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Today in UK the Parliament will bring into law their C02 emmissions reduction plans and make it law.
Green is the vote catching panacea. If there is a polemic around, it must be with the politicians who will bash each other silly to get your vote. They will lie to us, distort facts and present bad science to you just to get your vote. And guess what - the Global Warming business is big and the Greenies’ paymasters are rubbing their hands in glee.
Everything here in UK is a political kneejerk to pander to the environmentalists without carrying on more tests and to get your vote. Surely in light of the Al Gore’s Oscar winning An Inconvenient Truth and last week’s Channel 4 documentary called Great Global Warming Swindle, government should get more balanced input instead of what they have been offered by big Al? Escpecially as he ‘omitted’ certian key facts.
The documentary which Al Gore hosts An Inconvenient Truth is nothing more than A Convenient Lie
In December 2006 I thought Al Gore was the most impressive former next President of the United States of America and also the best chap in town ever for bringing the error of our ways to our attention. What he delivered to me was a film documenting what we humans have to face up to and the fact that we have caused Climate Change by allowing CO2 emmissions to continued unabated.
I watched the documentary. I liked what I heard. I was shocked. I believed what Al told me. I enjoyed his delivery and panache and for being the person chosen (I don’t think he would have liked to have been ‘elected’!) to be the voice or persona to deliver a message to you and me on behalf of the Green ecologist group(s). I was smitten, sucked in and ready to go to war against our polluting ways and also against those who breathed too much CO2 into our atmosphere thus depleting my chances of retiring at 80 years of age.
This weekend I learned that big Al lied to me and millions of others.
At best he might have just unwittingly misled all those who have watched the documentary by leaving out key facts about what the world is now clambering over – how we humans have caused Global Warming.
The underlying theme as I see it is that Global Warming is now big business. And those who stand to earn bigtime by pandering to and perpetuating our Global Warming fears need to and will protect their investments by having the likes of Al Gore get close to misleading us on their behalf so as to prevent you from knowing certain critical facts about what is now a moneyspinning and overblown dramatic production about the human contribution to Global Warming.
AL Gore
1. Did big Al tell you that humans contribute a very, very, very, very, very, very small % of C02 emissions?
Al Gore’s documentary blames us humans for warming the planet. But did it tell you that when the world was at its peak economic and industrial boom after WW2 (for a period of 40 years between 1940’s-1980’s), the world temperature dropped during this time when it should have increased if what big Al said is to be believed.
2. Did big Al point to our oceans and tell you these are the largest contributors to CO2 emissions?
3. Did big Al point at the sun and tell you that funnily enough the source of our heat is the second largest contributer to Global Warming? In fact, 49 cold-warm swings have been identified within The Great Ice Age. And we are still here!
4. Did big Al take a good look at the perma frost in Russia and tell you it was a heck of a lot warmer hundreds and thousands of years ago than it is now?
5. Did big Al tell you to not be concerned about Global Warming because records and facts prove that the earth has followed a natural cycle of warming up and cooling down. It is now in a warm up cycle.
6. Did big Al tell you the ice caps at the poles have naturally contracted and expanded and since the last Ice Age?
7. Did big Al tell you what the missing ingredient is in all these ‘facts’ he provided? No?
8. Did big Al mention that water vapour is the missing ingredient and is a very, very, very, very important part of the equation to calculate global warminig?
9. Did big Al tell you that models to predict future climate can be tweaked to make the result more exciting because the true results would not get a mention in the press because they are so normal?
10. Did big Al tell you that maleria killed 600,000 people in Russia. This proves that maleria is not solely a tropical disease. It infects anywhere anytime.
11. Did big Al tell you that the ice braking away from the glaciers is as normal as leaves falling off a tree in Autumn?
See the movie trailer here
QUOTE:”Carbon dioxide and other gases warm the surface of the planet naturally by trapping solar heat in the atmosphere. This is a good thing because it keeps our planet habitable. However, by burning fossil fuels such as coal, gas and oil and clearing forests we have dramatically increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere and temperatures are rising.” ENDQUOTE
Environmentalists are also stopping Africa from developing because of the alleged massive emmissions it would cause. Well if point #1 above is anything to go by then they can go get stuffed.
Why shouldn’t Africa modernise its economies? Why should Africa be deprived of everything we in Europe,the Americas and in the Far East take for granted? Who says Africa should not take full advantage of its natural resources to better the lives of it peoples? And just who the hell are these people to rule what Africa can and cannot do?
Environmentalists.
Yes, even the co-founder of Greenpeace has defected out of the organisation he helped establish. So something must stink badly somewhere in the environmentalists universe.
The greenies want us all to believe their Armageddon fabrication. And at our schools these obsequious people will be approved by UK government to brainwash children at school. The green lobby has become so powerful that they can change America’s mind about C02 emissions where previously Bush refused to sign the Kyoto accord. He is now softening on the stance he previously took.
But I reckon this is purely a political move to appease foreign investors and to maintain export levels. Fear of ecomnomic reprisals is a mighty powerful weapon! And boy, do the big businessmen behind Global Warming know it and play it.
QUOTES
“If the warming continues, we can expect catastrophic consequences.” Bollocks. This is a natural cycle. And C02 levels increase after warming up happens. Sometimes the lag is 800 years.
“Deaths from global warming will double in just 25 years — to 300,000 people a year” So what about the 600,000 in Russia who died from a maleria outbreak? Oh no, according to environmentalists the maleria carrying mosquito is a tropical issue! Wrong! The mozzie goes where it likes.
“Global sea levels could rise by more than 20 feet with the loss of shelf ice in Greenland and Antarctica, devastating coastal areas worldwide.” Crap. The ice breakup is a natural occurence and has been happening since Moses was a punk.
“Heat waves will be more frequent and more intense.” A nice sweeping statement. Prove it.
“Droughts and wildfires will occur more often.” A nice sweeping statement. Prove it.
“The Arctic Ocean could be ice free in summer by 2050.” And as day follows night, what follows summer….errrr ummmm winter?
“More than a million species worldwide could be driven to extinction by 2050″ Note the operative word is “could”. So there is doubt? Small or large doubt? And the science to prove this doubt is where?
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), this era of global warming “is unlikely to be entirely natural in origin” and “the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence of the global climate.” Well hell fella - what dp you mean by “discernable”? Oh yeah I also should tell you all that the IPCC somehow manages to tell the world that it has the support of 2,500 scientists around the world. Well it does not because plenty of them resigned from the IPCC and wrote to the IPCC to tell them to take theier name off the supporters list.
So obviously desperate were the IPCC, they refused to acknowledge and comply with the scientists requests.
Whatever happens - Africa must develop. It has the resources and these are cheap by comparison to not developing now and getting funding for ‘green’ industries if the environmentalists have their way. Africa cannot afford to lose any time waiting for a Greenie to approve their destiny. Self-development is in everybodies interest. Africa must never be excluded.
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Thanks for that great article. Personally,in the end, I think Gores convenient “COINTELPRO” has been put out there to connect the old: Overpopulation is the root course of global warming argument. Of corse all the over-energy-use that Gore makes responsible happens in the “First World” while over population happens in the “Third World”. Ooops! And as you pointed out above; the one (energy use) has nothing to do with the other (warming). Further nobody in the “global warming business” will look at the real dangers that lay ahead. There is conclusive scientific evidence that the present warming will result in a phenomena, known as “sudden glacial rebound”. Basically triggering an Ice Age that is overdue. I read an excellent article here that explains it:
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/125454-Fire+and+Ice%3A+The+Day+After+Tomorrow
Let me know what you think. Peace John
Agreed. Actually, I am pleasantly surprised, as I thought I was the only person left in Europe who doesn’t give an ass wipe about global warming.
Well done you.
well it’s simple logic.
If we are indeed so concerned about the global warming and CO2 emisisons then why not shut down the countries that account for the vast majority of those emissions? The BRICs: Brazil, Russia, India and China?
Yes, global warming is a big business, but not as big as cheap Chinese imports flooding the world markets.
I can tell you something totally ridiculous about cars here in Sweden. They have engine warmers. You plug your car into a special power line and warm up your engine. That is supposed to reduce the emissions when you start your car, and save you gas.
What they don’t tell you that the process required to produce the electricity required to warm up your car engine’s creates MUCH more pollution and costs a lot more in the long run than simply starting your car and idling it for a while.
But of course, Swedes bought unconditionally into that engine warmers are good for the environment and they all do it, like the little sheep they are.
They even have that lie included in the student drivers manual you need to study to get a drivers license here.
Now let me get into my gas guzzling car and go to meet my friend for lunch.
Great post Rob, count me in as a global warming sceptic. And don’t get me started on recycling, 80% of which is shipped from the UK to go straight into Chinese landfill sites.
Politics in this country is all about pandering to whats hot in the media, alhtough it may be irritating I suppose its a good thing, if only the SA government could take a leaf out the british governments book.
Then again, it is a good thing to reduce emissions, correct, but at what cost and surely we should do it for the right reasons. This is one of the biggest issues in British politics today, that tells you something about British politics, if only South African politics reached a point where the most important issue to discuss was global warming.
Dave,
I think Mbeki should talk Global Warming and demand to get a report free of any bias or fiscal arrangement of what will occur if he did open up the earth to extract the cheap fossil fuels needed to bolster growth on the African continent. Other coutries can engage too.
British politicians in Brown & Blair’s government, the Tories, Lib Dems, Republicans and Democrats will poo-poo the idea but fuck ‘em - they don’t have to see their people die from lack of proper indoor sanitation, working sewage systems and electricity at home and in a hospital etc
Yeah don’t start me on the view that two solar panels will suffice to meet the electrical demands of a regional clinic in urban Africa!
Did you see that the poor doctor or nurse can only switch on either the lights or the freezer containing the vaccines and medicines at any one time. Not both. But this is OK for some fatcat bastard in USA or UK because he donated a couple of quid to buy the panels and thus soothe his/her social concience. He/she knows that in order to survive, the Africans will have to pay vast sums to support economic and social growth. And guess who they will have to go to for the money if S Africa cannot make the necessary loans to the rest of the African nations…. Mr Fatacat.
Africa must decide to accept what they are told and not develop or get the report and tell the rest of the Western World to shove their heads where the macaroni goes one way, and do what is best for Africa.
What utter crap. This puts you down there with the African potato cures Aids, or the ‘ozone hole is just a theory, buy more CFC’s please’ level of thinking. Stick your head in the sand if you want to, or see some big conspiracy theory by the ‘greeny industrialists’, but unfortunately all you’re doing is buying into what the real industrialists want you to believe while they milk the last of your oil dollars from you while the planet goes up in smoke.
Like our president, you should spend less time on the Internet surfing nutters sites. Come to think of it so should I
Rob,
I am not defending Gore at all, and not even global warming, but I think any reasonable person would agree that we are not doing the earth any favor in polluting the air and water, and cutting down trees in areas such as the Amazon.
If you look at what President Bush has done over the past couple of years since refusing the Kyoto agreement to enable big companies in the USA to “export” their waste to third world countries, and go as far as to lower pollution standards for industry, so that they can meet the requirements with their present infrastructure, thus twisting scientific results to suit their needs, or even the fact that farmers can sell Carbon Credits to industry (Search Google for this one)… you will see that regardless of any Global Warming or not issue, we need to take better care of the planet we live on. Do you agree on that? If you agree, don’t you think that raising some questions and awareness to something that is detrimental to our world is important?
I have never disagreed that we do add to the problem. What I am disputing is the amount we stand accused of causing. Every other contributory factor in the issue is put into the background to focus on the ‘human’ C02 output where in fact the largest culprit, the oceans, are treated lightly and no solution to contol the solar and oceanic output is proffered.
I have no issue with the fact that we must act to reduce our ‘human’ emissions. We are able to do this because we built the machines that do it and thus can control the output. But we cannot control the sun and the oceans who are by far the largest contributors to global warming.
And regardless of our unstinting effort to reduce our contribution, global warming will continue until the cycle is complete.
It’d help if you saw the Channel 4 documentary. I hope you do. It helped balance out the emotive reaction I had after seeing Al Gore’s Oscar winning movie. I was so gung-ho I lost sight of a few salient facts. Like, the 40 years of sustained global industrial growth post WW2 where the temperatures dropped instead of rising. If they rose, then Gores theories about how we humans have solely caused the mess we are in would be borne out. But the temperatures did not rise. They dropped.
The temperatures went in the opposite direction to what Gore perports/alludes to be the consequence of the mass industrialisation to meet todays’ human needs.
I am still waiting to hear or see an environmentalist argue Gore’s corner on this fact alone.
But by far and above anything to do with global warming is the impact on Africa’s ability to develop without using the cheap fossil fuels that are imediately available in abundance beneath her earth. Yes there will be an increase of emissions from Africa. Yes it will be harsh.
And yes you must not lose sight of the 40 years of post-war GLOBAL industrial growth that did not impact the temperature.
All I want is for Africa to develop to try to meet the massive struggle it has in the feeding of its populations, in the health care for its sick and dying peoples, the sanitation and continued supply of fresh drinking water for all its people, the lighting up of villages and towns and electricity supplies to enable mothers to cook for their families on clean energy instead of relying and dying from continued use of indoor open fires.
Is this too much for me to ask? Is it too much for the perpetrators of most of what is wrong ecologically on the planet today, the modern, educated and sophisticated Western world, to support Africa’s need?
Is it?
Rob,
I have to agree with your points on development being limited in Africa due to restrictions implemented on industry and nations in order to be greener.
Unfortunately, I don’t believe in any country or organization stipulating to another on how to grow their economy in a “green” fashion if they can not offer realistic alternatives to fossil fuels and other pollution causes. For the most part, Africa can not afford at this point to be as responsible in their pollution reduction as the major developed countries can be. Countries like the USA, UK, Japan etc. can “afford” to change their habits to a greener economy. They are the economic leaders, and should in my humble opinion set the standards for developing nations to follow, not mandate it, but path the way, since they can absorb some of the initial cost involved to change their ways. Leading by example should be the mandate.
I can offer you my limited reference frame on how we contribute to pollution in a various ways continuing with current processes. I was schooled for 10 of my 12 years in Secunda, home to Sasol 2 and Sasol 3. As you would know, Sasol is South Africa’s largest producer of Petro-Chemical Products. Talk to farmers in the Secunda area, and even as far as Nelspruit, and they will tell you that in the 80’s and 90’s, farmers started noticing they had to rewire their farm fences every 3-4 years, instead of the 8-10 years in the 70’s. I remember reading an article in the Landbou Weekblad on how Acid rain in the Eastern Transvaal Region and as far West as Benoni caused deterioration of farm equipment.
You could also find that people living in Secunda had some of the best gardens and specifically lawns in the nation. This was due to the fertilizer plant runoff water which collected in collection dams being made available to the general public. My father and I would load up two 55 Gal drums and pump them full of runoff water in these dams. We would then share with the neighbors since we had to dilute this runoff water with about 5 parts water to 1 to prevent our grass from burning. You can imagine that two drums would go a long way for us and about 5 other neighbors around us. Of course these dams were build in areas where the ground water were available at 40 meters in some places. I know this because our neighbor had well water. This is just the local effect of these two Petroleum factories. For those who don’t know, these two factories probably produce the majority of petrol/gas for South Africa, as well as probably the majority of Jet fuel and other fossil derived chemicals.
The point here is that, this is only one factory that I know off that not only polluted the air, but also the local water and who knows what else. Now, putting ridiculous restrictions on them which will have people lose their jobs is not the goal here, but offering incentives (tax breaks etc.) to companies such as Sasol to find greener alternatives is surely in everyone’s best interest. I think that should be the goal of specifically regional leaders such as South Africa, and on a Global scale the USA et al.
This was a great post to get attention to the subject, negative or not, if gets discussion going. I have not seen Gore’s movie yet, but have it on DVR. I will watch it, and see if I can find the Chanel 4 documentary somewhere to get a balance view.
As a last note on Sasol. It’s been more than 11 years since I lived in South Africa, and don’t know the current state of Sasol’s efforts to fight pollution.
Boerseun,
Great comments and thanks for the Sasol example. The debate for Africa must continue. I know of one person who is doing great work in this regard.
UPDATE:
Last Updated: Saturday, 17 March 2007, 00:49 GMT
Read the full article here
To me it seems the who Global Warming spin is just another psyop to distract from the real impending climate/planetary cataclysm. Anybody who is genuinely SINCERE in regards to their concern about the future needs to keep an open mind and check ALL the data. Not just the fashionable ones.
Rob, I really like that you reefer to the cyclical nature of climate change or planetary/geological change. That is the crux of the matter. Check out this article to lead you further down the rabbit hole. Forget About Global Warming: We’re One Step From Extinction! http://tinyurl.com/2wsj9a
John.
John,
For a long while now I have known of the planet’s sell by date theory. If we are deep space watchers we can already detect the astroid that will deal the earth the catclysmic ‘blow’ but to date I have not seen or heard any evidence to support this.
However, based on statistics alone, we may be living on borrowed time. But has the Orca astroid been detected yet?
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