By Alan
Caruba
On the surface, it might seem to make
sense for the President to want to “do something” about climate events such as
hurricanes, but there have always been hurricanes and blaming them and
everything from droughts to wildfires on “climate change” is not just absurd, it
is a deliberate lie that blames a rise in the amount of carbon dioxide, a
so-called but incorrectly named “greenhouse gas”, as the cause of these natural
events.
The President has issued an Executive
Order to ramp up efforts to address "climate change."
At the heart of the global warming
hoax has been this carbon dioxide lie, but there has been no warming for over 17
years and the many computer models that predicted it were wrong; many were
deliberately false.
When one looks at the actual facts
about climate related events, we find that in recent years there have been fewer
tornados with a decline of severe tornadoes over the past forty years. There has
been more than eight years without a major hurricane strike in the U.S. and the
nation has had the fewest number of forest fires for the past three
decades.
President Obama has made it known that
one of his goals—other than the destruction of the U.S. economy—has been to
reduce “greenhouse gas” emissions by 17% by 2020. His Environmental Protection
Agency has been feverishly producing regulations that reflect his “war on coal”,
imposing rules on coal-fired plants that have already forced many to close. All
this is based on a lie. Even the Supreme Court has taken notice and will hear a
case that challenges the EPA. (It previously ruled carbon dioxide was a
“pollutant”, a baseless error.)
In general, Congress has refused to
take up most of Obama’s “climate change” agenda, especially his wish for a
carbon tax. So it comes as no surprise that he has issued an executive order on
November 1st allegedly to get
states and local communities to prepare for “the impact of global warming.”
Perhaps the most curious aspect of
this is that states have long had emergency response protocols and other laws in
effect that are intended to respond to various climate-related problems. Many
communities have plans in place. About the only thing the executive order would
achieve would be to layer on more rules that would doubtless come with a higher
cost.
In a recent edition of Human Events,
three prominent climate scientists, experts on forecasting Dr. Kesten C. Green,
on the faculty of the University of South Australia; Prof. J. Scott Armstrong of
the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Willie Soon, got together to write “The
Science Fiction of IPCC Climate Change”, reviewing the latest announcement
by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change.
“Global warming alarmists nevertheless
claim that the ‘nearly all’ climate scientists believe dangerous global warming
will occur. This is a strange claim in view of the fact more than 30,000
American scientists signed the Oregon Petition, stating that there is no basis
for dangerous manmade global warming forecasts, and ‘no convincing evidence’
that carbon dioxide is dangerously warming the planet or disrupting the
climate.”
Forgive me if I ask you who you
believe; three experts on climate forecasting or Barack
Obama?
The forecast experts debunked the IPCC
assertion (and by extension Obama’s) noting that carbon dioxide is “a colorless,
odorless, non-toxic gas that is a byproduct of growing prosperity. It is also a
product of all animal respiration and is also essential for most life on Earth,
yet in total it makes up only 0.0004 of the
atmosphere.”
In May 2012, The Economist took note
of The Heartland Institute, calling it “the most prominent think tank promoting
skepticism about man-made climate change.” The Economist has long been an
advocate of global warming so this represents significant recognition of the
Chicago-based, free market think tank that has sponsored several international
conferences on the subject over the years.
Anyone who wants to get the facts
about the IPCC’s continued and relentless promotion of the greatest hoax of the
modern era can visit http://climatechangereconsidered.org/ and read “Climate Change Reconsidered
II”, a Heartland Institute project whose latest edition is a thorough review
that debunks the IPCC’s misleading “science.”
As the Human Events article notes,
“Other scientists contest the IPCC assumptions on the grounds that the
climatological effect of increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide is trivial—and
that the climate is so complex and insufficiently understood that the net effect
of human emissions on global temperatures cannot be
forecasted.”
Obama’s latest executive order,
however, is not trivial. It continues the UN’s effort to deny access to the
benefits of the use of energy worldwide to increase development, provide
employment, and enhance the lives of the Earth’s
population.
Obama is gearing up “climate change”
as an issue to divert our attention from the many scandals and failures of his
administration.
© Alan Caruba, 2013
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