| Have "Global Warming" ideologues caused the | | | | of climatology data being doctored or omitted (initially |
| tarnishing of the once-proud title of "Scientist" - with | | | | articles merely noted that the belief of "proven" |
| fact-faked data? Has an important science to human | | | | science was being seriously challenged). Although the |
| welfare - Climatology - become only a propaganda | | | | mainstream media and politicians denounced the |
| tool for liberal extremists to force the US and other | | | | hackers rather than assess the revelations of the |
| industrialized countries to undergo technological | | | | disclosures; subsequently more information was made |
| "greening" restrictions and pay exorbitant emission | | | | available from previously involved climatologists, |
| reparations for "destroying the planet"? Is this | | | | divulging more and more damaging revelations - it |
| global-warming movement rooted less in unemotional | | | | now appears strongly that "With so much smoke, |
| science than in the uneasy consciences of liberals | | | | how can there not be fire?" |
| about industrial development and capitalism? Is there | | | | Rising sea level - Climate change advocates like Al |
| solid scientific proof of both: climate change and | | | | Gore or IPCC members have warned that the |
| man-causation? What is the scientific base for this | | | | melting ice packs are causing sea levels across the |
| near-universal conventional wisdom? | | | | globe to rise - at a rate that will eventually doom us |
| The progress in science and technology - which has | | | | all. But this is disputed by Swedish paleogeophysicist |
| advanced humanity from hunter-gatherer | | | | Nils-Axel Mörner, who has been studying sea level |
| cave-dwelling to space travel and unbelievable plenty | | | | data for four decades - claiming that scientists |
| for almost everyone - is now under threat of | | | | working for the IPCC have falsified data and |
| reversal by guilt-obsessed liberal ideologues, dictating | | | | destroyed evidence to incorrectly prove their political |
| a collective conscience of culpability for claimed | | | | viewpoint. Mörner was recently interviewed by |
| depletion of Arctic ice packs. Their agenda, with | | | | Gregory Murphy of Executive Intelligence Review, |
| zealot sincerity, seems to be a forcing function for | | | | stating that the sea level claims made by the IPCC |
| industrial countries, primarily the US, to place limits and | | | | are nonsense: "[W]e can see that the sea level was |
| restraints on energy usage, and to force payments | | | | indeed rising, from, let us say, 1850 to 1930-40. And |
| of huge financial emission-penalties - purely on the | | | | that rise had a rate in the order of 1 millimeter per |
| basis of a theory of global warming and climate | | | | year - not more. 1.1 is the exact figure. And we can |
| change. By subtle and progressive inducements - | | | | check that, because Holland is a subsiding area; it has |
| through prestigious United Nations acclamation and | | | | been subsiding for many millions of years; and |
| publication of supportive analyses - climatology | | | | Sweden, after the last Ice Age, was uplifted. That |
| "scientists" during the past few decades have | | | | ended in 1940, and there had been no rise until 1970; |
| seemingly been gradually seduced and induced to first | | | | and then we can go to satellite altimetry." |
| overlook, then to manipulate climate data. This | | | | Projected date of melting of Himalayan glaciers, 2035 |
| apparently was done in the belief that global warming | | | | in place of 2350 - A paragraph in the 2007 Working |
| and man-made climate change were factual - and so | | | | Group II report ("Impacts, Adaptation and |
| political leaders in the US and the UN could claim that | | | | Vulnerability"), included a projection, "Glaciers in the |
| it was proven science (An Inconvenient Truth - says | | | | Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part |
| the Al Gore Nobel Prize-winning film). | | | | of the world (see Table 10.9) and if the present rate |
| It began simply - Rachel Carson wrote a book in | | | | continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the |
| 1962, "Silent Spring" - credited with launching | | | | year 2035, and perhaps sooner, is very high if the |
| environmental concerns - going well beyond | | | | Earth keeps warming at the current rate." |
| "Endangered Species" movements by establishing the | | | | The "hockey stick" graph - The UN's Third |
| belief that humans were despoiling planet Earth (e.g. | | | | Asessment Report prominently featured a graph |
| DDT poisoning). The slightest apparent indication by | | | | labeled "Millennial Northern Hemisphere Temperature |
| interpretation of climatology data, that technology | | | | Reconstruction" from a paper by Michael E. Mann, |
| was adversely impacting our planet - was seized | | | | Raymond S. Bradley and Malcolm K. Hughes, often |
| upon politically: objective to restrain the causative | | | | referred to as the "Hockey Stick Graph". This graph |
| technology (that had achieved so much for the | | | | differed from a schematic in the first assessment |
| universal benefits of civilization itself). To a | | | | report which depicted larger global temperature |
| fair-minded public, if "Science" said so (Science being | | | | variations over the past 1000 years, and higher |
| considered infallible), then our responsibility should not | | | | temperatures during the Medieval Warm Period than |
| be shirked. Once the United Nations was established, | | | | the present day. (The schematic was not an actual |
| with its universal prestige, the process was | | | | plot of data.) The appearance in the TAR was widely |
| unstoppable. An IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on | | | | construed as demonstrating that the current warming |
| Climate Change - was established in 1988 (the title | | | | period is exceptional in comparison to temperatures |
| itself makes clear - the purpose was not scientific | | | | between 1000 and 1900. The methodology used to |
| inquiry, but validation and confirmation of an | | | | produce this graph was criticized in an article by |
| established conclusion) - annual scientific papers | | | | Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick. In a 2006 |
| sought, published and honored in the most prestigious | | | | letter to Nature, Bradley, Hughes and Mann pointed |
| of journals. No climatologist could resist. | | | | out that their original article had said that "more |
| The first international conference, the Kyoto Protocol | | | | widespread high-resolution data are needed before |
| was convened in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, the stated | | | | more confident conclusions can be reached" and that |
| goal being to combat global warming - the words | | | | the uncertainties were "the point of the article." In his |
| were clear, "stabilization of greenhouse gas | | | | 2009 book The Real Global Warming Disaster, |
| concentrations in the atmosphere [to] prevent | | | | Christopher Booker provides a detailed account of |
| dangerous anthropogenic interference with the | | | | how the graph came to being prominently featured in |
| climate system". The prevailing international opinion | | | | the IPCC's Third Assessment Report. |
| dominating Kyoto was that human activities have | | | | Climategate-U-turn, hockey-stick data lost - |
| resulted in substantial global warming since the | | | | Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones |
| mid-20th century, and that continued growth in | | | | has refused Freedom of Information requests is that |
| greenhouse gas concentrations - caused by | | | | his record keeping is "not as good as it should be". |
| human-induced emissions - would generate high risks | | | | The data is crucial to the famous hockey stick graph |
| of dangerous climate changes to planet Earth. Under | | | | used by climate change advocates to support the |
| the Protocol provisions, thirty-seven industrialized | | | | theory. Professor Jones has been in the spotlight |
| countries would commit themselves to a reduction of | | | | since he stepped down as director of the University |
| four greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, and | | | | of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit after the |
| two groups of gases produced by industrialized | | | | leaking of emails that sceptics claim show scientists |
| nations, the benchmark being emission levels of 1990. | | | | were manipulating data. The raw data, collected from |
| Incorporated in the Protocol were complexity factors | | | | hundreds of weather stations around the world and |
| of "flexible mechanisms", permitting emission trading | | | | analysed by his unit, has been used for years to |
| and credits through financial exchanges. The major | | | | bolster efforts by the United Nation's |
| countries (Annex I) were required to submit annual | | | | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to press |
| reports of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas | | | | governments to cut carbon dioxide emissions. Dr |
| emissions. Noteworthy under the Protocol (with a | | | | Benny Pieser, director of the skeptical Global |
| "designated national authority"), a degree of | | | | Warming Policy Foundation, said Professor Jones's |
| sovereignty is clearly being transferred from individual | | | | 'excuses' for his failure to share data were hollow, as |
| countries to the UN organization - in areas of | | | | he had shared it with colleagues and 'mates'. |
| significant import to national productivity and finance. | | | | Climategate-U-turn, admissions - Professor Jones also |
| The objective of the Kyoto and Copenhagen | | | | conceded the possibility that the world was warmer |
| conferences was clearly to establish a legally binding | | | | in medieval times than now - suggesting global |
| Protocol, an international agreement, whereby all the | | | | warming may not be a man-made phenomenon. He |
| participating nations committed themselves to tackling | | | | also said that for the past 15 years there has been |
| the issue of global warming. The Protocol also | | | | no 'statistically significant' warming. |
| reaffirms the principle that developed countries have | | | | Obama's EPA Emission Control - Coinciding with the |
| to pay billions of dollars in emission reparations. | | | | first day of the international climate summit in |
| As of November 2009, 186 countries have ratified | | | | Copenhagen, the Obama Environmental Protection |
| the agreement, the most notable exception being | | | | Agency's actions were seemingly to reassure |
| the US (deemed responsible for 36.1% of the 1990 | | | | delegates that the United States is committed to |
| emission levels of Annex I countries). Although a | | | | reducing its emissions; the EPA said that six gases, |
| signatory to the Kyoto Protocol, the US has neither | | | | including carbon dioxide and methane, pose a danger |
| ratified nor withdrawn from the Protocol. The Climate | | | | to the environment and the health of Americans and |
| Control Act of 2007, more commonly referred to in | | | | that the agency would start drawing up regulations |
| the U.S. as the "Cap and Trade Bill" was proposed for | | | | to reduce those emissions. The EPA's decision paves |
| greater U.S. alignment with the Kyoto standards and | | | | the way for the agency to regulate carbon-dioxide |
| goals; it has been passed by the House - resistance is | | | | emissions from sources such as power plants and |
| by Republicans and growing in the Senate among | | | | factories. The EPA's finding stems from a 2007 |
| some Democrats. At the end of 2008, China had | | | | Supreme Court ruling that said the government could |
| surpassed the United States as the biggest emitter | | | | restrict heat-trapping gases under the Clean Air Act if |
| of CO2 from power generation. | | | | it found them a danger to the public health and |
| On 25 July 1997, before the Kyoto Protocol was | | | | welfare. A realistic question is whether CO2 should be |
| finalized, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed (by 95-0 | | | | included as a danger to public health, since more CO2 |
| vote) that the United States should not be a | | | | means lusher plant growth. The number of |
| signatory to any protocol that did not include binding | | | | businesses requiring an EPA permit would jump from |
| targets and timetables for developing, as well as for | | | | the current 12,000-13,000 to more than a million; not |
| industrialized nations - noting that its passage "could | | | | only schools and hospitals, but offices, apartment |
| result in serious harm to the economy of the United | | | | buildings, even bakeries. Estimates of cost to the US |
| States". President George W. Bush withheld the | | | | economy are $7 trillion when fully implemented in |
| treaty from Senate ratification because of the strain | | | | 2029. |
| he believed the treaty would place on the US | | | | Obama's EPA Emission Control, reactions - Reacting |
| economy; he also emphasized the scientific | | | | to EPA, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, USA's |
| uncertainties which he believed existed in the | | | | largest business-lobbying group, is asking a federal |
| technical evidence. | | | | court to review the Obama administration's decision |
| In 2007, the Nobel Prize committee awarded the | | | | to declare greenhouse gases a health risk under the |
| Nobel Prize for Peace jointly to the United Nation's | | | | Clean Air Act. The Chamber's petition, filed with the |
| IPCC (International Panel for Climate Change) and to | | | | U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, challenges the |
| Ex-Vice President Al Gore, for his film "The | | | | Environmental Protection Agency's ruling made in |
| Inconvenient Truth". The words justifying the award | | | | December. Senator Murkowski, an Alaska Republican, |
| were: "for their efforts to build up and disseminate | | | | is also leading an effort in Congress to stop the EPA |
| greater knowledge about man-made climate change, | | | | from regulating greenhouse gases; three Democrats |
| and to lay the foundations for the measures that are | | | | are joining his cause. |
| needed to counteract such change." | | | | As the foundation of the claimed scientific data |
| Newly elected President Obama, in his speech at the | | | | (purportedly proving global warming) begins to |
| Copenhagen conference - to the assembled leaders | | | | crumble, as the detailed tapestry (which painted a |
| from nations around the world - gave a ringing | | | | picture of man-caused climate change) begins to |
| endorsement to the Climate Change theory: "We | | | | unravel - with steady and progressive new |
| come together here in Copenhagen because climate | | | | disclosures: more emails, UN climatologist resignations, |
| change poses a grave and growing danger to our | | | | admissions of flawed information, claims of data lost, |
| people. You would not be here unless you - like me - | | | | etc. (and as the evidence of Mother Nature's |
| were convinced that this danger is real. This is not | | | | extreme wintry weather in the 2009-10 season |
| fiction, this is science. Unchecked, climate change will | | | | makes a mockery of global warming fears) - it |
| pose unacceptable risks to our security, our | | | | appears that many world-renowned personalities and |
| economies, and our planet. That much we know. As | | | | organizations have painted themselves into an |
| the world's largest economy and the world's second | | | | ideological corner: the Nobel Prize Committee, the |
| largest emitter, America bears our share of | | | | United Nations International Panel on Climate Change, |
| responsibility in addressing climate change, and we | | | | Al Gore, plus the (mostly Democrat) liberals in |
| intend to meet that responsibility. That is why we | | | | Congress - and also President Obama. |
| have renewed our leadership within international | | | | However the situation will eventually play out, the |
| climate negotiations, and worked with other nations | | | | consequences will be enormous: either exorbitant |
| to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. And that is why we | | | | costs in lost US jobs through reduced industrial |
| have taken bold action at home - pursuing | | | | efficiencies (due to emission penalties of Obama's |
| comprehensive legislation to transform to a clean | | | | EPA and/or Cap-and-Trade Bill), plus (for the US, |
| energy economy." He also committed: "I'm confident | | | | paying most of) $100 billion per year as reparation |
| that America will fulfill the commitments that we | | | | payments to 3rd world countries (Kyoto and |
| have made: cutting our emissions in the range of 17 | | | | Copenhagen Conferences) - or instead, mass |
| percent by 2020, and by more than 80 percent by | | | | admission to having been wrong on global warming, |
| 2050." In the area of financial commitments, "America | | | | with embarrassing political egg-on-their-faces re |
| will be a part of fast-start funding that will ramp up | | | | shameful concessions of believing punk-science and |
| to $10 billion in 2012. And we will engage in a global | | | | taking the US to the-near-brink of economic disaster! |
| effort to mobilize $100 billion in financing by 2020." | | | | Many voices are even now being heard calling for the |
| Thus, all the world leaders seem to be strong | | | | Nobel Prize Committee to revoke the awards given |
| believers in global warming, and climate change | | | | to Al Gore and the UN IPCC. Will Climategate |
| caused by industrial emissions - however, what are | | | | mushroom into a "Waterloo" type-event for |
| the true scientific facts? | | | | President Obama and maybe even the United |
| The leaked emails from one of the UN's | | | | Nations? The stakes are high - how will it play out? |
| data-gathering sites drew attention to the possibility | | | | |