Posted on 03/20/2007 9:39:53 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Al Gore\'s movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," has met its match: a devastating documentary based on sound science by recording the statements of real climate scientists, says S. Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and adjunct scholar at the National Center for Policy Analysis.
The scientific arguments presented in, "The Great Global Warming Swindle," can be stated quite briefly, says Singer:
Observations in ice cores show that temperature increases have preceded -- not resulted from -- increases in CO2, by hundreds of years, suggesting that the warming of the oceans is an important source of the rise in atmospheric CO2. As the dominant greenhouse gas, water vapor is far, far more important than CO2, yet not well handled by climate models -- and, in any case, not within our control. Greenhouse models also cannot account for the observed cooling of much of the past century (1940-75), nor for the observed patterns of warming -- what we call the "fingerprints." The best evidence we have supports natural causes -- part of a natural cycle of climate warming and cooling that\'s been traced back almost a million years -- leaving little we can do about it. Climate mitigation schemes will not do any good; they are all irrelevant, useless and wildly expensive, says Singer.
Ultimately, we should not devote our scarce resources to what is essentially a non-problem, says Singer, while ignoring the real problems the world faces: hunger, disease and denial of human rights, in favor of politically fashionable issues.
Source: S. Fred Singer, "The Great Global Warming Swindle," The Independent Institute, March 19, 2007.
For text:
http://independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1945
For more on Global Warming Science:
http://eteam.ncpa.org/issues/?c=science
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http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_Category=32
The global warming issue is confused in the minds of the older acolytes with atmospheric pollution. Those who have breathed the air of downtown Philadelphia, Denver, and LA decades ago, or maybe even now, remember smog. Well, smog is back and whatever cures global warming will cure smog, too. DDT, ozone hole, and acid rain are not far behind. They are throwing the old arguments into the pot along with the new thing--climate change--since climate change is getting somewhat iffy. They have these old scares to fall back on, and they are falling back on them.
Latest Weather Channel Headline:
GORE'S GLOBAL FLATULENCE SWINDLED!
The country is vastly cleaner. It was getting kind of dumpy, but especially considering the huge amount of development, it is amazingly clean and pure. It has been expensive and it has worked. Extending this to the whole world by clipping the US economy is remarkably nasty. Cutting off private development of outer space resources is even nastier and will fulfill the prophecy of the Club of Rome, and they are still out there and active.
I suppose the silver lining is if you look at what the Europeans and Canadians have done on global warming it is remarkably little, just enough to get some good press, but not enough to do serious damage to their economies. If you look at what they do and not what they say, they don't buy the bull much more than we do.
Even if the next Pres mouths a lot of words about international cooperation and fighting climate change and all, little will change. Nobody is meeting their quotas. Nobody will. Costs will rise as usual, but the megacorporations will survive that. Marginal companies will be out of business, which is what is happening anyway. Overall, little change.
My understanding is the charter of the UN group puts investigating the historical climate patterns off limits - it's beyond their charter. The game is rigged to come up with the results they desire.
Indeed! In case you or anyone else would like to see The Great Global Warming Swindle, it can be viewed at You Tube. Link is below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6Wr1hcIp2U
Enjoy!
Sorry. It looks like that link does not work. Try this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XttV2C6B8pU
1. S. Fred Singer has quite a formidable pedigree for playing down links between tobacco smoke and lung cancer, between CFCs and ozone layer thinning, and between sun exposure and skin cancer. Why don't we make him Health minister? See http://www.desmogblog.com/node/1478; there are also good citations at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Singer
2. http://www.desmogblog.com/node/1478 also notes his close association with false statements and documents.
3. An example of a false statement above: "Just consider the scary predictions emanating from supposedly responsible world figures: the chief scientist of Britain’s Labour Party tells us that unless we insulate our houses and use more efficient light bulbs, the Antarctic will be the only habitable continent by 2100, with a few surviving breeding couples propagating the human race. Seriously!" As a Briton who has been following this avidly in the UK, I've never heard of the Labour Party (as it's actually spelt) having a chief scientist. UK GOVERNMENT chief scientist David King has made no such remark. But by saying "the Labor Party"'s chief scientist, Singer knows nobody can libel him.
4. Singer's remarks above about Antarctica cooling and in conclusion about world cooling "during much of the past century" do not give a balanced picture if you look at, for example:
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2005/
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/nhshgl.gif
http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/delaware/biotrends/trends85.JPG
http://www.worldclimatereport.com/wp-images/arctic_temps2.JPG
As you will see, much of Antarctica is warming.
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