As the ‘consensus’ of ‘experts’ in the field are reported to have conclusive proof of man-made global warming I cast my mind back to middle school when we taught that the world was cooling and that the next ice age was coming. When I mention this factor, few seem to recollect this fact, especially the brain-washed masses that have swallowed Auntie Beeb’s agenda based reporting.
However, my brother found this little nugget from a 1975 issue of Newsweek (it’s a 300K PDF file) which talks all about how scientists are concerned about the cooling of the earth. Back then these people (presumably a similar ‘consensus’ of ‘experts’ that we are listening to now) were proposing ideas such as ‘melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot’ - in a bid to heat the earth up!
Why are people so readily convinced by the bad science being pedalled today that they are happy to roll on their backs and accept any manner of taxes our government introduces under the guise of caring for the planet?
I’m also shocked by the complete lack of reporting in the general media of the ‘Manhattan Declaration’. Chances are, you won’t have heard a peep about this (because the BBC and the rest of the European media are too lazy/stupid to report it or it doesn’t suit their agenda) so here it is in full:
Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change
“Global warming” is not a global crisis
We, the scientists and researchers in climate and related fields, economists, policymakers, and business leaders, assembled at Times Square, New York City, participating in the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change,
Resolving that scientific questions should be evaluated solely by the scientific method;
Affirming that global climate has always changed and always will, independent of the actions of humans, and that carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant but rather a necessity for all life;
Recognising that the causes and extent of recently observed climatic change are the subject of intense debates in the climate science community and that oft-repeated assertions of a supposed ‘consensus’ among climate experts are false;
Affirming that attempts by governments to legislate costly regulations on industry and individual citizens to encourage CO2 emission reduction will slow development while having no appreciable impact on the future trajectory of global climate change. Such policies will markedly diminish future prosperity and so reduce the ability of societies to adapt to inevitable climate change, thereby increasing, not decreasing, human suffering;
Noting that warmer weather is generally less harmful to life on Earth than colder:
Hereby declare:
That current plans to restrict anthropogenic CO2 emissions are a dangerous misallocation of intellectual capital and resources that should be dedicated to solving humanity’s real and serious problems.
That there is no convincing evidence that CO2 emissions from modern industrial activity has in the past, is now, or will in the future cause catastrophic climate change.
That attempts by governments to inflict taxes and costly regulations on industry and individual citizens with the aim of reducing emissions of CO2 will pointlessly curtail the prosperity of the West and progress of developing nations without affecting climate.
That adaptation as needed is massively more cost-effective than any attempted mitigation and that a focus on such mitigation will divert the attention and resources of governments away from addressing the real problems of their peoples.
That human-caused climate change is not a global crisis.
Now, therefore, we recommend –
That world leaders reject the views expressed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as popular, but misguided works such as “An Inconvenient Truth.”
That all taxes, regulations, and other interventions intended to reduce emissions of CO2 be abandoned forthwith.
Agreed at New York, 4 March 2008
Anyone else find it a little worrying the other side of this argument isn’t even being considered this side of the pond? I do, so if I see Cameron Diaz banging on about unplugging my sodding phone charger one more time I’m going to leave every light in my house on all night just to spite her.
