“Environmentalism is a way of introducing new forms of statism, new forms of masterminding human society from above.”
President of the Czech Republic
Cato Institute (MP3)
“Too many journalists and scientists have built their careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers have staked their reputation on it. The death of this theory will be painful and ugly. But it will die. Because it is wrong, wrong, wrong.”
The World of Man-Made Global Warming Supporters is in a Serious State.
“I very much welcome your detailed and well constructed critique of the IPCC and man made global warming.”
Dr. R Bond, website visitor
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister
|How Accurate is Temperature Data?
Global Warming believers make a song and dance about temperature data which they claim proves the earth is getting warmer, but how accurate is that data?
Clearly it is not possible to measure the temperature at all points on the earth, so estimates of global temperatures are based on samples taken at specific locations known as 'groundstations'.
Now you might think that it would be sensible for those groundstations to be placed so as to be as free as possible from any local influences that might adversely affect their readings. That would be obvious wouldn't it? You wouldn't place a groundstation next to any man-made source of heat or cold would you? That would be just plain stupid wouldn't it? If you did that someone might be forgiven for suspecting that you were trying to make the world seem warmer than it actually is.
Here then is a photo of the NOAA's National Weather Service's Cooperative Observer Program MMTS temperature sensor at Fort Morgan, Colorado, USA.
'Cooperative'? Cooperative in what sense exactly?
More: Watts Up With That?
Professor David Bellamy reveals the truth about Global Warming
Daily Mail, 2004-07-09. Click to download a copy of the article (pdf 321k)
Although some scientifically ignorant people refer to carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles as "pollution", carbon dioxide is a natural constituent of the atmosphere. It is breathed out by all living animals and is essential to the existence of all green plants, they breathe it in! In fact plants grow better in an atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide.
Of course we would not want to upset the balance of gases in the atmosphere, but the way some self-styled "environmentalists" talk you would think cars were major contributors to atmospheric carbon dioxide. This is not in fact the case; worldwide, all road transport contributes just 0.6% of atmospheric carbon dioxide!
The scare story put about is that carbon dioxide emissions cause "global warming". Yet many scientists are unconvinced that such a relationship exists. Others believe global warming is an entirely natural phenomenon which actually causes an increase in carbon dioxide for there is a growing body of evidence that levels of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere have been ebbing and flowing for over 500 million years due to solar activity.
Others point out that even if global warming happens, so what? The apocalyptic doomsday scenarios so loved by greens are just scaremongering nonsense. It was warmer in Britain in Roman times than it is now.
|'The Skeptical Environmentalist' — a book by Danish professor of statistics Bjørn Lomborg — has thrown the greens into apoplexy. In it, Lomborg, a former member of Greenpeace, reveals how the international green movement is either misguided, mendacious or just plain wrong, on almost every major environmental issue.
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