Ken Blackwell: Climate Change Debate Over? It's Just Begun!

American Thinker ^ | February 21, 2010 | Ken Blackwell

[neverdem]

Ronald Reagan used to say of the Soviets that they liked the arms race a whole lot better when they were the only ones in it. The same could be said of Al Gore and global warming -- oops, excuse me: climate change. Mr. Gore was much happier to dash around the world in his water-vapor-powered personal jet to preach the green gospel of environmentalism. He would tell us which truths were inconvenient. Any dissenters were shouted down as "deniers." No pope would ever make claims as far-reaching, as extravagant, or as all-embracing as Saint Al did.

But now comes the pushback. Just before the World Summit on Climate Change at Copenhagen last December, several hundred e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia were leaked. It appeared that Dr. Phil Jones had urged colleagues, including some at Penn State University, to "hide the decline" in world temperatures and encouraged others to do some of their usual "tricks" to get the right result from ambiguous data. A huge scandal erupted, instantly dubbed "Climategate."

Jones stepped down as director of CRU and even went so far, he confessed to the Times of London, as to contemplate suicide. God forbid. Truly, these are serious questions, and we have serious objections to what Dr. Jones and his colleagues were caught doing, but we want no one involved in this affair to become so despondent as to take his own life. Dr. Jones says his hope for his five-year-old granddaughter is what helped him to banish thoughts of self-destruction. "I wanted to see her grow up." Dr. Jones, I pray that you will.

If Al Gore has not become any humbler, it's at least good to see Dr. Jones somewhat chastened by the revelations that some of his data may not be as reliable as we have been led to believe. And it is not only the reading public that may have been misled. Dr. Jones' CRU is one of the primary institutions responsible for feeding data to the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It was this IPCC that shared with Al Gore the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. (Note: They did not win the Nobel Prize for Science.)

The Left is wringing its hands over the "failure" of the World Climate Summit at Copenhagen to approve a binding treaty. But perhaps they should thank God (or Gore) for that fact. That's because the mere threat of job-killing cap-and-trade legislation has been enough for independent voters in the U.S. to abandon left-leaning politicians in droves.

Along with stiff carbon taxes and straitjacket regulations inevitably comes population control. At Copenhagen, China's Peggy Liu, chair of the Joint U.S.-China Collaboration on Clean Energy, bragged about Beijing's brutal one-child policy. That policy, said this winner of Time Magazine's "Hero of the Environment" award, "reduces energy demand and is arguably the most effective way the country can mitigate climate change."

Soviet Communist Party boss Joe Stalin would be proud. "You have a problem with a man. If you get rid of the man, you get rid of the problem," said the top Communist of the Twentieth Century. (Come to think of it, Uncle Joe Stalin even topped Peggy Liu. He was named Time's Man of the Year not once, but twice -- 1939 and 1942.)

Thomas Friedman of the New York Times hails China's one-child policy as "reasonably enlightened." He likes the fact that Beijing's rulers -- unburdened by those pesky voters voting out their betters -- can "impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21^st century." Friedman's bestselling book is titled The World is Flat. (And liberals accuse us of being the Flat Earth Society?)

Isn't it really funny how all the "errors" made by the climate scientists seem to fall on one side of the debate? If the glaciers of the Himalayas are all going to melt by 2035, that's a real problem. But if they're not expected to melt until 2350, it's another matter. Guess which date the IPCC chose to publish? Just a typo?

What if the globe is indeed warming, but the warming is part of a cyclical pattern of warming and cooling? That's the thesis of Dr. S. Fred Singer. Dr. Singer and co-author Dennis Avery write in Unstoppable Global Warming that "evidence from North Atlantic deep-sea cores reveals that abrupt shifts punctuated what is conventionally thought to have been a relatively stable Holocene [interglacial] climate. During each of these episodes, cool, ice-bearing waters from north of Iceland were advected as far south as the latitude of Britain. At about the same times, the atmospheric circulation above Greenland changed abruptly....Together, they make up a series of climatic shifts with a cyclicity close to 1470 years (plus or minus 500 years). The Holocene events, therefore, appear to be the most recent manifestation of a pervasive millennial-scale climatic cycle operating independently of the glacial-interglacial climate state (emphasis added)."

Dr. Singer has been abused by Left-wing bloggers, called a denier, and denounced as a tool of industry. He earned his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, worked with NASA for decades, and is thoroughly conversant with satellite measurements of earth's climate. And he taught environmental sciences at the University of Virginia for twenty-five years. Dr. Singer might be wrong. He might be seriously in error. But so far, no one has demonstrated that his arguments are wrong. Reviling him, calling him names, trying to shut him up and close him down -- none of this constitutes a reasoned argument. It is nothing more than (in the words of Al Gore) an assault on reason. Stay tuned, folks. The earth may be warming -- but not as fast as the debate over climate is heating up.

Ken Blackwell is a senior fellow at the Family Research Council. He serves on the board of directors of the Club for Growth, National Taxpayers Union and National Rifle Association. 

[icwhatudo]

The reason the RNC is afraid to dump Steele is because he is black. Its the elephant in the room that the RNC will not admit, but everyone knows. Immediately announcing Ken Blackwell as Steeles replacement will give the RNC cover from the inevitable “Thats RAAAAAAAAACIST!” and will also add a strong conservative leader to the team.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s time to get the lawsuits going. A lot of extortion charges still need to be filed also!

[Rome2000]

http://kenblackwell.com/

[Dick Bachert]

Heard that Trump wants Algore SUED. Hell, I WANT HIM JAILED!!

An imbittered former Senator and Vice President Al Gore is seen here en-route back to prison after a federal appeals court refused to review his 20 year sentence for his lead role as spokesman in the “Climategate” fraud conspiracy.

The same court recently rejected the appeals of the lengthy sentences of the 137 alleged UN “scientists” – Gore’s co-conspirators – for falsifying data supporting so-called Cap and Trade legislation that trial testimony disclosed would have virtually destroyed what remained of the U.S. economy while unjustly enriching Gore and a cabal of insiders.

During his trial, Gore was notified by the Nobel Committee that he would have to return the large monetary prize and the gold metal awarded him in 2009. He told reporters that the last of his prize money had gone to the lawyers and Tipper pawned his medal when she left him and filed for divorce after his conviction.

[Old Texan]

When will Steele’s position up for vote again? Is his position a 2 year term, 1 year term?

[Joe Boucher]

This is just so much crappola.
It isn’t about climate change, never was.
It is about transferring America’s wealth to the third world.

[Rome2000]

Its a 2 year term and we will be finally rid of the glad handing country club race card playing affirmative action washingtonian Michale Steele just after the new year, or sooner, if he says something really stupid again, which is a distinct possibility

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Chode]

listen... warming, cooling, it was 50/50. so i took a shot!!!

Ohh WOE is me... whys everybody pickin on me???

[Roccus]

PEC is challenging the EPA. Not the constitutionality of its probable mandates, but the very fact that GHG are pollutants. This will go directly to the heart of the hoax. No dismissive, “...the science is setteled” comment will be accepted. The EPA will have to PROVE, IN COURT why it should be allowed to control GHG.

http://www.climategate.com/worlds-biggest-coal-company-brings-us-government-to-court-in-climate-fraud

[ohioWfan]

Ken Blackwell will always be my HERO.

Great article!

[TheWriterTX]

Milutin Milankovitch posited the same theory decades before Dr. Singer. His theory was proven by ice core samples dating back 400,000 years.

Google "Milankovitch Cycles" folks. It's all out there, and has been for a very long time.

This is a natural period of climate change, and nothing AlBore says, no wealth redistribution ponzy-scheme, no pandering to the greenies, is going to change it.

When you hear "global warming," think "bottom-feeder." There isn't much difference.

[Vigilanteman]

I wish Ken Blackwell could speak as well as he writes. That being said, I think it would be far easier to send Ken Blackwell to Toastmasters to teach him to speak than it would be to ever teach Michael Steele the character of Ken Blackwell!

[Impy]

He should ahve be Party Chairman instead of Steele.

[onyx]

It’s time to get the lawsuits going. A lot of extortion charges still need to be filed also!

You're right!

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"Very seriously, ladies and gentlemen, this global warming hoax, this climate change stuff borders on criminal corruption, criminal political corruption. You think of all of the billions that have been spent ostensibly to protect things and people from global warming, and it's all been a scam, nothing more than a huge transfer of wealth. It is a giant scam. It is political corruption, what has happened. It's funny to listen to these people make fools of themselves and I love doing it, and it's not very hard. Just play their own words. I just got a note from a good friend: "Way to go, Rush, very smooth. You made 'em look foolish." I replied: "Easy. They are." But they're also dangerous. This is political criminal corruption, what is happening here, and just as they have ensnared the media to provide all kinds of propaganda for all the other political corruption that comes from liberalism, the Democrat Party, et al, they're doing it in global warming as well. Think of the money that need not have been spent on any of this. It's getting crazier and crazier." Rush Limbaugh 02-12-10 http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_021210/content/01125107.guest.html

"Very seriously, ladies and gentlemen, this global warming hoax, this climate change stuff borders on criminal corruption, criminal political corruption. You think of all of the billions that have been spent ostensibly to protect things and people from global warming, and it's all been a scam, nothing more than a huge transfer of wealth. It is a giant scam. It is political corruption, what has happened. It's funny to listen to these people make fools of themselves and I love doing it, and it's not very hard. Just play their own words. I just got a note from a good friend: "Way to go, Rush, very smooth. You made 'em look foolish." I replied: "Easy. They are." But they're also dangerous. This is political criminal corruption, what is happening here, and just as they have ensnared the media to provide all kinds of propaganda for all the other political corruption that comes from liberalism, the Democrat Party, et al, they're doing it in global warming as well. Think of the money that need not have been spent on any of this. It's getting crazier and crazier." Rush Limbaugh 02-12-10 http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_021210/content/01125107.guest.html

[ohioWfan]

Strongly agree, and contributed to make that happen.

Unfortunately, it didn't.

[AmishDude]

Blackwell ran, I think he ended up #3 in the elimination ballot. He would have been much better at the job. He’s more suited for organization and he kinda likes Republicans, ya know?

[Impy]

He was my first choice in that race. Followed by Katon Dawson.

[Servant of the Cross]