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Date Posted: 22:24:24 03/15/07 Thu
In reply to:
Curmudgeon
's message, ""The Great Global Warming Swindle" you'll not see" on 07:55:25 03/15/07 Thu
Damn, i'm saving all this money for nothing. lol
>any of the liberal MSM networks in the United States.
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>Global Warming Swindle
>By Thomas Sowell
>March 15, 2007
>
>The British Broadcasting Corporation has produced a
>devastating documentary titled "The Great Global
>Warming Swindle." It has apparently not been broadcast
>by any of the networks in the United States. But,
>fortunately, it is available on the Internet.
>
>Distinguished scientists specializing in climate and
>climate-related fields talk in plain English and
>present readily understood graphs showing what a crock
>the current global warming hysteria is.
>
>These include scientists from MIT and top-tier
>universities in a number of countries. Some of these
>are scientists whose names were paraded on some of the
>global warming publications that are being promoted in
>the media -- but who state plainly that they neither
>wrote those publications nor approved them.
>
>One scientist threatened to sue unless his name was
>removed.
>
>While the public has been led to believe that "all"
>the leading scientists buy the global warming hysteria
>and the political agenda that goes with it, in fact
>the official reports from the United Nations or the
>National Academy of Sciences are written by
>bureaucrats -- and then garnished with the names of
>leading scientists who were "consulted," but whose
>contrary conclusions have been ignored.
>
>There is no question that the globe is warming but it
>has warmed and cooled before, and is not as warm today
>as it was some centuries ago, before there were any
>automobiles and before there was as much burning of
>fossil fuels as today.
>
>None of the dire things predicted today happened then.
>
>The BBC documentary goes into some of the many factors
>that have caused the earth to warm and cool for
>centuries, including changes in activities on the sun,
>93 million miles away and wholly beyond the
>jurisdiction of the Kyoto treaty.
>
>According to these climate scientists, human
>activities have very little effect on the climate,
>compared to many other factors, from volcanoes to
>clouds.
>
>These climate scientists likewise debunk the
>mathematical models that have been used to hype global
>warming hysteria, even though hard evidence stretching
>back over centuries contradicts these models.
>
>What is even scarier than seeing how easily the
>public, the media, and the politicians have been
>manipulated and stampeded, is discovering how much
>effort has been put into silencing scientists who dare
>to say that the emperor has no clothes.
>
>Academics who jump on the global warming bandwagon are
>far more likely to get big research grants than those
>who express doubts -- and research is the lifeblood of
>an academic career at leading universities.
>
>Environmental movements around the world are committed
>to global warming hysteria and nowhere more so than on
>college and university campuses, where they can harass
>those who say otherwise. One of the scientists
>interviewed on the BBC documentary reported getting
>death threats.
>
>In politics, even conservative Republicans seem to
>have taken the view that, if you can't lick 'em, join
>'em. So have big corporations, which have joined the
>stampede.
>
>This only enables the green crusaders to declare at
>every opportunity that "everybody" believes the global
>warming scenario, except for a scattered few "deniers"
>who are likened to Holocaust deniers.
>
>The difference is that we have the hardest and most
>painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for
>the global warming scenario that is causing such
>hysteria, we have only a movie made by a politician
>and mathematical models whose results change
>drastically when you change a few of the arbitrarily
>selected variables.
>
>No one denies that temperatures are about a degree
>warmer than they were a century ago.
>
>What the climate scientists in the BBC documentary
>deny is that you can mindlessly extrapolate that, or
>that we are headed for a climate catastrophe if we
>don't take drastic steps that could cause an economic
>catastrophe.
>
>"Global warming" is just the latest in a long line of
>hysterical crusades to which we seem to be
>increasingly susceptible.
>
>
>href="http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/tsowell/2007/ts_
>0315p.shtml">http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/tsowell/2
>007/ts_0315p.shtml
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