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20070804

GGW Book Club



"Global warming":


the Left's last best chance to gain a stranglehold on our political system and economy

For decades, environmentalism has been the Left's best excuse for increasing government control over our actions in ways both large and small. It's for Mother Earth! It's for the children! It's for the whales! But until now, the doomsday-scenario environmental scares they've trumped up haven't been large enough to justify the lifestyle restrictions they want to impose. With global warming, however, greenhouse gasbags can argue that auto emissions in Ohio threaten people in Paris, and that only "global governance" (Jacques Chirac's words) can tackle such problems.

Now, in The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Global Warming and Environmentalism, Christopher C. Horner tears the cover off the Left's manipulation of environmental issues for political purposes--and lays out incontrovertible evidence for the fact that catastrophic man-made global warming is just more Chicken-Little hysteria, not actual science. He explains why, although Al Gore and his cronies among the media elites and UN globalists endlessly bleat that "global warming" is an unprecedented global crisis, they really think of it as a dream come true. It's the ideal scare campaign for those who hate capitalism and love big government. For, as Horner explains, if global warming really were as bad as the Leftist doomsayers insist it is, then no policy imaginable could "solve" it. According to the logic of the greens' own numbers, no matter how much we sacrifice there would still be more to do. That makes global warming the bottomless well of excuses for the relentless growth of big government.

Horner (an attorney and senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute) reveals the full anti-American, anti-capitalist, and anti-human agenda of today's environmentalists, dubbing them "green on the outside, red to the core." He details how they use strong-arm legal tactics--and worse--against those who dare to point out the weakness of their arguments for global warming. Along the way, he explodes ten top global warming myths, carefully examining the evidence to determine how much warming there really is and what is actually causing it. He exposes the lies that the environmental lobby routinely tells to make its case; the ways in which it is trying to impose initiatives such as the Kyoto Protocol on an unwilling American public; and much more--including the green lobby's favorite politicians (John Kerry, John McCain, Joe Lieberman, and others).


It's time to stand up to the environmentalist industry and insist: human beings are not the enemy. In breezy, light-hearted, and always entertaining fashion, The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Global Warming and Environmentalism gives you the facts you need to do so.

20070709

Le "réchauffement climatique" à l'oeuvre...


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VAGUE DE FROID MORTELLE EN ARGENTINE ET AU CHILI
09/07/2007


Une vague de froid mortelle sévit en Amérique du Sud, touchant particulièrement l'Argentine dont la capitale Buenos Aires s'est retrouvée pour la première fois depuis 1918 sous la neige qui paralysait les routes et les aéroports de Bolivie.

En Argentine, le corps d'un homme d'une soixantaine d'années a été découvert sans vie devant l'entrée d'un immeuble de Rosario (300 km au nord de Buenos Aires) et celui d'un autre sans-abri ayant succombé au froid a été retrouvé lundi matin dans une rue de la capitale, selon la police.

Les habitants de Buenos Aires ont eu la surprise lundi de voir la neige tomber sur la capitale et ses environs, ce qui n'était plus arrivé depuis le mois de juin 1918.

Une tempête de neige, d'une violence inconnue depuis 30 ans, a frappé Mendoza, ville située au pied de la Cordillère des Andes à 1.099 km à l'ouest de Buenos Aires, selon le Service de météorologie nationale (SMN).

Les abondantes chutes de neige et la force du vent soufflant à 140 km/h ont provoqué lundi la fermeture du tunnel du Christ Rédempteur, qui relie l'Argentine au Chili où étaient bloqués quelque 3.000 camions, selon l'agence nationale de sécurité routière.

La neige a recouvert également la région du nord-est, la ville de La Rioja en particulier, où on n'avait pas connu un tel phénomène depuis septembre 1976.

Les principales routes qui relient La Paz aux autres régions du pays ont été coupées à cause de la neige qui par certains endroits a atteint 15 cm d'épaisseur, et où les températures sont descendues jusqu'à 7 degrés en-dessous de zéro, selon le Service National de météréologie et d'hydrologie (Senamhi).

Au Chili, les températures ont chuté jusqu'à -18 degrés Celsius au centre du pays à la fin de la semaine. Cette vague de froid, qui a fait un mort dans la région de la Araucania (sud), devrait se poursuivre au cours des trois prochains jours, selon les services météorologiques.

L'Uruguay est également affecté par cette masse d'air polaire qui progresse à l'intérieur du territoire et devrait entraîner des températures minimales proches de zéro degré, a averti la direction nationale de météorologie lundi.

Totalitarisme nouveau genre


"Kyoto, like global warming, is more political than scientific. Neither stands up to scientific scrutiny; both appeal to those who favour more state control and economic restrictions, and who favour redistribution of wealth and resources at the expense of the U.S. "

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THE MYTH OF KYOTO
Peter Worthington
09/01/2005


THROUGHOUT THE Cold War, until the final collapse of the Soviet Empire, there were always people in the West -- usually well-educated -- who believed in the good intentions of communism.

Universities were an incubator for Marxism and a benign view of Soviet altruism. When Sovietism became tainted after "aberrations" like crushing the Hungarian rebellion (1956) and the invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968), admiration was shifted to China and the humanitarianism of Mao Tse-tung. Until he was also discredited.

Such people tended to blame the West (i.e. the U.S.) for the Cold War, and figured if we disarmed, the Kremlin would also disarm, making the world safer.

When the Soviet Union imploded, I and others wrote that the types who once saw humanity in Marxism would now switch to the environment and see salvation for mankind in opposing those they felt were desecrating nature.

Out of this "instinct" emerged the Kyoto Accord -- the campaign to fight global warming which supposedly threatens the world, but is a myth.

One who combats the Kyoto/global warming myth is novelist Michael Crichton, whose new book, State of Fear, is a thriller laced with indisputable facts. Another is America and Europe by Canadian Craig Read. Both books should make those who espouse Kyoto feel foolish.

Kyoto, like global warming, is more political than scientific. Neither stands up to scientific scrutiny; both appeal to those who favour more state control and economic restrictions, and who favour redistribution of wealth and resources at the expense of the U.S.

New ice age

Warnings of global warming by the UN and select scientists are reminiscent of UN warnings around 1970 that a new ice age was approaching -- which it may well be, in a thousand years or so.

Like Crichton, Read notes that climate change is one of the least-understood sciences, involving the sun, atmosphere, oceans, land surface, ice sheets, the biosphere, cloud coverage, etc. -- all relationships impossible to gauge or predict in modelling programs by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which advises the UN.

The more one examines global warming, the less likely it seems that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have anything but a negligible effect. The Kyoto agreement calls for developed nations to reduce CO2 emissions to 1990 levels, but okays poor countries continuing with fossil fuel emissions until they catch up to developed country emissions. Poor nations can even sell their "credits" to rich countries that can continue violating standards.

Does that make sense? Of course not. More, Kyoto seems an intricate scheme to redistribute wealth -- to hold back rich countries so poorer ones can catch up.

The U.S. has rejected Kyoto. That means it's dead.

No evidence

In fact, there's no evidence that CO2 is damaging to nature. Also, there is solid scientific evidence that CO2 lags average temperature rises by several centuries. CO2 levels were higher at the end of the last ice age (114,000 years ago) than during the much warmer period 43 million years earlier. CO2 levels are higher today than the relatively hot period 17 million years ago.

Scientifically, there seems little relation between CO2 levels and warmth. Cold summers and hot winters (and vice-versa) are far more likely to be cyclical -- nothing to do with SUVs or air conditioners.

From 1910-1945, temperatures rose slightly, then cooled between 1945 and 1975 -- when, inexplicably, CO2 emissions rose. Temperatures rose again 1975-2000, with the CO2 rise negligible.

I'm no scientist, but I recognize political agendas and wealth-redistribution schemes. And Kyoto and IPCC are recognizably political rather than scientific. SUVs and world trade are irrelevant to changes in the weather or climate.

What exactly is Kyoto? It seems aimed at reducing the energy advantage enjoyed by the U.S. It also advances the lib-left's influence on environmental control and media support. It enhances more government control over the economy, and limits independence and entrepreneurial projects.

These goals are reminiscent of discredited Marxism.

As in the bad old days of the Cold War, when the average working guy, more than the enlightened academic, knew instinctively that Marxism was up to no good, so working people today ignore the warnings of impending doom if Kyoto doesn't succeed.

First, cyclical weather changes are normal and inevitable. Second, a little more global warming this winter would be welcome.

20070708

Jihadists Against Climate Change

Un nouveau concept: l'islamoécologisme. Vous ne verrez plus le "réchauffement climatique" de la même façon..:

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PRAYER PLEA OF 'BOMBER'
07/07/2007

TERROR suspect Kafeel Ahmed asked his family to pray for him hours before he crashed a burning Jeep into Glasgow Airport.

Police believe his phone calls to them in India were coded messages referring to the failed Central London car bombs and to the Scottish attack.

Police in India were yesterday questioning his father Maqboo, mother Zakia, both doctors, and student sister Sadia about the phone calls. In the first message on May 5, according to the Times of India newspaper, Ahmed said: "I am involved in a large-scale confidential project. It is about global warming. I cannot reveal the details.

"The project has to be started in the United Kingdom. Various people from various countries are involved in this. There is an Indian with me and he is helping me out. He has given his car to me for travelling."


20070625

"Reality check" climatique


Friends of Science is a non-profit organization made up of active and retired engineers, earth scientists and other professionals, as well as many concerned Canadians, who believe the science behind the Kyoto Protocol is questionable. Friends of Science has assembled a scientific advisory board of esteemed climate scientists from around the world to offer a critical mass of current science on global climate and climate change to policy makers, and any interested parties.

We offer critical evidence that challenges the premises of the Kyoto Protocol and present alternative causes for climate change.

Friends of Science values your input, either on the science or policy of global warming. And, if you’re as concerned as we are about global policy based on weak science, please join us to spark a national and international debate on global warming:


www.friendsofscience.org/


SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD

- Dr. Sallie Baliunas, Research scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Dr. Chris de Freitas, Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Auckland
- Dr. Madhav Khandekar, Meteorologist retired, formerly with Environment Canada
- Dr. Tim Patterson, Professor of Geology and Paleoclimatology, Carleton University

CATASTROPHE CLIMATIQUE ANNULÉE: CE QUE L'ON NE VOUS DIT PAS SUR LES CHANGEMENTS CLIMATIQUES
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Apocalypse Now

"Ce qui menace la planète, ce n'est pas le réchauffement climatique mais les politiques économiques stupides qui pourraient en dériver."

- Gary Becker, Prix Nobel d'économie et professeur à l'Université de Chicago