My thanks to Alan for allowing me to publish his work. RK
Even though
President Obama continues to lie about “climate change” and employs the many
elements of the federal government to repeat those lies, this huge hoax is
dying.
Obama is on
record saying that climate change “once considered an issue for the distant
future, has moved firmly into the present” and is “affecting Americans right
now.” Climate change as studied by climatologists is measured in terms of
centuries whereas the weather is what is happening today. It has been happening
before and since the rise of civilization. Obama’s claim that “climate-related
changes are outside of recent experience” and “have become more frequent and/or
intense” is a lie from start to finish.
The White House
recently released its latest “National Climate Assessment.” It is 841 pages of
outlandish claims that reflect the lies generated by the United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. When you consider that the federal
government spends an estimated $2.6 billion annually in grants for climate
research, about the only beneficiaries are those “scientists” employed to
further the hoax.
The UN’s IPCC
was created in 1983 and has issued a series of reports whose sole intention has
been to frighten people around the world with claims of global warming that are
scientifically baseless.
The Heartland
Institute, a non-profit market-based think tank, responded by creating the
Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) and by sponsoring
a series of international conferences. The 9th conference
will be July 7-9 in Las Vegas. That effort began in 2003 in cooperation with
the Science & Environmental Project led
by Dr. S. Fred Singer and was joined by the Center for the Study of Carbon
Dioxide and Global Change.
I am an advisor
to the Institute, having written about environmental and energy issues for
several decades at this point.
Calling on
thousands of scientists around the world, in 2013 the NIPCC published the first
of a three-volume response to the IPCC’s fifth assessment. This year, it has
published a volume of Climate Change
Reconsidered devoted to biological impacts, a 1,062 page opus.
The NIPCC is an international panel of scientists and scholars with no
government affiliation or sponsorship, and it receives no corporate funding.
Writing in the
Financial Post in October 2013, Lawrence Solomon, the executive director of
Energy Probe, a Toronto-based environmental group, noted that “solar activity
is now falling more rapidly than at any time in the last 10,000 years.” The
Earth’s climate is primarily a reflection of solar radiation or the lack of it.
From 1300 to 1850, the Earth was subject to a mini-ice age. While the global
warming hoax began in the late 1980s, Solomon noted that, in the 1960s and
1970s, the scientific consensus was that the Earth “was entering a period of
global cooling. The media in those years was filled with stories about a
pending new ice age.
It was only the
intervention of the UN’s IPCC that changed the “consensus” to one of global
warming. A cooling cycle that began around fourteen years ago could lead to
another mini-ice age or the planet could be on the cusp of a full-fledged one.
On average, the interglacial periods of the Earth have lasted about 11,500
years and we are at the end of such a period.
Climate
Change Reconsidered II devoted
to biological impact features scientific studies that conclude:
# “Atmospheric
carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant.” Considering that all vegetation on
Earth depends on it, it is not surprising that another conclusion was that the
ongoing rise in the air’s CO2 content is causing a great greening of the Earth.
# As a result,
“there is little or no risk of increasing food insecurity due to global warming
or rising atmospheric CO2 levels and that terrestrial ecosystems have thrived
throughout the world as a result of warming temperatures and rising levels of
atmospheric CO2. Multiple lines of evidence indicate animal species are
adapting, and in some cases, evolving, to cope with climate change of the
modern era.”
# In addition,
“rising temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels do not pose a significant
threat to aquatic life and that a modest warming of the planet will result in a
net reduction of human mortality from temperate-related events.
The irony of the
latest NIPCC report, of course, is that it responds to the claims of global
warming and carbon dioxide’s role at a time when the Earth is cooling. It makes
one wish that all the talk about “greenhouse gases” is true enough to help us
escape from the present cooling.
One thing we do
know for sure is that the Greens talk of climate change has lost its grip on
the public imagination and attention. As the cooling cycle continues, people
around the world will be far more focused on increased evidence of massive ice
sheets at both poles, on frozen lakes and rivers, on shortened growing seasons,
and on the desperate need for more fossil fuels to warm our homes and
workplaces.
© Alan Caruba,
2014
Climate has always changed. The uptrend accompanying the Industrial Revolution began at the depths of the Little Ice Age (approximately 1700) and progressed fairly steadily through the 20th century. It became known as Global Warming (GW) during the comparatively steep rise in the last quarter of the 20th century.
ReplyDeleteGW ended before 2001. Measured average global temperature is 0.3 K less than 'consensus' predictions. That is 40% of the total rise in the 20th century. Since 2001, the CO2 level has increased by 30% of the total increase 1800-2001.
Two natural drivers have been identified that explain measured average global temperatures since before 1900 with 95% correlation. CO2 change is not one of them.
Search using key words AGW unveiled to discover the drivers and a graph of what they predict.