The Amazing Story Behind the Global Warming Scam
By
John Coleman, January 28, 2009
The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state
governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant
and enact laws that tax we citizens for our carbon footprints. Only two details
stand in the way, the faltering economic times and a dramatic turn toward a
colder climate. The last two bitter winters have lead to a rise in public
awareness that CO2 is not a pollutant and is not a significant greenhouse gas
that is triggering runaway global warming.
How did we ever get to this point where bad science is driving big
government we have to struggle so to stop it?
The story begins with an Oceanographer named Roger Revelle. He served with the Navy in World War II. After the war he became the Director of the Scripps Oceanographic Institute in La Jolla in San Diego, California. Revelle saw the opportunity to obtain major funding from the Navy for doing measurements and research on the ocean around the Pacific Atolls where the US military was conducting atomic bomb tests. He greatly expanded the Institute’s areas of interest and among others hired Hans Suess, a noted Chemist from the University of Chicago, who was very interested in the traces of carbon in the environment from the burning of fossil fuels. Revelle tagged on to Suess studies and co-authored a paper with him in 1957. The paper raises the possibility that the carbon dioxide might be creating a greenhouse effect and causing atmospheric warming. It seems to be a plea for funding for more studies.
Funding, frankly, is where Revelle’s mind was most of the time.
Next Revelle hired a Geochemist named David Keeling to devise a
way to measure the atmospheric content of Carbon dioxide. In 1960 Keeling
published his first paper showing the increase in carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere and linking the increase to the burning of fossil fuels.
These two research papers became the bedrock of the science of
global warming, even though they offered no proof that carbon dioxide was in
fact a greenhouse gas. In addition they failed to explain how this trace gas,
only a tiny fraction of the atmosphere, could have any significant impact on
temperatures.
Now let me take you back to the1950s when this was going on. Our cities were entrapped in a pall of pollution from the crude internal combustion engines that powered cars and trucks back then and from the uncontrolled emissions from power plants and factories. Cars and factories and power plants were filling the air with all sorts of pollutants. There was a valid and serious concern about the health consequences of this pollution and a strong environmental movement was developing to demand action. Government accepted this challenge and new environmental standards were set. Scientists and engineers came to the rescue. New reformulated fuels were developed for cars, as were new high tech, computer controlled engines and catalytic converters.
By
the mid seventies cars were no longer big time polluters, emitting only some
carbon dioxide and water vapor from their tail pipes. Likewise, new fuel
processing and smoke stack scrubbers were added to industrial and power plants
and their emissions were greatly reduced, as well.
But an environmental movement had been established and its funding
and very existence depended on having a continuing crisis issue. So the
research papers from Scripps came at just the right moment. And, with them came
the birth of an issue; man-made global warming from the carbon dioxide from the
burning of fossil fuels.
Revelle and Keeling used this new alarmism to keep their funding
growing. Other researchers with environmental motivations and a hunger for
funding saw this developing and climbed aboard as well. The research grants
began to flow and alarming hypothesis began to show up everywhere.
The Keeling curve showed a steady rise in CO2 in atmosphere during
the period since oil and coal were discovered and used by man. As of today,
carbon dioxide has increased from 215 to 385 parts per million. But, despite
the increases, it is still only a trace gas in the atmosphere. While the
increase is real, the percentage of the atmosphere that is CO2 remains tiny,
about .41 hundredths of one percent.
Several hypothesis emerged in the 70s and 80s about how this tiny
atmospheric component of CO2 might cause a significant warming. But they
remained unproven. Years have passed and the scientists kept reaching out for
evidence of the warming and proof of their theories. And, the money and
environmental claims kept on building up.
Back in the 1960s, this global warming research came to the
attention of a Canadian born United Nation’s bureaucrat named Maurice Strong.
He was looking for issues he could use to fulfill his dream of one-world
government. Strong organized a World Earth Day event in Stockholm, Sweden in
1970. From this he developed a committee of scientists, environmentalists and
political operatives from the UN to continue a series of meeting.
Strong developed the concept that the UN could demand payments from the advanced nations for the climatic damage from their burning of fossil fuels to benefit the underdeveloped nations, a sort of CO2 tax that would be the funding for his one-world government. But, he needed more scientific evidence to support his primary thesis.
So Strong championed the establishment
of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This was not
a pure climate study scientific organization, as we have been lead to believe.
It was an organization of one-world government UN bureaucrats, environmental
activists and environmentalist scientists who craved the UN funding so they
could produce the science they needed to stop the burning of fossil fuels. Over
the last 25 years they have been very effective. Hundreds of scientific papers,
four major international meetings and reams of news stories about climatic
Armageddon later, the UN IPCC has made its points to the satisfaction of most
and even shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.
At the same time, that Maurice Strong was busy at the UN, things
were getting a bit out of hand for the man who is now called the grandfather of
global warming, Roger Revelle. He had been very politically active in the late
1950’s as he worked to have the University of California locate a San Diego
campus adjacent to Scripps Institute in La Jolla. He won that major war, but
lost an all important battle afterward when he was passed over in the selection
of the first Chancellor of the new campus.
He left Scripps finally in 1963 and moved to Harvard University to
establish a Center for Population Studies. It was there that Revelle inspired
one of his students to become a major global warming activist. This student
would say later, "It felt like such a privilege to be able to hear about
the readouts from some of those measurements in a group of no more than a dozen
undergraduates. Here was this teacher presenting something not years old but
fresh out of the lab, with profound implications for our future!" The
student described him as "a wonderful, visionary professor" who was
"one of the first people in the academic community to sound the alarm on
global warming," That student was Al Gore. He thought of Dr. Revelle as
his mentor and referred to him frequently, relaying his experiences as a
student in his book Earth in the Balance, published in 1992.
So there it is, Roger Revelle was indeed the grandfather of global
warming. His work had laid the foundation for the UN IPCC, provided the
anti-fossil fuel ammunition to the environmental movement and sent Al Gore on
his road to his books, his movie, his Nobel Peace Prize and a hundred million
dollars from the carbon credits business.
What happened next is amazing. The global warming frenzy was
becoming the cause celeb of the media. After all the media is mostly liberal,
loves Al Gore, loves to warn us of impending disasters and tell us "the
sky is falling, the sky is falling". The politicians and the
environmentalist loved it, too.
But the tide was turning with Roger Revelle. He was forced out at
Harvard at 65 and returned to California and a semi retirement position at
UCSD. There he had time to rethink Carbon Dioxide and the greenhouse effect.
The man who had inspired Al Gore and given the UN the basic research it needed
to launch its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was having second
thoughts. In 1988 he wrote two cautionary letters to members of Congress. He
wrote, "My own personal belief is that we should wait another 10 or 20
years to really be convinced that the greenhouse effect is going to be
important for human beings, in both positive and negative ways." He added,
"…we should be careful not to arouse too much alarm until the rate and
amount of warming becomes clearer."
And in 1991 Revelle teamed up with Chauncey Starr, founding
director of the Electric Power Research Institute and Fred Singer, the first
director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service, to write an article for Cosmos
magazine. They urged more research and begged scientists and governments not to
move too fast to curb greenhouse CO2 emissions because the true impact of
carbon dioxide was not at all certain and curbing the use of fossil fuels could
have a huge negative impact on the economy and jobs and our standard of living.
I have discussed this collaboration with Dr. Singer. He assures me that Revelle
was considerably more certain than he was at the time that carbon dioxide was
not a problem.
Did Roger Revelle attend the Summer enclave at the Bohemian Grove
in Northern California in the Summer of 1990 while working on that article? Did
he deliver a lakeside speech there to the assembled movers and shakers from
Washington and Wall Street in which he apologized for sending the UN IPCC and
Al Gore onto this wild goose chase about global warming? Did he say that the
key scientific conjecture of his lifetime had turned out wrong? The answer to
those questions is, "I think so, but I do not know it for certain". I
have not managed to get it confirmed as of this moment. It’s a little like Las
Vegas; what is said at the Bohemian Grove stays at the Bohemian Grove. There
are no transcripts or recordings and people who attend are encouraged not to
talk. Yet, the topic is so important, that some people have shared with me on
an informal basis.
Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos
story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able
to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam.
Al Gore has dismissed Roger Revelle’s Mea culpa as the actions of
senile old man. And, the next year, while running for Vice President, he said
the science behind global warming is settled and there will be no more debate,
From 1992 until today, he and his cohorts have refused to debate global warming
and when ask about we skeptics they simply insult us and call us names.
So today we have the acceptance of carbon dioxide as the culprit
of global warming. It is concluded that when we burn fossil fuels we are
leaving a dastardly carbon footprint which we must pay Al Gore or the
environmentalists to offset. Our governments on all levels are considering
taxing the use of fossil fuels. The Federal Environmental Protection Agency is
on the verge of naming CO2 as a pollutant and strictly regulating its use to
protect our climate. The new President and the US congress are on board. Many
state governments are moving on the same course.
We are already suffering from this CO2 silliness in many ways. Our
energy policy has been strictly hobbled by no drilling and no new refineries
for decades. We pay for the shortage this has created every time we buy gas. On
top of that the whole thing about corn based ethanol costs us millions of tax
dollars in subsidies. That also has driven up food prices. And, all of this is
a long way from over.
And, I am totally convinced there is no scientific basis for any
of it.
Global Warming. It is the hoax. It is bad science. It is a
highjacking of public policy. It is no joke. It is the greatest scam in
history.
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