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The Amazing Story Behind the Global Warming Scam
KUSI San Diego ^ | 1/28/2009 | John Coleman

Posted on 01/29/2009 5:12:59 PM PST by Vendek

The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax we citizens for our carbon footprints. Only two details stand in the way, the faltering economic times and a dramatic turn toward a colder climate. The last two bitter winters have lead to a rise in public awareness that CO2 is not a pollutant and is not a significant greenhouse gas that is triggering runaway global warming.

How did we ever get to this point where bad science is driving big government we have to struggle so to stop it?

The story begins with an Oceanographer named Roger Revelle. He served with the Navy in World War II. After the war he became the Director of the Scripps Oceanographic Institute in La Jolla in San Diego, California. Revelle saw the opportunity to obtain major funding from the Navy for doing measurements and research on the ocean around the Pacific Atolls where the US military was conducting atomic bomb tests.

He greatly expanded the Institute’s areas of interest and among others hired Hans Suess, a noted Chemist from the University of Chicago, who was very interested in the traces of carbon in the environment from the burning of fossil fuels.

Revelle tagged on to Suess studies and co-authored a paper with him in 1957. The paper raises the possibility that the carbon dioxide might be creating a greenhouse effect and causing atmospheric warming. It seems to be a plea for funding for more studies. Funding, frankly, is where Revelle’s mind was most of the time.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; gwbs
All this amid the talk of a small ice age!
1 posted on 01/29/2009 5:12:59 PM PST by Vendek
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To: Vendek

“How did we ever get to this point where bad science is driving big government we have to struggle so to stop it?”

Because marxists will sieze on anything to enslave you.


2 posted on 01/29/2009 5:15:59 PM PST by Owl558 ("Those who remember George Satayana are doomed to repeat him")
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To: Vendek; IrishCatholic; Normandy; According2RecentPollsAirIsGood; Fiddlstix; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

3 posted on 01/29/2009 5:21:29 PM PST by steelyourfaith (ObamaNation: Tax cheat sworn in as Treasury Secretary --- you can't make this stuff up !!!)
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To: Vendek

posted, poster, posted, and um.. posted.


4 posted on 01/29/2009 5:28:55 PM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Vendek

Thanks for posting. Well worth the read.


5 posted on 01/29/2009 5:29:22 PM PST by baseballmom (Philadelphia Phillies - 2008 World Series Champions!!)
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To: Vendek

Interesting read, thanks.


6 posted on 01/29/2009 5:53:40 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Vendek

Thanks for posting this...


7 posted on 01/29/2009 5:59:03 PM PST by GOPJ (What's caused 19 deaths, makes travel difficult, and won't melt til April? Global Warming.FR:Dentist)
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To: Vendek

K-UUUUUUUUUU-S-I!


8 posted on 01/29/2009 6:02:19 PM PST by sadiebella
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To: xcamel

Point taken...

Then again, the truth bears repeating :-))


9 posted on 01/29/2009 6:44:02 PM PST by Vendek
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To: Vendek

or just bandwidth wasting?


10 posted on 01/29/2009 6:50:16 PM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Vendek
Revelle and Keeling used this new alarmism to keep their funding growing. Other researchers with environmental motivations and a hunger for funding saw this developing and climbed aboard as well. The research grants began to flow and alarming hypothesis began to show up everywhere.

The start and cause of it all.

11 posted on 01/30/2009 8:13:09 AM PST by razorback-bert (Save the planet...it is the only known one with beer!)
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