| Self-abnegations, mea culpas - so guilty are we of | | | | supported by the entire civilized and political world) - |
| destroying our planet (collectively, of course - not the | | | | while the other side offers only negatives, no funded |
| proclaimer personally) - that we must all save the | | | | research programs, and black-ballings from peer-revue |
| environment, the forests, the rivers, all endangered | | | | journals? |
| species. How wonderful it feels to make such | | | | With the above unbalanced situation so clearly |
| admissions: Obama's speech at Copenhagen; heavy | | | | obvious, how can the public trust the conventional |
| reparations promised to 3rd world countries for | | | | conclusion of man-caused climate change? Raising the |
| despoiling our common planet; his Cap-and-Trade bill; | | | | issue of "corrupted" science through one-sided |
| his EPA restrictions and penalties (someone else | | | | assessment and publication, there have been some |
| paying the penalties of course - the "wealthy, | | | | dissident voices raised, trying to make themselves |
| primarily U.S. citizens). Never in the history of | | | | heard over the roar of the multitude (people and |
| civilization has there been such an (almost) | | | | governments). These are calm, quiet voices, |
| unanimous, universal, single-minded belief - by all the | | | | explaining that climate-change is not the irrefutable |
| most literate, educated and leaders of human-kind: | | | | (solidly provable) "science" of Sir Isaac Newton's |
| Global Warming, Climate Change, man-made pollution, | | | | Laws of Motion - climatology factors are very |
| carbon dioxide emissions - completely believed by the | | | | complex, and "science" is not "true" if the "pro" view |
| United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel for Climate | | | | gets broad funding and publishing support - and |
| Change, by the Nobel Prize Committee Awards Panel, | | | | focuses only those items which support its theory |
| and by the editors and followers of all main-stream | | | | while omitting those that do not; while the "anti" view |
| media and scientific journals! | | | | gets neither funding nor publishing availability. These |
| Swept under the rug and forgotten - completely - | | | | calm voices do not proclaim for an opposing |
| are the scientific scandals of yesteryear: the | | | | viewpoint (that mankind does "not" pollute) - only |
| admissions of "cooked" temperature and climate | | | | that the data and evidence are insufficient for the |
| data; of the faked famous "hockey stick" chart with | | | | political conclusion that has been made. |
| its global warming upslope; the firings and resignations | | | | Thus, 31,072 Americans with academic degrees in |
| (in disgrace) of UN "scientist" leaders of the UN's | | | | science, a few years ago signed a petition which |
| climate-change programs. During fall and winter 2009, | | | | flatly denied the proclaimed wisdom that |
| when the frigid weather made a mockery of "global | | | | humanity-caused-global-warming was settled scientific |
| warming"; when the eruption of an Iceland volcano | | | | fact. Sponsored by eminent scientists, such as Dr. |
| with it's prolonged spewing of ash into the | | | | Arthur Robinson of the Oregon Institute of Science |
| atmosphere and over Europe cancelled out a | | | | and Medicine, the petition called upon the US to |
| continent's commercial flights for weeks - but also | | | | reject such a position. This was at the same time |
| cancelled out a decade of mankind's | | | | that Al Gore (and the UN's IPCC) was receiving a |
| conscience-stricken efforts to "green" the planet - | | | | Nobel Prize for his film on Global Warming - and |
| none-to-few were any news media comments on | | | | demeaning his critics as "a tiny, tiny minority - like |
| climate. However, with April 2010 having warm | | | | those who believe the moon landing was staged in a |
| temperatures (somewhere on the planet), quickly | | | | movie lot, and that the world is flat". Other |
| were found stories about how Al Gore's belief in | | | | outspoken scientist-challengers to the conventional |
| global warming was being proven. | | | | wisdom are: Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D., Professor of |
| The question about man-made climate change is | | | | Atmospheric Science at the Massachusetts Institute |
| legitimate and worth-while, however, the more | | | | of Technology; Dr. B. Lomborg, Director of the |
| meaningful question is whether the assessment by | | | | Copenhagen Consensus Center; Dr. Parrick Michaels, |
| the scientific community is fair, honest, "scientific" and | | | | at the Cato Institute; Dr. Philip Lloyd, Honorary |
| trust-worthy? Is humankind, with its unquenchable | | | | Research Fellow at the Energy Research Center at |
| appetite for fossil-fuel energy (for homes, industry | | | | the University of Cape Town in South Africa. |
| and travel) truly damaging the environment of planet | | | | The issue here is not just academic and scientific |
| Earth? On the one hand, it is a feasible concern - | | | | honesty - the financial well-being of the United States |
| civilization, with huge amounts of fossil-fuel emissions, | | | | and the world is at stake. The restrictions, |
| does cause obvious pollutants; on the other hand, our | | | | constrictions and monetary penalties of the |
| planet is huge, nature is both complex and dominant, | | | | contemplated Cap-and-Trade bill (already passed in |
| and the power of the sun is undeniable - plus, not to | | | | the Democratically-controlled House of |
| be overlooked, are also earthquakes and volcanic | | | | Representatives) and Obama's EPA (Environmental |
| eruptions. The bottom line is: can one trust the | | | | Protection Agency), and the reparations promised by |
| climate scientists when the flow of research grants, | | | | President Obama at Copenhagen (to 3rd world |
| monetary awards, financial well-being, professional | | | | countries) by the U.S. and other 1st world countries |
| career enhancement and approbation is so readily | | | | can raise havoc upon the financial well-being of the |
| available from only the one side of the issue (and | | | | United States as well as the entire civilized world. |