The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism)
by Christopher C. Horner
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Author: Christopher C. HornerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
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Published: 2007-02-12
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 366
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
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Book Review: The only thing we have to fear is Gore himself
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is frightening to say the least but not because of any threat of "Manmade Global Warming." The real threat, as detailed in this book, is much scarier than that. The question is, as Col. Jessep, Jack Nicholson's character in the film "A Few Good Men," might say: "Can you handle the truth?"
The truth is that "Manmade Global Warming" is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind in the history of mankind. The chilling thing is that if the supposed fixes being trumpeted to save the planet from this imaginary threat are ever implemented, the United States' economy will likely collapse while the perpetrators of the fraud grow in power and wealth. The implications for America, its citizens and its future are almost too appalling to contemplate.
As seen herein, those attempting to impose these fixes by treaty and government fiat are using techniques similar to those used by Adolph Hitter and Joseph Stalin to stifle dissent. In their times, dissenters were shot, sent to Siberia, or simply placed in mental institutions. So far in America today, our most knowledgeable climate scientists and global experts are only belittled, demeaned and slandered. We are told that they don't know what they're talking about. This is all part of the "Big Lie" technique used by Hitler's propaganda minister, Josef Goebel's in his day. "The debate is over," they say, but no debates were ever held among scientific experts in the field. "There is consensus among the scientific community," but consensus is a political not a scientific term. "Anyone who disagrees with `Manmade Global Warming' is a tool of big business, don't listen to them;" but, strangely enough, the exact opposite is true. And so it goes.
This book takes an alternate, scientific, approach and thereby sheds the light of day on the "facts" (FACT: THE QUALITY OF EXISTING OR OF BEING REAL; ACTUALITY, TRUTH). Here are a few of those facts:
When the environmental movement held its first "Earth Day" on the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin's birth, April 22, 1970, their cause for alarm was "Global Cooling" caused by the activities of man, not "Global Warming." But there is no scientific evidence to support the concept of either manmade global cooling or warming and much to refute it. In fact, there is no such thing as "an average global temperature." There are only local temperatures measured at scattered locations around the world, and worldwide temperatures have fluctuated all throughout history. Today, the global average temperature is about 0.6o Celsius, or 1o Fahrenheit higher than it was 100 years ago. The activities of man, however, have contributed little or nothing to this rise since man's activities produce only about 3% of the atmospheric CO2 . Mother Nature contributes the other 97%. The 1990s were not the "hottest decade" as claimed by the alarmists. The 1930s of "Dust Bowl" fame were. According to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) records: the U.S. warmed from 1895 to 1940 with 1934 being the hottest year recorded, then cooled until the mid-1970s (setting off a panic among environmental activists), then warmed until 1998 (setting off a panic among environmental activists) at which time a possible cooling trend began. During the 1990s, allegedly the "hottest decade on record," only five State record high temperatures were seen. In the 1930s, however, twenty-four record highs were recorded. The 1990s were simply made to appear hotter by the closing of about 6000 weather measuring stations, the majority of which were in colder climes such as Siberia, due to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990. This becomes obvious when the number of "Weather Stations Operating" and "Average Global Temperature" are plotted on the same time-scale. Furthermore, much of the alarm is based on the results produced by a single computer program designed to predict climate change. Unfortunately, when independently tested it was found that this program couldn't even predict the already known "past" and that similar predictions of future warming could be produced simply by inputting "random numbers" (As computer analysts say: "garbage in/garbage out").
And here are a few more "Inconvenient Truths": In order to further their claims for alarm, while demanding immediate action, the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) actually redefined the "Arctic" region so as to expand it by approximately 50%, adding an area, mostly over open water, large enough to hold the entire United States plus two Frances. But, according to Arctic climatologists, there is NO correlation between "Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentrations" and the "Yearly Arctic-wide Surface Temperature;" but there is a direct correlation between "Solar Total Irradiance" and that temperature. Al Gore claims that "Starting in 1970, there was a precipitous drop-off in the amount and extent of thickness of the `Arctic' ice cap." At the other pole, however, and at the same time, 2006, two scientists published the results of their satellite-data study and concluded that the "Antarctic" ice sheet was growing at 4-6 millimeters in thickness per year. Another study, this time by NASA scientists, determined that the net loss of ice from Greenland/Antarctica raised the sea-level about 0.05 mm per year during from 1992 to 2002. At that rate it would take 1000 years to raise sea levels by a full five centimeters (about two inches), but Al Gore claims it will raise the oceans twenty feet in 100 years. Furthermore, much of the much ballyhooed breakup of river ice is in fact due to what scientists term "calving" which is the breaking off of a large piece of an ice river caused by increasing ice mass pushing the unit down to where its length and heft are unsustainable for the given topography. In addition, while some glaciers are known to be receding, other (unreported) glaciers in the same areas are known to be growing. The melting of some glaciers in Glacier National Park, often cited by Al Gore as proof of manmade global warming, actually began in earnest before man began adding a noticeable amount of greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere. And, according to Arctic climatologists, the western edge of Greenland may be experiencing ice-melt faster during the last few years, but it isn't because temperatures are rising - they aren't. Science reveals this to be more likely a result of cyclical changes in ocean currents. To make matters worse for alarmists: "Manmade Global Warming" can't be a valid concept since the Southern Hemisphere isn't warming.
The melting of the "Snows of Kilimanjaro," also hyped by Al Gore, which began over 100 years ago was caused by a decrease of moisture in the air; while the local temperature has remained constant. The hurricane intensive year of 2005 has also been touted by environmental alarmists as proof of "Manmade Global Warming," but if so they should also tout 2006, a year in which there were no U.S. landfalls, as proof of "Manmade Global Cooling." They don't. When plotted on a decade-by-decade basis, it is also apparent that there have been a lower than average number of hurricanes each decade since 1961.
Finally, according to memos, obtained with the collapse of ENRON, the president of ENRON, Ken Lay, and British Petroleum's (BP's) president, both companies of which were heavily investing in government subsidized wind mill farms and natural gas pipelines, met with President Clinton and his VP, Al Gore, in 1997-1998 to help hammer out America's policy regarding "manmade climate change" and the impending Kyoto treaty; after which Clinton signed the Kyoto Accord but for three years failed to submit it for Senate ratification (most likely because the Senate had earlier approved a resolution by 95-0 stating, in effect, that the Senate would not ratify any treaty which: 1) did not impose Greenhouse Gas limits on other developing countries, or 2) which would result in serious harm to the U.S. economy.) George W. Bush, who opposed Kyoto, didn't submit it either, so it is still hanging over our heads.)
Enough said, except for this: According to Margaret Wollstrom, Europe's one-time Commissioner for the Environment, "This is not a simple environmental issue where you can say it is an issue where the scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this is about economy, about trying to create a level playing field for big businesses throughout the world." (In other words: We need to hobble America's economy so Socialist countries can compete.)
It would be nice to think that Al Gore and his comrades in alarms are merely simpletons who have the best interests of America at heart. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be the case. Being elitists, they likely deem themselves too smart by half, but, if implemented their plans will bring the U.S. to ruin. All things considered, and to paraphrase President Franklin D. Roosevelt, it seems that "The only thing we have to fear is Gore himself." (and those like him)
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