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CYNICAL USE OF GLOBAL WARMING FEARS
The Association of British Drivers deplores the way in which unfounded predictions of global warming disaster are being used to shore up controversial plans.
Government scientific adviser, Sir David King, claims that polar ice caps are melting at unprecedented rates, which could see parts of Britain inundated within our lifetimes.
What he fails to mention is that the southern ice cap is warming over only 2% of its area, a peninsula that has grown out over the warm southern ocean.
Everywhere else ice is thickening at the healthy rate of 27 billion tonnes a year (1) while most of the warming recorded at the northern ice cap took place before the 1930's with fluctuating changes since.
Dr King gives the game away, however, by appearing in news bulletins to preach that we need to take action now, and in particular we need to invest in nuclear power stations.
Given recent concerns about the future availability and price of energy, and the need to replace electricity generation capacity as ageing nuclear power stations are decommissioned, the timing of this latest piece of scaremongering is highly suspicious.
For the transport sector, there is once again the likelihood of political collateral damage with a pseudo-scientific flavour, in the form of hikes in taxes and duties to help fill the Chancellor's Budget black hole -on the back of the same scare tactics.
It has been widely reported that the Prime Minister is keen to authorise construction of a new generation of nuclear power stations, but he is aware of widespread opposition among the public and his own backbenchers.
Perhaps the Number 10 spin machine sees global warming disaster scenarios as a way of making also-scary nuclear power more acceptable and higher transport taxes more palatable.
The ABD's environment spokesman, Ben Adams, says: "The use of these scaremongering tactics is deplorable. There will very likely be transport sector fallout. Many people have already been deceived into believing that man-made global warming is a reality, and that there is a consensus among scientists when
there is no such thing (2). The irony of these latest dire predictions is bitter when most of Europe is shivering in the coldest winter for decades."
He continues, "The moderate climate change that has been occurring since the last ice age ended is entirely natural and is due to cyclical changes in the Sun's eruptive activity plus other geological and astronomical factors.
A move to colder winters is entirely consistent with the imminent descent towards a deep Gleissberg cycle minimum of solar eruptive activity centred around 2030.
Dire predictions made by these modern prophets of doom are simply not going to occur (3). What the public don't know is that the scariest IPCC predictions from recent reports were placed there at a late stage in the review process at the request of politicians (4).
Decisions on energy and related fiscal policies must be made calmly, and on the basis of rational scientific analysis, not in a synthetic climate of fear (5)."
(1) Joughin and Tulaczyk research publication in the journal Science
(2) www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/spsbpeis/Scienceletter.htm
(3) and (4) IPCC Lead Author Professor John Christy H L Mencken: "The fundamental aim of modern politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
GLOBAL COOLING ENDORSED, ABD 'Freezelock' affirmed
A Russian Expert Predicts Global Cooling from 2012. Affirms ABD 'Freezelock' scenario (PR # 469, 17 Nov 05).
A process of sustained global cooling is about to start on the Earth and by the middle of the 21st century the planet will be captured by low temperatures, according to a statement from Khabibulo Absudamatov, an expert from the Russian Sciences Academy Observatory, on 06 February.
"We have already witnessed cooling of this kind in Europe, North America and Greenland between 16451705, with canals freezing in Holland, and people abandoning settlements because of glaciers in Greenland.
This is what we are expecting again" he said. Observations of the Sun's fluctuations, past and present, that influence the climate on Earth show that we have reached the peak of the current phase of natural global warming, Absudamatov said. Now, with the decrease in the Sun's activity and eruptivity, global temperatures are going to decrease (1).
He adds: "In the 20th century, the Sun's activity has been characterized by a general increase in the amount of energy emitted, and global warming was a result of this process. Global warming is by no means an anomaly, but a normal phenomenon. Global warmings, as well as global coolings, have happened before." According to Absudamatov, by 2035 the Sun's activity will have reached its minimum, with a deep cooling of the Earth's climate expected.
ABD Environment Spokesman Ben Adams said: "Absudamatov refers to the Little Ice Age of the seventeenth century, when in addition to canals freezing in Europe, Frost Festivals were held on the frozen River Thames.
This objective view from Absudamatov is in stark contrast to the political hot air we see emanating from the IPCC, which by the admission of one of its own scientists operates on 'preconceived agendas' and is 'scientifically unsound' (2).
Recently we have heard shrill statements from political man made global warming acolytes that it's too late to stop meltdown. It would appear that they can rest easy but in the interim, since we are either beyond redemption anyway or about to freeze, fuel tax hikes from the days of the escalator and the more recent King Canute tax in the form of the climate change levy -involving a risible claim that politicians will control the climate when we pay them more tax should be scrapped immediately."
(1) MosNews 06.02.2006 17:18 MSK (GMT +3)
(2) Resignation statement of IPCC hurricane expert Dr Chris Landsea
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