Published in the Lynchburg Ledger on September 10, 2010
by Bill Wheaton
Press Media Group, LLC
A Gallup
This skepticism spans even political party lines. Among Republicans, the number went from 51 to 66 percent. Among Independents, the number went from 29 to 44 percent. Even among Democrats, the number went from 15 to 22 percent, although they continue to be the most gullible when it comes to the massive hoax of man-caused global warming.
Since 2006, a number of events have occurred, and increased information has become available which has caused many to question the hype and cult-like promotion of man-made global warming.
The sun is the primary driving force of our world-wide climate. Even a slight change in the solar output of the sun has profound effects on our global climate.
The sun’s output is not constant but varies in a somewhat predictable way. There are solar cycles within solar cycles within solar cycles. Solar cycles of 11, 22, 87, 210 and 1,500 years have been detected in ice sheets, ice melting, floods, droughts, lake and deep-sea sediment, cave deposits, boreholes, tree rings, pollen, peat and in floating organisms.
We recently learned that the “global warming scientists” responsible for much of the hype have totally ignored the effect of the sun and rewritten history to conform to their pre-determined conclusions.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was formed over 20 years ago to build a scientific case for humans being the source of global warming. However IPCC was hijacked by politicians, bureaucrats and a handful of activist scientists to promote their human-caused global warming agenda.
We have been told that the IPCC represents a consensus of 2,500 experts in the field. Yet when we look closely, we find that the IPCC process, and especially the Summary for Policymakers, is in the hands of a small group, no more than two or three dozen.
Author Michael Crichton commented, "If it's science, it's not consensus. And if it's consensus, it's not science."
What this small group in the IPCC has done is engage in a massive effort of history revisionism. Periods such as the Dark Ages (535 – 900 AD), the Medieval Warming (900 -1280 AD) and the Little Ice Age (1280 – 1850 AD) were totally ignored.
The Dark Ages was a terrible time to live. A sudden cooling of the earth occurred, resulting in famine, war and political upheaval. Weakened humans succumbed to the plague killing millions.
The human condition improved abruptly when the Medieval Warming occurred. In Europe , the climate was warm; rainfall increased resulting in a high agricultural output. The excess of food led to a 50 percent increase in population. Tree ring studies suggest North America also enjoyed warmer weather.
The Little Ice Age was not really an ice age, just rapid global cooling which led to famine, depopulation, war and disease. The most bitterly cold periods corresponded to periods of diminished energy from the sun, such as the Sporer Minimum (1450 – 1540), the Maunder Minimum (1645 – 1715) and the Dalton Minimum (1795-1825).
The entire basis for the IPCC position is what is called the Hockey Stick Graph, also called MBH98 after the three authors Mann, Bradley and Hughes and from the year it was compiled 1998. It shows that the temperature just varied a few tenth of a degree before 1900. This graph was published in the very prominent scientific magazine Nature and made quite a sensation. It was also prominently displayed in several places in the 2001 IPCC report.
It has now been removed from the 2007 IPCC report for policymakers as it has been discredited and has become too much of an embarrassment for the IPCC to include.
From 1999 to 2005, Michael Mann taught at the University of Virginia (UVA), in the Department of Environmental Sciences. Earlier this year, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli requested that UVA release Mann’s emails related to his work on the MBH98 paper as a possible violation of the Fraud Against Taxpayers Act (FATA).
In November of 2009, a massive email dump which came to be known as “Climategate,” occurred. The emails exposed just how data had been manipulated and how the peer reviews process for scientific papers had been perverted by the global warming crowd.
Predictably, the global warming advocates have circled their wagons while we “global warming deniers” continue to shed the light of truth on a massive hoax.
A number of credible authors have written books on the subject in the past year or two. Two I have added to my library are: “Climate Confusion” by Roy W. Spencer (who is Rush Limbaugh’s official global warming expert) and “Heaven and Earth, Global Warming – the Missing Science” by Ian Plimer. Both are excellent resources.
This hoax is costing literally hundreds of billions of dollars at a time when the Western world is ravaged by recession. If Barack Obama, Harry Reed, Nancy Pelosi and Tom Perriello get their way, it will cost billions more and likely send us from a recession to a full-blown depression. The House has passes Cap and Trade, a bill based on the global warming hoax, with the help of Tom Perriello’s vote but is stalled in the Senate. Senators Warner and Webb are being pressured to oppose it.
The fear is that after the election, a lame duck Senate will do an in-your-face to the American people and pass it.
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