Global Warming: Fact, Fiction and Political Endgame

Global Warming: Fact, Fiction and Political Endgame
Mark Alexander
Global Alarmist Albert Gore — Consummate Hypocrite

“Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.” –Alexander Hamilton

Gore claimed that he and wife, Tipper, “live a carbon-neutral lifestyle.”
Well, perhaps if you don’t count all the fuel burned by his private jet travels and limo deliveries. One of Gore’s exclusive mansions, according to a recent utility report, uses 20 times the electrical energy consumed by the average household, but who is counting.
Gore’s son, Albert III, is true to his word. When he was stopped by police (his third high-speed, drug toting arrest) just before the elder Gore’s Live Earth concerts began, he may have been traveling 100mph but he was doing it in his fuel-efficient Toyota Prius hybrid. Unfortunately, Al III was fueled up on marijuana, and had in his possession various prescription drugs — Valium, Xanax, Vicodin, Adderall and Soma — all without prescriptions. Fruit does not fall far from the tree.)
Separating Fact from Fiction
For the record, most reputable scientists agree that we are in a period of gradual global warming (about 0.7 degrees Celsius in the last century), and that the greenhouse effect prevents our climate from becoming a deep freeze. Most also agree that the level of CO2, including manmade CO2, in the atmosphere has increased in the last century, and that global warming is due, in some part, to the greenhouse effect.
However, there is no scientifically established correlation between global-warming trends and acceleration of the greenhouse effect due to human production of CO2 — only broad speculation.
CO2 — The Global Carbon Cycle
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with one carbon and two oxygen atoms. It is a major component of the carbon cycle — the exchange of carbon between the biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. CO2 is one of the greenhouse gases associated with the “greenhouse effect.”. The Earth absorbs about 70 percent of the Sun’s radiant energy and reflects 30 percent. As greenhouse gasses increase, less of the radiant energy is reflected, with a corresponding increase in global temperatures.
All greenhouse gases comprise only three percent of the Earth’s atmosphere by volume. Of that three percent, water vapor is estimated to cause up to 70 percent of the greenhouse effect, carbon dioxide up to 20 percent, and methane, nitrous oxide and ozone cause the balance, but these causal estimates are very difficult to accurately document.
All plants depend on CO2, consume it from the atmosphere and convert it to oxygen during photosynthesis, then respirate it back into the atmosphere.
Fact is, it is impossible to say with any degree of accuracy how much CO2 is produced or consumed in the natural carbon cycle and any estimate of the manmade percentage is highly questionable.
Gore’s “Scientific Consensus”
Albert Gore claims, “I’ve been trying to deliver this message for 30 years. The degree of scientific consensus on global warming has never been stronger. Unless we act boldly, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes. Of course, there will always be questions around the edges of the science…”
Yeah, fringe inquiries like “Is the Earth really the center of the universe?” and “Is the Earth really flat?”
Despite Gore’s claims, there is a growing body of peer-reviewed studies challenging conventional global warming assumptions.
While more skeptics are going on record, the media has ignored dissenting views, with some notable exceptions like the UK’s public broadcasting Channel 4 network, which produced a remarkable documentary titled “The Great Global Warming Swindle,”.
Of course, it has not been broadcast by any of the U.S. networks.
The documentary features distinguished scientists from MIT and other major universities around the world.
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Commentary

“Global warming has become a big-ticket item in the eyes of its supporters. At stake are research funds, jobs and the ability to control lives all over the globe.” —Walter E. Williams

“As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not in communism…. The environmentalists ask for immediate political action because they do not believe in the long-term positive impact of economic growth and ignore both the technological progress that future generations will undoubtedly enjoy, and the proven fact that the higher the wealth of society, the higher is the quality of the environment…. The issue of global warming is more about social than natural sciences and more about man and his freedom than about tenths of a degree Celsius changes in average global temperature” — Czech President Vaclav Klaus

“A couple of days before the Oscars, the Reverend Al Gore gave a sell-out performance at the University of Toronto. ‘From my perspective, it is a form of religion,’ said Bruce Crofts of the East Toronto Climate Action Group, who compared the former vice president to Jesus Christ, both men being (as the Globe And Mail put it) ‘great leaders who stepped forward when called upon by circumstance.’ Unlike Christ, the Eco-Messiah cannot yet walk on water, but then, neither can the polar bears. However, only Al can survey the melting ice caps and turn water into whine.” —Mark Steyn

“While the public has been led to believe that ‘all’ the leading scientists buy the global warming hysteria and the political agenda that goes with it, in fact the official reports from the United Nations or the National Academy of Sciences are written by bureaucrats — and then garnished with the names of leading scientists who were ‘consulted,’ but whose contrary conclusions have been ignored. … Global warming ‘deniers’ are likened to Holocaust deniers. The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that is causing such hysteria, we have only a movie made by a politician and mathematical models whose results change drastically when you change a few of the arbitrarily selected variables. No one denies that temperatures are about a degree warmer than they were a century ago. What [skeptical] climate scientists…deny is that you can mindlessly extrapolate that [the change is man made]. ‘Global warming’ is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.” —Thomas Sowell

“Hoax is defined as, ‘The art of deception.’ The greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people is that manmade gases are causing climate change.” —Senator James Inhofe

“A careful study of the substantial corpus of peer-reviewed science reveals that Mr. Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, is a foofaraw of pseudo-science, exaggerations, and errors, now being peddled to innocent schoolchildren worldwide.” Lord Monckton (Viscount Monckton of Brenchley) a policy adviser to former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who has challenged Gore to an open scientific debate on climate change.

“‘If you want to save the planet, I want you to start jumping up and down. Come on, m—–f—–s!’ Madonna railed from the stage at London’s Live Earth concert Saturday. ‘If you want to save the planet, let me see you jump!’ You just can’t beat that. What else could capture the canned juvenilia of a 48-year-old centimillionaire — who owns nine homes and has a ‘carbon footprint’ nearly 100 times larger than the norm — hectoring a bunch of well-off aging hipsters to show their Earth-love by jumping up and down like children?” —Jonah Goldberg

“There are at least two characteristics all fundamentalists share. One is the exclusion and sometimes suppression of any and all information that challenges or contradicts the belief one wishes to impose on all. The other is the use of the state in pursuit of their objectives… One can get a sense of who is telling the truth about global warming by the company the concept keeps. Most of the disciples of global warming are liberal Democrats who never have enough of our money and believe there are never enough regulations concerning the way we lead our lives. That ought to be enough to give everyone pause, along with emerging evidence that the global warming jihadists may be more full of hot air than the climate they claim is about to burn us up.” —Cal Thomas

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Excellent article and I love the quotes at the end of the write up.

….Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
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