What the mainstream media has been feeding our nation on the issue of global warming is more hype than heat and more scam than science. Thus, for a change, we shall look at the facts.

First question:  Where is the heat?

Scientist Robert Balling Jr., director of the Laboratory of Climatology at Arizona State University, examined the temperature records from European ground stations over the last 250 years. What were his findings? He said,  “There had been no warming in Europe during the past 65 years. Europe warmed only .58 degrees Celsius during the past 250 years, with all of the warming taking place between 1890 and the mid-1930s and at the same time as an increase in the output of the sun. 

An in-depth study released by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine states:

“The average temperature of the Earth has varied within a range of about 3 degrees Celsius during the past 3,000 years. It is currently increasing as the Earth  recovers from a period that is known as the Little Ice Age. ...

“Compiled U.S. surface temperatures have increased about 0.5 degrees Celsius per century, which is consistent with other historical values of 0.4 to 0.5 degrees Celsius per century during the recovery from the Little Ice Age. ... Three intermediate trends are evident, including the decreasing trend used to justify fears of ‘global cooling’ in the 1970s.

“While the average temperature change taking place as the Earth recovers from the Little Ice Age is so slight that it is difficult to discern, its environmental effects are measurable.

“Greenland, for example, is beginning to turn green again, as it was 1,000 years ago during the Medieval Climate Optimum. Arctic sea ice is decreasing somewhat, but Antarctic ice is not decreasing and may be increasing, due to increased snow. 

“All of the observed climate changes are gradual, moderate and entirely within the bounds of ordinary natural changes that have occurred during the benign period of the past few thousand years.

“There is no indication whatever in the experimental data that an abrupt or remarkable change in any of the ordinary natural climate variables is beginning or will begin to take place.”

The facts tell us that the average temperature increase over the past 100 years is 0.5 degrees C and this is all in the range of normality. So where is the heat?  It is minimal and in the range of normality.

Second question:  Where is the science?

In 1996, The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change, a United Nations Organization, released its report “The Science of Climate Change 1995.” It addressed the issue of the human impact on the earth’s climate and was hailed by the media as the latest and most authoritative statement on global warming. Soon after its release, there was a protest by some scientist of the handling of this document and the version of it that was released to the media. The Wall Street Journal carried this article titled “A Major Deception on Global Warming” by Frederick Seitz. In the editorial, Seitz had this to say: 

“In my more than 60 years as a member of the American scientific community, including service as president of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society, I have never witnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer-review process than the events that led to this IPCC report.

“A comparison between the report approved by the contributing scientists and the published version reveals that key changes were made after the scientists had met and accepted what they thought was the final peer-reviewed version.

“If they lead to carbon taxes and restraints on economic growth, they will have a major and almost certainly destructive impact on the economies of the world. Whatever the intent was of those who made these significant changes, their effect is to deceive policy makers and the public into believing that the scientific evidence shows human activities are causing global warming.”

John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel and a television meteorologist for more than 54 years, has called global warming alarmism “The Greatest Scam in history.”

“Scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long-term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming,” he said.

The truth is, there has been scientific manipulation of the facts for a desired outcome. That is the reason Dr. Frederick Seitz and several other credible scientists started the “Petition Project” that states that global warming is not a crisis and that we should all oppose higher energy tax schemes as well as the Kyoto Treaty.

How many have signed this “Petition Project”? More than 31,000 American scientists have signed the Petition!

Where is the heat? It is little, normal and natural. Where is the science?  It is limited and manipulated, to be certain, and used to promote a certain political and economical outcome.

I, therefore, stand for common sense and sound science in this day of political and scientific manipulation.

A more complete report with references cited can be found on www.shbcbolivar.org.

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