For anyone interested in the global warming scam I would recommend Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth by Christopher Booker and Richard North.
+++Modern society has regularly, in recent years, been gripped by a series of headline making “scares” - from mad cow disease to SARS – which have become one of the most conspicuous and damaging features of our modern world. This book is the first to tell the inside story of each of the major scares of the past two decades, showing how they have followed a remarkably consistent pattern. It analyzes the crucial role played in each case by scientists how have misread or manipulated the evidence; by media and lobbyists who eagerly promote the scare without regard to the facts; and finally by the politicians and officials who come up with an absurdly disproportionate response, leaving us all to pay the price, which may run into billions of dollars. Scared to Death culminates in a chillingly detailed account of the story behind what the authors believe has become the greatest scare of them all: the belief that the world faces disaster through manmade global warming. In a final chapter, the authors take on its proponents such as Al Gore in a devastating critique of the consensus on global warming and its consequences.+++
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Basically, the facts are these. Global warming is a lie. The hockey stick graph promoted by Al Gore and others was fabricated, and in fact, the 1930s were hotter than any decade since. There was a period of cooling from 1940 to 1975, just when carbon emissions were at their highest. Since then, the temperature has risen again somewhat. Measurements taken near cities, however, have been distorted due to the heat of the city. The cycles of cooling and warming are not linked to carbon emissions, but are very closely linked to the sunspot cycle, which is an indicator of the strength of the sun’s magnetic field.
During the Medieval Warming Period temperatures were higher than today and more land was under cultivation. In general, warmer periods (one coincided with the Roman period as well) were times of increased prosperity and stability. This is obvious when you think about it. Something that is warmer and wetter is more likely to be conducive to life and growth than something that is colder and drier.
The measures taken to combat global warming are patheticially ineffectual, and grossly expensive. Nothing we can do as humans, save, for example, exploding all our nuclear weapons at once, could possibily have any real effect on the climate, which is a force of nature beyond our control. It is typical human arrogance to assume that we can.
To summarise:
- Global warming isn’t actually happening.
- Even if it is, it is caused by the sun.
- Even if humans are causing it, there’s nothing we can do to stop it.
- Global warming is a good thing.
Don’t get me wrong, I am most certainly an environmentalist. But this is a completely separate issue.