An Inconvenient Truth Squad

Though the mainstream media has kept the facts well-hidden, and Hollywood would proclaim otherwise, global warming skeptics not only exist, but they are plentiful in number. Furthermore, a fair number of the skeptics are scientists and experts in meteorology, and some are even converted Kyoto supporters.

Senator James Inhofe, R-Okla., addressed a crowd of sleepy youth in a breakfast discussion on global warming at the Youth of America Foundation conference last Thursday. An enthusiastic disposition mixed with words of sarcastic humor set the tone for his presentation “Global Warming: the Momentum Has Shifted to the Skeptics.”

The twentieth century media has ridden quite a roller coaster of opinion on future climate crisis, beginning with a widespread fear of global cooling at the turn of the century:

• The debate lasted into the 1930s, with the advent of a change in mainstream opinion.

• From the 1920s until the 1960s, the general mainstream media coverage cited a future global warming crisis.

• During the 1950s, however, the pendulum began to swing yet again toward a proposed global cooling crisis.

• Starting in the 1980s and continuing until the present day, however, the cry of a global warming and climate crisis has taken root and spread to all echelons of society.

This century-long state of flux, however, gives little stability to the current media’s unofficial stance in favor of global warming. In fact, Inhofe presented just a sampling of a large number of climate scientists who are firmly opposed to the advocated “crisis” the earth now faces:

o Claude Allegre, a converted alarmist and prominent French geophysicist, believes that the cause of climate change has not yet been found, and that “the ecology of helpless protesting has become a very lucrative business for some people.”

o 60 prominent scientists reported last year to the Canadian Prime Minister, “If, back in the mid-1990s, we knew what we know today about climate, Kyoto would almost certainly not exist, because we would have concluded it was not necessary.”

o A panel of broadcast Meteorologists, in February, claimed that 95% of weathermen are skeptical of the global warming crisis. Meteorologist Mark Johnson stated, “You tell me you’re going to predict climate change based on 100 years of data for a rock that’s 6 billion years old?”

o Henrik Svensmark, a climate scientist who conducted research with the Danish National Space Centre, reported that the earth is actually undergoing a period of naturally-low cloud cover because of fewer cosmic rays. “We have the highest solar activity we have had in at least 1,000 years,” he stated.

o Renowned Astrophysicist Nir Shaviv of Israel has changed his belief of man-made emissions driving the climate change. “Solar activity can explain a large part of 20th-century global warming,” he now states.

Political leaders are also beginning to embrace the claim of a global warming hoax. Czech President Vaclav Klaus reported in a Czech newspaper that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was a mere “political body,” and that the alarm of a man-made climate catastrophe was simply a “myth.” Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, reportedly once stated that the Kyoto Protocol was in fact a “socialist scheme” with the purpose of channeling money out of wealthy countries.

Despite such a controversial melting-pot of differing evidence, the U.S. continues to drift ever closer to the American embrace of the UN Kyoto protocol. Wharton Econometrics Forecasting Associates estimates that adopting the Kyoto Protocol to “soften” the global warming catastrophe would reduce temperature by approximately .06 degree Celsius. The annual estimated cost for a family of four would amount to approximately $2,700. Senator Inhofe asserts that the tax increases as a result of adopting the Kyoto Protocol would hover around $300 billion—by far the largest tax increase in American history.

Even the UN is now recanting its once rigid dogma of man-made global warming. According to the 2007 UN Intercontinental Panel on Climate Change report, estimates for the sea level rise in the past 6 years have decreased 50%, while man’s estimated impact on the climate has been downgraded significantly. Now, the UN Food and Agricultural Organization hypothesizes that cow emissions are more damaging to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide from cars.

Though a Federal crackdown on cheeseburgers and steaks might be unlikely, Senator Inhofe presented the damning facts against a supposed worldwide acceptance of man-made global warming. The United Nations and Hollywood, after all, cannot completely silence the voice of the public, especially the educated voices.

Matt Hadro is an intern at the American Journalism Center, a training program run by Accuracy in Media and Accuracy in Academia.

If you would like to comment on this article, please e-mail mal.kline@academia.org

...and just yesterday, GISS (NASA) acknowledged a programming glitch which overstated the U.S. temperatures since January 2000. They are backing out the errors, but as of now, the 1930s were marginally warmer than either the 1990s or the 2000s.

Istook championed the work of Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick (sp?) when they debunked Mann’s hockeystick. Now McIntyre has found a systemic problem with the GISS data.

2 posted on 08/09/2007 1:01:00 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)

3 posted on 08/09/2007 1:01:00 PM PDT by preacher (A government which robs from Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul.)

4 posted on 08/09/2007 1:02:22 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)

Two new items today -- First, a climate model that has correctly reproduced NATURAL changes in temperature and climate during the past 100 years (quote and link): The authors show that this mechanism explains all global temperature tendency changes and El Nino variability in the 20th century.

And second, a report that says that global warming over the next decade could be dominated by natural changes, not man-made causes: Global warming will step up after 2009: scientists

6 posted on 08/09/2007 2:42:54 PM PDT by CedarDave (Only Republicans commit crimes. With Democrats it's a misunderstanding or baseless Republican charge)

7 posted on 08/09/2007 5:02:31 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)

“Global Warming” is a myth to increase leftist control of business activity, preferably by the UN.

National Healthcare is another attempt at leftist (Big Government) to control the lives of individuals.

The Clinton Plan, and their dream, is for Hillary to be U.S. President and for Bill to be elected Secretary General of the UN. Then you will see true globalism and one world government.

The most widespread election fraud so far will be in 2008 with the Democrats trying to seize power and make the above happen.

In 20 years, we’ll look back and laugh at global warming worshippers. I wonder if they’ll ever admit they were wrong?

BTW, New Scientist magazine shows that these Gaia-lovers in science will go kicking and screaming...the headline was “the sun causes some warming, but it’s still mostly man’s responsibility”.

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