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The Truth Will
Out
By Kate Burch
Many of us have long suspected that Global Warming/Climate Change (or
whatever) is a scam. Some of us, including my physicist husband,
have known that it is a scam. Demands that we common folk reduce
our “carbon footprint” while the elites conspicuously consume have
raised suspicions and ire. The waste of billions on subsidies to
failed “green” energy upstarts like Solyndra have troubled
many. Recent pronouncements by the administration that
climate change presents a greater threat to Americans than Islamic
terrorism have impressed probably most people as incredible. In
short, there are more and more indications that the whole story is
unraveling.
Now, just in this month, I’ve seen several articles that provide rather
remarkable information countering the warmists’ claims.
On February 7, an article in the Telegraph by Christopher Booker
revealed widespread “adjustment” of official surface temperature
records to suggest much more warming than had actually occurred.
One example is of the published temperature graphs of three weather
stations in Paraguay. Here an actual 60-years-long cooling trend
had been changed to one that showed a marked warming. Similar
“adjustments” have been found in South Africa and across the Arctic,
between Canada and Siberia. Booker also reports that the
“vanishing” of polar ice is not due to rising global temperature at
all, but rather to warmer water brought in by a cyclical shift in a
major Atlantic current.
It was reported on February 10 in an Investors’ Business Daily
editorial that Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said while
speaking in Brussels two weeks ago that the goal of environmentalists
is not to save the planet, but rather to destroy capitalism.
Even environmentalists like Bjorn Lomborg, while he still asserts that
the earth is warming and that it is a problem, admits that the
predicted temperature increases and alarmist warnings about more
frequent droughts and hurricanes have just not happened. He
writes these days about the greater importance of promoting economic
growth in poor countries as a means of helping them cope with natural
disasters. He said, in a February 2 piece in the Wall Street
Journal, “...for at least the next two decades, solar and wind energy
are simply expensive, feel-good measures that will have an
imperceptible climate impact.”
Notwithstanding that the environmentalist activists have pretty well
captured the educational establishment, and that the mainstream media
are all on board with them, information to contradict the “big lie” of
climate change is available and, we can hope, will gradually reach more
people and ease this threat to our prosperity and our position in the
world.
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