No, Alaska is not melting

As heat makes life on the East Coast insufferable, the latest Big Lie is that "Alaska, No Longer So Frigid, Starts to Crack, Burn and Sag." This article by veteran Northwest correspondent Timothy Egan got a lot of attention because, unfortunately, anything that is published by The New York Times gets lots of attention. When it comes to science, however, the Times is not merely inaccurate, it has engaged in a pattern of deception that goes back over a decade.

Suffice it to say that the Alaska Climate Research Center immediately rebutted the claim. Gerd Wendler of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute wrote "In the last twenty years very little warming, for some stations even a slight cooling, has been observed." What warming had occurred in Alaska mostly occurred in the 1970s. Ironically, during the 1970's, environmentalists were writing books and articles claiming that a new Ice Age was coming.

The New York Times has lied about "global warming" for a long time. From 1991 to 1996, William K. Stevens, a so-called "science reporter", published 125 articles all testifying to the horrors of a global warming that was not happening. When several thousand scientists joined together to sign a petition debunking this greatest hoax of our times, the Times went to some lengths to ridicule them.

On August 19, 2000, The New York Times reported that the North Pole was melting, noting that this was "evidence that global warming may be real and already affecting climate." Ten days later they took a stab at telling the truth because, by then, it was public knowledge that during a typical summer, about 90 percent of the high Arctic is covered with ice, but about 10 percent is open water over the North Pole.

It confers far too much dignity upon the Science News section of The New York Times to wrap garbage in it. It is garbage. First Stevens and then Andrew C. Revkin have flogged the story of climate change ever since the United Nations Rio Treaty was foisted on the world in the 1990s. Stevens wrote apoplectically about the UN Kyoto Treaty on climate change. The US Senate voted unanimously to never ratify this treaty, aimed at undermining the economy of the United States.

Only a fool would read The New York Times expecting the truth. It is the American version of the former Soviet Union's Pravda, a newspaper published to deceive Russians into believing Communism was the future. That lie crashed along with the Berlin Wall. The Times needs to change its motto to "All the lies we deem fit to print."

Alan Caruba is the founder of The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about scare campaigns designed to influence public opinion and policy. The Center maintains an Internet site at www.anxietycenter.com. (c) Alan Caruba, 2002

Carry, you can ignore the $ impact of the Opecker Princes on the enviral and legislative processes since the 1970's all you want to. Eventually this $ impact will come out.

Here is where you are wrong. You can do all the talking you want, but WHEN YOU CHECK OUT THE MONEY ACTUALLY DONATED TO ENVIRONMENTAL NGOs ON THE PUBLIC RECORD, IT COMES FROM AMERICAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS.

You can call my statements equivalent to your "Opecker Princes" assertions all you want. The documentation speaks otherwise.

None of these Opecker Princes are the evil Americans in Big Oil!

Show me their donations to environmental groups. I can show you the donations from American foundations in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Does that mean that Big Oil is innocent in this enviral mess. NO!

The oil companies themselves aren't the players here. That would be too obviously illegal. It's the 501c(3) tax exempt foundations who own stock in those companies that are pulling the strings.

I for one would love to have about 10% of the ad $'s paid just to the NY Slimes by the Saudis to push their PR Image as good guys. Since the days of the first oil crisis. Hell, I could do very well on 1%.

Chicken-feed.

You need to buy and read Undue Influence, by Ron Arnold. When you get that done read his other book, Trashing the Economy. Ron'll show you the money trail in an irrefutable fashion. I know it's hard to accept that the very American citizens most blessed by our system of free-enterprise would be this evilly destructive to that system, but you have to understand the truth. It's their stupid kids who've been brainwashed by the universities and don't know how to build wealth that are on the boards of these foundations. They are Communists, for the self-interested reasons I cited above.

Once you can accept that, then you'll be ready for my book.

Remember "Native Salmon," Dave?

. It comes as no surprise that the ownership systems the politically dominant propose are to be "collectivized" among the people, but administered by an agency dedicated to their interests.

You, sir, are good. Freep mail me the website again and I will order tomorrow.

Sorry, its late and I can't remember where I stashed it.

Nice quote Gramps, the more I read, the more you guys post, the madder I get.

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