Posted on 03/28/2007 5:01:58 AM PDT by rhema
Most climatologists agree that the earth's temperature has increased about a degree over the last century. The debate is how much of it is due to mankind's activity. Britain's Channel 4 television has just produced "The Great Global Warming Swindle," a documentary that devastates most of the claims made by the environmentalist movement. The scientists interviewed include top climatologists from MIT and other prestigious universities around the world. The documentary hasn't aired in the U.S., but it's available on the Internet. Link is here.
Among the many findings that dispute environmentalists' claims are: Manmade carbon dioxide emissions are roughly 5 percent of the total; the rest are from natural sources such as volcanoes, dying vegetation and animals. Annually, volcanoes alone produce more carbon dioxide than all of mankind's activities. Oceans are responsible for most greenhouse gases. Contrary to environmentalists' claims, the higher the Earth's temperature, the higher the carbon dioxide levels. In other words, carbon dioxide levels are a product of climate change. Some of the documentary's scientists argue that the greatest influence on the Earth's temperature is our sun's sunspot activity. The bottom line is, the bulk of scientific evidence shows that what we've been told by environmentalists is pure bunk.
Throughout the Earth's billions of years there have been countless periods of global warming and cooling. In fact, in the year 1,000 A.D., a time when there were no SUVs, the Earth's climate was much warmer than it is now. Most of this century's warming occurred before 1940. For several decades after WWII, when there was massive worldwide industrialization, there was cooling.
There's a much more important issue that poses an even greater danger to mankind.
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Outstanding article. Don't have a "Convenient Opinion" contrary to a GLOBAL WARMING OPINIONIST, or you might be a victim of Gihad.
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Global warming is the Great Fear of our time. It used to be the Soviets.
"Global warming is the Great Fear of our time. It used to be the Soviets."
It boils down to the fact that the religion of environmentalism is Communism.
> Global warming is the Great Fear of our time. It used to
> be the Soviets.
And it SHOULD be the Jihadists!
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When a hailstorm struck Wiesensteig, Germany in 1562 during the harvest season, destroying the entire crop, all the usual suspects were rounded up, and all 62 accused witches were found guilty and executed.
“Almost all of these prosecutions began in the locality—neighbors suspecting they’d been harmed by another person in their village,” Levack said. “Then all the neighbors would begin to talk about those suspicions and eventually they’d initiate some type of prosecution by complaining to their local judge or local magistrate.
http://www.utexas.edu/features/archive/2004/witches.html
And how do you know when libs are on a witch hunt? That's easy - they project thier malefactions on conservatives first:
Scientists fear climate witch-hunt.
Leading American scientists have accused Republican politicians of intimidating climate-change experts by placing them under unprecedented scrutiny.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/scientists-fear-climate-witchhunt/2005/08/30/1125302570338.html?from=moreStories
The difference is that the Soviets actually existed.
And Goracle is their messiah.
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Summary: "Viewed from one perspective, Channel 4 has done a huge public disservice in spreading absurd and mendacious arguments guaranteed to generate confusion. This at a time when a fragile momentum is building on the need to take urgent action on the very real threat of catastrophic climate change.
But from another perspective it may well be that this film does for climate scepticism what Tony Blair’s “dodgy dossiers” did for the pro-war movement ahead of the invasion of Iraq. Wildly distorted propaganda often does have a powerful initial impact. But stretched beyond a certain point of unreality, it also has a tendency to turn on, and bite, the propagandists.
Durkin’s grandiose prediction that his film “will go down in history” will surely prove correct, although perhaps not for the reasons he imagined."
Democrats fear "Mankind's destruction of the environment", more than radical Islam's destruction of Mankind.
Why do you keep posting lies from that same Liberal site over and over?
90% of that link contains nothing of substance but instead it's just liberals whinning about the program. The few points they try to "Debunk" has been itself debunked here over and over, yet you still continue post the same nonsense
Are you sure you are on the right website?
It all makes sense now that Mr. Gore explained to us that the the planet has a fever.
I know when my kids have a fever they also get chills. And when there is a sudden cold snap anywhere on the planet -- it's just the globe catching chills...just like people do.
He is very wise, Mr. Gore.
"[W]e need to get some broadbased support, to capture the public's imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have."
-- Steve Schneider, Quoted in Discover, pp. 45-48, Oct. 1989; and American Physical Society, APS News August/September 1996.
"[E]mphasis on extreme scenarios may have been appropriate at one time, when the public and decision-makers were relatively unaware of the global warming issue, and energy sources such as "synfuels," shale oil and tar sands were receiving strong consideration."
-- James Hansen, stated in presentation to Council on Environmental Quality, June 12, 2003
"A global climate treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the [enhanced] greenhouse effect"
-- Richard Benedict, US Conservation Foundation"The data don't matter. We're not basing our recommendations [for reductions in carbon dioxide emissions] upon the data. We're basing them upon the climate models"
-- Chris Folland, UK Meteorological Office"The trouble with this idea is that planting trees will not lead to the societal changes we want to achieve"
-- Kyoto Delegate, 05 December 1997"We've got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing"
-- Tim Wirth 1990, former US Senator) as quoted in NCPA Brief 213; September 6, 1996
"Scientists who want to attract attention to themselves, who want to attract great funding to themselves, have to (find a) way to scare the public . . . and this you can achieve only by making things bigger and more dangerous than they really are."
-- Petr Chylek, Professor of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, commenting on reports that Greenland's glaciers are melting. Halifax Chronicle-Herald, August 22, 2001
"Surface temperatures have increased 1 to 1.5F during the last 130 years. Most of that increase occurred prior to 1940 and prior to the larger increase in CO2. The National Center for Atmospheric Research suggests that 75 percent of any increase [in global temperature over the last century] may be due to natural causes such as solar output, cloud effects and the vertical mixing of ocean waters. It is also noted that the earth warmed to a higher degree before the industrial revolution than after. "
-- John Paul Pitts, Midland Reporter-Telegram, Oct. 9, 1997
I never posted anything from that site before. And I don't characterize criticism as lying.
Outdated, decade-or-more old quotes should be examined for relevance in light of evolving knowledge and increased understanding. Same goes for research papers.
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