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Science
Fascists Threaten Bush European Visit
June 11, 2001
By Alan Caruba
This nation is threatened by a cabal of science
fascists who are determined to influence the President's decisions about
issues that real science has already decided. The Earth is not warming.
The liars say it is.
The latest instance is the report from a National
Academy of Sciences (NAS) committee purporting that human activity is
inducing a warming of the planet and that carbon dioxide (CO2) must be
"capped" to avoid the predicted change.
It is a lie from start to finish. The panel of
eleven persons, seeded with one dissident, were the same people who have
been involved in advancing the greatest hoax of our times, global warming.
As do the reports of the UN International Panel on
Climate Control (IPCC), the NAS report relies on computer model
predictions instead of the actual, known facts about the overall
temperature of the Earth. Those facts confirm that the Earth has not
warmed at all since the 1950s. For a half century, based on satellite data
and radiosonde balloon data, the evidence demonstrates, if anything, a
slight cooling!
Writing in The New York Times on June 7th,
Dr. S. Fred Singer noted that "another committee of the National
Academy, with some of the same experts, published a report in January 2000
that tried to explain why the global atmosphere showed little, if any,
warming since 1979, according to the best data
from weather satellites and weather balloons."
On June 14, President Bush will go to Europe to
face off with the leaders of the European Union over his decision to
withdraw US support for the United Nations Treaty on Climate Control,
fashioned in Kyoto, Japan. He is, however, being
urged by his Secretary of the Treasury (!) to endorse CO2 caps, agreeing to reductions in the
emissions of this most common and most valuable
of all gases, short of the oxygen that
supports our lives.
CO2 is vital to photosynthesis, an endothermic
reaction that absorbs heat during the manufacture of biomass. In plain
language, as CO2 contributes to the
creation of vegetation that is then eaten to sustain life, it also
contributes to cooling the earth, not heating it! The evidence for this
can be found in the scientific records of the United States Historical
Climatology Network. These records
reach back to 1890.
Without CO2 all forests and vegetation would cease
from this earth and, thereafter, all life on which it depends would end.
This earth would benefit from more CO2, not less. In previous eras, the
concentrations of CO2 have been
five times as high as they are today and the 100 million-year age of the
dinosaurs is proof of its power to sustain animal life while enriching the
growth of vegetation.
The very first sentence of the NAS report's
summary is a lie. "Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's
atmosphere as a result of human activities,
causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to
rise."
Thereafter, the rest of the summary is a vile
collection of lies given the blessing of a panel that didn't include a
geologist or glaciologist, nor anyone with a demonstrated expertise in
statistics qualified to judge the adequacy
or accuracy of the data.
If these lies prevail and President Bush makes a
political decision permitting the proposed CO2 caps to be imposed, he will
have eviscerated his original decision to vacate the UN treaty that called
for reductions in our energy
generation and use to 1990 levels. The US Senate has passed a unanimous resolution say it would
never approve this treaty. It is difficult to
believe Bush would reverse himself, but he has devoted the better part of
the past two weeks being photographed in front of giant sequoia trees and
in the Everglades in order to shore up his image as environmentally
sensitive.
He was elected by people whose jobs, be they
ranchers, farmers, loggers, miners, auto workers, and virtually everyone
who turns on the lights and their
computer every day, are utterly dependent on the defeat of this noxious
plan to undermine and destroy the economy of this nation.
Why the Secretary of Treasury, Paul O'Neill, would
have anything to say about this question of science is beyond the
imagination. His idiotic proposals would not just limit CO2 emissions,
they would ban them. You might was well ban the act of exhaling because
that is what every human and other animal on earth
does in the normal course of extracting oxygen from the atmosphere.
Bush's Director of the Environmental Protection
Agency, Christine Whitman, has
in her first six months in office demonstrated such a total lack of
understanding of the science required for the job, it is frightening to
contemplate what she might recommend.
So, we must now wait to see if President Bush will
show the resolve necessary to act on scientific fact. Meanwhile,
the science fascists will roll out a torrent of propaganda and ratchet up
the political pressure to achieve in Europe what they could not achieve in
Kyoto, Japan.
Perhaps no other decision of this new President
will have a more far-reaching impact on the future of this nation. More
than 17,000 scientists have signed a petition opposing the UN treaty. Now
one man, George W. Bush, has it within his power to end this assault on
scientific fact and our economy.
Alan Caruba, a veteran science and
business writer, is the founder of The National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about scare campaigns intended to influence
public opinion and policy. The Center maintains an Internet site at www.anxietycenter.com.
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