| The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | | | | the mainstream press. Coleman stated: "It (global |
| (IPCC) gave a grim assessment of the impact of | | | | warming) is the greatest scam in history. I am |
| global climate change in a new report dated | | | | amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. ... Some |
| November 17, 2007. According to the Panel's latest | | | | dastardly scientists with environmental and political |
| report, the build-up of carbon dioxide on Earth | | | | motives manipulated long term scientific data to |
| already imperils islands, coastlines, and a fifth to | | | | create an illusion of rapid global warming. Other |
| two-thirds of the world's species. | | | | scientists of the same environmental whacko type |
| The IPCC panel report says that global warming is | | | | jumped into the circle to support and broaden the |
| "unequivocal". It estimates that as early as the year | | | | "research" to further enhance the totally slanted, |
| 2020 between 75 and 250 million people in Africa will | | | | bogus global warming claims. Their friends in |
| suffer water shortages. It goes on to state that | | | | government steered huge research grants their way |
| residents of Asia's largest cities will be at great risk | | | | to keep the movement going. Soon they claimed to |
| of river and coastal flooding. Europeans can expect | | | | be a consensus. I have read dozens of scientific |
| extensive species loss. North Americans will | | | | papers. I have talked with numerous scientists. I have |
| experience longer and hotter heat waves and | | | | studied. I have thought about it. I know I am correct. |
| greater competition for water. | | | | There is no run away climate change." |
| In the best case scenario, temperatures will keep | | | | Also consider the comments of Colorado State |
| rising from carbon already in the atmosphere, the | | | | University's Hurricane expert Dr. William Gray: "The |
| report said. Climate change is here as witnessed by | | | | only inconvenient truth about global warming is that a |
| melting snow and glaciers, higher average | | | | genuine debate has never actually taken place. |
| temperatures, and rising sea levels. If unchecked, | | | | Hundreds of scientists, many of them prominent in |
| global warming will spread hunger and disease, put | | | | the field, agree. They've been brainwashing us for 20 |
| further stress on water resources, cause fiercer | | | | years," Gray says. "This scare will also run its course. |
| storms and more frequent droughts, and could drive | | | | In 15-20 years, we'll look back and see what a hoax |
| up to 70 percent of plant and animal species to | | | | this was." Gray acknowledges that we've had some |
| extinction. | | | | warming the past 30 years. "I don't question that," he |
| "We have already committed the world to sea level | | | | explains. "And humans might have caused a very |
| rise," the panel's chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, said. But | | | | slight amount of this warming. Very slight. But this |
| if the Greenland ice sheet melts, the scientists said, | | | | warming trend is not going to keep on going. My |
| they could not predict by how many feet the seas | | | | belief is that three, four years from now, the globe |
| will rise, drowning coastal cities. Climate change | | | | will start to cool again, as it did from the middle '40s |
| imperils "the most precious treasures of our planet," | | | | to the middle '70s." |
| he said, and the effects are "so severe and so | | | | Then there are the opinions of highly respected |
| sweeping that only urgent global action will do. We | | | | climatologist, Roger Pielke Sr. at the University of |
| are all in this together. We must work together." | | | | Colorado: Pielke contends there isn't enough |
| "The world's scientists have spoken clearly and with | | | | intellectual diversity in the debate. He claims a few |
| one voice," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, | | | | vocal individuals are quoted "over and over" again, |
| "I expect the world's policy makers to do the same." | | | | when in fact there are a variety of opinions. "I think |
| The world scientists that U.N. Secretary General Ban | | | | the media is in the ideal position to do that. If the |
| Ki-moon refers to are apparently members of the | | | | media honestly presented the views out there, which |
| United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate | | | | they rarely do, things would change." |
| Change. However, the Nobel prize winning IPCC is a | | | | The skeptical opinions of scientists Coleman, Grey |
| political body appointed by the U.N. Many of the | | | | and Pielke are not isolated. In fact, 19,000 scientists |
| 3,000 members of this panel are not scientists, but | | | | have signed a petition that states: "There is no |
| are political appointees. The few real scientists on the | | | | convincing scientific evidence that human release of |
| panel have in the past disputed the panel's findings | | | | carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses |
| and had their comments deleted from the reports. | | | | is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause |
| Several of these scientists have even asked to have | | | | catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and |
| their names removed from the panel's report. Their | | | | disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is |
| requests have been denied. Some scientists have | | | | substantial scientific evidence that increases in |
| actually had to sue the panel to have their names | | | | atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial |
| removed. | | | | effects upon the natural plant and animal |
| So do the world's scientists all agree and speak with | | | | environments of the Earth." |
| one voice on the issue of global warming? Is global | | | | Global warming may well turn out to be the serious |
| warming "unequivocal"? It does not look like those | | | | problem identified in the United Nations report. |
| statements can be attributed to scientists connected | | | | However, there is a ongoing debate in the scientific |
| with the IPCC. The talking point that all scientists | | | | community about global warming and its effects. |
| speak with "one voice" on global warming has been | | | | World scientists do not speak with "one voice" and |
| heard in Al Gore's global warming presentations and is | | | | do not all agree that long term global warming is |
| now being used in comments by the United Nations | | | | "unequivocal". The fact that there is a concerted |
| Secretary General. | | | | effort to keep the scientific debate on global |
| Certainly the comments from early last week from | | | | warming a public secret should make us feel as |
| John Coleman (founder of the Weather Channel) | | | | uncomfortable as the findings on global warming in |
| don't indicate a consensus of opinion on global | | | | the latest United Nations Report. |
| warming. His comments went generally unreported by | | | | |