Since switching their message in the 1970s that an
Ice Age
was coming to the complete fiction of a massive, dramatic
global warming due to greenhouse
gases,
the Greens have been able
to influence policy at the international and national level. They have been
utterly relentless, a modern version of the Mongols on horseback who swept out
of the East to conquer everything before them until they reached the gates of
Europe. These days the Greens have long since
conquered Europe.
One thing alone stands against the Greens.
The SCIENCE does not support them. Their sense of moral superiority, their
contempt for all things modern, their resistance to all
forms
of energy except the weakest—wind and
solar, and at the very heart of the Greens’ message
is a contempt and hatred for the human race.
Humans have come to dominate life on Earth because we know how
to adapt to the planet. We know how to use its minerals, the riches of its plant
life, the domestication of its animals, and its reserves of energy in the form
of coal, oil,
natural gas, and nuclear
fission, to fuel the creation of great cities, farms and ranches,
and everything that passes for modern civilization.
Long ago humans conquered the continents of
the
Earth and its great oceans to spread
everywhere. Humans now fly between continents in hours. Everywhere on the face
of the Earth humans now communicate with one another
via the Internet.
For billions of years the Earth
existed without humans and it will do so again when we cease to inhabit it. As a
species, we are newcomers, but like every other species that lived on planet
Earth—95% of which are extinct—we are subject to forces far greater than
anything we possess.
To suggest that humans actually cause
climate
change is such idiocy that
the Earth itself reminds us daily of our
vulnerabilities. The news is full of tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes,
blizzards, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and wildfires.
On February 7, Investors Business
Daily had an editorial titled “The Sun Also Sets” in which it cited the views of
Kenneth Tapping, a solar researcher and project
director for Canada’s National Research Council.
In essence, Tapping wants people to know that solar
activity such as sunspots, i.e., magnetic storms, “has been disturbingly quiet.”
It’s useful to know that global temperatures and events
closely reflect solar cycles.
The lack of activity “could signal the beginning of what is
known as the Maunder Minimum.” While solar
cycles tend to last about 11 years, the lack of normal or increased activity can
trigger the Maunder Minimum, an event that occurs every few centuries, can last
as long as a century, and causes a colder earth.
The most recent such event was the mini-Ice Age that
climatologists date from around 1300 to 1850. In the midst of this there was a
distinct solar hibernation from around 1650 to 1715.
“Tapping reports no change in the sun’s magnetic field so far
this cycle and if the sun remains quiet for another year or two, it may indicate
a repeat of that period of drastic cooling of the Earth,
bringing massive snowfall and severe weather to the Northern Hemisphere.”
If these events continue and become a cycle of cooling, it
represents a major threat to the Earth’s population because it means that food
crops will fail and, with them, the means to feed livestock, and the rest of us.
If you have been paying attention to global weather reports,
you know that China has had the heaviest snowfall in at least three decades.
David Deming, a geophysicist, in a December 19, 2007 article in The Washington
Times, noted that, “South America this year experienced one of its coldest
winters in decades. In Buenos Aires, snow fell for the first time since the year
1918.” This occurred across the entire Southern Hemisphere. “Johannesburg, South
Africa, had the first significant snowfall in 26 years. Australia experienced
the coldest June ever.”
It must be said that one big blizzard does not an
Ice Age make, but a whole series of events that
suggest a cooling cycle may well be the warning that is being ignored in the
midst of the vast global warming hoax.
Dr. Oleg Sorokhtin, Merited Scientist of Russia and fellow of
the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, is staff researcher of the Oceanology
Institute. He recently published a commentary asserting that a global cold spell
could replace global warming. Note that
the Earth has been warming—about one degree
Fahrenheit—since the last mini-Ice Age ended around 1850. “The real reasons for
climate change are uneven solar
radiation”, said Dr. Sorokhtin, while citing others that include the Earth’s
axis gyration and instability of oceanic currents.
“Astrophysics knows two solar
activity cycles, of 11 and 200 years. Both are caused by changes in the radius
and area of the irradiating solar surface.” Yes, the
Sun itself goes through periods of change. Dr. Sorokhtin believes that “Earth
has passed the peak of its warmer period and a fairly cold spell will set in
quite soon, by 2012. Real cold will come when solar
activity reaches its minimum, by 2041, and will last for 50-60 years or even
longer.”
There is a reason scientists refer to our current era as an
“interglacial period”, i.e., a time between Ice Ages.
Up to now, the mainstream media has ignored the cold reality
of the Earth’s known cooling cycles. They have been in complete thrall to the
howling of Al Gore with his endless lies about an imminent warming. Given the
accolade of a Nobel Prize and even a Hollywood Oscar, why should people
unschooled in science believe otherwise?
The United Nations International Panel on
Climate Change whose reports have been based, not on hard science such as
observations of solar activity, but on flawed, often
deliberately false computer models, has been the driving factor behind the
global warming hoax. What better way to assert
political and economic control over the Earth than
to create a global crisis? To their credit, many participants in the IPCC have
protested these reports.
Large numbers of scientists have sold their soul to the
global warming lies in order to receive millions in
research grants, but increasingly other scientists have been coming forth to
tell the truth. On March 2-4, several hundred will convene in New York for the
2008 International Conference on Climate Change to
offer papers and serve on panels disputing and debunking the
global warming hoax.
Beyond the climatic threat of a cooling planet is the one
posed by U.S. politicians and their counterparts in Europe who are seeking to
impose all manner of regulation and limits on energy use based on the false
assertion that greenhouse gas emissions are causing
global warming.
They want to mandate a “cap-and-trade” scheme that will make
some people and industries wealthy selling credits that will permit
greenhouse gas emissions. But it is not
greenhouse gases we need to fear, it is the action
or, in this case, the inaction of the Sun.
At the very moment the Earth is on
the cusp of what is likely to be a very long cooling and possibly a full scale
repeat of the last Ice Age, all the engines of
government, nationally and internationally, are trying to inhibit the discovery,
extraction, and use of energy reserves that will be needed to cope with climate
changes that will impact millions and, ultimately, billions of people.
All the wind turbines and solar panels in the world will not
keep you warm in your home or apartment when a short or long term cooling of the
Earth occurs. Ironically, as the Greens rant about so-called endangered polar
bears in the Arctic, the bears are far more likely to survive than humans.
