I never thought I’d link favorably to a post on the Huffington Post, but today I found one worthy of praise, written by Harold Ambler and entitled “Mr Gore: Apology Accepted.“ Ambler is a self-identified liberal and Obama-voter, yet he points out how global climate change (formerly man-made global warming) is a complete hoax, and in fact the biggest con ever pulled on the entire human population.
In the article, Ambler points out how the data used by Al Gore and other “scientists” in the matter is wrong, and also how Climate has always changed, including how the Earth has indeed experienced climates a great deal warmer than our current one in the last millennia.
First, the expression “climate change” itself is a redundancy, and contains a lie. Climate has always changed, and always will. There has been no stable period of climate during the Holocene, our own climatic era, which began with the end of the last ice age 12,000 years ago. During the Holocene there have been numerous sub-periods with dramatically varied climate, such as the warm Holocene Optimum (7,000 B.C. to 3,000 B.C., during which humanity began to flourish, and advance technologically), the warm Roman Optimum (200 B.C. to 400 A.D., a time of abundant crops that promoted the empire), the cold Dark Ages (400 A.D. to 900 A.D., during which the Nile River froze, major cities were abandoned, the Roman Empire fell apart, and pestilence and famine were widespread), the Medieval Warm Period (900 A.D. to 1300 A.D., during which agriculture flourished, wealth increased, and dozens of lavish examples of Gothic architecture were created), the Little Ice Age (1300 to 1850, during much of which plague, crop failures, witch burnings, food riots — and even revolutions, including the French Revolution — were the rule of thumb), followed by our own time of relative warmth (1850 to present, during which population has increased, technology and medical advances have been astonishing, and agriculture has flourished).
The hoax of Climate Change has been co-opted by the media and the United Nations. New evidence that we are actually entering a cooling trend is changing the minds of many scientists throughout the world, but their research and thought is being stifled by the press, by the United Nations, and by politicians.
Ambler points out, rightly, that Al Gore’s reference to global-warming skeptics as “flat-earthers” is wrong. I contend that in some ways it is apt. The idea that most medieval scholars believed in a flat earth has been somewhat debunked. The idea of the spherical Earth was prevalent in the Middle Ages. The real comparison to today’s global warming debate is the debate in the middle ages of the place of the Earth in the Universe. It was the “consensus” of scientists in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance that the Earth was the center of the universe. The view was also held by the prevailing governments of the time, backed by a mistaken view that the Earth as center of the universe was Christian doctrine. It was these few scientists, Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, and others, went against the prevailing politics and scientific “consensus” based on new evidence. As history has shown us, these scientists were persecuted for it.
We are doing the same thing again today. Whatever one’s view on global warming, the fact that so many scientists have come up with such divergent data (a great many for the idea of man-made Climate Change ruining the earth and an equal number or greater number debunking the theory) should give one pause to at least consider the fact that it is not scientific consensus just becase Al Gore, Kofi Annan, and a few other politicians, scientists, and media talking-heads have declared it so. Welcome to the new Inquisition. This time, it’s the religion of the environmentalists is king, and anyone who does not adhere to it will be declared a heretic.
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I keep seeing this “hoax” and “Biggest con” remarks by climate sceptics.
But why would we do this? There is absolutely nothing to be gained by a hoax. It also doesn’t explain why over 99% of those who are qualified to make the statement, agree with climate change.
Surely if it was a hoax, the numbers would be more like 50/50.
Those who cause the pollution on the other hand, have a real incentive to ‘fudge the figures’. Millions of dollars worth of incentive in fact. Why do the sceptics never question the motives of the coal and oil industry?
Or is the aquisition of money holier that the earth?
The big question of course is – what if the Environmetalists are right? And how will you feel if, due to your lobbying, we do nothing to stop it? How will you explain that to your grand children?
@Graham – you are way off when you claim that 99% of those qualified agree with GW. But the bigger miss here is your ponderance as to why? It’s simple. There is a great desire amonst politicians to redsitribute wealth, and GW is a wonderful vehicle for doing that. Their goal is to cause those who produce CO2 to have to pay for their “assault” on the planet. There are huge sums of money and power to be had if this plays out.
As someone who does research on impacts of climate change, it is very apparent in phenological shifts in biological proccesses (as a starting point); look at the plethera of articles published in Ecology for instance. There would actually be a larger profit in finding quantitative disruptive evidence against climate change and negative coorelations of trends in CO2 relating to climate change. Unfortuantly, there have only been fact-thin statements made for profit by not-so-integrity bound scientests that are few and far between. Please, I invite you to look at phenological shifts in biological trends of all sorts of organisms from plants to animals. I know its sometimes hard to keep an open mind when democrates try to seise a movement for political gain. But the hoax is trying to disprove the democrates instead of listening to the people who have seen so many changes. Don’t make this political is the point. Democrates have, and I do not agree with it. Make an unbiased choice, not based on media, or peerless-reviewed documents or news articles quoting meaningless figures. Go take a look at the hardworking research published all around the world from people no different than you and me.
The reason for the hoax is good old fashioned money as well as bizarre ideology. It is the tax scam and the grants and graft that propel the promoters. Every kid graduating from college knows how to order fancy coffee and speak global warming , er excuse me, climate chance. CO2 is not poison …animals (you and I and our cows) produce it and plants consume it and give us oxygen and fruit and vegetables and lovely trees.
@Ron – Maybe you should broaden your horizons and take one of these “ideologic climate change/global warming classes” and see for yourself what is being taught. Maybe then you would not have to take other people opinions as your own. FYI: CO2 creates acidic water which is poisonous to most aquatic life. Take a look the bleaching of coral reefs. Also, too much CO2 skews C:N balance in plants that makes plant fiber less digestable due to all the lignin that is being created. In addition, these are not predictions, these are documented events that are occuring all around the world. It would be more profitable to disprove global warming with solid, peer reviewed evidence, than support it.
Ken,
I think you are too busy drinking the global warming kool-aid to see that there are indeed many scientists, in fact many who have written peer reviewed articles that refute man-made global warming in some shape or form. This site has links to many of these peer reviewed articles. Also see here.
Climate change ( once called global warming because the earth is really cooling in parts of the world and the title had to be changed) is a complete hoax. It just a scam for our governments to rake it more tax money and redistribute wealth to 3rd world countries via the UN. The notion that man is can change the climate to a global level is crazy. The earth is constantly going thru cycles over the past 4 billions years. Remember the ice ages. The sun the ( the bright object in the sky) impacts all of the climate on the planet. Solar flare activity/sun spots and the release of solar radiation creates the ‘global warming’ trends that we have seen of the past few years. NOT FROM THE IMPACT MAN. The recent scientific data (the media does not reveal) says the sun is experiencing a decrease in solar flare activity/sun spots resulting in recent cooler temperatures, colder winter, and heavier snow falls hence a possible cooling period. Pretty typical if you grew up and live in the NE and midwest US. The real facts need to be told and not some science fiction dreamed by the left.
Just who in the Hell came up with this cockeyed idea that corbon dioxide is pollution. I’m 59 years old and I went to school back when the idea was to actually teach, not indoctronate the kids. For example, I learned in school that we all inhale oxygen and exhale CO2, which plants inhale and use to make the food we eat and all the pretty flowers and such. If we remove all the CO2 from the atmosphere all the plants will die, and then we will all die. If too much CO2 were bad for plants, why do people with greenhouses go out and buy machines to pump more CO2 into the greenhouses to make the plants grow. I’m not a scientist, but God has given me something some of these global warming scientists seem to be missing. It’s called common sence.