Global Frauding

Christopher Booker and Richard North, writing in the Sunday Telegraph, detail the incredible levels of fraud and deceit behind the global warming scare. The article is a preview of their new book, Scared to Death: From BSE To Global Warming — How Scares Are Costing Us The Earth. The genesis of the entire frenzy, and Al Gores complicity in spreading it is fairly stunning when spelled out this way.

A scare is often set off — as we show in our book with other examples — when two things are observed together and scientists suggest one must have been caused by the other. In this case, thanks to readings commissioned by Dr Roger Revelle, a distinguished American oceanographer, it was observed that since the late 1950s levels of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere had been rising. Perhaps it was this increase that was causing the new warming in the 1980s?

Stage two of the story began in 1988 when, with remarkable speed, the global warming story was elevated into a ruling orthodoxy, partly due to hearings in Washington chaired by a youngish senator, Al Gore, who had studied under Dr Revelle in the 1960s.

But more importantly global warming hit centre stage because in 1988 the UN set up its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC). Through a series of reports, the IPCC was to advance its cause in a rather unusual fashion. First it would commission as many as 1,500 experts to produce a huge scientific report, which might include all sorts of doubts and reservations. But this was to be prefaced by a Summary for Policymakers, drafted in con-sult-ation with governments and officials — essentially a political document — in which most of the caveats contained in the experts' report would not appear.

This contradiction was obvious in the first report in 1991, which led to the Rio conference on climate change in 1992. The second report in 1996 gave particular prominence to a study by an obscure US government scientist claiming that the evidence for a connection between global warming and rising CO2 levels was now firmly established. This study came under heavy fire from various leading climate experts for the way it manipulated the evidence. But this was not allowed to stand in the way of the claim that there was now complete scientific consensus behind the CO2 thesis, and the Summary for Policy-makers, heavily influenced from behind the scenes by Al Gore, by this time US Vice-President, paved the way in 1997 for the famous Kyoto Protocol.

Kyoto initiated stage three of the story, by formally committing governments to drastic reductions in their CO2 emissions. But the treaty still had to be ratified and this seemed a good way off, not least thanks to its rejection in 1997 by the US Senate, despite the best attempts of Mr Gore.

Not the least of his efforts was his bid to suppress an article co-authored by Dr Revelle just before his death. Gore didn't want it to be known that his guru had urged that the global warming thesis should be viewed with more caution.

Read the whole thing. It is an amazing story. I have been posting about many of the fraudulent, ineffective or outright harmful "solutions" to global warming on this site for some time now. I have also been quite clear about my belief that Al Gore is a mendacious hypocrite. Booker and North's analysis of the global warming frenzy only confirms what I have long felt. Please read this article, whether you are a skeptic or a true believer. It may open a few eyes. (I think I have another book on my buy list, too. If I can find it in the US, that is. It is not up on Amazon.)

UPDATE: Others: Neptunus Lex: "There are many things that might be true that, at the end of the day, are simply unverifiable. And therefore unfalsifiable. Which combination takes them out of the realm of science, and into the realm of faith.

Which, we are often reminded, is a poor place from whence to legislate public policy."

Flopping Aces: "Stage five also includes the fact that scientists have started to look at the sun's radiation as being involved in the warming and that the sun's radiation is now leveling off, which may very well presage a downturn in temperature."

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  By feeblemind, Sunday, 4 November , 2007 @ 9:14 am

  This is going off on a bit of a tangent, but there is a good article at American Thinker, Electric Power Generation vs Soft America. http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/11/electric_power_generation_vs_s.html Thought you might be interested.

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  By NortonPete, Sunday, 4 November , 2007 @ 10:54 am

  I’m now being told by my wife ( who also does not believe in AGW ), that Global Warming is now a religion and that religion and politics shouldn’t be discussed with guests or relatives at the table.
  I guess us “deniers” will be ostracized and forced to live in small ghettos in the future.

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