Friends,
You are likely find this information very difficult to accept. If so,
I strongly urge you to view this documentary:
'The Great Global Warming Swindle'
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XttV2C6B8pU> (complete version)
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4520665474899458831&q=global+warming+swindle>
The documentary was not produced for the Internet, but is a very
professional piece of investigative journalism, and was presented on
Britain's Channel 4 TV. A number of very credible scientists are
interviewed, and they explain in plain language the nature of their
research and what they have learned. I'll summarize some the points
they made, the points that I found most surprising.
First, about CO-2. It turns out the carbon dioxide (CO-2) due to
human causes is a negligible part of the CO-2 emitted each year, and
in any case CO-2 is a relatively insignificant component of
greenhouse gases. Not only that, but greenhouse gases are not a major
determiner of climate.
In Gore's film, where he shows the historical curves of CO-2 levels
and global temperature, he explains how they track one another. But
his two curves are not lined up with one another, and he fails to
point out that CO-2 levels lag behind climate change by a few
centuries. Global warming causes CO-2 levels to increase, not the
other way around. What does track climate change, in lockstep, is the
level of solar activity. This shouldn't really be surprising, as the
Sun is the engine that drives Earth's biosphere and weather systems.
Next, about global warming. It turns out that we experienced a rapid
cooling in the postwar years, ending at the beginning of the 70s, and
we still haven't recovered from that. It will take a few more years
of warming to reach pre-WW II levels, and those seemed normal enough
at the time. During the medieval period, Europe had a very warm
period, much warmer than we are likely to experience in our
lifetimes, and they did not suffer from it. Rather they celebrated
the fact that wine grapes could be grown even in the north of England.
The Earth's climate continuously fluctuates, on an historical scale,
and it does so in response to solar activity. We can't do anything to
change it, and it fluctuates downward as well as upward. It's not a
'trend' that is heading in one direction. In that sense, global
warming itself is a myth, if it is presented as a 'trend' rather than
a local fluctuation.
The documentary also talks about the problems these scientists, and
others, have experienced in pursuing their work. The Global Warming
Threat has become an orthodoxy, and these scientists find themselves
attacked and vilified almost as if they were Holocaust Deniers. Some
of them were initially consulted by the UN, in the preparation of its
influential 'study' of global warming, a 'study' that claims to be
backed by 'the world's 2,500 leading scientists'. The final draft of
the document was edited 'at the top' and left out all contrary
findings. One of the interviewed scientists had to threaten a lawsuit
before his name was taken off the list of so-called contributors.
The documentary tries to explain why this orthodoxy exists, and whose
interests it serves. In this area the film-makers, and the
scientists, find themselves outside their fields of expertise. We can
talk more about that, depending on what kind of responses I get from
this posting.
rkm
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