The Amazing Story Behind the Global Warming Scam

[Drew]

The Amazing Story Behind the Global Warming Scam

By John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel

The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax we citizens for our carbon footprints. Only two details stand in the way, the faltering economic times and a dramatic turn toward a colder climate.  The last two bitter winters have led to a rise in public awareness that there is no runaway global warming. The public is now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints from the use of fossil fuels is going to lead to climatic calamities.

How did we ever get to this point where bad science is driving big government to punish the citizens for living the good life that fossil fuels provide for us? 

The story begins with an Oceanographer named Roger Revelle. He served with the Navy in World War II.  After the war he became the Director of the Scripps Oceanographic Institute in La Jolla in San Diego, California. Revelle saw the opportunity to obtain major funding from the Navy for doing measurements and research on the ocean around the Pacific Atolls where the US military was conducting atomic bomb tests. He greatly expanded the Institute's areas of interest and among others hired Hans Suess, a noted Chemist from the University of Chicago, who was very interested in the traces of carbon in the environment from the burning of fossil fuels. Revelle tagged on to Suess studies and co-authored a paper with him in 1957. The paper raises the possibility that the carbon dioxide might be creating a greenhouse effect and causing atmospheric warming.  It seems to be a plea for funding for more studies. Funding, frankly, is where Revelle's mind was most of the time.

Next Revelle hired a Geochemist named David Keeling to devise a way to measure the atmospheric content of Carbon dioxide. In 1960 Keeling published his first paper showing the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and linking the increase to the burning of fossil fuels.
These two research papers became the bedrock of the science of global warming, even though they offered no proof that carbon dioxide was in fact a greenhouse gas. In addition they failed to explain how this trace gas, only a tiny fraction of the atmosphere, could have any significant impact on temperatures.

Now let me take you back to the1950s when this was going on.  Our cities were entrapped in a pall of pollution from the crude internal combustion engines that powered cars and trucks back then and from the uncontrolled emissions from power plants and factories. Cars and factories and power plants were filling the air with all sorts of pollutants. There was a valid and serious concern about the health consequences of this pollution and a strong environmental movement was developing to demand action. Government accepted this challenge and new environmental standards were set.  Scientists and engineers came to the rescue.  New reformulated fuels were developed for cars, as were new high tech, computer controlled engines and catalytic converters. By the mid seventies cars were no longer big time polluters, emitting only some carbon dioxide and water vapor from their tail pipes.  Likewise, new fuel processing and smoke stack scrubbers were added to industrial and power plants and their emissions were greatly reduced, as well.

But an environmental movement had been established and its funding and very existence depended on having a continuing crisis issue. So the research papers from Scripps came at just the right moment. And, with them came the birth of an issue; man-made global warming from the carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.

Revelle and Keeling used this new alarmism to keep their funding growing. Other researchers with environmental motivations and a hunger for funding saw this developing and climbed aboard as well. The research grants began to flow and alarming hypothesis began to show up everywhere.

The Keeling curve showed a steady rise in CO2 in atmosphere during the period since oil and coal were discovered and used by man. As of today, carbon dioxide has increased from 215 to 385 parts per million. But, despite the increases, it is still only a trace gas in the atmosphere. While the increase is real, the percentage of the atmosphere that is CO2 remains tiny, about 41 hundredths of one percent.

Several hypothesis emerged in the 70s and 80s about how this tiny atmospheric component of CO2 might cause a significant warming. But they remained unproven.  Years have passed and the scientists kept reaching out for evidence of the warming and proof of their theories.  And, the money and environmental claims kept on building up.

Back in the 1960s, this global warming research came to the attention of a Canadian born United Nation's bureaucrat named Maurice Strong.  He was looking for issues he could use to fulfill his dream of one-world government. Strong organized a World Earth Day event in Stockholm, Sweden in 1970.  From this he developed a committee of scientists, environmentalists and political operatives from the UN to continue a series of meeting.

Strong developed the concept that the UN could demand payments from the advanced nations for the climatic damage from their burning of fossil fuels to benefit the underdeveloped nations, a sort of CO2 tax that would be the funding for his one-world government.  But, he needed more scientific evidence to support his primary thesis.  So Strong championed the establishment of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  This was not a pure climate study scientific organization, as we have been led to believe.  It was an organization of one-world government UN bureaucrats, environmental activists and environmentalist scientists who craved the UN funding so they could produce the science they needed to stop the burning of fossil fuels.  Over the last 25 years they have been very effective.  Hundreds of scientific papers, four major international meetings and reams of news stories about climatic Armageddon later, the UN IPCC has made its points to the satisfaction of most and even shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.

At the same time, that Maurice Strong was busy at the UN, things were getting a bit out of hand for the man who is now called the grandfather of global warming, Roger Revelle.  He had been very politically active in the late 1950's as he worked to have the University of California locate a San Diego campus adjacent to Scripps Institute in La Jolla.  He won that major war, but lost an all important battle afterward when he was passed over in the selection of the first Chancellor of the new campus.

He left Scripps finally in 1963 and moved to Harvard University to establish a Center for Population Studies.  It was there that Revelle inspired one of his students to become a major global warming activist.  This student would say later, "It felt like such a privilege to be able to hear about the readouts from some of those measurements in a group of no more than a dozen undergraduates.  Here was this teacher presenting something not years old but fresh out of the lab, with profound implications for our future!"  The student described him as "a wonderful, visionary professor" who was "one of the first people in the academic community to sound the alarm on global warming," That student was Al Gore.  He thought of Dr. Revelle as his mentor and referred to him frequently, relaying his experiences as a student in his book Earth in the Balance, published in 1992.

So there it is, Roger Revelle was indeed the grandfather of global warming.  His work had laid the foundation for the UN IPCC, provided the anti-fossil fuel ammunition to the environmental movement and sent Al Gore on his road to his books, his move, his Nobel Peace Prize and a hundred million dollars from the carbon credits business.
What happened next is amazing.

The global warming frenzy was becoming the cause celeb of the media. After all the media is mostly liberal, loves Al Gore, loves to warn us of impending disasters and tell us "the sky is falling, the sky is falling". The politicians and the environmentalist loved it, too.

Source: http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/38574742.html

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[Drew]

But the tide was turning with Roger Revelle. He was forced out at Harvard at 65 and returned to California and a semi retirement position at UCSD. There he had time to rethink Carbon Dioxide and the greenhouse effect. The man who had inspired Al Gore and given the UN the basic research it needed to launch its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was having second thoughts. In 1988 he wrote two cautionary letters to members of Congress. He wrote, "My own personal belief is that we should wait another 10 or 20 years to really be convinced that the greenhouse effect is going to be important for human beings, in both positive and negative ways." He added, "?we should be careful not to arouse too much alarm until the rate and amount of warming becomes clearer."

And in 1991 Revelle teamed up with Chauncey Starr, founding director of the Electric Power Research Institute and Fred Singer, the first director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service, to write an article for Cosmos magazine. They urged more research and begged scientists and governments not to move too fast to curb greenhouse CO2 emissions because the true impact of carbon dioxide was not at all certain and curbing the use of fossil fuels could have a huge negative impact on the economy and jobs and our standard of living. I have discussed this collaboration with Dr. Singer. He assures me that Revelle was considerably more certain than he was at the time that carbon dioxide was not a problem.

Did Roger Revelle attend the Summer enclave at the Bohemian Grove in Northern California in the Summer of 1990 while working on that article? Did he deliver a lakeside speech there to the assembled movers and shakers from Washington and Wall Street in which he apologized for sending the UN IPCC and Al Gore onto this wild goose chase about global warming? Did he say that the key scientific conjecture of his lifetime had turned out wrong? The answer to those questions is, "I think so, but I do not know it for certain". I have not managed to get it confirmed as of this moment. It?s a little like Las Vegas; what is said at the Bohemian Grove stays at the Bohemian Grove. There are no transcripts or recordings and people who attend are encouraged not to talk. Yet, the topic is so important, that some people have shared with me on an informal basis.

Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam.

Al Gore has dismissed Roger Revelle?s Mea culpa as the actions of senile old man. And, the next year, while running for Vice President, he said the science behind global warming is settled and there will be no more debate, From 1992 until today, he and his cohorts have refused to debate global warming and when ask about we skeptics they simply insult us and call us names.

So today we have the acceptance of carbon dioxide as the culprit of global warming. It is concluded that when we burn fossil fuels we are leaving a dastardly carbon footprint which we must pay Al Gore or the environmentalists to offset. Our governments on all levels are considering taxing the use of fossil fuels. The Federal Environmental Protection Agency is on the verge of naming CO2 as a pollutant and strictly regulating its use to protect our climate. The new President and the US congress are on board. Many state governments are moving on the same course.

We are already suffering from this CO2 silliness in many ways. Our energy policy has been strictly hobbled by no drilling and no new refineries for decades. We pay for the shortage this has created every time we buy gas. On top of that the whole thing about corn based ethanol costs us millions of tax dollars in subsidies. That also has driven up food prices. And, all of this is a long way from over.

And, I am totally convinced there is no scientific basis for any of it.

Global Warming. It is the hoax. It is bad science. It is a highjacking of public policy. It is no joke. It is the greatest scam in history.

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For more info on the global warming scam, check out Coleman's Corner.

Source: http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/38574742.html

[mrlee]

Well they could just let us use the water engines they bought out n hid to avoid this emergency so then they wouldnt have to tax us at all....


But no, cant have that can we.

[Axl4Prez2004]

Sorry Drew...anthropogenic warming is real.  Yes, it sucks to have to deal with it during a recession...but it's the responsible thing to do.   

[Drew]

Sorry Drew...anthropogenic warming is real.  Yes, it sucks to have to deal with it during a recession...but it's the responsible thing to do.   

Some scientist say it does and some scientist say it doesn't. The earth's temperatures have continued to rise and fall over the past 4.5 billion years.

[Axl4Prez2004]

Sorry Drew...anthropogenic warming is real.  Yes, it sucks to have to deal with it during a recession...but it's the responsible thing to do.   

Some scientist say it does and some scientist say it doesn't. The earth's temperatures have continued to rise and fall over the past 4.5 billion years.

Oh Drew you heathen, everybody knows God created the Earth about 10,000 years ago!  just kidding.

Seriously though, with the exception of times in our past, times of cataclysmic change like the massive meteor collision in the Yucatan that helped to take out the dinosaurs, the rise in global temps has never occurred so fast...this corresponds with the rise of the industrial revolution in the 19th century...and has been rising rapidly over the past century and a half.  Yes, there have been many ice ages and warmer ages, but the difference is with the time frame.  We are helping to accelerate the warming in hundreds of years when in the past it was millions.   

[SLCPUNK]

Sorry Drew...anthropogenic warming is real.  Yes, it sucks to have to deal with it during a recession...but it's the responsible thing to do.   

Some scientist say it does and some scientist say it doesn't. The earth's temperatures have continued to rise and fall over the past 4.5 billion years.

Some scientists funded by BP....

[Axl4Prez2004]

There are also some scientists who don't recognize the existence of evolution.   

[SLCPUNK]

"Scientists"

[Drew]

Some scientists funded by BP....

Why the other scientist are funded by Al Gore and his Liberal Democrats.

[D]

 I am one of those that see Global Warming as another scare tactic to control you


The other day, My professor at college was talking about how now, they have shown women are having  more heart attacks after child birth!

OH MY GOD, better not have babies, u will die!!!!!!!!!! bullshit scare tactic to control the population, those studies don't take into account that the heart attacks are probably from very old women who shouldn't have babies that late.


Same with Global Warming. Hell in the 70's I think it was, the earth was getting colder and they thought we were headed for another ice age.

The earth revolves around the sun, at certain points, the earth revolves a little closer.


whatever happened to the Ozone Layer and the big hole in it? that was over 20 years ago. shouldn't it be completely fucked by now?

U don't hear much about the ozone layer anymore.

Global Warming is a political tool, to have some cause to rally behind.

the earth is gonna get .5 degrees warmer over the next 100 years.

The weatherman can't predict what its gonna do tomorrow, how the fuck can they 100 years from now?

[Axl4Prez2004]

"The weatherman can't predict what its gonna do tomorrow, how the fuck can they 100 years from now?"


...so, you'll agree with the weatherman in the article Drew posted?  Kinda ironic.   

D, tell me what the ulterior motive is here for the "global warming alarmists."  We all know why the oil companies pay scientists to poke holes in the theory of global warming just like the churches pay scientists to try and poke holes in evolution.  Is it fear for the sake of fear?

Honestly, I've never seen Gore's movie.  Personally, I don't buy the extent of all the doom and gloom (I'll agree with you there)...I do think though, that yes, the greenhouse effect is real.  The changes occurring did not happen this rapidly in Earth's 4 1/2 billion years.  Why are they occurring now?  I think the answer is obvious.  You can't keep sending this shit into the atmosphere and think it has no effect.  That's lunacy. 

[D]

we agree on this Axl4prez. I have never claimed that the earth could not be warming but the whole idea of the earth exploding and the doom and gloom stuff just isn't something I believe.

Look at the weather for instance, it isn't like record highs are being recorded every single day or even every single week.

I just believe the earth is cylical in nature. Its only discussed now cause people have instruments etc to gauge things


what do u mean, what motive does someone have?

Scientist get PAID right? If u keep scaring people with global warming, u will get "MORE MONEY" to do research with.

If they come out tomorrow and say GW is bullshit, guess what? they stop getting paid.

U use the trick of fear into getting people to make u rich. Its the oldest scam in the book.

Hell Bush used it to get re elected.

[western_chaos]

D, the way you talk makes you sound very unintelligent.

If you would maybe, not post swear words and actually research what you are saying, then maybe you wouldn't come off so...naive.

Scientists, and experts, may differ on when exactly the o-zone layer will be completely depleted, but global warming is a very inconvenient truth (lol) and if people want to just ignore the truth on this subject, and our species will perish if we don't recognize what we our doing to our planet.

[jarmo]

So are you saying the fact that mankind puts all kinds of shit in the air, sea and on land can't affect the climate?




/jarmo

[Drew]

So are you saying the fact that mankind puts all kinds of shit in the air, sea and on land can't affect the climate?




/jarmo

Not in the scare tactic and scam alarming method people want to make it out to be.

[SLCPUNK]

I am one of those that see Global Warming as another scare tactic to control you


The other day, My professor at college was talking about how now, they have shown women are having  more heart attacks after child birth!

OH MY GOD, better not have babies, u will die!!!!!!!!!! bullshit scare tactic to control the population, those studies don't take into account that the heart attacks are probably from very old women who shouldn't have babies that late.

What was the premise of his statement? What was his point? Do you really believe that he was trying to find a way to scare you? What was the context of the discussion?

[SLCPUNK]

So are you saying the fact that mankind puts all kinds of shit in the air, sea and on land can't affect the climate?




/jarmo

Not in the scare tactic and scam alarming method people want to make it out to be.

Behind the method of "scare tactics" must lay a motive, reveal to us all what it is.

[Drew]

Behind the method of "scare tactics" must lay a motive, reveal to us all what it is.

Everything that comes out of Gore's mouth is a scare tactic. Him saying last week that the time is now to pass this "stimulus" bill or it will be too late! More money for his pet projects.

[jarmo]

So because Gore thinks money should be spent on Global Warning, it must be a scam?


You don't think it would be a good idea to cut down on putting shit in the atmosphere or oceans?





/jarmo