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Looking at it from the long term, the planet has been gradually recovering from the Little Ice
Age which ended in 1850. Our temps are in fact right where they should be. From a short term
perspective, satellite measurements (which are far more accurate than land-based stations) are
now showing a gradual decrease in global temperatures, and it is currently well accepted that
temperatures have been slowly falling for over a decade now and cold records are being set far
more often than warm records.
In summary, there has been no catastrophic warming recorded from either method whatsoever.
FACT: The hockey stick graph seen in An Inconvenient Truth and elsewhere has been
completely debunked and proven fraudulent. It has airbrushed out the significant changes in
climate which have continually occurred throughout geologic time. For instance, the Medieval
Warm Period, from around 1000 to1200 AD (when the Vikings farmed on Greenland) was
followed by a period known as the Little Ice Age. Since the end of the 17th Century the "average
global temperature" has been rising at the low steady rate mentioned above; although from 1940
– 1970 temperatures actually dropped, leading to a Global Cooling scare. And now the
temperatures are dropping once again, in fact they've been dropping since 1998.
The "hockey stick", a former poster boy of both the UN's IPCC and Canada's Environment
Department, ignores historical recorded climatic swings, and is proven to be flawed and
statistically unreliable as well. It has now been quietly removed from the IPCC reports and
thoroughly discredited throughout the scientific world and is well regarded as one of the biggest
scientific hoaxes of our time, yet you can still find it being used today by organizations such as
the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, etc. The chart is a computer construct and a very faulty one at that.
But what else would you expect, seeing as it was created only to help perpetrate the climate
change lie.
Speaking of computer generated scams, let's not forget the drowning polar bears in Gore's movie
and the fraudulent claim that the bears are disappearing. In fact they are actually thriving. Polar
bear populations are 500% larger than they were 50 years ago. Shame on you, Al Gore, for
playing on people's emotions to drive support for your enormous $45 trillion carbon tax hoax.
MYTH 4: Human produced carbon dioxide has increased over the last
100 years, adding to the Greenhouse effect, thus warming the earth.
FACT: Carbon dioxide levels have indeed changed for various reasons, human and otherwise,
just as they have throughout geologic time. Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, the
CO2 content of the atmosphere has increased. The RATE of growth during this period has also
increased from about 0.2% per year to the present rate of about 0.4% per year,which growth rate
has now been constant for the past 25 years. However, there is no proof that CO2 is a measurable
driver of global warming, let alone the tiny amount released by humankind. As measured in ice
cores dated over many thousands of years, CO2 levels move up and down AFTER the
temperature has done so, and thus are the RESULT OF, NOT THE CAUSE of warming.
Effectively, the man-made global warming theorists have put effect before cause — this
completely debunks the entire global warming theory and shows that reducing carbon dioxide
emissions is a futile King Canute exercise! Geological field work in recent sediments confirms
this causal relationship. There is solid evidence that, as temperatures move up and down
naturally and cyclically through solar radiation, orbital and galactic influences, the warming
surface layers of the earth's oceans expel more CO2 as a result.
But isn't CO2 the most important of the greenhouse gases? Nope. Not even close. Most of the
greenhouse effect is due to water vapor, which is about 100 times as abundant in the atmosphere
as CO2 and thus has a much larger effect.
In summary, water vapour is by far the most important and overwhelming greenhouse gas.
Those attributing climate change to CO2 rarely mention these important facts.
What's next? A steam tax when you boil a kettle for your cup of tea?
Scientists draft reports for the IPCC, but the IPCC are bureaucrats appointed by governments, in
fact many scientists who contribute to the reports disagree with the ’spin’ that the IPCC and
media put on their findings. The latest report suggests that the next 100 years might see a
temperature change of 6 Celsius yet a Lead Author for the IPCC (Dr John Christy UAH/NASA)
has pointed out that the scenarios with the fastest warming rates were added to the report at a late
stage, at the request of a few governments (to create urgency) — in other words the scientists
were told what to do by politicians and many of them strongly disagree. This is not science. It's
political propaganda.
To the present day there is still no scientific proof that man-made CO2 has any effect on global
warming or can cause "climate change". However, there is plenty of scientific proof that the
Earth has been cooling while CO2 has risen, and that increased CO2 is very beneficial to our
planet.
MYTH 9: Reducing car use will cut carbon dioxide levels and save the
planet!
FACT: The planet does not need saving from this mythical problem of CO2 emissions from cars,
but taking this on anyway, removing every car from every road in every country overnight would
NOT produce any change in the carbon dioxide level of the atmosphere, and in any case it is
pointless trying to alter climate by changing carbon dioxide levels as the cause and effect is the
other way round! — It is changes in the activity of the Sun that cause temperature changes on
earth, with any temperature rise causing carbon dioxide to de-gas from the oceans.
MYTH 10: Global warming will cause more storms and other weather
extremes.
FACT: There is no scientific or statistical evidence whatsoever that supports such claims on a
global scale. Regional variations may occur, and always do. Growing insurance and
infrastructure repair costs, particularly in coastal areas, are sometimes claimed to be the result of
increasing frequency and severity of storms, whereas in reality they are a function of increasing
population density, escalating development value, and ever more media reporting. Weather
records clearly show there has been a decrease in violent and extreme weather over the past
century.
Extreme weather correlates with the cycle of solar activity, not carbon dioxide emissions or
political elections. The recent heavy rainfall in winter and spring is a perfect example of this —
it occurred at solar maximum at a time when solar maxima are very intense — this pattern may
well repeat every 11 years until about 2045. Furthermore, the hottest and coldest days on record
occurred more than 60 years ago (before industry) and the wackiest most extreme weather
recorded over the last 100 years, including the strongest hurricanes, and devastating
droughts/floods, all occurred in the 1940's. And guess what? They will always happen, every
year, with new records set daily. Normal.
Contrary to media hysteria claiming increasing storm severities, scientists have studied this issue
and come to the opposite conclusion: extreme events are becoming LESS common. Atlantic
hurricanes were much more numerous from 1950 to 1975 than from 1975 to present. Hailstorms
in the US are 35% less common than they were fifty years ago. Extreme rainfall in the US at the
end of the 20th century is comparable to what it was at the beginning of the 20th century. Also,
there is much empirical evidence to suggest that when global warming does happen from time to
time, more warmth generally leads to a more stable climate with less weather extremes. Once
again, the greenies got it backwards.
MYTH 11: Carbon taxes, petrol duty, and workplace parking charges
are justifiable environmental taxes.
FACT: As carbon dioxide emissions from cars and factories does not have any impact on
climate, these taxes are 'just another tax' on enterprise and mobility, and have no real green
credentials. None.
MYTH 12: Global warming must be real since governments are trying
to cover it up and I see protests all the time!
FACT: It's exactly the opposite. Governments everywhere are not only active supporters of the
climate change lie, they are promoters of it and massively fund it. And they've done an
absolutely brilliant job of it by easily convincing the world's alarmists and Earth-conscientious
citizens of an impending catastrophe, thereby utilizing the protesters and subsequent immense
political pressure to push through the very policies they aspire to implement on all of us.
Governments have learned the power of activism ever since the days of the revolution, and
they've managed to use it to their advantage. Extremist environmentalists have been duped into
becoming a tool for the very governments they believe they're "fighting" against. A recent
example of this was the declaration by Al Gore and James Hansen which encouraged activists to
consider civil disobedience to stop the construction of new coal power plants.
In defense of many environmentalists and "cause-jumpers", quite often they simply do not know
any better but are actually well intentioned.
MYTH 13: Receding glaciers, the calving of ice shelves, and the
shrinking of snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro are proof of global warming.
FACT: Glaciers have been receding and growing cyclically for hundreds of years. Recent glacier
melting is a consequence of coming out of the very cool period of the Little Ice Age. Ice shelves
have been breaking off for centuries. Scientists know of at least 33 periods of glaciers growing
and then retreating. It’s normal. Besides, glacier's health is dependent as much on precipitation as
on temperature. What you see on your television newscasts are images of the annual summer
melt off, which happens every single year and is nothing to worry about.
Global warming is not melting Mt. Kilimanjaro's alpine glacier. Temperatures at Mt. Kilimanjaro
have been slightly cooling since at least the middle of the twentieth century, and those
temperatures virtually never rise above freezing. Scientists have long known that deforestation at
the base of the mountain is causing the mountaintop glacier to shrink, by reducing the moisture
and resultant precipitation in mountain updrafts.
MYTH 14: The earth’s poles are warming; polar ice caps are breaking
up and melting and the sea level rising.
FACT: The earth is variable. The western Arctic may be gotten somewhat warmer last century,
due to unrelated cyclic events in the Pacific Ocean, but the Eastern Arctic and Greenland are
getting colder. And now the western Arctic is cooling again. The small Palmer Peninsula of
Antarctica is getting warmer, while the main Antarctic continent is actually cooling. Ice
thicknesses are increasing both on Greenland and in Antarctica.
Sea level monitoring in the Pacific (Tuvalu) and Indian Oceans (Maldives) has shown no sign of
any sea level rise.
MYTH 15: There are only a tiny handful of maverick scientists who
dispute that man-made global warming theory is true.
FACT: There are literally tens of thousands of signatures from scientists worldwide on many
petitions, ranging from the Oregon Petition Project, the Manhattan Declaration, all the way to the
Leipzig Declaration which all state that there is no evidence for the man-made global warming
theory nor is there any impact from mankind’s activities on climate. Many scientists are now
dissenting against Al Gore and the IPCC and strongly believe that the Kyoto agreement is a total
waste of time, expensive, dangerous and one of the biggest political scams ever perpetrated on
the public … as H L Mencken said "The fundamental aim of practical politics is to keep the
populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series
of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary" … the desire to save the world usually fronts a desire to
rule it. Of the scientists who support the climate change theory, many are on payrolls of
government agencies and others are simply securing their funding. The consensus is clear: Man-
made climate change is a hoax.
Although the biggest source of greenhouse gas is our oceans, the world's natural wetlands also
produce more greenhouse gas contributions annually than all human sources combined.
Furthermore, Animals and volcanoes produce so much CO2 that it completely dwarfs mankinds
insignificantly tiny emissions.
Former President Clinton, Al Gore, Obama and others have often cited a letter signed by 2600
scientists that global warming will have catastrophic effects on humanity. Thanks to Citizens for
a Sound Economy, we know now that fewer than 10 percent of these "scientists" know anything
about climate. Among the signers: a plastic surgeon, two landscape architects, a hotel
administrator, a gynecologist, seven sociologists, a linguist, and a practitioner of traditional
Chinese medicine. We also now know that many of the few actual scientists on that panel are not
asked whether they agree with the UN's asessments, and many of them vehemently disagree and
have thus asked to have their names removed from that fraudulent list. Global Warming Treaty is
All Pain, No Gain --- Malcom Wallop
You will learn that there is no empirical evidence that man-made CO2 is a cause of temperature
increases. It is, in fact, an after effect of temperature increases. Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is not a
pollutant, pollution has nothing to do with global warming, politicians who support such absurd
notions are a fraud, there is no "consensus" on global warming, the Earth has been far warmer in
the past than it is today, polar bears are not endangered or dying, they are thriving, droughts and
hurricanes are not caused or made worse by global warming, extreme weather events are
decreasing, and there is extensive evidence of the factual natural causes of global warming when
it really happens from time to time, pointing squarely at increased solar activity and orbital
variations.
Those who claim that skeptics are in bed with the oil companies or receive funding from
questionable sources need to give their heads a shake and look at the facts. Funding and grants to
PROMOTE the climate change myth are astronomical, while money for the skeptics is pocket
change:
Debunkers of the global warming theory have received approx = $21M (Million).
Supporters of the global warming theory have received approx = $79B (BILLION!)
Many people want a piece of that $79 billion pie, and the figure will only get higher so long as
these groups can continue to convince the populous that the end is near unless we all start paying
to emit that evil CO2! Don't you find it odd that nearly nobody ever accuses the giant Enviro
groups of being in bed with the large Green Industry? Or that Al Gore has boatloads of his own
cash on the line in these companies? Every environmental, political, and research group knows
full well that in order to receive funding and grants they need to create urgency and panic.
Money then flows in like a river, regardless of actual science. It's a sad fact.
It is better to trust scientists than politicans. Do not let fear ruin your day. Learn the Facts.
There are several motives for the media and politicians to lie to you about global warming,
aside from money and control.
~The media sells more papers, magazines, and television ratings soar when their audience is
scared of some imminent catastrophe that your respective service is reporting on. Although, they
can't decide whether we're going to burn to death, freeze to death, or drown.
http://epw.senate.gov/speechitem.cfm?party=rep&id=263759
~Environmental organizations and some scientists will lie to you because their funding depends
on it. If theres no crisis to work through, then they start losing funding. This is well documented.
http://meteo.lcd.lu/globalwarming/von_Storch/staged_angst/a_climate_of_staged_angst.html
~Foreign countries are lying to us (by means of the IPCC) because they wish to throw a monkey
wrench into the inner workings of western economies, which are the strongest in the world. If
our economy slows down, the economic standing of other countries improves because we will no
longer dominate the markets.
~Development and industrialization of third world countries will be stamped out, along with
hundreds of millions of lives, all under the guise of "saving the planet from climate change". It's
absolutely sickening. So, who's really on the "immoral" side? Us or the alarmists?
~Wanna talk about new taxes and restricted freedoms? Try carbon taxes on everything and strict
regulations for everyone....all coming soon by convincing you that CO2 & greenhouse gases are
somehow evil and you must pay to emit them. Too bad they can't tax the oceans since they are
the cause of 96.5% of all greenhouse emissions, naturally, eh! Also too bad they can't go back in
time and tax the dinosaurs since CO2 levels were MUCH higher back then and it must have been
their fault.
The motives for deception are there. Do your part to fight alarmism!
http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=264777
http://globalwarminghoax.wordpress.com/2008/03/
http://ff.org/centers/csspp/pdf/20061121_gore.pdf
http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/
http://www.junkscience.com/challenge.htm
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmFiZDAyMWFhMGIxNTgwNGIyMjVkZjQ4OGFiZjFl
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http://www.cei.org/pdf/5331.pdf
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/06/nclim06.xml&sSheet=/new
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http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/harris061206.htm
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060810-020342-6063r
http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/climatechange2/07_1.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_theory_%28science%29
http://www.businessandmedia.org/specialreports/2006/fireandice/fireandice_execsum.asp
http://epw.senate.gov/searchresults.cfm?search=Global+Warming
http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=264777
If you're still not convinced that scientists are capable of being slanted in their
research, check out this article:
http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=263847
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