Global warming is cooling off…
December 21st, 2007 by Grant in: Environment, PoliticsIt seems that not everyone in the scientific community is so hip to the Global Warming movement. Yesterday a detailed report was released by the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee revealing that over 400 prominent scientists disputed man-made global warming claims in 2007, as embellished by former Vice President Al Gore in his movie “An Inconvenient Truth’.
It’s about time!
The scientists named in this report, who are from more than two dozen countries, recently voiced objections to major aspects of the so-called “consensus” on man-made global warming. These scientists, many of whom participated in the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), spoke critically about the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore.
Additionally, of the scientists that did speak out, many claimed that they had peers that refused to voice their concerns out of fear of retribution if they spoke up.
“Many of my colleagues with whom I spoke share these views and report on their inability to publish their skepticism in the scientific or public media,” -Dr. Nathan Paldor, Source
Now why on Earth would anyone fear telling the truth?
What’s more, there were over 100 prominent scientists that warned the U.N. over futile climate control efforts.
“Attempts to prevent global climate change from occurring are ultimately futile, and constitute a tragic misallocation of resources that would be better spent on humanity’s real and pressing problems,” -Source
Amen to that! You can read their full letter here, but here are a few excerpts from their letter to the U.N.:
“The IPCC Summaries for Policy Makers are the most widely read IPCC reports amongst politicians and non-scientists and are the basis for most climate change policy formulation. Yet these Summaries are prepared by a relatively small core writing team with the final drafts approved line-by-line by government representatives. The great majority of IPCC contributors and reviewers, and the tens of thousands of other scientists who are qualified to comment on these matters, are not involved in the preparation of these documents. The summaries therefore cannot properly be represented as a consensus view among experts.” -Source
The reports main focus is to debunk the myth that man-made climate change has reached some sort of consensus. I’ve been saying all along that if you’ve reached a consensus among scientists, you haven’t talked to enough scientists!
In short, the open letter to the U.N. along with the Senate report are absolutely littered with names of prominent scientists, all of which have PhD and other acronyms tacked on to their name, debunking nearly every “scientific” aspect of man-made global warming.
So again, why fear the truth?
Money and politics. There is tons of money to be made in an effort to fight man-made global warming, fact or fiction, and leveraging a Nobel Peace prize to re-claim a place in United States politics is a sure-fire way to win over the American public who has been bamboozled by the media into thinking our grand children will fry if we don’t do something now!
Al Gore, eat your heart out, as the truth will set you free… but it may not get you elected.
Tags: Al Gore | Global Warming | IPCC | Politics | senate report
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December 21st, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Good post. very informational. I think this is just the begining.
December 21st, 2007 at 10:00 pm
WOw, great post, Grant!
I too have been a skeptic of this global warming push. There is just too much hype from the news networks for this to be true.
Do you really think Gore is using this to get back in to politics?
December 21st, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Thanks for the sources, and interesting read.
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:44 am
Just because 400 scientists come out and dispute all this doesn’t mean it’s wrong. How can you argue that we shouldn’t be allocating funds to clean up the environment? Look at the air quality in Denver, Phoenix, Atlanta…
December 22nd, 2007 at 10:44 am
Global warming is a risk management issue, pure and simple. If Gore and the IPCC are right and we do nothing, we have chosen to not manage against a huge risk. If they are correct and we do nothing, then if our grandchildren fry it will be our fault for not attending to that risk.
If Gore and IPCC are not right and we do nothing then we do not use this opportunity to spend on innovation, technology, alternative energy source and conservation which will lead to energy independance, less reliance on non-renewable energy and cleaner air. In other words, we humans have shown ourselves to not care unless in pain or threatened. There has been no innovation in alternative energies for decades because the price of oil was low. Now we are paying the price.
Why not use the global warming threat, real or not, and guys it is real, to motivate us to at least act intelligently as a nation and a species rather than want the status quo to continue?
Taking action, or talking about whether there is appropriate reason to take action. Pick one. I pick action.
David
December 23rd, 2007 at 1:12 am
Warming or no, I think the environment seems to be changing. Al isn’t running for a presidency either, so I am not so sure he is getting back, maybe though. I actually think he may just be an intelligent man. I think he like others see the polluting and irresponsible behavior that we humans do and finally decided to do something real about it. How would you go about changing the world’s policy towards cleaner practices?
It’s like he made a list some time ago:
Step 1) Prove global warming
Step 2) Challenge people’s views on the environment
Step 3) Assist in changing the Kyoto treaty
Step 4) High five Ghadhi
Step 5) Actually change goverments’ policies towards what is an acceptable energy source.
The last two may be hard, but he did invent the internet.
December 26th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
David, I fully agree that we are paying the price for artificially low oil prices for the last several decades. But I disagree with the notion that global warming is a risk management issue.
You don’t throw billions of dollars at a problem unless you know for sure it’s really a problem. Well, that is unless you’re the United States government that is, they’ll believe anything!
MJ, I fully agree that the climate is changing, no doubt about it. The question is why?
The media has bought the man-made global warming spoof hook line and sinker, and has not bothered to publicize the other side of the story that may dispute the “facts”. Typical.
The only thing Al has accomplished off your list is to change people’s views on the environment, albeit for the wrong reasons.