The new "inconvenient truth" that dares not say its name

By Wes Vernon

"Man-made Global Warming," thy name is fraud.

Yet, fraud is precisely what the nation's indoctrination centers — excuse me, schools — are drumming into the heads of young Americans.

Mark Colley, who lives just south of Salt Lake City, learned a few months ago that his middle school daughter had been shown Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth in her middle school class — without any rebuttal.

When he protested, he was told it was hard to find scientific opinion that does not accept the tenet of man-made "climate change." (Note: With much of the nation buried in snow this winter, the alarmists have quietly replaced the term "global warming" with the new mantra of "climate change," a tactic worthy of Stalinism in World War II — i.e., Hitler bad — now Hitler good — i.e., ooops! Hitler bad again.)

Debate? What debate? Bundle up!

Perhaps the school officials had heard Gore or one of his acolytes intone that "the debate is over" on Global Warming.

Oh, but it is not over, you see.

Comes now this headline in the Canadian National Post: "Forget global warming — Welcome to the new Ice Age."

Therein, we learn that snow-cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia, and China is greater than at any time since 1966. There have even been most unusual snowfalls in Saudi Arabia — obviously, a shock to the desert natives and their camels.

Tired of alarmist propaganda

While Al Gore was making a nice living flying about in jets, essentially lecturing the rest of us about what wasteful slobs we had become, there was information that in his baronial mansion, the electricity use alone was outpacing that of the great unwashed times twenty.

Hypocrisy per se is not the issue here. It is pretty well established that Al Gore is to energy conservation what Eliot Spitzer is to "Mr. Clean."

Doing something about it

Rather, the issue is fact — pure fact. And in honor of that pesky (dare we say "inconvenient?") quality, some 500 unbrainwashed attendees gathered in New York City early this month to put to rest the Gore-style alarmism.

Among the unconvinced was a team of international scientists who formed a new group — the "Nongovernmental International Panel of Climate Change [NIPCC]." It will counter the propaganda disseminated by the United Nations. By the way, some scientists from the UN showed up at the conference to register their dissent from the alarmists' article of faith on global warming, aka "climate change."

The scientists speak

The headline immediately above conveys a message of "Listen up, this is the Holy Writ handing down the tablets from on high." Therefore, it naturally follows that such impudence actually appeared over an editorial in the New York Times, entreating its readers to pay heed to UN "scientists" parroting the global warming line of "Help! We're all going to die." Such worthies no doubt covet a Nobel prize like the one awarded Al Gore by the puffed up establishmentarians who peer down their snoots at anyone daring to question their sacrosanct outdated wisdoms.

So we here will crib the New York Times headline, and intone (can't quite mimic the super baritone tablet-like echo chamber worthy of the NYT — complete with the requisite thunder and lightning — but here goes): The Scientists Speak!

Hundreds of climate experts from around the world at the New York conference issued a "Manhattan Declaration," whose title gets right to the bottom line: Nature, not Human activity, Rules the Climate.

Among those at the gathering was former UN scientist (he quit the UN group in disgust) Dr. Paul Reiter of the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Dr. Reiter told the attendees that, "as far as the science being 'settled,' I think that is an obscenity. The fact is the science is being distorted by those who are not scientists."

Added famed hurricane expert and meteorologist Dr. William Gray: "There are a lot of skeptics out there, all over the U.S. and the rest of the world. [Global warming] has been over-hyped tremendously; most of the climate change we have seen is largely natural. I think we are brainwashing our children terribly."

Those are just two examples of what was authoritatively said at the gathering near Times Square.

Among the findings of the Manhattan Declaration are that (1) there is no convincing evidence that CO2 emissions from modern industrial activity have caused in the past, or will cause in the future, catastrophic climate change; (2) 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 the progress of developing nations without affecting the climate, and (3) human-caused climate change is not a global crisis.

"Hate America" Ideology?

Getting the facts out via the Manhattan Declaration, however, will take some doing. It can be picked up by talk radio, Fox News, and conservative websites such as this one.

The Herculean part of the undertaking will be aiming for meaningful coverage in the mainstream media, many of whose lions at the gate were schooled in the Ivy League halls of the Hate America culture.

On Capitol Hill — the right to one's own "facts"

Not satisfied with stubbornly dragging their feet on granting oil drilling rights in Alaska's ANWR, the worthies of Nancy Pelosi's Capitol Hill fiefdom are now out to stop the sale of any drilling rights in the Chukchi Sea — just south of the Arctic Ocean and west of Alaska. The polar bears, you know.

But that has been debunked, as well

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says Alaskan temperatures are not climbing. The DeWeese Report quotes Dr. Mitchell Taylor — a biologist (and another scientist who "speaks") as saying "polar bears are not going extinct," nor do they appear to be "affected" by any "climate change."

Nonetheless, there has been constant pressure from UN climate organizations and wing-nut groups such as Greenpeace to con the EPA — already a hotbed of career alarmists — into adding the polar bear to its "endangered species" list.

Not everyone at the UN parroting party line

David Wojick, an expert reviewer for the UN International Panel on Climate Change (and thus, a veteran of the "belly of the beast"), said the following:

"The hypothesis that solar variability and not human activity is warming oceans goes a long way to explain the puzzling idea that the Earth's surface may be warming while the atmosphere is not. The [greenhouse gas] hypothesis does not do this. The public is not well served by this constant drumbeat of false alarms fed by computer models manipulated by advocates."

(The villain: The sun!)

Senator Inhofe fights the good fight

Senator James Inhofe is playing a key role in exposing the man-made "global warming" hoax. He has been out front both as ranking member and former chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Praising the participants in the Manhattan Declaration, the Oklahoma Republican noted that the thinking reflected at the New York conference was in sync with much of what was detailed in the senator's own report released in December. The two documents, Inhofe noted, debunk "the endless claims that there is a 'consensus' regarding man-made global warming. In addition, the fact that temperatures over the last decade have not followed [the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's] models is yet another inconvenient development for the promoters of climate fear. Simply put, the claims by former Vice President Al Gore and the establishment media grow less and less credible every day."

Picking your pocket when you're not looking

Then Senator Inhofe referenced a scheme to leverage the "global warming" fear to impose "the largest tax increase ever in U.S. history without any measurable climate benefits."

That effort at the use of a fraud scare to sock you with higher taxes is known as "cap-and-trade" legislation. We're out of space for now, but this column needs to explore that particular parcel of enormous mischief to your wallet or purse ...Later.

© Wes Vernon