| When the consciences of liberal thinkers - probably | | | | effect? Regardless: yes, no or maybe - it certainly |
| sparked initially by Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" | | | | seems that world leaders of 1995-2010 should have |
| (DDT - insecticide, but also a killing poison); then | | | | been more cautious about imposing drastic |
| evolving into "Save Endangered Species" movements | | | | restrictions upon industrial activities, with huge financial |
| - finally morphing into the "Save the Planet from | | | | penalties upon civilization and its continuation (prestige |
| Human Global Warming" ideology - should there not | | | | of the UN notwithstanding). |
| have been a real scientific inquiry beforehand - | | | | However, once there was general acceptance of the |
| probing "natural" causes prior to allocating blame on | | | | theory that human emissions were the causal-factors |
| civilization's carbon emissions? Before the UN's | | | | of global warming (thus the concern over ultimate |
| "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" was set | | | | planet inhabitability), the immense power, prestige |
| up (clearly to solidify the jump-to-conclusion of | | | | and influence of the United Nations (and its |
| human-cause) - in view of the obviousness of puny | | | | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) came |
| man compared to the gigantic forces of nature: | | | | into play - solidifying the assumed-conclusion, |
| earthquakes (from continent-sized tectonic plates | | | | sweeping the worlds of both climatology and |
| shifting), hurricanes, tidal waves, volcanic eruptions - | | | | common man. To supportive climatologists the |
| and, certainly our sun (minor by galactic standards, | | | | rewards were many: career-enhancing awards, |
| but to planet Earth, overwhelmingly powerful) - | | | | grants, articles to be published - even the Nobel Prize |
| should not natural causes have been considered and | | | | Committee was convinced. Overlooked or dismissed |
| eliminated first? | | | | were articles critical of this jump-to-conclusion, one |
| Considering the drastic consequences upon the US | | | | signed by over thirty-one thousand scientists and |
| that such ideological thinking was rushing to impose, | | | | students of science, arguing that the matter was not |
| should not the first undertaking have been to solidly | | | | proven scientific fact - the signatures and challenge |
| prove the conclusion; the second, to evaluate the | | | | were ignored, the conventional wisdom sweeping |
| most probable cause - our sun? In his "Warning in the | | | | across the world. Was it not predictable that |
| Stars", scientist David Archibald addresses the issue | | | | occasionally some data points would be discovered |
| head-on, "If 'climate' is not a random walk, then we | | | | that did not quite support the theory? (But, if so, so |
| can predict climate if we understand what drives it. | | | | what - if a bit of data modification is required, or |
| The energy that stops the Earth from looking like | | | | some data becomes "carelessly lost"; or even if |
| Pluto comes from the Sun, and the level and type of | | | | challenging articles by not-quite-convinced |
| that energy does change. So the Sun is a good place | | | | climatologists are blocked from being published - what |
| to start, if we want to be able to predict climate." | | | | counts is that the theory is correct, right?) Then, of |
| Scientists like Dr. Archibald describe what the sun has | | | | course, some embarrassing emails were leaked, a |
| done recently and also over the past two thousand | | | | muted outcry by the media was heard (briefly) - |
| years: from glacial geologic records of Southern | | | | calling indignantly to "shoot the messenger" - no |
| Alaska; from Carbon 14 remnant-records in strata; | | | | focusing on the revealed bogus science. Eventually, |
| from ice-rafted debris in sea-bed cores of the North | | | | there was some admitted embarrassment, some |
| Atlantic; from the temperatures of North Atlantic | | | | resignations by UN "scientists" (however, the "issue" |
| seas; from lake sediment in southwestern Alaska; | | | | having been successfully "swept under the rug", life |
| from solar activity and from the consequences of | | | | and politics apparently still continue apace - the |
| Earth's magnetic field upon the sun's solar wind | | | | conventional wisdom of global warming - even |
| (charged solar particles): the increasing turbulent | | | | despite a bitter winter - still holding sway). |
| motions of the Earth's molten metal core - which | | | | Thus (and shockingly - in supposed "science" - where |
| generates the Earth's magnetic field - which protects | | | | a single data point should make or break a theory), |
| the Earth from powerful solar radiation - which strips | | | | nothing has really changed (despite the email leaks |
| away Earth's atmosphere (aha, climate), etc. This is | | | | and the bitter winter, hardly evidence of "warming") - |
| solid, solid science - many aspects of a tremendously | | | | the UN's Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change |
| complex issue - not a simple (ideological "feel-good") | | | | was convened, 192 countries and their leaders |
| theory, with email-leaked-descriptions of a handful of | | | | attending; President Obama was the featured |
| simple temperature readings (modified or omitted - as | | | | speaker, making it clear that he and all attendees still |
| necessary to "prove" the theory). What a scientific | | | | believed in global warming - and caused by industrial |
| researcher is led to understand by the above and | | | | carbon emissions (totally ignoring the exposure of the |
| similar articles, is a (head-nodding) comparison of the | | | | famous "hockey-stick temperature chart" as a fraud); |
| (De Vries) 208-year solar cycle - to the observed | | | | promising that the U.S. will impose emission limits and |
| 200- year rhythm in glacial activity in Alaska (Wiles et | | | | penalties (Cap-and-Trade bill and Environmental |
| al, 2004). Similarly, high-resolution analyses of the | | | | Protective Agency requirements); and that the US |
| Alaskan lake sediments suggest that century-scale | | | | would lead the way in emission reparations to 3rd |
| shifts in the Holocene climate were modulated by | | | | world nations - paying most of 10 $Billion soon, and |
| solar activity (Hu et al, 2003); etc. The scientific | | | | 100 $Billion by 2020, annually. |
| message: our planet is huge, the interacting forces | | | | A colossal credibility-vs-cost confrontation seems |
| are powerful and complex. | | | | inevitable, world-wide in scope - "Climate Change vs |
| Does all the above and similar scientific studies truly | | | | Climate-Gate", pitting almost all world leaders: the |
| "prove" that there is global warming, or does it | | | | United Nations itself; the Nobel Prize Committee; |
| suggest a mere possibility, or nothing at all; is it truly | | | | heads of all countries - against the verity of Science - |
| climate change or cyclic climactic patterns - or | | | | enormous consequences of economic and industrial |
| inter-acting influences of our solar system itself; or | | | | efficiency for the US, or egg-on-face embarrassment |
| some of the above - and, if any of it obtains, do | | | | for world leaders, including President Obama, Al Gore |
| human-based carbon emissions have a major or trivial | | | | and the US main-stream media! |