The Sky Is Not Falling

I have been a skeptic on the subject of global warming since the day it replaced the prospect of a new ice age as the man made ecological disaster de jour. (I never bought into the whole ice age thing either.) In fact I don't think I ever bought into any environmentalist driven prophecy of doom. I have always believed that such prophecies are driven by a political/social agenda and have little to do with the environment and nothing to do with science. I have written about this on numerous occasions in regards to the Kyoto Climate Control Protocol. I have never handled the topic as well as Tom Deweese in this commentary at Intellectual Conservative.

There is no scientific evidence to back claims of man-made global warming.  Period. Anyone who tells you that scientific research shows warming trends -- be they teachers, newscasters, Congressmen, Senators, Vice Presidents or Presidents -- is wrong.   In fact, scientific research through U.S. government satellite and balloon measurements shows that the temperature is actually cooling -- very slightly -- .037 degrees Celsius.

The rest of the article presents an excellent summary of the arguments against Global Warming theory and Kyoto. From scientists who work to find the data that fits their political objectives to their media cohorts who take their findings as gospel.

There are those who look at facts and make their judgments based on what they see and know. Their findings can be matched by any other scientist, using the same data and set of circumstances to reach the same conclusions.  It's an age-old practice called “peer review.”  It's the only true science.

And then there are those who yearn for a certain outcome and set about creating the needed data to make it so.  Usually you will find this group of scientists greatly dependent on grants supplied by those with a specific political agenda who demand desired outcomes for their money.
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And so too is it an outrage for the news media to tell you that most true scientists now agree that man-made global warming is a fact.  What it doesn't tell you is that roughly 500 scientists from around the world signed the Heidleburg Appeal in 1992, just prior to the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, expressing their doubts and begging the delegates not to bind the world to any dire treaties based on global warming.  Today that figure has grown to over 4000 scientists.  Americans aren’t being told that a 1997 Gallop Poll of prominent North American climatologists showed that 83 percent of them disagreed with the man-made global warming theory.

Deweese does an excellent job outlining the costs to the United States and to individual Americans under Kyoto, and it is not a very pretty picture. Essentially the function of Kyoto is to put the breaks on the economies of the developed nations i.e. the U.S. so that we don't continue to pull away from the corrupt economically stagnant autocracies of the world. Needless to say you should not only read the whole thing, but send it to your friends and make them read it too. I'll close this with Deweese's finish:

Don’t think this devastation can’t happen. The UN and the European Union have exposed their hatred for the United States. They envy our wealth and think that legalized theft, rather than sound economic policy, is the way to obtain it.

The fact is that one person now stands between the global warming jackals and economic sanity -- George W. Bush. Will he stand firm in his opposition to the Kyoto Protocol? Or will he capitulate to massive international pressure and sell America’s soul?  

UPDATE: Ronald Bailey covering the COP-10 Climate Change Confrence for Reason makes this bold pronouncement, “The Kyoto Protocol is dead. There will be no further global treaties that set binding limits on the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) after Kyoto runs out in 2012.”

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