The Galileo of Global Warming
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The Galileo of Global Warming It's not PC to blame Mother Nature Now the global warming debate reveals that what Bob Tyrrell calls the plutomores (from the Greek plutos, "riches," and moros,...
...Summing up the case is an article published earlier this year by Wallace Broecker in the prestigious pages of Science entitled "Was the Medieval Warm Period Global...
...During this era, beginning some 4,000 years ago and running until the birth of Christ, temperatures averaged between 1.5 and 3 degrees Celsius higher than they do today...
...from cataracts...
...An eminent scientist who was once the leading critic of global warming had to stop writing on the subject in order to continue his research...
...Scores of scientists have been pressured to embrace the cult pressures that befall any critic of the cult of humancaused global warming...
...Hardly heroic is Exxon Mobil, backpedaling from its denial of global warming risks...
...Lordy no, he wrote, in an indignant letter to Exxon Mobil, denying that his findings had anything much to do with the global warming issue...
...If politicians jogged less and coughed more the world would be nearing that state of perfection that the editorialists of the New York Times envisage...
...The source of the pressure that ended his publications was thenSenator Al Gore...
...TAS In the end, the global warming panic will take its place in the history books next to other environmental chimeras, such as The global warming panic will take its place in the history books next to other environmental chimeras, such as the threat of DDT, cell phones, and alar...
...As the Wall Street Journal reported, "Dr...
...And there are other men of science whose work convinces me that America would be better off with no improvement in our health care system whatsoever...
...A 54-year-old oceanographer at Woods Hole Observatory near the Massachusetts Cape, he found a way to concoct a 3,000-year record of the temperatures of the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda through analyzing thermally dependent oxygen isotopes in fossils on the ocean floor...
...Pitt the Elder had gout, really ghastly gout...
...Socialist politicians were happy to join an absurd movement to impose government regulations over the world energy supply and thus over the world economy...
...The link between illness and greatness has been a hidden truth but suspected by anyone who gave the subject a moment's notice...
...The scientific claims and computer models have now blown up in their faces...
...which largely accept the premise that the Earth is warming because of heat-trapping greenhouse gases...
...Sallie Baliunas and Willi Soon of Harvard have uncovered a new oxygen isotope study that extends this temperature record another 3,000 years based on six millennia of evidence from peat bogs in northeastern China...
...Later this scientist coauthored a key paper with Arthur Robinson-organizer of a petition against Kyoto signed by 17,000 scientists-but had to remove his name under pressure from Washington...
...The dominance of natural cycles globally is not surprising since, as Baliunas and Soon report, the impact of changes in sun energy output are some 70,000 times more significant than all human activity put together...
...This data, Robinson warns, is less detailed and authoritative than the evidence from the Sargasso Sea and from the Chinese peat bogs...
...Some have even coyly suggested their own suffering to advance themselves up the scrolls of history...
...Our tlteuue is keeping people like you out...
...Clinton one less lech erous American hero to refer to in his They-All-Did-It defense...
...In time he lost the ability to distinguish the colors on his palette...
...The recently departed White House plunderer has dreadful allergies...
...The happy consequence was swirling reds and yellows, smoky blues and grays that have enraptured millions of people and made the old blinker famous...
...Hey, he's got a new government grant to find out "what's causing a substantial warming in the Atlantic Ocean off Nova Scotia...
...The Alcoa corpocrat devoted his first presentation to the Cabinet to an earnest plutomoronic tract on global warming, urging his baffled companions to save the planet from Republican religionists (apparently awaiting the Second Coming in rubber boots on Long island beaches and golf courses...
...Civilization would get nowhere without the sick BY R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR...
...He wants to put the issue behind him...
...But soon enough his governmentfinanced colleagues began to exert pressure...
...The global satellite record of atmospheric temperature, confirmed by weather balloons, shows little change one way or another for the last three decades...
...Ol:, bur this IS a theme recta:rratir...
...Roughly confirming this result are historical records-the verdancy of Greenland at the time of the Vikings, the little ice age of the mid-1700s, a long series of temperature readings collected in Britain over the last 300 years documenting a slow recovery from the ice age, reports of medieval temperatures from a variety of sources, and records of tree rings and ice cores...
...Keigwin, though, is the more intriguing case...
...the threat of DDT (but not of pandemic malaria), the peril of nuclear power (but not of coal mining), the brain-curdling effect of cellphones (but not of far more potent sun rays), the menace of powerlines (but not of poverty), the poison of alar (though not of rotten apple juice), the danger of asbestos in walls (but not of fire), the carcinogenic impact of PCBs (but not of carrots, peanut butter, coffee and other items that test more toxic in the same way) and the horror of radon and other sources of low-level radiation (despite its beneficial effect on health through a process called hormesis...
...Consider this the next time you listen to Brahms's Lullaby...
...Stop harrumphing and allow me to explain...
...Politicized scientists with government grants and dubious computer temperature models persuaded the world's politicians to make pompous fools of themselves in Kyoto...
...economy, the human-caused global warming advocates would have to demonstrate a persuasive mechanism of human causation.This they show no sign of being able to do...
...But together with the independent historical record, the collective evidence is irrefutable...
...In fact we might be better off if more doctors became stock brokers and vitamins were prohibited...
...Remember when President Jimmy Carter lamented his hemorrhoids and when LBJ made the press's blood cool by revealing his gall bladder scar' Of course there are a few exceptions...
...During L'affaire Monica that would have left President (former President...
...Its own plutomores seem increasingly ready to capitulate to the idea that their energy products imperil the planet...
...Overall, the situation is simple...
...By all reasonable standards, Keigwin is a hero...
...According to the Washington Post, which reported on the problem ear lier this year, the French impressionist Claude Monet suffered They gave him red-yellow vision...
...What is more, many of the greatest statesmen of modern times have been burdened with maladies-some too horrible to mention...
...His contributions to British statecraft were momentous and had he had his way (in other words, were he a bit sicker) he could have wrought marvels for our 13 colonies...
...Had his feet not been throbbing with gout he might have worn shoes and made off to the mother country as a proudTory.What a loss to our Republic...
...In a scientific establishment 50 percent financed by government, few can resist...
...These previous findings, echoed by Keigwin's, are devastating to the theory of human-caused global warming...
...Keigwin warns that the results are not representative of the Earth as a whole...
...As Craig and Keith Idso report in a March 7 editorial on their Webpage wwwco2science.org, Broecker recounts substantial evidence for a series of climatic warmings spaced at roughly 1,500-year intervals...
...He all but said the Earth is in the Balance...
...His answer is a resounding yes...
...As for the politicians, if they jogged less and coughed more the political condition of the world would be nearing that state of perfection that the editorialists of the New York Times seem to envisage when they write, for instance, about campaign finance and the abolition of tobacco...
...From some 6,000 boreholes on all continents, this evidence confirms that the Earth was significantly warmer a thousand years ago and two degrees Celsius warmer in Greenland...
...Temperatures in Antarctica, for example, have been falling for the last 20 years...
...When this happened with DDT, hundreds of millions of people died of malaria...
...To justify drastic action like the Kyoto treaty requiring a reduction in U.S...
...O'Neill and his Cabinet colleague Christie Whitman had provided the high point of this comic opera until this month's assault on Exxon Mobil by a group of angry shareholders, including a medley of nuns and Capuchin friars from New Jersey, inspired by Lloyd Keigwin, a good scientist panicked by pressures of political correctness...
...Fooled entirely by the copious press and television coverage of the Democratic victory in Florida, for example, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill seems to believe he was summoned to Washington to serve as a token Republican in the administration of Al Gore...
...Mitchell Margolis, a pulmonary physician from Pennsylvania, has discovered that composer Johannes Brahms suffered a chronic sleep disorder that left him frazzled and irritable during the day...
...But rather than admit error they persist in their fear-mongering...
...12 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR May 2001 movement that would impose a deadly energy clamp on the world economy...
...11 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR May 2001 dence suggests, the Earth has repeated ly seen mini-cycles of warming and cooling of about 1,500 years duration, then any upward drift in temperatures we may be seeing now-included scat tered anecdotes of thinning arctic ice is likely to be the result of such cycles...
...Thousands of years of data demonstrate that in the face of a few hundred parts per million increase in C02, temperatures today, if anything, are colder than usual...
...The Galileo of Global Warming It's not PC to blame Mother Nature Now the global warming debate reveals that what Bob Tyrrell calls the plutomores (from the Greek plutos, "riches," and moros, "fools") have reached high positions in the Bush administration...
...All this unusual health information comes to us from the researches of a California pathologist, Paul Wolf...
...Owing to his painful pedals he often removed his shoes at public gatherings and, we are told, probably was in his stocking feet when he signed the Declaration of Independence...
...For years now, researchers have been breaking the news of the many maladies suffered by such giants as Beethoven, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, and even John F Kennedy...
...Franklin would have been flying kites in London when the first shots were fired at Concord and Lexington...
...Think of the marvelous achievements of old Ben...
...Conversely, most of the mediocre and childish art of the late Twentieth Century is attributable to the excellent health of our artists, most of whom have fine teeth and creamy complexions...
...Was he a tool of the oil companies...
...Grasping the point, scientists at Exxon Mobil recent ly used the Keigwin data in a Wall Street Journal ad and the PC bees hit the fan...
...Collaborating in the panic is a writer from the Wall Street Journal named Thaddeus Herrick, who reports lugubriously that Exxon Mobil is "increasingly isolated on the issue, not only from the international scientific community, but also from European competitors...
...If the Earth was significantly warmer a thousand years ago, if we have been on a re-warming trend for three centuries, if, as other even more voluminous evi In a scientific establishment fifty percent financed by the government few can resist the cult of human-caused global warming...
...Mussolini had terrible stomach problems and probably as many allergies as Clinton...
...He says that that the importance of his research isn't in the data per se, but rather that marine geologists can undertake such a study at all...
...Andy Warhol created sophomoric stuff despite a string of discomforts that would have impressed Van Gogh...
...Not only did he invent an ingenious way to compile an early temperature record, but he made a giant contribution to discrediting a To Your Health...
...Broecker explains the science of reconstructing the histories of surface air temperatures by exam ining temperature data from "boreholes...
...The temperature pattern he found in the Sargasso Sea is indeed a global phenomenon...
...In fact, after familiarizing myself with the work of two distinguished medical experts, I would go so far as to say that bad health and even serious disease have been instrumental in the creation of many priceless works of art...
...Thus the case for human-caused global warming can no longer rest on the mere fact of contemporary warming...
...Keigwin's denials of his own significance are all pathetically misleading...
...How many people would die as a result of an energy clamp on global capitalism...
...The peat bog records both confirm Keigwin and demonstrate an even warmer period that lasted for 2,000 years...
...He discovered that temperatures a thousand years ago, during the so-called medieval climate optimum, were two degrees Celsius warmer than today's and that the average temperature over the last three millennia was slightly warmer than today's...
...He has not reached any conclusion-but according to the journal, "he gives a nod to global warming concerns, saying `I'd take a guess...
...They continue to die...
...At the risk of sounding controversial let me deposit on the public record a thought: Bad health can be good for you...
...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR May 2001 13...
...Terrestrial temperature stations, on average, show more warming over the past century, but many are located in areas that were rural when the stations were established and are densely urban today, a change which causes local warming...
...Ben Franklin, too, suffered gout...
...energy consumption of some 30 percent, unfeasible without destroying the U.S...
Vol. 34 • May 2001 • No. 4
