Date sent: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 08:45:56 -0400 (EDT) From: "Philip V. Brennan Jr." To: "'C-news@world.std.com'" Subject: C-NEWS: Part Seven -- Globalwarming or Globaloney Send reply to: "Philip V. Brennan Jr." GLOBALWARMING OR GLOBALONEY? PART SEVEN The Politics of Global Warming By Phil Brennan ".... in December, the nations of the world will meet in Kyoto, Japan to negotiate a treaty mandating global CO2 emission reductions. The United States delegation will be the dominant voice in support of reducing emission levels. The economies of countries such as Norway and Australia would be devastated due to their dependence on fossil fuels. In the United States, the financial and political pressure to ratify such a treaty from environmentalists and free market opponents will be massive. " Sen. Malcolm Wallop A key document at the Kyoto meetings will be the recently released 1995 report of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Allegedly the result of many years of careful study by some of the world's top experts on global climate the paper will be one of the centerpieces of the Global Warming conference. The report to be presented at the conference is a corruption of the original that distorts its meaning. Key parts have been deliberately omitted. Says Dr. Frederick Seitz chairman of the George C. Marshall Institute: the report "is not the version that was approved by the contributing scientists listed on the title page." "In my more than 60 years as a member of the American scientific community, including service as president of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society, I have never witnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer-review process." According to Dr. Seitz, the pet theory of the global warming adherents -- that evil mankind is guilty of overheating the climate -- is anything but universal among scientists, a fact that was edited out of the report as it was issued. "No study to date has positively attributed all or part [of climate change] to anthropogenic (human] causes," he said. This vitally important clarification was removed from the report, he added. "Nearly all of [the changes] worked to remove hints of the skepticism with which many scientists regard claims that human activities are having a major impact on climate .... Nothing in the IPCC Rules permits anyone to change a scientific report after it has been accepted by the panel of scientific contributors and the full IPCC..." Seitz concludes with this withering blast: "IPCC reports are often called the 'consensus' view. If they lead to carbon taxes and restraints on economic growth, they will have a major and almost certainly destructive impact on the economies of the world. Whatever the intent was of those who made these significant changes, their effect is to deceive policy makers and the public into believing that the scientific evidence shows human activities are causing global warming." This one shocking display of the sheer dishonesty that marks the political drive to impose destructive "carbon taxes and restraints on economic growth" as Seitz put it, should warn the world that these would-be tyrants riding the wave of the global warming hysteria they have created simply cannot be trusted.It is vitally important that the significance of this incident not be overlooked: If human activities are not causing climate changes it follows that the blame for any such changes must fall squarely on the shoulders of Mother Nature. And the whole case for imposing drastic economic and political restrictions on the nations and peoples of the world collapses! Just what lies behind this scientific trickery? Earlier in this series, we quoted Dr. George Kaplan's assertion that the Global Warming theory could well be "the last stand of an arrant scientific ideology." What he wrote bears repeating here: "Such a hypothesis can be acceptable to some, but the obvious failing of the theory in the face of global catastrophe argues for a more substantial motivation. "It would pay to investigate this motivation further to consider whether politics has been responsive to poor science or whether economics and politics have made false tools out of science for narrow interests. "If the latter is true the manipulation and subversion of the truth seeking apparatus by political and private interests is, in the present situation, of such extreme malevolence that it ranks as the greatest malfeasance in history. We are headed for a situation where mankind may be forced to confront the question of whether the political mode as we have known it over the past 8,000 years is innately incapable of dealing with serious problems." Although the media has ignored the shocking revelation of hanky panky at the IPCC, at least one journalist, Robert Samuelson has seen the global warming issue for what it is: "A gushing source of national hypocrisy." The subversion of science to the cynical political interests of the Gores and Gorbachevs is explainable. That part of the scientific community that has embraced the idea of global warming and put the blame for it on mankind's' activities are simply falling in line with the current wisdom -- a dangerous thing to ignore when you work for the government or rely on government grants. Wrote Samuelson: "Hardly anyone wants to admit candidly the uncertainties of global warming. It's politically incorrect ... but it's political suicide to do anything serious about it." This is serious business, for more reasons than one. To begin with, as we have seen, the most economically and poltically destructive measures are being justified by a flawed premise that mankind is busy screwing up the environment to the point that the world is in danger of being roasted like a suckling pig on a spit. Even more serious is the fact that all of the signs point to the impending onset of glaciation. And because the world is focusing on the specious idea of global warming, nothing is being done to prepare mankind for the disasters that lie immediately ahead. As we have seen, the climate changes we are witnessing are being brought on by a natural process which accompanies the end of an interglacial period. And that process is irreversible. Mother Nature is determined to have her way and nothing we can do will prevent her from going about the business of repairing the damage done to the planet by the demineralization of the earth's soil. Given that fact, governments should be concentrating on preparing for the cataclysm to come, not wasting their time and treasure fighting the will-o-the-wisp of global warming. Next week we'll conclude this report by looking closely at what we can expect as the interglacial comes to an end. Part 8 is now online at: http://www.pacg.com/pvbr/ for parts one through seven e-mail pvbr@gate.net ------- To subscribe to c-news, send the message SUBSCRIBE C-NEWS, or the message UNSUBSCRIBE C-NEWS to unsubscribe, to majordomo@world.std.com. Contact owner-c-news@world.std.com if you have questions.