The Great Global Warming Hoax
by Alan Caruba

For decades, since the early 1980s, the entire world has been deluged with predictions of a coming "Global Warming." But there isn't a scintilla of scientific data to support these claims. Indeed, in the 1970's the same "environmentalists" were predicting a coming Ice Age. We are, in fact, in what climatologists called an "interglacial era." That is to say, we are between Ice Ages.

For about 10,000 years since the last Ice Age, civilization has followed with the spread of the human race out of Africa to all parts of the globe. If that Ice Age had not ended, there would be no civilization. Only the warming of the Earth made it possible.

According to Zbigniew Jaworowski, writing in the Winter 2003-2004 edition of 21st Century Science and Technology, "During the past million years there were eight to ten Ice Ages, each about 100,000 years long, interspaced with short, warm interglacial periods, each of about 10,000 duration." We are currently in the latest interglacial period.

"During the present interglacial there were two warm periods: Holocenic Warming (3,500 to 6,000 years ago) and the Medieval Warming (900 to 1100 AD). Medieval Warming was succeeded by a cold period, the Little Ice Age (1350 to 1880 AD)."

The environmental movement, dating from the publication of Rachel Carson's book, and the torrent of books that followed suggesting that the entire Earth's ecology was threatened by the human race, has been focused on reducing the role of humans and, in particular, our use and dependence on what they dubbed "fossil fuels", i.e., oil, coal, and natural gas.

The outcome of the massive, multi-million dollar propaganda campaign is the United Nations Kyoto protocol on "climate control." There simply is no such thing as climate control. The climate controls us, not the other way around. The climate, the perfect definition of chaos, is entirely dependent on the actions of the Sun, the oceans, the clouds, cosmic radiation, and other factors.

We have been told, over and over again, that human industry is producing too much carbon dioxide (CO2) as the result of industrial production. It is, of course, industrial production that provides us all the benefits of modern technology from cars to air condition to heated homes to everything else that constitutes our modern lives.

It is wealthy industrialized nations that do the best job of protecting the environment. Third world, impoverished nations do just the opposite. Everything in nature is degraded in their daily quest for survival.

The "business" of global warming has produced thousands of so-called scientists who make a living by proclaiming that every natural event, whether it be a blizzard or a hurricane, is an indication of global warming. They make their living issuing false predictions of near-term global warming that is said to mark the end of civilization.

The truth is just the opposite. A bit more warming would, in fact, aid in the expansion and growth of all agriculture, all the world's forests, and, indeed, on the reduction of natural resources required to heat homes and other structures. Simply stated, one's heating bill goes up in the winter and down in the summer.

It is essential to understand that all the global warming claims have been based on computer models. These statistical configurations are dependent on the meteorological data provided by those creating them. But the simple fact is that no amount of computers could ever begin to reflect the virtually impossible task of predicting what the weather will be in fifty, a hundred, or five hundred years. Most meteorological models such as those used by the US Weather Service can, at best, predict what the weather may be in thirty-six hours and can only guess what it will be a week from now. The margin of error is high. This explains why, as often as not, predictions of snowfall or other weather events is just as often in error as not.

Jaworowski estimates that the current budget for climate research "runs now to $5 billion worldwide, and the public is convinced that humans are responsible for a current, allegedly disastrous climate change."

The great danger of the so-called global warming theory and its use as the basis of the UN's Kyoto Protocol is its political agenda. The treaty is not about climate. It is about forcing nations to cut back CO2 emissions, i.e., the use of energy. Its stated intent is to reduce emissions by about 0.2oC in order to propone the predicted global temperature in 2100. Such a reduction would not even be noticeable, but its effect would prove devastating to the world's economy, particular for industrialized nations.

The United States Senate unanimously rejected the Kyoto Protocol in July 1997. President Bush again rejected it in March 2001 as "fatally flawed." Russian Federation President Vladimer Putin criticized it during the World Climate Change Conference in Moscow in 2003. His chief economic advisor, Andrei Illarionov, warned that the Protocol "would stymie economic growth. It will doom Russia to poverty, weakness and backwardness."

Remember what happened during recent electrical blackouts? Everything came to a stop. There is no global warming. There is no need to pay heed to any of the apocalyptic claims issued daily. Go and enjoy your life.

Alan Caruba writes a weekly column, "Warning Signs", posted on www.anxietycenter.com, the Internet site of The National Anxiety Center.