Girls on Ibiza Beach
Flickr User XamonichWe've all seen how most apocalyptic Hollywood films begin: a single scientist accidentally discovers the spin of the magnetic core of the Earth is slowing down, or notices a small dot on a star-gazing map approaching Earth and runs to the US Government to warn the country that the world is about to end.
Likewise, many of those who have been suckered into the global warming hoax 1 believe that a scientist or group of scientists suddenly came across studies of tree rings and found proof that the world has been getting warmer over the last two centuries coinciding with the industrial revolution.
Nothing could be further from the truth. It was all politics. Here is how it started:
NJ.com, 11 Jan 2012, Iron Lady had tin ear on global warming
Crispin Tickell may sound like a name out of a Monty Python sketch, but he is a real person, a descendant of Thomas Huxley, the man known as "Darwin's bulldog." True to the Huxley tradition, Tickell seized on a scientific topic and became its popularizer... Tickell's topic was man-made global warming. Though he lacked a scientific background, Tickell authored a book titled "Climate Change and World Affairs" in 1977.
Tickell might have been dismissed as yet another amusing English eccentric if not for the ascendancy of Margaret Thatcher. "The Iron Lady" [who] came to power in the wake of the "winter of discontent" in 1979, during which the unions tried to force concessions from the Labor government.
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Thatcher's fight with the coal miners' union was like Ronald Reagan's fight with the air-traffic controllers, but much more serious. The air-traffic controllers never even managed to shut down the airports. The miners, by comparison, could have shut down the country and tried their best to do so on occasion.
Enter Sir Crispin.
As a prominent academic and diplomat, Tickell got Thatcher's ear. He pointed out to her that if she were to stress the possible role of coal consumption in warming the planet, she could accomplish two goals. One was to show she was smarter than the typical male politician on scientific matters — which she was, thanks to her Oxford degree in chemistry. The other was to provide a compelling argument for nuclear power, a maneuver that would outflank the coal miners union.
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The Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia was elevated from an obscure little department at an obscure little university into the world's leading authority on global warming.
The rest is history. By the time Al Gore authored "Earth in the Balance" in 1992, Thatcher was back in private life. Nonscientist Gore took up where nonscientist Tickell left off. With his movie "An Inconvenient Truth," Gore proved himself a pit bull of a popularizer.
But the real inconvenient truth here is that the idea of anthropogenic global warming was a political movement from the start. Even the most ardent of the greenhouse-gas theory would not argue that there was any sort of scientific consensus on the subject back when Tickell got Thatcher's ear. As for the current "consensus," it doesn't include the physicists who argue that further experiments are needed to determine whether it is cosmic rays rather than carbon that play the primary role in climate change.
All the fear-mongering about too much CO2 is directed at people who are ignorant of the beneficial role that carbon dioxide plays in our environment. it happens that the Earth has been warmer, much warmer, a number of times in the past ten thousand years and that we, as a species flourished most greatly precisely during those warmer periods. 2
And just as good intentions usually end up causing more harm than good, all those idiots clamoring for alternative energy to replace oil in order to reduce global warming may ironically be actually causing global warming by the deployment of ... wait for it ... wind turbines:
The Telegraph, 30 Apr 2012, Wind farms can cause climate change, finds new study
Wind farms can cause climate change, according to new research, that shows for the first time the new technology is already pushing up temperatures.
Usually at night the air closer to the ground becomes colder when the sun goes down and the earth cools.
But on huge wind farms the motion of the turbines mixes the air higher in the atmosphere that is warmer, pushing up the overall temperature.
Satellite data over a large area in Texas, that is now covered by four of the world's largest wind farms, found that over a decade the local temperature went up by almost 1C as more turbines are built.
This could have long term effects on wildlife living in the immediate areas of larger wind farms.
It could also affect regional weather patterns as warmer areas affect the formation of cloud and even wind speeds.
As for the photo of the young girls on Ibiza Beach at the top of this article: I might be wrong about man-made climate change - I must admit I do feel a lot warmer right now.
Notes
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Newsmax, 27 Mar 2012, Wall Street Journal: In 10 Years, No Sign of Global Warming
World temperatures have remained virtually unchanged in the past 10 years despite predictions of global warming and America's mildest winter in decades, Princeton physics professor William Happer contends.
Weather patterns worldwide over the past few months were very similar to those in 1942 when the continental United States basked in a warm winter at the same time that Alaska and Asia were slammed with severe weather and "General Frost" stalled the German army's advance into Russia, Happer wrote in a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed.
And any changes that have occurred should not be attributed to a rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, Happer, a prominent opponent of climate change theory, wrote in an article headlined "Global Warming Models Are Wrong Again."
"CO2 is not a pollutant," he wrote. "Life on earth flourished for hundreds of millions of years at much higher CO2 levels than we see today. Increasing CO2 levels will be a net benefit because cultivated plants grow better and are more resistant to drought at higher CO2 levels, and because warming and other supposedly harmful effects of CO2 have been greatly exaggerated."
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American Thinker, 16 Jul 2011, The Global Warming Hoax: How Soon We Forget
Ironically, the audacity of their lies about CO2 are overshadowed by the most obvious part of the Hoax. The fact is that warming is good! Throughout history, man, as well as all other living creatures, has thrived during the earth's warm periods, and suffered and starved during the cold ones, a lesson that we're about to be reminded of in the coming years.
The Roman civilization arose when the earth was much warmer than it's been recently. And it's no coincidence that just as the earth was entering the 400-year-long "Little Ice Age," the Roman Empire was overrun by the Huns. The Egyptians also built the pyramids when it was much warmer than today, and the beginning of the industrial revolution coincided with the end of the Little Ice Age. If global warming is such a problem, doesn't it seem odd that mankind has always flourished during the earth's warmest periods?
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