Shouting from the Rooftops
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For years, decades actually, I and others have been shouting from the rooftops that global warming was a hoax. We were called “deniers” and “skeptics.” A lot of time has passed since the late 1980s when Dr. James Hansen, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, kicked off the global warming hoax with testimony before Congress.
Global
warming gained momentum because the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) seized on it as a means to redistribute the wealth from
developed nations to those that have lagged behind and because the media love
stories of imminent danger. The media remains largely committed to global
warming despite ample evidence it is (a) not happening and (b) a complete lie.
While many
regard former Vice President Al Gore as the poster boy of global warming, it
has been the IPCC that has been the main culprit in advancing the hoax, issuing
reports of dire consequences if nations do not reduce their “greenhouse gas”
emissions (mainly carbon dioxide abbreviated as CO2) to avoid a dramatically
increased warming in ten, twenty, or fifty years. As time went along, global
warming was coming any day now, but it never seemed to arrive.
The
problem the lead scientists providing the bogus data to support the IPCC
reports encountered was the perfectly natural
cooling cycle the Earth entered about sixteen years ago. In 2009, a leak of
emails between them was dubbed “Climategate” as it revealed how these conspirators
were panicked by the cooling that began to occur around 1998. It also revealed
their efforts to smear scientists who dissented from their claims as “deniers”
and “skeptics” and plotted to deny them access to leading science publications.
The
primary claim made by the IPCC and other “warmists” was that there was a
“consensus” among the world’s scientists, but anyone familiar with science
knows that it does not operate on consensus. Instead, each new hypothesis or
theory is always challenged, often for decades, until it is proven to be
reproducible and resistant to alternative interpretation.
John O’Sullivan of Principia Scientific International, an organization of scientists and others
battling the global warming hoax, recently reported to its members, interested
parties, and science writers like myself of the leak of data by one of the IPCC
researchers, Alec Rawls, who no longer wanted to be a party to its reports.
O’Sullivan
reported that “Up till now the role of the Sun, referred to as enhanced solar
forcing, received only scant mention in prior IPCC reports (AR3 and AR4) being
glibly dismissed. But this is the first time IPCC authors have acknowledged the
evidence that a solar mechanism seems to be at work.”
“The
source of the leak, Alec Rawls, said, “I participated in ‘expert review’ of the
Second Order Draft of AR5 (the next IPCC report), Working Group 1 (“The
Scientific Basis”) and am now making the full draft available to the public.
His reason for taking this action, a break in the confidentially agreement, was
the “systematic dishonesty of the report” which he said was corrupted by “bad
faith” and “fraud.”
It might seem obvious to most
people that the Sun is the most powerful factor in climate change, given the
records of the gains and reductions of solar radiation, the Earth’s many ice
ages, and the simple fact that it gets colder at night than during the day!
The solar
mechanism is, of course, the Sun.
The global
warming—now called climate change—hoax depends on convincing people that
greenhouse gases, the exhalation of carbon dioxide by humans and mammals, and
emissions based on the use of coal, oil, and natural gas pose a threat to the
planet’s temperatures. In a very real way, hard core environmentalists favor
reducing the world’s population by any means possible and the reduction in all
the modern technologies that use energy, coal, natural gas and oil, to enhance
life around the globe.
“The
(IPCC) admission of strong evidence for enhanced solar forcing changes
everything,” said Rawls. “The climate alarmists can’t continue to claim that
warming was entirely due to human activity over a period when solar warming
effects…were acknowledged to be important.”
In other
words, humans play a very small role in the Earth’s climate, especially when
compared to the power of the Sun.
This is
what some very brave climate scientists and meteorologists have been saying for
decades! They have been ignored or derided by the mainstream media who are
wedded to the global warming hoax. It had the power of the federal government
behind it (and still does) because it remains the justification for costly
programs. From the Environmental Protection Agency to the Defense Department
and all federal agencies in between, they continue to pump out propaganda and
regulations based on this Big Lie.
The United
Nations program exists to redistribute billions from developed nations to those
who have lagged behind. The recently concluded IPCC conference made the
transition from global warming to climate change to “sustainability” with the
demand that less developed nations receive funding if they are affected by
natural weather events such as hurricanes, heat waves, floods, droughts, and
tornadoes.
As Ralph B. Alexander, a physicist and the author of “Global Warming False Alarm”,
recently noted, “The link between extreme weather and global warming has as
much scientific basis as the pagan rite of human sacrifice to ensure a good
harvest.”
Alexander
noted that weather events “show no long-term trend whatever over more than a
century of reliable data. Weather extremes have occurred from time immemorial,
long before industrialization boosted the CO2 level in the atmosphere.”
Indeed,
the increase of CO2 has not induced or deterred the current climate cycle;
cooling. Since the length of interglacial periods between ice ages is about
11,500 years, the Earth is on the cusp of a new ice age. Ironically, the CO2
increase may be delaying it.
© Alan
Caruba, 2012
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