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By C. Grady Drago: Chairman of the Lincoln Heritage Institute
EDITOR'S NOTE: As has been their want, the Liberal media is once a gain gearing up to make one of their favorite Anti American issues a the center of debate. This time the Washington Post is hawking that fraudulent UN Report that Global Warming is man made. To comply with the Kyoto Accords, of courses would cost the U.S. economy billions, drive up the cost of running a business and household, and potentially bring the wheels of progress to a halt while forcing the U.S. to finance the growth in socialist third world countries.
Perhaps the most comprehensive study of this issue has recently been completed by Harvard University which explains in common sense and true science what the world wide scientific community has known all a long - it is laughable and a fraud on the worlds population to blame humans for global warming.
Because of this we will be rerunning articles previously published that lay out the truth about this issue.
The following is a first in a series that will run over the next sixty days
"The Fraudulent NAS and UN Report on Man Caused Global Warming.
By this time, it should be as plain as the nose on Cyrano de Bergerac's face that not only has the Kyoto treaty been thoroughly discredited, but that the entire man-caused global warming fantasy is about politics, not science. The environmental extremists and liberals believed they had an issue that would allow the frighten the public, keep themselves in the headlines, gain them control, and keep the money rolling in from anti-American entities and from those not able to match the industrial creativity of U.S. and the American worker. Just over 30 years ago, these same people brought us the ill-fated human created "global cooling" report threatening gloom and doom. Remember? They actually predicted the earth was getting ready to go into an ice age, that the polar ice caps would grow, break off and float into the gulf streams, melt, and flood New York harbor and Japan. For whatever reason, that "nightmare" didn't catch on since the media did not promote it like they have the man-made global warming scam. Over the past few years, there has been a great body of factual data and scientific evidence made available, not print-outs from the results of a run on someone's computer model, that prove conclusively that we are not in the throws of a human induced global warming era. Such information has come from scientists such as Dr. S. Fred Singer, President of The Science & Environmental Policy Project, Research Professor at George Mason University and professor emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia; Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, from MIT, and member of the NAS panel; and Dr. Frederick Seitz, past president of the NAS, and president emeritus of Rockefeller University. If your attorney's advice proved fallacious and you found he ignored, didn't consider, or simply did not do enough research to be aware of some key facts when formulating his advise, I assume he would be discredited and fired. Needless to say, the lawyer would also be subject to a malpractice suit. If your surgeon conducted surgery that the overwhelming body of evidence and scientific data indicated should not have to be done there would not only be a loss of reputation, but there would be a significant malpractice suit. Well, let me tell you, this is exactly what has happened in the case of the National Academy of Science's report on global warming. The Academy was established in the mid-1860's to advise the President. Throughout the years, they have garnered an envious reputation; a reputation that was earned from their many creative, groundbreaking, and sometimes landmark scientific reports that our policy leaders relied upon to make important decisions affecting the nation. Well, according to numerous and more significant experts, as well as available overwhelming data, something has gone wrong. With publication of just this one report on global warming, the AS appear to have put itself in the same position as the above physician and lawyer. It is clear that they have become politicized in a way we never would have thought possible. The question is how do you bring a malpractice suite against the AS, a government agency. We can, however, mistrust future reports. At a minimum, every study they produce for a long time to come will and should be questioned for its integrity and accuracy as may the work of most of the individual members of the eleven member panel. Unfortunately, the media has again done the nation a disservice by not publishing the full truth about this purely scientific issue. They know all of the facts, but obviously decided not the print anything that was contrary to the UN's Kyoto treaty. Instead, they have treated this issue as they would a celebrity they are promoting -- ignoring what was not to their liking for the sake of a sensational story. Following are just some of the known scientific facts and available data that, at a minimum, raise questions as to the truth, accuracy, and motive of those reporting on the issue of global warming, and of the drafters and those promoting the Kyoto treaty. THE KYOTO TREATY - IMPACTS OF OPPOSITION ÿ While the European Economic Community (EEC) and the individual European nations have complained that the U.S. has not signed the Kyoto Treaty (and have pressured the U.S. to approve the Treaty), only one European nation has signed the Treaty and that is Romania. ÿ Japan has not ratified the Kyoto Treaty. ÿ Only 33 of the 84 nations that signed the protocols have signed the treaty. They are all undeveloped countries and not affected by the treaty's provisions. ÿ The AS itself, in early 2000 expressed doubts about the report contention about recent global warming. ÿ Proponents of the Treaty have already admitted that the economic impacts of the Treaty are much greater than the public has been told. ÿ According to studies by the U.S. Energy Information Administration and other experts, the provisions of the Kyoto Treaty would have a devastating impact on the U.S. drastically slowing our economy, manufacturing, and costing American's potentially millions of jobs. The OE estimated that the Treaty would drive gasoline prices as high as an additional .66 per gallon by 2010, and that electricity prices would increase by up to 86% during that same period. Output of energy intensive products such as steel, chemicals, and automobiles would drop significantly causing huge worker layoffs and plant closings. It has also been predicted that minorities would be the hardest hit. ÿ Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America and James Hoffa, president of the Teamsters Union have raised many questions about the treaty⥙s provisions. ÿ In 1997, the U.S. Senate voted 95-0 to disapprove a treaty that contained the economic and social provisions of the Kyoto Treaty. ÿ There were no geologists, glaciologists, or statisticians on the NAS panel. ÿ Dr. Frederick Seitz, states that the Kyoto Treaty is. "based upon flawed ideas." SCIENTIFIC CLIMATE FACTS ÿ Since its creation, earth has been going through climate changes experiencing several ice ages and global warming trends most without mankind even being on the planet. ÿ A mini-ice age, which began about 1300 ended in about 1800. Temperatures, as you would expect, have risen since then by about .5 degrees Celsius. Man was using very little hydrocarbons in the 1800⥙s. ÿ NASA⥙s satellite and NOAA⥙s oceanographic and surface measuring devises indicate that there has been no measurable global warming for the past 50 years. [The UN⥙s computer models have been consistently wrong in temperature predictions. Before 1990 they predicted temperatures would rise by .8 degrees Celsius (about 2 degrees Fahrenheit) per decade. By 1990, they lowered that estimate to about .3 degrees Celsius, and in 1995 they again lowered their predictions to .2 degrees Celsius increases per decade. All of them were wrong]. In fact, there is a body of evidence that indicates that over the past 20 years there has actually been a slight cooling. ÿ According to scientists at MIT and NASA, water vapor, not carbon dioxide is a greater regulator of global temperatures than carbon dioxide. In fact, there is a body of evidence that shows that not only is carbon dioxide absolutely crucial to the health and growth of vegetation through photosynthesis, but actually contributes to filtering the suns rays (see the records of the US Historical Climatology Network which go back to 1890) ÿ 15,000 of the world top climatologists, geologists, meteorologists, physicists, and others have signed a petition denouncing the Kyoto Treaty. ÿ NAS published a report in January of 2000 that stated that the atmosphere showed no warming since 1979. ÿ We are simply experiencing what the planet has gone through since it was established -- natural atmospheric swings. ÿ Dr. Singer stated in his comments opposing the NAS study that "⥦none of the many proxy measurements (tree rings, ice cores, etc) shows any warming trend after 1940." He states further that "⥦the available evidence directly contradicts the idea that humans have made and are making substantial contributions to temperature changes." ÿ In an article written by Allen Caruba, a respected science and business writer, he pointed out that in previous eras the concentration of carbon dioxide was five times higher than today without human existence. For over 100 million years it sustained the dinosaurs and produced lush vegetation. ÿ Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, states that the summary of the NAS report on climate change as reported by CNN⥙s Michelle Mitchell claiming that the NAS panel was in unanimous agreement "⥦that global warming is real, is getting worse, and is due to man." is absolutely wrong. ÿ Records cold temperatures over the past few years have killed thousands in Siberia, northern India, Inner Mongolian, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Norway, Sweden, Finland and elsewhere. ÿ Florida⥙s have complained bitterly that they could not remember a winter as cold as the past few. Many orange groves in north central Florida no longer produce fruit and the frost line is moving further south, as is the case in many other areas in the Northern Hemisphere. ÿ In the U.S., we recorded the lowest two-month average temperature ever in November and December of last year. This is by no means all of the factual data and information available, much more can be found on web sites of Universities and scientific organizations. This data, common sense, and knowledge of how environmental activist⥙s operate and survive are also telltale. The idea that a group of forth and fifth level political appointees are sitting around in New York at the UN looking for ways to expand their powers, telling Sovereign nations that the UN can enforce their arbitrary laws on a nation⥙s citizens, contemplating imposing a world wide tax on the internet, raising their won army, and complaining about how much money individual nations are donating to them would be laughable if it didn⥙t involve such important issues.
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