Man-made global warming 'bites the dust'
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
By Bob Stuart
Jackson Hole, Wyoming - With headlines blaring “Catastrophe is imminent,” many are convinced that anthropogenic (man-made) global warming is fact and a crisis. We’re told the debate is over, there’s a scientific consensus, and the few remaining skeptics are “deniers.”
Unfortunately for Gore and his minions, those “few” skeptics number in the hundreds if not thousands. A U.S. Senate report released on Dec. 20 details the objections of over 400 scientists who have disputed man-made global warming claims. They include Nobel Prize winners and many who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and Al Gore.
A progression of peer-reviewed studies appearing in publications like the Journal of Geophysical Research and the International Journal of Climatology prompted astronomer Dr. Ian Wilson to declare, “Anthropogenic global warming bites the dust.”
S. Fred Singer, atmospheric physicist and former founding director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service, sums it up: “There is no proof that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gasses by human activity. The current warming is likely part of a natural cycle of climate warming and cooling that’s been traced back almost a million years. It accounts for the Medieval Warm Period around 1100 A.D., and the Little Ice Age, from about 1400-1850 A.D.”
Critics say solar variability is the driving force of global warming and cooling. Dr. Eigil Friis-Christensen, space physicist and director of the Danish National Space Center, said, “The sun is the source of energy that causes the motion of the atmosphere and thereby controls weather and climate. Any change in the energy from the sun received at the Earth’s surface will therefore affect climate.”
Singer concurs: “We cannot control the inconstant sun, the likely origin of most climate variability. None of the schemes for greenhouse gas reduction … will do any good; they are all irrelevant, useless, and wildly expensive.”
Many who were part of the IPCC condemn it. Richard Lindzen, professor of meteorology at MIT and IPCC lead author says, “The truth is that we are not even asked.” IPCC author John Christy says that many scientists listed in agreement with the IPCC’s thesis are not in agreement or have resigned.
IPCC expert reviewer and climate researcher Dr. Vincent Gray bluntly states, “The claims of the IPCC are dangerous unscientific nonsense. All the science of the IPCC is unsound.”
Maybe the IPCC is wrong about global warming, but isn’t their agenda to drastically reduce CO2 emissions a noble one? No, say 100 scientists in an open letter to the United Nations: “Attempts to prevent global climate change from occurring are ultimately futile, and constitute a tragic misallocation of resources that would be better spent on humanity’s real and pressing problems.”
Critics claim the IPCC agenda would hinder poor nations from developing, and energy restrictions envisioned by the IPCC would cause suffering. “My experience as a missionary teacher in Africa opened my eyes to this simple fact: Without access to energy, life is brutal and short,” Christy said.
Denis G. Rancourt, professor of physics at the University of Ottawa opines: “I argue that by far the most destructive force on the planet is power-driven financiers and profit-driven corporations and their cartels, backed by military might; and that the global warming myth is a red herring that contributes to hiding this truth.”
We must resist the politicization of science. A split has occurred between politically driven “official” science and science that is “determined by what is actually happening with the [climate] data,” says Dr. David Evans. It’s a dangerous time for science and politics, and while science historically wins these battles, grave harm occurs. We must learn to adapt to inevitable climate change, and reject the fear-mongering of power-driven elitists.
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