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NOTE The Fraud of Global Warming

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Good morning. This is the fraud of global warming.

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Well, the following exchange is downloadable from the Internet,

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and it was between an adult and a young student.

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It's pretty typical, so let's look at this in order to look at this topic.

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B, the adult says, so do you believe in global warming?

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Oh, yes, says Melissa. Oh, do you think people are responsible? Uh-huh. They put all that junk in the air, that carbon dioxide, and it has to be causing the world to get warmer.

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Is that so? That junk carbon dioxide? Of all the carbon dioxide that is going into the air, what percent of it do you think is natural?

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What percent of it do you think is caused by people?

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Well, I don't know. Maybe people cause 75%? Hmm, 75%. Well, what if I told you that people cause less than 5% and all the other carbon dioxide is natural?

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Well, how about all the polar bears that are drowning, and the ice caps are melting?

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How many polar bears have drowned?

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I don't know, but they're going extinct.

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Oh, really?

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Polar bear population has doubled in the last few decades.

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You're making me mad.

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Why is that?

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Because you are.

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Okay, so where did you learn that all the polar bears are dying?

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In a movie I saw at school.

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The movie shown at school, how many of you here have seen it?

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Well, you ought to.

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The movie shown at school was Albert Gore's documentary film called An Inconvenient Truth.

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It's being viewed in many schools across the country, even across the world.

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Gore was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for this documentary in 2007,

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and he decided to share it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC.

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It's telling that the very first chairman of the IPCC, John Huffton, said,

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unless we announce disasters, nobody will listen.

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Well, true to script, Gore announced disasters and most people listened.

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Well, let's look at what that movie asked viewers like little Melissa to accept.

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Each assumption, each implication is a snapshot of the global warming doomsdayers' views.

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Our added perspective sees the fraud of catastrophic global warming.

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Carbon dioxide drives the temperature of the planet.

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Gore assumes that carbon dioxide, CO2, is the causal factor of the world's warming temperatures.

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But for at least 240,000 years, carbon dioxide has been a lagging indicator of any warming.

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That means that the earth warms and later, carbon dioxide is increased.

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Roy Spencer, up the road here, a climate scientist in Huntsville, Alabama, notes that the cooling effects of weather have a stronger influence on surface temperatures than the warming influence of greenhouse gases.

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The major greenhouse gases are water vapor. 70 to 90 percent of all greenhouse effect is water vapor.

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Then carbon dioxide. Then methane. That's cow's toot. And rice patties. Methane.

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Many scientists work on the theory that the sun is the prime driver of Earth's climate. Think of that.

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And that Earth temperature and sun activity do correlate closely, although correlations are not causations.

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I was born, there was World War II.

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It's not my fault.

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Additionally, many scientists examine the larger cosmos.

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Their theories reveal an interplay between the sun and cosmic rays

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coming from supernovas, exploded stars.

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Further, they discern long-term temperature patterns

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as our own tiny solar system moves through the arms of our larger Milky Way galaxy.

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Again, those events correlate more closely to Earth's temperatures than do man-made carbon dioxide levels.

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Gore says, temperatures will rise 1.5 to 4.5 degrees Celsius

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When CO2 levels double from pre-industrial levels of 280 parts per million to a doubling to 560 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the air.

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Because Earth's sensitivity to carbon dioxide changes has been vastly overstated, the scientifically likely temperature result of such a doubling is one and a half to two degrees Celsius.

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Earth's current CO2 level is at 380 parts per million.

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Catastrophic global warming will cause sea levels to rise 20 feet.

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Well, the work of scientists supports a sea level rise of about one inch per decade.

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So in 100 years, what would that be? Right, 10 to 12 inches.

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Catastrophic global warming is forcing island nations to evacuate their populations and everybody relocate to New Zealand.

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Tuvalu was the island nation that was the poster child for this catastrophe.

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But nobody from Tuvalu and nobody else from any of those island nations, about 20 of them, has relocated to New Zealand.

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Catastrophic global warming is melting the Antarctic ice sheet.

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But Antarctic sea ice is thickening over the entire gigantic continent.

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This thickening reduces sea level.

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There is ice loss on a tiny sliver of northward stretching continent off of Antarctica.

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And that is what Gore's movie image relies upon.

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The ice shelf collapse there was more likely to have been driven by ocean current fluctuations.

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Catastrophic global warming is resulting in extreme weather.

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Tornadoes? The U.S. is home to one-third of all the world's tornadoes.

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But tornadoes have not increased.

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Drought? There is not greater incidence of drought. Record typhoons and cyclones? No.

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Hurricanes? There are about 95 hurricanes annually and globally, but hurricanes are neither more frequent nor more intense.

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In 2004, the IPCC hyped hurricane fears without any scientific soundness.

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Goresfilm footage implies that Hurricane Katrina, a bad hurricane, was an inescapable consequence of man-made, globally averaged warming.

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Facts do not support that alarm.

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Catastrophic global warming has caused global temperatures to be warmer now than they have been in 1,000 years.

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Gore's graph displays a long level period ending in a big upward swoop like a hockey stick.

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A young IPCC scientist named Mann created that hockey stick graph.

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He made the real medieval warm period disappear and he had to make the little ice age also disappear for a 2001 report that scared everybody.

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It was an enormously effective prompt. Alarmist used it for their the science is settled position.

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It made the 20th century temperature increase look unique, but man's methodology would have conjured any set of random numbers into a hockey stick appearance.

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And the temperature increase was not unique.

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In 2006 the National Academy of Sciences issued a report stating that the graph used flawed data.

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The IPCC has dropped the use of the man hockey stick from its 2007 report, but this piece of deliberate misinformation caused great damage to both truth and to science.

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Catastrophic global warming has dried up Lake Chad in Africa.

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Lake Chad has been totally dry several times before humans were adding any carbon dioxide.

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Catastrophic global warming has melted the snows on Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa.

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By the time Ernest Hemingway wrote The Snows of Kilimanjaro back in 1936, half of that

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snow was already gone.

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This is before man began releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to any extent

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by Burning Fuels for Energy. No temperature on that mountain is above freezing. There has

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been no temperature change in 55 years. Shrinking is likely to be a circulation issue and a

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lower precipitation issue, not a rising temperature issue. Catastrophic global warming has increased

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Mosquito-Born Malaria

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Malaria was endemic to most of the developed world just 50 to 100 years ago.

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We eliminated malaria in Europe and the United States, while the world warmed.

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600,000 people in Siberia died of malaria.

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Malaria sickens 300 to 500 million poor people every single year, killing as many as 2.7 million every year.

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In Sub-Saharan Africa, one in 20 children dies of malaria.

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The approximately 40 million humans killed by malaria since 1972 have died because a

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politician named William Ruckelshaus, who was the director, the first director of the

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Environmental Protection Agency, banned the beneficial pesticide DDT.

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No health issues are related strongly to wealth issues, not climate change policies.

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Catastrophic global warming is quickly melting Arctic sea ice.

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Arctic sea ice decreases during the summer melt season, and Arctic temperatures have risen faster than anywhere else.

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The Antarctic region was warmer in the 1930s.

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That could not have been caused by mankind.

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Antarctic sea ice has recovered from 3 million square kilometers to 14 million square kilometers.

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Ice cover around the Bering Strait and Alaska has more recently been at its highest level ever recorded.

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Catastrophic global warming is killing polar bears, said Melissa.

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Factually, that claim rested on a single sighting of four dead bears one day after an abrupt windstorm

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in an area housing one of the increasing polar bear populations.

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Global polar bear population has increased dramatically over the past decades.

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Catastrophic global warming is melting Greenland's ice.

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Greenland has been warmer.

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Its ice has not melted, except around the edges.

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There has been no net warming and perhaps a slight cooling since 1937.

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Vikings colonized and farmed Greenland during the medieval warm period.

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The return of colder climate drove them away.

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And lastly, for an inconvenient truth, catastrophic global warming has caused mass extinctions.

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Warming extends ranges for plant and animal species. Biodiversity is enhanced.

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That's why the greatest concentration of biodiversity is in the tropics.

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Higher concentrations of carbon dioxide are shown to triple plant production,

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while lowering the plant's water requirements and make them more durable to stress.

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Animals thrive on more abundant plant life.

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Enriched carbon dioxide has yielded an additional one-sixth total production,

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which would not have happened in its absence.

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Each of these 14 scenarios would have been an environmental bad had it happened.

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and had it been empirically provable to have been caused by humans.

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But it is fraud to spread alarmism of catastrophic human-caused global warming

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based upon projections that are generated by computer climate models.

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Those models have substantial uncertainties and they are markedly unreliable.

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There are real and achievable global causes, but to throw scarce resources at catastrophic

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global warming caused by man when such expenditures will have inconsequential results except to

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impoverish us, notwithstanding that Al Gore thinks it would be spiritually good for us,

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that would be bad for us.

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In conclusion, a smart and funny writer named P.J. O'Rourke says,

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Some people will do anything to save the earth, except take a science course.

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So save ourselves, let's take science courses.

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Thank you very much.