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Thursday, March 15, 2007
Thomas Sowell :: Townhall.com Columnist
Global Warming Swindle
by Thomas Sowell
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Britain's Channel 4 has produced a devastating documentary titled "The Great Global Warming Swindle." It has apparently not been broadcast by any of the networks in the United States. But, fortunately, it is available on the Internet.

Distinguished scientists specializing in climate and climate-related fields talk in plain English and present readily understood graphs showing what a crock the current global warming hysteria is.

These include scientists from MIT and top-tier universities in a number of countries. Some of these are scientists whose names were paraded on some of the global warming publications that are being promoted in the media -- but who state plainly that they neither wrote those publications nor approved them.

One scientist threatened to sue unless his name was removed.

While the public has been led to believe that "all" the leading scientists buy the global warming hysteria and the political agenda that goes with it, in fact the official reports from the United Nations or the National Academy of Sciences are written by bureaucrats -- and then garnished with the names of leading scientists who were "consulted," but whose contrary conclusions have been ignored.

There is no question that the globe is warming but it has warmed and cooled before, and is not as warm today as it was some centuries ago, before there were any automobiles and before there was as much burning of fossil fuels as today.

None of the dire things predicted today happened then.

The British documentary goes into some of the many factors that have caused the earth to warm and cool for centuries, including changes in activities on the sun, 93 million miles away and wholly beyond the jurisdiction of the Kyoto treaty.

According to these climate scientists, human activities have very little effect on the climate, compared to many other factors, from volcanoes to clouds.

These climate scientists likewise debunk the mathematical models that have been used to hype global warming hysteria, even though hard evidence stretching back over centuries contradicts these models.

What is even scarier than seeing how easily the public, the media, and the politicians have been manipulated and stampeded, is discovering how much effort has been put into silencing scientists who dare to say that the emperor has no clothes. Continued...

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Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and author of Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy.
 
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Subject: Americans are odd.
Why do Americans frame global warming as a left-right thing? For what its worth, The Great Global Warming Swindle IS a leftist argument. In fact, a Communist argument. Durkin and his colleagues in the Revolutionary Communist Party have been making the same arguments for decades, published in Durkin's documentaries and in the pages of their (now defunct)magazine, Living Marxism. In Durkin's previous doc, Against Nature, his assistant was Eve Kaye a key figure in the RCP (and married to an author of its manifesto). “Independent Experts” on the documentary included Frank Furedi (Frank Richards) and John Gillott, both Living Marxism writers. The Revolutionary Communist Party has also launched a series of front organisations against environmentalism including The Science Media Centre, the Institute of Ideas, Spiked Online, and Sense About Science.

Please stop this silliness.

Thomas Sowell is an Exxon funded Stooge
The Hoover Institute is Exxon-Mobil funded and Exxon have been running a covert disinformation program for many years to undermine the science of global warming, the IPCC and Kyoto.
Thomas Sowell is part of this scientific fraud & deception.
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