’s Channel 4 broadcast a biting documentary, The Great Global Warming Swindle. It debunked most of the major arguments of Al Gore’s Oscar-winning video, An Inconvenient Truth. For example, the Antarctic ice core data dramatized in Gore’s show actually reveal that increases in CO2 have generally followed increases in temperature. The lag is typically on the order of 800 years.

The Swindle documentary roused furor and scorn among carbon-as-cause believers, who attacked Channel 4 as offering a “great propaganda gift” to “climate-change deniers.” But the credibility and rationale of scientific sources on the documentary endured the attacks. No factual challenges were forthcoming against the scientists’ arguments.

The controversy over this TV show, the first journalistic challenge against CO2 as primary world thermostat, may have encouraged others in the scientific community to point out that despite roughly $50 billion for climate-change research over several decades, the case against carbon dioxide faces more uncertainty as the evidence grows, not less.

One such challenge comes from Dr. Bob Carter, Research Professor at James Cook University and paleoclimate analyst with more than 30 years’ experience, including 95 research papers.

In an Accuracy in Media guest column in April 2007, Carter emphasized: “The evidence for dangerous global warming forced by human carbon dioxide emissions is extremely weak. That the satellite temperature record shows no substantial warming since 1978, and that even the ground-based thermometer statistic records no warming since 1998, indicates that a key line of circumstantial evidence for human-caused change-the parallel rise in the late 20th century of both atmospheric carbon dioxide and surface temperatures-is now negated…”

Helping people adapt to inevitable, natural climate change, in ecologically sound ways, would be much more productive and beneficial to humanity than building a global-governance bureaucracy financed by taxing hydrocarbon energy and run by top-down regulations.

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