I believe that the Earth deserves our best efforts to prevent poisoning the environment and to avoid obliterating species and the beautiful natural expanses of land we occupy.  Some terrible things have happened in the past, most of them have been local or regional in their effect.  Any student of industrial history will understand that there have been tremendous benefits from industrial technology.  Anyone that depends on the food industry enjoys the benefits of modern farming technology, storage, and global shipping.  In America, dependable utilities, fuel supplies, and the ability to drive any kind of automobile are basic assumptions of life.  As progress is made, many of the ecological mistakes of the past century have not been repeated and the great panics of man-made disasters have not been realized.

So it is amazing to find in this century that one of the greatest hoaxes ever, curing global warming, was born as the great panics of the 1970s were finally dying out.  A few people, determined to benefit from this fraud, have become legion.  This past Earth Day has turned into Earth Week and more through the power of politicians and mass media backing.  Never mind all the real, curable disasters of the world, the globe must be saved from the plague of humans upon it.  The drum beats so constantly that no week passes without some new evidence of the disaster, another prediction of the rise of the seas, melting of ice here or there, eradication of species, or massive health problems.

The silly report that prompts this post is an excellent case in point.  Researchers have reported that the Greenland ice is melting.  If it all melts, the seas will rise 3 feet, flooding the great coastal cities of the world.  I have found reports stating this information as far back as 2004, yet it was reported as news today.  The early reports state that all the Greenland ice would melt in less than 1000 years at the current rate and that it had melted completely away at least once in the history of the Earth.  Apparently the follow-on studies have sprouted like weeds, providing more strident and alarming warnings over the past five years.  Some think the seas will rise 27 feet, some think global warming will accelerate as the ice melts away.

Think what you like about global warming, it is clear that no prediction for disaster is missed by the press.  And they like to repeat the messages to keep subscribers and ratings.  Today’s example is only one scenario.  There seem to be a thousand crackpot warnings hanging on the thread of the global warming panic.  Over the centuries many such panics have been fueled by the weight of accumulated nonsense.  The accumulation of junk thinking drowns out sensible responses.  If you can’t spot the holes in the Greenland warnings, then certainly I can’t help you in this short post.

In fact, I will only attempt to deflate the core of the panic.  The core assumptions are that global warming is happening, it is man-made, it is caused by carbon dioxide emissions, it will affect a climate disaster in a relatively short period of years, and that we can stop global warming if we take the proper draconian actions.  It should be clear that the whole cloth of this fraud depends on every single one of these threads, even the assumption that global action by people will stop the disaster.  So let’s take a look at that one.

If our science is so good, so accurate, and uncontroversial, it should be possible to calculate the permissible level of man-made carbon dioxide emissions.  We should know how much is too much and have the number for an emission rate that doesn’t drastically change the climate.  I propose that this number is not available because we don’t have that science and politics is not good with numbers.  That is why “cap in trade” and bogus “carbon neutral” calculations are permitted and promoted already.  The objective is control of society, not control of climate change.  The exchange of money required in many of these schemes proves not only the fraud, but the profit motive and self-interest of global warming panic promoters.  If you can’t calculate the overall number and show it is achievable, then you can’t measure progress towards stabilizing the climate.  So the goal must be profit and self-promotion.

In a crime such as blackmail, the criminal strives to bleed the victim dry over a period of time.  The victim has no choice but to pay the first time and every time the criminal threatens exposure or violence.  All the global warming cures share the methods of blackmail.  The victims are panicked and has no choice but paying.  The global warming cures have no substance, no payoff, and no clear goals, so they will potentially take all the available resources to the end of time to do absolutely nothing.  Do we have to give up SUVs or all automobiles?  Are supermarkets responsible for generating too much carbon dioxide to get food to our table?  Should we slaughter the beef herds that generate so much methane?  Are there just too many people for the Earth to sustain (a popular theme from the 1970s Earth Day panics)?  Some of the media have already complained that our current economic crisis will prevent draconian global warming cures from moving forward.  Apparently global warming profiteers are unhappy with the payout.

-- Walter Lounsbery, 4-26-2009