Perspectives With Phil Brennan
Informed Views from Outside the Beltway
The validity of the Global Warming alarm, long on life support, is now dead and awaiting burial, and it’s long past time to bury its rotting corpse before it helps bankrupt the United States.
With the nation mired in an economic slump, widespread unemployment, and out-of-control federal spending, this nation can no longer afford to waste its resources on an absurd scientific fiction.
The validity of the claim that this planet is warming and is doomed to suffer its dire consequences has long been questioned by increasing numbers of scientists and their skeptical allies, and the evidence has continued to pile up that so-called climate change is a bogus creation of a collection of researchers involved with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Take, for example, the recent disclosure as revealed in Marc Morano’s ClimateChange.com that UN Scientists had talked about trying to make the IPCC’s report on alleged climate change so dramatic that US would just have to sign Kyoto Protocol.
Alabama State Climatologist Dr. John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville who served as an UN IPCC lead author in 2001 for the 3rd assessment report has detailed how he personally witnessed UN scientists attempting to distort the science for political purposes.
“I was at the table with three Europeans, and we were having lunch. And they were talking about their role as lead authors. And they were talking about how they were trying to make the report so dramatic that the United States would just have to sign that Kyoto Protocol,” Christy told CNN on May 2, 2007.
Then comes Dr Murari Lal , the scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035. He admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.
According to Climate Depot Dr Lal also said he was well aware that the statement, in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research. In other words, it was propaganda unsupported by the evidence.
In an interview with Britain’s The Mail on Sunday, Dr Lal, the co-coordinating lead author of the report’s chapter on Asia, said: “It related to several countries in this region and their water sources. We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.
“It had importance for the region, so we thought we should put it in” apparently whether it was true or not.
As Morano notes, the latest criticism of the IPCC comes just a week after reports in The Sunday Times forced the UN panel to retract claims in its benchmark 2007 report that the Himalayan glaciers would be largely melted by 2035.
Shockingly it turned out that the bogus claim had been lifted from a news report published by New Scientist magazine as far back as 1999!
The new controversy, Morano noted, also goes back to the IPCC’s 2007 report in which a separate section warned that the world had “suffered rapidly rising costs due to extreme weather-related events since the 1970s, suggesting that
“a part of this increase was due to global warming and cited the unpublished report, saying: ‘One study has found that while the dominant signal remains that of the significant increases in the values of exposure at risk, once losses are normalized for exposure, there still remains an underlying rising trend.’ ”
Wrote Morano “The Sunday Times has since found that the scientific paper on which the IPCC based its claim had not been peer reviewed, nor published, at the time the climate body issued its report. Moreover, when the paper was eventually published, in 2008, it had a new caveat. It said: ‘We find insufficient evidence to claim a statistical relationship between global temperature increase and catastrophe losses.’ ”
According to the Daily Mail, in the face of this change the IPCC failed to issue a clarification ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit last month. Wrote the Mail “It has also emerged that at least two scientific reviewers who checked drafts of the IPCC report urged greater caution in proposing a link between climate change and disaster impacts – but were ignored.
All this at a time when the Climategate scandal has rocked the scientific world with the disclosure that the top scientist in Britain’s University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka CRU) had played loose with the facts.
According to James Delingpole in the Telegraph “The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth … has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka CRU) and released 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet. ”
Wrote Delingpole “When you read some of those files – including 1079 emails and 72 documents – you realize just why the boffins at CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be ‘the greatest in modern science.’”
According to Delingpole “These alleged emails – supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW [Anthropogenic Global Warming ]” – suggest nothing less than “Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organized resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.”
All of this comes when Mother Nature has been busy showing us who is really the boss in deciding what the climate will do. Right now, being obviously the chief skeptic of AGW, she is putting the planet in the deep freezer.
In Robert Felix’s invaluable iceagenow.com which tracks the climate worldwide up-to-date stories include headlines showing record-breaking cold weather events worldwide.
All this at a time when the U.S. is squandering billions on trying to prevent global warming when if anything, the climate is getting colder.
We simply can no longer afford to subsidize this fiction.
The Moral Liberal Contributing Editor, Phil Brennan, writes for Newsmax.com. He is editor and publisher of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington columnist (Cato) for National Review magazine in the 1960s. He is a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute and a member of the Association For Intelligence Officers.
He can be reached at pvb@pvbr.com.
