August 3, 2008
Bamboozle: to deceive by trickery for personal gain; to dupe; to hoodwink. May come from the French word embabuiner, literally "to make into a baboon."
There is new evidence on human-caused Global Warming. In scientific circles this is called “anthropogenic global warming,” or AGW for short.
I had previously thought that AGW was a mania or mass hysteria, like the Dutch tulip bubble (1637), the Salem witch trials (1692), or the Britney Spears obsession (most of the 21st Century).
But, no. Independent scientists now report that AGW is a carefully orchestrated bamboozle. If funded, AGW mediation would be the most expensive bamboozle the world has ever seen. Here are the facts:
Going through the motions of scientific inquiry, a United Nations chartered organization, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) came up with a pre-ordained conclusion in 1990, that “observed [climate] temperature changes were ‘broadly consistent’ with greenhouse models.”
A second report in 1996 concluded “the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate.” This last report was the underpinning of the infamous Kyoto Protocol on climate policy in 1997.
While touted as exciting new discoveries, these conclusions were rationalizations, all untrue. AGW was – and still is – a sham. Here is how it was unmasked.
All along thousands of scientists protested that true scientific methods were not being followed. In 2003 these protests reached a tipping point.
To determine what was really going on, some of these skeptical scientists formed the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC). Their 50-page report was published in March 2008.
Frederick Seitz, Past President of the National Academy of Sciences, wrote the preface. Prof. Seitz concludes:
“As NIPCC shows by offering an independent, non-governmental ‘second opinion’ on the ‘global warming’ issue, we do not currently have any convincing evidence or observations of significant climate change from other than natural causes.”
(A link to the full report follows this essay. Anyone who plans to vote and/or is an AGW proponent needs to read and understand this document.)
After reading the NIPCC report it is obvious that IPCC’s activities were “agenda science” with meaningless results. One such result is the on-going brouhaha over the aforementioned Kyoto Protocol. While many smaller nations have agreed to it, the United States has not. U.S. non-compliance continues to cause international tension. Yet these tensions are over something that is not real. Even our current presidential candidates have both been duped into “solving” AGW.
Elitist complaints pile on these spurious results. For example, one frequently hears that “the U.S. is only 5% of the world’s population but uses 23% of its energy.” Well folks, we also produce 27% of the world’s GDP. Since energy consumption is, in part, the fuel that drives our outstanding production, it sounds like the U.S. is the world’s best place to consume energy!
So what motivated the IPCC to jigger their science? The reasons is that their false conclusions promote many malodorous goals:
1. Extraction of money from all of us under the guise of “saving the climate.” These costs will be far more than our War against the Islamofascists or the transfer of U.S. wealth to oil-producing countries.
2. Economic windfall to The Few – duplicitous governments and subsidized “green” businesses.
3. Manipulation of science for personal gain. This is simply evil.
4. Forcing elitist “green behavior” on everyone with no effect whatsoever on global warming.
Of course, caring for the environment is noble. Some of us remember how all this started after World War II. People threw trash along our highways and some US rivers were so polluted that they caught on fire. Anti-littering and anti-pollution campaigns were launched. Over time these problems were solved.
Now we recycle, aim for sustainability, and do whatever we can to reduce air pollution. Fine things. But none of this has any effect – one way or another – on Global Warming. Global Warming, or cooling for that matter, can only be linked to human activity through junk science, faith-based reasoning and the say-so of demagogues and profiteers.
Let the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) monitor all this, as is their job. Global agenda groups, such as IPCC, should be ignored.
Educated citizens need to invest their energies into understanding real problems and advocating effective solutions. The less thoughtful among us need to be warned that they are being manipulated so they can refuse to go along with this foolishness.
We must drive the anthropogenic global warming Bamboozlers off the public stage. There are too many real problems to solve.
NIPCC report (below) explains the most likely causes of climate fluctuations.
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