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The Great Global Warming Swindle
National Center for Policy Analysis ^ | March 20, 2007

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

For more on Global Warming:

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_Category=32


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To: InvisibleChurch

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.


21 posted on 03/20/2007 11:40:17 AM PDT by RightWhale (Treaty rules;commerce droolz)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Latest Weather Channel Headline:
GORE'S GLOBAL FLATULENCE SWINDLED!


22 posted on 03/20/2007 11:47:44 AM PDT by rusureitflies? (OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD! There, I said it. Prove me wrong.)
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To: RightWhale
The Clean Air Act has worked, at least it has here. The days like the 60's and 70's where you had trouble seeing the mountains from town are long gone. Of course, you'll never get the enviros to admit it.
23 posted on 03/20/2007 12:01:49 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

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.


24 posted on 03/20/2007 12:07:02 PM PDT by RightWhale (Treaty rules;commerce droolz)
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To: Publius6961
By the current consensus, Galileo is wrong, and the earth is really flat and the earth is the center of the universe. Also the consensus is there are only 4 elements, fire, air, earth and water, bleeding is the most effective treatment for all ills.
barbra ann
25 posted on 03/20/2007 12:09:00 PM PDT by barb-tex (Why replace the IRS with anything?)
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To: RightWhale

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.


26 posted on 03/20/2007 12:22:37 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

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.


27 posted on 03/20/2007 12:27:21 PM PDT by RightWhale (Treaty rules;commerce droolz)
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To: colorado tanker
The data from the ice cores is available on the Inet for anyone that cares to look/read it. The data covers the last 4 million years of the world's history. It is worth the time to learn the basics of global warming.
28 posted on 03/20/2007 12:35:36 PM PDT by ANGGAPO (LayteGulfBeachClub)
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To: ANGGAPO
It is worth the time to learn the basics of global warming.

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.

29 posted on 03/20/2007 1:03:02 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Lucky9teen

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!


30 posted on 03/23/2007 3:26:29 PM PDT by MARenzulli
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To: MARenzulli

Sorry. It looks like that link does not work. Try this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XttV2C6B8pU


31 posted on 03/23/2007 3:29:43 PM PDT by MARenzulli
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To: InvisibleChurch

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.


32 posted on 03/29/2007 2:50:54 PM PDT by jimroland
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