The Great Global Warming Swindle, Part 7
Pygmy houses in northern Republic of the Congo (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Part 6 of The Great Global Warming Swindle left off with the examination of misinformation coming from the “scientific” community itself.
For example, Professor Frederick Seitz, former president of the American National Academy of Sciences, wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal in which he cited censored comments from official IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reports
But this report is not what it appears to be–it is not the version that was approved by the contributing scientists listed on the title page.
At least 15 key sections of the science chapter of the report had been deleted. A couple of such examples:
“None of the studies cited above has shown clear evidence that we can attribute the observed [climate] changes to the specific causes of increases in greenhouse gases.”
“No study to date has positively attributed all or part [of the climate change observed to date] to anthropogenic [man made] causes.”
Dr. Seitz concluded:
I have never witnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer-review process than the events that led to this IPCC report.
Hmm. I thought this was “settled science”?
Well, at least those in the PC “scientific” establishment consider it so, regardless of what anyone else thinks.
Dr. Roy Spencer of NASA says it’s very hard to get funding when you go against the grain of AGW (anthropogenic global warming) theory, since that is what the elitists have decided is “correct.” Public disagreement can be harmful to your salary and even your job.
And for those who are already worshipping at the Temple of Global Warming, they have a strong interest in keeping up the charade of this discredited theory (perhaps even more strong than that of the people they attempt to brand as minions of the oil companies).
But it isn’t just “big money” interests that are at stake here; the push against modern development directly threatens some of the poorest people in the world.
Former environmental campaigner and author Paul Driessen says, “My big concern with global warming is that the policies being pushed to supposedly prevent global warming are having a disastrous effect on the world’s poorest people.”
Global warming enthusiasts insist that we avoid modern development, even if AGW theory is wrong; they call it the “precautionary principle.”
Meanwhile, such short-sightedness condemns those who lack basic conveniences like electricity from never obtaining these conveniences. This includes poor people who have to start fires in their homes with wood or animal dung, creating a terrible source of pollution right where they live. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 4 million children under the age of five die each year from respiratory illnesses caused by burning wood for cooking inside the home. Apparently a very real here-and-now threat must take a back seat to the imagined and unsubstantiated possibility of a threat 100 years or more down the road.
There is also no electricity for refrigerators or freezers to preserve food, and little ability to store clean water or easily heat water to make it sanitary.
But what are a few million deaths, plenty of disease and widespread squalor when environmentalists get to malign modern conveniences and feel good about themselves?
Come back to Dakota Voice tomorrow for the eighth and final installment of The Great Global Warming Swindle. If you missed them, be sure to watch Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6.
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