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Apr 10 2008

Global Warming - the Beautiful Hoax!

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1. # Davidon 10 Apr 2008 at 11:37 am

   That totally makes sense. Because paying 5-10 billion dollars in taxes is always the best way to make people healthier and richer.

   Hell, I’d be a sucker not to pay for it.

2. # Hans Lakon 10 Apr 2008 at 1:07 pm

   Hi Steve!
   I like this one! I hope that we can solve the real problems and dont feed the Climate Change mafia! Please join my how long group in care2!
   I have posted your story in the group with a link to the complete story!
   With 10 Billion you can solve the water and food problem the health problem can be solved by killing the Pharma Mafia! Nature healing is the best healing! Forget the poison from the pharma industry !
   I like cool it and i agree that we should deal with the real problems!

   Cool it - The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide To Global Warming

   A groundbreaking book that transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns.

   Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions
   now being considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of
   billions of dollars, are often based on emotional rather than strictly
   scientific assumptions, and may very well have little impact on the
   world’s temperature for hundreds of years. Rather than starting with
   the most radical procedures, Lomborg argues that we should first focus
   our resources on more immediate concerns, such as fighting malaria and
   HIV/AIDS and assuring and maintaining a safe, fresh water supply-which
   can be addressed at a fraction of the cost and save millions of lives
   within our lifetime. He asks why the debate over climate change has
   stifled rational dialogue and killed meaningful dissent.

   Lomborg presents us with a second generation of thinking on global
   warming that believes panic is neither warranted nor a constructive
   place from which to deal with any of humanity’s problems, not just
   global warming. Cool It promises to be one of the most talked about and influential books of our time. lomborg.com

3. # Carolyn Tonahillon 10 Apr 2008 at 1:21 pm

   Another thoughtful and well-written blog. Steve. You can always be counted on to raise some interesting points upon which to reflect. Thank you for yet another good read.

4. # Riveron 10 Apr 2008 at 1:55 pm

   Thought-provoking stuff. Thanks.

5. # Lynn B.on 10 Apr 2008 at 10:24 pm

   Thank you Steve. Your article is very well written, and just simply makes a whole hell of a lot of sense. People forget that DRASTIC climate changes occurred before we were here to cause them. What about the ice age that seemingly happened quickly enough to freeze mammoths in the midst of feeding? Thus the fresh food discovered in their bellies and their exemplary health when found? Even if we ARE causing this climate change this time around (as long as the world we know as Earth lives, it will continue to have dramatic climate changes, we are but a speck in time), the changes we can all make and are making that you suggest, are beneficial all around. Mass hysteria won’t solve a thing. Thank you for your article, it helps ME worry less! :)

6. # Alfiluvuon 11 Apr 2008 at 3:20 am

   Yup Steve I too was a sceptic especially when the big businesses started realising they can make big profits from global warming. My suspiscions were raised when all the big environmentalists kept on ignoring the meat industry as the number one polluter, and still are, despite overwhelming evidence. It’s obviously too much of a big money maker to include in the manifesto.
   I do however still fight against the main causes of POLLUTION and DEFORESTATION and always will.
   Please don’t throw anymore money at cancer research though as that is an even bigger scam than global warming.
   Please see my websites for the reasons why:
   http://www.myspace.com/charitywatch
   and my care2 group:
   http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/cancerresearchresearch

7. # candeeon 11 Apr 2008 at 4:01 am

   Thank you Steve for your insight into the issues of Global Warming. They certainly give one food for thought. I think it is a good thing if we all continue to address the question by doing whatever we can do on an individual basis regardless if it is our contribution that may be causing this or not. Whatever we can do to keep healthy and make our planet as healthy as possible is to our advantage. I dont think that mass hysteria will solve anything, but I do think that a little common sense can go a long way. As far as there being species extinction, I think that is just a part of nature as long as it isnt at the hands of humans, but too many times, it is at the hands of the human race because of their greed for habitat or the use of species for other reasons like money.

8. # patricia lasekon 11 Apr 2008 at 4:50 am

   Great blog, Steve. Thanks for the link.

9. # Connie T.on 11 Apr 2008 at 12:41 pm

   Very interesting. I’m going to post a portion & link back to your blog here. FYI - the e-mail to a friend thing doesn’t work…it says the image verification is incorrect even when correct (and the captcha image doesn’t change)

10. # Kellyon 11 Apr 2008 at 1:00 pm

    It is easy for you to make these statements when your life has not been effected by climate change. However, for those suffering from droughts in Africa, and for those whose island is flooding, they might have a different opinion.

    Even if Global Warming is not true, why would we not take the initiatives that are required. Getting off oil, cleaning up our planet, using renewable sources of energy, and cutting polution would benefit everyone.

    What if you are wrong? How are you going to explain to your children that climate change is destroying the earth, and we did nothing to stop it? The consequences of being wrong about this are huge, and I don’t want to chance it.

11. # Tomon 11 Apr 2008 at 2:12 pm

    Steve has obviously not done careful research on this subject. The most competent scientific bodies of almost every country on earth have concurred with the fact that global warming is happening, and it, for the most part is cause by man. The fool that mentioned The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide To Global Warming also has not done any research. The author of this cobbled together piece of trash is a POLITICAL scientist, not a climate scientist. Most of the research quoted in his book has been taken out of context, as stated by researchers themselves. People who refuse to look at the evidence of global warming tend to “go shopping for the few maveric scientists that still swim against the tide of opinion. Please go to
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change

    for a list of the scientific bodies that concur that global warming is a serious man made threat.

12. # Daveon 11 Apr 2008 at 4:25 pm

    Love the picture.

    We live on a planet that is basically a closed system. When we release what has been formerly ‘locked away’ it takes a long time for it to be ‘locked up’ again.

    This is not a hard thing to get your head around. It’s easy to make it seem complicated and seem to be just ‘too darn difficult for ‘average’ people to understand’. It isn’t. It’s simple.

    We have, and continue to, affect this planet in ways that were hitherto impossible. Now we must live with the consequences.

    Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt ; )

13. # khoon 11 Apr 2008 at 9:28 pm

    dude, you do have some sense.
    but apperantly, it’s spring time now at where you’re staying. i’d like to see you commenting about the nice weather when it comes to summer time. hope you enjoy it then.

14. # Arianaon 12 Apr 2008 at 3:18 am

    Hoax or no hoax – I see the strong debate over climate change only as a trigger that people start to think about what they are doing to the nature. The more we talk about it the more it will be done to protect the nature. That’s the positive effect.
    It worked with me – I started to think about my environmental footprint. Not only how much CO2 i produce, but also if I buy gasoline I’m co-responsible for the death of people and animals that are being killed as a “side effect” of taking over the land that is rich with oil. I’m co-responsible for the pollution from oil drills, I’m co-responsible for the fact that there are almost no tunas in the see (I stopped eating tuna for that reason). And much much more. Our environmental footprint is more complex than just climate change.
    What is actually behind it – who knows? The few guys that run the whole world know it.
    We have to start thinking how to liberate ourselves from all dependences that make few guys very reach. How? I would be very glad if we can find some way. The most important thing is to stop being angry about it and start searching for a creative solutions. And what we are doing – we are angry because of all injustices or we get ourselves drugged with food, TV, fancy lifestyle and not caring at all for anything. That’s not the right way. We have to search for creative solutions, become more consciousness and be more compassionate. Negative (anger) only creates more negative.
    How much evidence and debate do you need to start solving the problem in a new way?

15. # Alfiluvuon 12 Apr 2008 at 6:36 am

    ‘Peter Sutherland, the chairman of British Petroleum, who rallied his fellow elitists at the Trilateral Commission meeting last month, to exploit the hysteria of global warming in order to impose a standardized carbon tax, a measure that will create artificial scarcity and, just like peak oil, raise prices, reaping billions in profits for oil industry moguls at the very top of the ladder.’
    Just as always the top people either invent or utilize a global terror campaign for their own gains.
    Global warming is the new terror campaign.
    Al Gore is a fake!!
    We the people as usual are the fodder to do the dirty work and head out front of the battle lines while the rich and powerful reap the rewards.
    There are other reasons to go green and start taking care of number one.
    Coal and oil WILL run out so we need to move on to more sustainable energy.
    As prices rise food will become scarce so we all need to start growing our own.
    Pollution kills and harms people and animals and needs to be stopped.
    Trees not only provide us with oxygen but also provide homes for critters so we need to plant more and stop cutting so many down.
    All these things we should do regardless of the overlords of global warming hysteria.
    Do it for yourselves not for them.
    Finally in taking command of our own lives we all need to stop looking to the other ‘masters’ the doctors and medical ’scientists’ to save us.
    Their medicine is quackery based on dogma and fraudulent animal studies. Take control of your own health. Reject their unproven and dangerous vaccines and drugs and eat some real homegrown food.
    Be healthy, be happy.

16. # Skepticon 12 Apr 2008 at 6:53 am

    Steve,

    Great article and a great point. $5-$10B dollars could be used for lots of other things, as you point out, or - even better, given back to the people from whom it was taken. Mind if I link to your article from my global warming blog? This is a point-of-view I’d like for my readers to experience.

17. # Tomon 12 Apr 2008 at 7:15 am

    Once again a “skeptic” making claims without any scientific backing. Dangerous vaccines? Hardly. It is the tragic diseases such as polio, smallpox, whooping cough tetanus, and many others that are dangerous. This skeptic should do some research instead of just shooting off his mouth. Look back at all the people that died, or were disabled before these vaccines were developed. And global warming… the VAST majority of scientific opinion supports the conclusion that global warming is real, and caused by man.

18. # Phyllison 12 Apr 2008 at 12:17 pm

    Sorry, but where I live, we did not have the coldest winter. We are lucky to get snow maybe once a year with no accumulation. That is not how it used to be. It is so warm, sometime in January…our plant life thinks it is spring. Just look at the pictures of how our planet water layout has changed. And if you don’t believe, then you have a right to your opinion, but I believe.

19. # Leslieon 12 Apr 2008 at 1:45 pm

    Agree with some of these posts - for another side, read Plan B 3.0. If we chose to, we could fix these issues. Brown might not have it right but at least it is a plan.

20. # Katon 12 Apr 2008 at 7:56 pm

    It is so funny because I have been saying, without any scienitific research just knowing about the past and dinosaurs, that it was most likely the earth doing its thing… I mean come on you can trace cultures way back when by the soils and earthquakes etc etc…A very enjoyable blog and I totally agree let’s put that money to things more useful!!!

21. # Tomon 13 Apr 2008 at 4:07 am

    Money to things more useful? What could be more useful than preventing disastrous climate change and sea level rise? Also, by scientifically going back in history, and comparing the rapidity of CO2 increase and temperature increase, and how it coincides with the industrial revolution, it’s obvious that man is at work here.

22. # Jim Waldieon 13 Apr 2008 at 2:08 pm

    Well Steve in your opinion you could be right, but I have seen many changes in my short life mainly in the past 50 years before Global warming became an issue people in Europe used to say that the adverse weather conditions that we were having then was all down to the Nuclear Bomb tests that were happening then and I myself am convinced that that was the start of it all and who is to blame for that MAN, the upper atmosphere was totally destroyed, yes its been happening for many years probably since time began but Mother Nature has been able to heal herself but this time I think its gone to far.
    $10 Billion dollars isn’t very much when you consider Mr G.W Bush is spending Billions of dollars on the Iraq war just to make sure you have enough oil to run your big cars on what are you going to do when this all runs out.back to the Horse and cart no electricity and gas nothing.
    I think over the next few years you should buy the Nexus magazine theres things in there that will make you hair stand on end now that is scary.
    I ‘am glad that my Government for the last 30 years seems to be taking it serious.
    Now Steve to end on a lighter note don’t take the huff these are only my opinions its the conclusions that i have come up with over the last few years.

23. # Terrie Won 14 Apr 2008 at 8:47 am

    Global warming is happening, but as Steve and others here have pointed out, it is the only the nature of things in it’s own cycle. The only difference is, we as a species, have helped it along. We have sped the cycle up. Something to get hysterical about–no. For no matter what we may do as individuals and collectively as a species–WILL NOT STOP IT. We can maybe–maybe–slow it down by taking measures and precautions (as I have already done in my home and the way I purchase things) but stop it is out of the question. It is nature, it is doing what it has always done and what it will always do.

    It ALWAYS heats up BEFORE it cools down and we are long past due for a full blown Ice Age. So those that have experienced ‘the coldest winter on record’ this year–that is nothing compared to what is coming. Maybe not in our own lifetimes but it is coming and there is nothing as a species we can do to stop it. It is the cycle of the earth.

    We had no winter to speak of where I am. We had three days/nights of hard frost–that’s it–72 hours. We used to get 2 to 3 weeks of hard frost with hard freeze and ice storms. Not any more, not for the last 10 years. Our trees budded out in December, got frosted in January and budded out AGAIN in March.

    Even our vegetation is figuring out ways to cope with the amount of warmth it is getting year-round here. Some species of flora and fauna will go extinct–but that too is the way of things in nature. 98% of all things once alive on the face of this planet HAVE gone extinct. Are we one species slated for the old Dino pile? Maybe, maybe not–we cannot know yet. If we do not chance our habits then the possibility surely exists that we will. But, if we as a species do everything we can do to change our way of existing then maybe the majority of our species will survive this next cycle of change.

    So, can the paltry 10 Billion (yes this is PALTRY compared to what is being spent per week in an obscene war) be spent more wisely on other more pressing things. Of course. Education, health care (NOT on allopathic medicine–on natural medicine and ‘alternative’ medical procedures) and the alleviation of world-wide poverty.

    As some other posters have stated–it’s all about the money. As far as cures for cancer–there already ARE several cures for cancer that are not invasive. But the pharma corps, research institutes, hospitals and doctors (yes, they are in on it too) WILL do everything fair or unfair to suppress this knowledge because IT WILL COST THEM JOBS AND MONEY. They would be rendered useless and obsolete.

    We could already have free, clean, non-polluting energy RIGHT NOW if it were not for the oil/gas/coal/nuclear corps/cartels. We have and have had the technology FOR DECADES. Why do we not have it in use? MONEY. Money and greed. We have had the technology to run cars without oil and gasoline for a CENTURY. GM, Ford and Chrysler bought up the patents on this technology and SHELVED IT. Money and greed. All of this is verifiable–go Google it. Better yet, go directly to the patent archives website and research all of it—you will not like what you find but it will be the truth that you seek. It is all there.

    Anyway, I digress. Climate change is happening and will continue to happen because it is a part of nature to do so. It’s going to get hot before it goes cold. Water tables will rise, land will be lost and other land will surface. Species of plants/trees and animal life will go extinct and others will adapt and digress and become new species. This is the way of nature. We CAN make changes as individuals and as entire nations–to slow the process down and make life bearable. But only if we as people can make those in power (read that as governments AND corporations–they are inseparable now) bend to the will of the people.

    Hysteria is what those in power want of us–do not be fooled and duped into giving them what they want. Take care of your own and then your neighbors, then the world. We CAN do this, we CAN change. But the catch is–WE MUST DO IT NOW. It is far easier to make tiny sacrifices and behavioral changes now than to make painful and abrupt changes later. I chose to make mine 5 years ago.

24. # Frankon 14 Apr 2008 at 5:10 pm

    When I come down with a horrible cold, I go to the doctor. Strange, but the author of this piece along with most of those commenting would choose to see their mechanic.

25. # Hankaon 15 Apr 2008 at 12:31 am

    Hi! I am sorry but I do not understand some of the comments. As English is not my first language, I still think and understand that when Steve wrote this blog he meant to be sarcastic, by teasing he tried to get into some important issues people forget about. Anyway, I find it very thought provoking stuff.
    Steve, you really have an input on my green attitude towards life!Thanks!

26. # Hanson 16 Apr 2008 at 5:33 am

    Hi Steve!

    I think that the money that you think will be spend on global warming is many times higher if the war on Iraq has cost 720 Billion why should not the earth waste 120 Billion on global warming protection i am sure that
    Haliburton has some kind of global warming weapons!
    Many people did not know what to do with your story!
    Better luck next time!

27. # Steve N. Leeon 16 Apr 2008 at 9:10 am

    Thanks for all the comments, everyone.

    I usually try to interact with readers as the comments are added, as many of you will know, but I decided to simply let this post run.

    I have another post on Global Warming already planned which will address many of the things I would have said, so I hope no one minds waiting for all my thoughts in one coherent mass instead of a few snippets here and there.

    It is good to see so many people are passionate about this issue. But then, there’s a lot to be passionate about.

    Steve

28. # Lewis Alemanon 21 Apr 2008 at 10:03 pm

    Hi, Steve,

    Great facts on the global warming debate. The conclusion that you draw is a valid one. Either way, we’d all be better off if we consumed less.

    As always, thanks for something interesting to think about.

29. # Paulon 26 Apr 2008 at 7:24 am

    Both global warming and global cooling are natural cycles and nothong man can do about it. Global warming at its worst might wipe out half of the human race but its global cooling (ice ages) that wipe out most animal life but lets not panic these are very gradual changes other than minor dips and increases

30. # Thomas Adamskion 26 Apr 2008 at 9:30 pm

    I’m not sure why Paul thinks he knows more about global warming than the vast majority of scientists that have concluded that global warming is real, and caused by man’s interference in the composition of the atmosphere. Yes, there have been warming and cooling cycles in the past, but not a change so quickly, that just happens to coincide with man’s use of hydrocarbon fuels. See the excerpt below from an article in Scientific American

    • The “consensus” about anthropogenic climate change entails the following:
    1) The climate is undergoing a pronounced warming trend beyond the range of natural variability;
    2) The major cause of most of the observed warming is rising levels of the greenhouse gas CO2;
    3) The rise in CO2 is the result of burning fossil fuels;
    4) If CO2 continues to rise over the next century, the warming will continue; and
    5) A climate change of the projected magnitude over this time frame represents potential danger to human welfare and the environment.

    These conclusions have been explicitly endorsed by …
    Academia Brasiliera de Ciências (Brazil)
    Royal Society of Canada
    Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Academié des Sciences (France)
    Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (Germany)
    Indian National Science Academy
    Accademia dei Lincei (Italy)
    Science Council of Japan
    Russian Academy of Sciences
    Royal Society (United Kingdom)
    National Academy of Sciences (United States of America)
    Australian Academy of Sciences
    Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts
    Caribbean Academy of Sciences
    Indonesian Academy of Sciences
    Royal Irish Academy
    Academy of Sciences Malaysia
    Academy Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand
    Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
    In addition to these national academies, the following institutions specializing in climate, atmosphere, ocean, and/or earth sciences have endorsed these conclusions:
    NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS)
    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
    National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
    State of the Canadian Cryosphere (SOCC)
    Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
    Royal Society of the United Kingdom (RS)
    American Geophysical Union (AGU)
    American Institute of Physics (AIP)
    National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
    American Meteorological Society (AMS)
    Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS)

31. # Andreason 10 May 2008 at 10:39 am

    What a laugh!
    I’m sure, you, too, will laugh your wise a$$ off once you’re hip deep in the ocean - or a foot under it…

    Jeez, this is as scientific as the Moon hoax….
    :))

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