The Climate Change Boogeyman

Quit Lying to Children!!!

In 1988 James Hansen testified before congress to scare us about global warming. See his failed predictions on page 7 of this PDF from NASA’s website as published back then:

http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1988/1988_Hansen_etal.pdf

All satellite data, including this from the University of Alabama at Huntsville proves that he was wrong. The predicted warming never occurred:

http://icecap.us/images/uploads/HANSEN_AND_CONGRESS.jpg

2008 was even colder than 1988. Had he predicted what actually happened, no one would have seen the need to waste hundreds of billions of dollars. Now the politicians are threatening to burden the economy with their Cap-and-Trade scheme, which amounts to a massive tax increase on all conventional energy usage, to be paid for by you every time you buy something manufactured or transported using energy, which includes nearly everything you spend your money on. It’s ironic how they claim to be protecting the children from doomsday, when they are really impoverishing your children’s future with this additional burden. Here is more background on this deliberate hoax from 1988:

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/hansens_anniversary_testimony/

31,478 scientists signed a petition opposing the man-made global warming theory. Their reasoning is outlined in a peer reviewed journal article detailing the evidence that disproved the theory. Please follow this link:

http://www.petitionproject.org/

We are being forced to pay for less economical sources of energy while being told they are viable alternatives. This is a lie. All of the so-called ‘alternative’ sources of energy, including wind and solar, equal less than one percent of mankind’s needs. Meanwhile our far more economical access to hydrocarbon energy and nuclear energy is being throttled for no good reason.

Ignoring lying journalists, lying activists, lying teachers, and lying politicians, we can turn to what the scientists themselves studying this subject have reported to us:

"The reason why Dr Mörner, formerly a Stockholm professor, is so certain that these claims about sea level rise are 100 per cent wrong is that they are all based on computer model predictions, whereas his findings are based on "going into the field to observe what is actually happening in the real world".

When running the International Commission on Sea Level Change, he launched a special project on the Maldives, whose leaders have for 20 years been calling for vast sums of international aid to stave off disaster. Six times he and his expert team visited the islands, to confirm that the sea has not risen for half a century. Before announcing his findings, he offered to show the inhabitants a film explaining why they had nothing to worry about. The government refused to let it be shown."

http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=3116

Ominous parallels:

http://www.archive.org/details/TheBigLieMan-madeGlobalWarming

If your cause is noble, why can’t you tell the truth about it?

Barry of CA @ Jul 08, 2009 11:10:59 AM

Scaring Kids with Global Warming

Hi Maura,

Great blog! Thanks for taking on the skeptics. They can talk all they want to, but their rhetoric isn't going to help get us out of this mess created by the profit-takes-all petroleum program we've been following for the past half-century.

When it comes to our children, there's no need to frighten them with tales of planetary distress. What kids need to know is that we're here to protect them and take care of them, and that we're doing that by making changes to the status quo today. Creating a sustainable future for them to grow into is a task that we must all work together to achieve. Children can take part by being taught better habits than our generation learned in the disposable society of the greatest generation. This stuff isn't rocket science, and we can raise our children to think about their planet, business, and consumption differently than the way we learned. It's just a matter of changing our habits and sharing better new approaches with our kids. But we're all going to need to work together and those who profit from destroying our environment need to face the fact that their run on our future is over. Little by little even the largest corporations are making the kinds of changes that will effectively help the planet on the basis of scale. Skeptics and mouthpieces for industry might want to review their priorities.

thanks,

Trish Riley*

author, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Green Living and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Greening Your Business. www.gogreennation.org

Trish Riley of FL @ Jun 27, 2009 21:37:36 PM

Clear Causes

Reading the previous responses,you would think there is debate about the greatest problem of our day,global warming. The science is there about the carbon output(manmade output) into the atmosphere and we are recording the highest levels of CO2 ever in the atmosphere. Satellite photos document glaciers, ice caps and mountain ice All Disappearing and ocean temperate measurements document the warming and we still doubt. When all the ice is melted, the effect on ocean currents, sea life and our life because of our freshwater needs from the melting ICE on the planet will be profound and probably catastophic. We have to begin doing something about this and quickly. Believe that our planet is changing so rapitdly that it might not be able to support the incredibly diverse animal, plant and ultimately our lives and I believe children really understand the simplicity of this. The great worry is that it will take thousands of years to decrease the CO2 put into the atmosphere unless we somehow can take it out. Please begin the next phase of the debate-What can we do about this?

C.A. Snyder of TX @ Jun 20, 2009 20:05:41 PM

Politics is the BoogeyMan

No need to worry about "climate change". The world will run out of food long before climate change is a significant issue. You won't care that it is warming when there are no longer any fish, meat or vegetables to eat. Or perhaps Soylant Green was not a scary story but a prediction of the future.

Wayne @ Jun 17, 2009 17:52:21 PM

THE MARKETING OF "GREEN"....

Oh, now it's "Climate Change".... The "Global Warming" strawman was becoming a bit tattered by the relentless forces of common sense and facts.

Say, what happened to keeping religion out of schools? No clear thinking individual can deny that "little 'e'" environmentalism has evolved into "Big E" Environmentalist Religion. Its intolerant dogma controls schools, courts, media, government and politics - Kinda sneaked past that whole "separation of church and state" barrier, eh?

Joe of IA wants to believe that "...humans are the cause..." So Joe, what was the cause of the previous 11 periods of glaciation - all followed by fluctuating periods of "Global Warming"?

Don't know about you Joe, but I'm thinkin' that living in in a tropical climate is probably more fun then living on a frozen sheet of ice.... But hey, that's just me.

Just keep in mind that nothing grows on a sheet of ice. On the other hand - maybe we get more rain forests.

Bottom line - Climate has always been changing, hotter - colder, but always in flux. Get a new worry and a religion different from neo-pantheist, "Environmentalism".

As always, remember... "Going Green Has Gone Too Far"... Get your bumper sticker today.

R.L. Schaefer of CA @ Jun 17, 2009 12:15:25 PM