Sunday, November 16, 2008

When Almost Everyone is Lying to You

By Alan Caruba

In March of this year I attended a conference on climate change sponsored by The Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based free market think tank. Some five hundred people attended to hear three days of lectures and seminars on the true science, the known science, regarding the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind, global warming.

How can it be that millions can be led to believe the Earth is warming when, in fact, the warming that occurred following the end of the last Little Ice Age in 1850 was completely natural? Nothing “forced” it to occur as is the claim about the Industrial Revolution, the use of so-called fossil fuels, and an utterly false assertion that carbon dioxide (CO2) is the primary factor for the warming. Like all periods of warming (and cooling) the Sun was and is the primary factor. Everything else pales in comparison.

My eye was caught by a report on Saturday in a British newspaper, the Daily Mail, that took note of “a surreal scientific blunder last week that raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming.”

The reporter, Christopher Booker, noted that “On Monday, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which is run by Al Gore’s chief scientific ally, Dr. James Hansen, and is one of the four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record.”

The announcement, of course, was based on the same “computer models” that have been the basis for the global warming hoax. These models, scientists will tell you, are significantly flawed. For example, they are unable to account for a major weather factor, clouds. To this day, clouds remain a mystery to scientists because they form and disappear often in seconds or minutes, yet they play a very real role in determining the weather. Just consider, for example, the satellite photos of hurricanes with their huge circulating cloud formations or just your nightly weather report that show you the movement of clouds in your area.

“Across the world,” noted Booker, “there were reports of unseasonal snow and plummeting temperatures last month, from the American Great Plains to China, and from the Alps to New Zealand.”

“In the U.S., the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperature for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th warmest October in 114 years.”

The erroneous NASA report was caught and reported by the blogs of a U.S. meteorologist, Anthony Watts, and a Canadian computer analyst, Steve McIntyre. Some excuse was offered by NASA, but the fact remains that anything that is announced by Dr. James Hansen’s agency must be immediately suspect.

It was Hansen who told Congress back in the 1980s that global warming was a huge threat and who has prospered mightily for his protestations that seas will rise and the land will be scorched unless we shut down everything that generates CO2. This, of course, is the mantra of Al Gore, also prospering with the sale of bogus “carbon credits” and other “sustainable” energy schemes.

At about the same time that NASA was putting out false data, the United Nations was announcing that clouds of soot, particles and chemicals stretching from the Persian Gulf to Asia threatened health and food supplies in the world, citing what it called the newest threat to the global environment, neglecting to mention that clouds of soot, dust, and other things have always circulated around the globe.

Now connect the dots. If you want to know why we continue to hear about alleged new threats to the global environment and false assertions of a warming that is not happening, you need begin with the United Nations—in particular its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—and then factor in the deliberate machinations of various U.S. government (and other nation’s) agencies that are committed to maintaining the global warming hoax.

This is not about the climate! It is about the private gain of many people, some of them the world’s wealthiest already, and the need by various governments to keep people frightened and distracted from the simple truth that the Earth is now fully a decade into a distinct, identifiable, and verifiable cooling cycle.

As Lord Monckton wrote in a letter to John McCain, “Not for a single moment longer must you allow yourself to be distracted by the murderous foolishness of the climate alarmists.” This is good advice for all of us.

The problem for Americans is that the next administration will be as green, if not more green, than ever before. You can expect to hear that blizzards that leave entire states and regions under several feet of snow are the result of global warming.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yes, many ordinary citizens are convinced that the AGW fraud is indeed a truth. However, as the cost hit home and the utility bills crash through the doormat and into the cellar they will, increasingly, see it for the fraud, the monumental legalised theft that emissions trading and carbon credit is; not to mention the destruction of any business to do with the fossil fuels industry.
But is there a deeper, more sinister modus operandi behind all this? What was the genesis event behind the AGM fraud?
If present events now bear witness to this scare's birth then it is not only scarey but down-right spine chilling.
The present machinations are the result of a conference held long ago in 1975 in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and organised by anthropologist Margaret Mead, a former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science - (AAAS). Some of the attendees now reads like a who's who of influence in the AGW fraud - true disciples of fellow Malthusian,Paul Ehrlich of "The Population Bomb" book fame. However, their true agenda is a little murky to a casual reader .
The overall emphasis was to create a scare and CO2 was high on the list Beneath the surface, though, eugenics wallowed in the shadows as did population reduction.
The present spokesmen continuing the ideological work of Dr Meade and Co. are doing an excellent job of driving the world to penury and reduced means, starvation and cold - except themselves, of course.
Most politicians, the majority of the MSM and, regretably, many scientists and scientific institutions are infiltrated and betrayed by the Gore cohorts. I liken them to Vandals undermining the walls to the great bastion of civilization to destroy everything of value that has risen before.
The blogosphere is almost alone in bringing all this to light - especially outside the UK although only Booker in his Telegraph column and North, a colleague of Booker, on his blog (eureferendum)shine as a light to reason and truth in the public domain, there.
For the article "Where the Global Warming Hoax was Born" just Google 'Marjorie Mazel Hecht' and prepare to suck-in your breath!