Global Warming Cracked
Open: A Peek Inside
April 28, 2008
Dr. Nicholas Drapela
Department of Chemistry
Oregon State University
Thank You in Advance
• This is a sociopolitical talk
• It includes opinions and analysis
• Full disclosure: I am an OSU faculty
member and my views are not those of the
university
• This talk is not sanctioned or sponsored by
the university
• You will probably not hear another like it
on this campus
• Permission requested to question authority
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJxwl69
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The Global Warming Phenomenon
• What is taking place during our lifetime in
our society?
• Global Warming theory
– Passion
– Heated arguments
– Accusations
– Threats
• More than a scientific theory
• Why?
Reasons to Believe
• Ask someone why they believe, or do not
believe, in the Global Warming doctrine
• Then ask yourself if those reasons appeal
to reason or to authority
Preview
• Global Warming doctrine is no longer just a
scientific theory; it is a populist social and
political tool
• Many groups in our society benefit from the
existence of the global warming doctrine
• The coercion and propaganda used to advance
this doctrine are disturbing, and have borrowed
from other historical political movements
• The benefactors of global warming theory are
the rich and powerful; the losers are the rest of
the world
• Bigger picture implications
Part One
The Engine
Government-Alarmist Cycle
• Proposed
government
intervention Alarmists
• Increased
government • Money
control • Notoriety
• Decreased
personal
freedoms Government
• Increased tax
revenue
Peripheral Social Engines
Environmentalists Academia
(action) (money)
Hollywood Globalists
(popularity) (control)
Public Students
(absolution) (focus)
Media
(hyperbole)
On the Bandwagon
• ―Rarely has such meager science
provoked such an outpouring of
popularization by individuals who do not
understand the subject in the first place.‖
– MIT Meteorology Professor Richard Lindzen
1992
Oregon State University
• Oregon Climate Change
Research Institute
• Established 2007 by
Oregon State Legislature
• National Search for
director underway
• What are the stated
purposes of this institute?
Source: OSU This Week, Volume 47, No. 17, Feb. 7, 2007
Oregon Climate Change Research
Institute
• Bring money to OSU
• Become the authority in Oregon for
legislators to cite
• Oversee a ―public information‖ campaign
on global warming
• Support the new Oregon Global Warming
Commission
• Assist government in implementing
policies
Why Rock the Boat?
• Doesn‘t everyone win in this situation?
• Isn‘t it a good cause anyway?
• Isn‘t it good for the environment even if it‘s
wrong?
• Does it really matter whether Global Warming
doctrine is true or not?
Public Enlightenment
• ―That propaganda is good
which leads to success…It
is not propaganda‘s task to
be intelligent, its task is to
lead to success.‖
– Joseph Goebbels, Minister
for Public Enlightenment,
National Socialist Party of
Germany, 1933
Part Two
Methods
Method 1 – Fear
• ―It is a good thing that global warming has
become such a prevalent threat…I am
glad for the threat of it. Fear has always
been the strongest force of change among
humans.‖
– John Tavares,
OSU Barometer Column
January 28, 2008
Fear and Propaganda
• Fear has always
been used to control
and motivate
• It is consistently and
intentionally used to
promote submission
to the aims of global
warming
IPCC Lead Author
• ―To capture the public imagination,
we have to offer up some scary
scenarios, make simplified
dramatic statements and little
mention of any doubts one might
have. Each of us has to decide the
right balance between being
effective and being honest.‖
– Stephen Schneider, Author ―The
Genesis Strategy‖
– 2007 IPCC report
Fear in the Headlines
• Headline: ―World Must Act Now On
Climate‖
• ―The world must deal with climate change
now—or pay a much higher price later
(leaving) half the world‘s population
without adequate drinking water.‖
– AP article, March 2008
―The Enemy‖
• For control of a population, an enemy
must be set up which is the cause of all
the population‘s problems
• For Marxism, it was capitalists
• For National Socialism, it was the Jews
• What is it today?
The Perfect Enemy
• "In searching for a new enemy to unite us,
we came up with the idea that pollution,
the threat of global warming, water
shortages, famine and the like would fit the
bill.‖
– The Club of Rome
―The First Global Revolution‖
1991, page 104
In Their Own Words
• ―Climate change is mankind‘s most
important challenge. We know the enemy:
It is named carbon.‖
– Angel Gurria, Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD)
secretary general, 2008
carbon
Method 2 – Marginalization
• Global Warming skeptics are routinely
marginalized as
– Uneducated
– Ignorant
– Anti-environment
– Uncommon
– Fringe
The Denier
• Skeptics are branded as
―deniers‖
• They are immediately
ignorant and/or evil
Demonization in History
• To blindly accept
that a certain group
of people are all
ignorant or evil is
bigotry
Useful Bigotry
• Bigotry is often ignored,
as long as it‘s used
against ―the enemy‖
Al Gore on Global Warming
Skeptics
• ―Those people are in
such a tiny, tiny minority
now. They‘re almost like
those who believe that
the earth is flat…That
demeans them a little bit,
but it‘s not that far off.‖
– ―60 Minutes‖, March 2008
Global Warming Skeptics
• Syun-Ichi Akasofu, PhD, Professor of Physics, Emeritus and Founding Director,
International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska,
U.S.A.
• William J. R. Alexander PrEng, Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil and
Biosystems Engineering, University of Pretoria, Honorary Fellow, South African
Institution of Civil Engineering, South Africa
• Don Aitken, Vice Chancellor, Univerisity of Canberra
• John W. Bales, BA, MA, PhD (Mathematics, Modeling), Professor, Tuskegee
University, Waverly, Alabama, U.S.A.
• Timothy F. Ball, PhD, Chair, Natural Resources Stewardship Project, environmental
consultant and former climatology professor, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg,
Alberta, Canada
• William M. Briggs, PhD., Statistical Consultant (specializing in accuracy of forecasts
and climate variability), U.S.A.
• Stephen Brown, PhD (Environmental Science, State University of New York), Ground
Penetrating Radar Glacier research, District Agriculture Agent Cooperative Extension
Service, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Mat-Su District Office Palmer; Alaska
Agriculture Extension Agent/Researcher, Alaska, U.S.A.
• Robert M. Carter, PhD, Professor, Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James Cook
University, Townsville, Australia
• Phil Chapman, Geophysicist, NASA Astronaut
Global Warming Skeptics, Page 2
• Michael Coffman, PhD, (ecosysytems analysis and climate change), CEO of
Sovereignty International, President of Environmental Perspectives, Inc., Bangor,
Maine, U.S.A.
• John Coleman, Founder, The Weather Channel, Weather Anchor, KUSI-TV, San
Diego, California, U.S.A.
• Piers Corbyn, ARCS, FRAS, FRMetS, astrophysicist (Queen Mary College, London),
consultant, owner of Weather Action long range forecasters, degree in Physics
(Imperial College London), England
• Richard S. Courtney, PhD, energy and environmental consultant, IPCC expert
reviewer, Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom
• Joseph D‘Aleo, MS, BS (University of Wisconsin) Meteorologist and Climatologist
(retired), Executive Director, ICECAP (International Climate and Environmental
Change Assessment Project), Hudson, New Hampshire, U.S.A.
• David Douglass, PhD, Professor of Physics, University of Rochester, New York,
U.S.A.
• Peter Friedman, PhD, Member, American Geophysical Union, Assistant professor of
Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
• Edgar Gärtner, Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA, en Ecologie appliquée,
Redaktionsbüro), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Global Warming Skeptics, Page 3
• Fred Goldberg, PhD, Adj Professor, Royal Institute of Technology (Mechanical
Engineering), Secretary General KTH International Climate Seminar 2006 and
Climate analyst, Stockholm, Sweden
• Stanley B. Goldenberg, Research Meteorologist, NOAA, AOML/Hurricane Research
Division, Miami, Florida, U.S.A.
• Vincent Gray, PhD, New Zealand Climate Coalition, expert reviewer for the IPCC,
author of The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of Climate Change 2001, Wellington,
New Zealand
• William M. Gray, PhD, Professor Emeritus (Dept. of Atmospheric Science), Colorado
State University, Head of the Tropical Meteorology Project, Fort Collins, Colorado,
U.S.A.
• Howard Hayden, PhD, Emeritus Professor (Physics), University of Connecticut, The
Energy Advocate, U.S.A.
• Art Horn, Meteorologist (honors, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, Vermont),
operator, The Art of Weather, U.S.A.
• Craig D. Idso, PhD, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Center for the Study of
Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
• Zbigniew Jaworowski, PhD, physicist, Senior Science Advisor of the Scientific Council
of Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection, Warsaw, Poland
• Madhav L. Khandekar, PhD, consultant meteorologist, (former) Research Scientist,
Environment Canada, Editor "Climate Research‖ (03-05), Editorial Board Member
"Natural Hazards, IPCC Expert Reviewer 2007, Unionville, Ontario, Canada
Global Warming Skeptics, Page 4
• William Kininmonth MSc, MAdmin, former head of Australia‘s National Climate Centre
and a consultant to the World Meteorological organization‘s Commission for
Climatology, Kew, Victoria, Australia
• David R. Legates, PhD, Director, Center for Climatic Research, University of
Delaware, Newark, Delaware, U.S.A.
• Jay Lehr, BEng (Princeton), PhD (environmental science and ground water
hydrology), Science Director, The Heartland Institute, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
• Bjorn Lomborg, NASA
• Jennifer Marohasy, BSc, PhD, Biologist, Writer, Senior Fellow, Institute of Public
Affairs, Director, Australian Environment Foundation, Sydney, Australia
• Amos Meyer, Theoretical Physics, Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Modeling,
Chief Scientist, Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A.
• Ferenc Mark Miskolczi, PhD, atmospheric physicist, formerly of NASA's Langley
Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, U.S.A.
• Dr. James J. O'Brien, Emeritus Professor, Meteorology and Oceanography, Florida
State University, Florida, U.S.A.
• R. Timothy Patterson, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences (paleoclimatology),
Carleton University, Chair - International Climate Science Coalition, Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada
• Patrick Michaels, Prof. Environmental Science, Univ. Virginia
• Richard Mourdock, Indiana Geologist
Global Warming Skeptics, Page 5
• Gary Sharp, Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study, Salinas, California, U.S.A.
• S. Fred Singer, PhD, Professor Emeritus (Environmental Sciences), University of
Virginia, former director, U.S. Weather Satellite Service, Science and Environmental
Policy Project, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A.
• Douglas Southgate, PhD, Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Development
Economics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.
• Roy W. Spencer, PhD, climatologist, Principal Research Scientist, Earth System
Science Center, The University of Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A.
• George H. Taylor, Certified Consulting Meteorologist, Former State Climatologist
(Oregon), Past President, American Association of State Climatologists, Corvallis,
Oregon, U.S.A.
• Dr. Mitchell Taylor, Biologist (Polar Bear Specialist), Wildlife Research Section,
Department of Environment, Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada
• Anthony Watts, ItWorks/IntelliWeather, Founder, surfacestation s.org, Chico,
California, U.S.A.
• Gerd-Rainer Weber, PhD, Consulting Meteorologist, Essen, Germany
• Gregory J. Balle, B.E., MSc., PhD. (Joint Aerospace Engineering and Geophysical
Fluid Dynamics), Pukekohe, New Zealand
• Joe Bastardi, BSc, (Meteorology, Pennsylvania State), meteorologist, State College,
Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
• Matthew Bastardi, BSc (Meteorology, Texas A and M University), Florida, U.S.A.
Global Warming Skeptics, Page 6
• Ernst-Georg Beck, Dipl. Biol., Biologist, Dept. Biotechnology and Nutrition Science,
Merian-Schule, Freiburg, Germany
• David Bellamy, OBE, English botanist, author, broadcaster, environmental
campaigner, Hon. Professor of Botany (Geography), University of Nottingham, Hon.
Prof. Faculty of Engineering and Physical Systems, Central Queensland
University, Hon. Prof. of Adult and Continuing Education, University of Durham,
United Nations Environment Program Global 500 Award Winner, Dutch Order of The
Golden Ark, Bishop Auckland County, Durham, U.K.
• Andre Bernier, Meteorologist, WJW-TV, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
• Sally Bernier, Meterologist, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
• Mi.I.Bhat, Professor (Tectonics, Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of
Kashmir), Sprinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India
• Sonja A. Boehmer-Christiansen, PhD, Reader, Dept. of Geography, University of
Hull, Hull, United Kingdom
• John W. Brosnahan, Vanderpool, Texas, U.S.A., Research Physicist (Atmospheric
Remote Sensing), atmospheric science consultant, founder of Signal Hill Research,
LLC., former President of Alpha/Power, Inc., founder of LaSalle Research Inc.,
founder of Tycho Technology Inc.
• Reid A. Bryson, Ph.D., D.Sc., D.Engr., Senior Scientist, Center for Climatic Research,
Emeritus Prof. of Meteorology, of Geography, and of Environmental Studies,
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Global Warming Skeptics, Page 7
• Dan Carruthers, M.Sc., wildlife biology consultant specializing in animal ecology in
Arctic and Subarctic regions, Alberta, Canada
• George Chilingar, PhD, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles,
California, U.S.A.
• Ian D. Clark, PhD, Professor (isotope hydrogeology and paleoclimatology), Dept. of
Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Charles A. Clough, BS (Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), MS
(Atmospheric Science, Texas Tech University), former (to 2006) Chief of the US
Army Atmospheric Effects Team at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; now
residing in Bel Air, Maryland, U.S.A.
• Michael Clover, PhD (experimental nuclear physics); Computer Simulation, Senior
Scientist, Science Applications International Corp., San Diego, California, U.S.A.
• Martin Coniglio, Meteorologist, KUSA-TV, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
• Paul Copper, BSc, MSc, PhD, DIC, FRSC, Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth
Sciences, Laurentian University Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
• Allan Cortese, meteorological researcher and spotter for the National Weather
Service, retired computer professional, Billerica, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
• Susan Crockford, PhD (Zoology/Evolutionary Biology/Archaeozoology), Adjunct
Professor (Anthropology/Faculty of Graduate Studies), University of Victoria, Victoria,
British Colombia, Canada
Global Warming Skeptics, Page 8
• Dalcio K. Dacol, PhD (physics, University of California at Berkely), physicist at the US
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C, U.S.A.
• Dave Dahl, BSc (Meteorology, Florida State University), Chief Meteorologist, 5
EYEWITNESS NEWS/KSTP-TV, Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.
• Willem De Lange, PhD, MSc(Hons), Dphil (Computer and Earth Sciences), Senior
Lecturer in Earth and Ocean Sciences, Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand
• David Deming, PhD (Geophysics), Associate Professor, College of Arts and
Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
• Robert Durrenberger, PhD, former Arizona State Climatologist and President of the
American Association of State Climatologists, Professor Emeritus of Geography,
Arizona State University; Sun City, Arizona, U.S.A..
• Freeman J. Dyson, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Institute for Advanced
Studies, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.
• Don J. Easterbrook, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Geology, Western Washington,
University, Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A.
• Per Engene, PhD, Biologist, Valenvegen, Norway
• Robert H. Essenhigh, PhD, E.G. Bailey Professor of Energy Conversion, Dept. of
Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.
• David Evans, PhD (EE), MSc (Stat), MSc (EE), MA (Math), BE (EE),
BSc, mathematician, carbon accountant, computer and electrical engineer and head
of 'Science Speak', Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Global Warming Skeptics, Page 9
• Donald W. Farley, P.Eng, M.Eng. (Water Resources Engineering & Hydrology),
Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
• Robert Jacomb Foster, BE (Adelaide University), palaeoclimatologist and energy
economist, Director Lavoisier Group; past Councillor Royal Society of Victoria and
Victorian Institute of Marine Science, Melbourne, Australia
• Louis Fowler, BS (Mathematics), MA (Physics), 33 years in environmental
measurements (Ambient Air Quality Measurements), Austin, Texas, U.S.A.
• Lee C. Gerhard, PhD, Senior Scientist Emeritus, University of Kansas, past director
and state geologist, Kansas Geological Survey, U.S.A.
• Albrecht Glatzle, PhD, ScAgr, Agro-Biologist and Gerente ejecutivo, Tropical pasture
research and land use management, INTTAS, Asunción, Paraguay
• Indur M. Goklany, PhD (Electrical Eng, Michigan State University), climate policy
analyst, Vienna, Virginia, U.S.A.
• Wayne Goodfellow, PhD (Earth Science), Ocean Evolution, Paleoenvironments,
Adjunct Professor, Senior Research Scientist, University of Ottawa, Geological
Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• David Gray, PhD (EE Stanford U., Electromagnetic Wave Transmission (in
Atmosphere, and fiber)), Asst Professor of Engineering, Messiah College, Grantham,
Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
• Thomas B. Gray, MS, Meteorology, Retired, USAF, Yachats, Oregon, U.S.A.
• Ross Hays, Atmospheric Scientist, NASA Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility,
Palestine, Texas, U.S.A.
Global Warming Skeptics, Page 10
• D. Hebert, PhD, Faculty for Chemistry and Physics, Institut fur Angewandte Physik,
Freiberg, Germany
• Hug Hienz, PhD, (Chemistry, University of Mainz, Germany), former Professor of
Organic Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Germany
• Warwick S. Hughes, MSc Hon. (University of Auckland, New Zealand), geologist
(retired), Canberra, Australia
• Ole Humlum, PhD, Physical Geography, Professor, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
• Sherwood B. Idso, PhD, President, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and
Global Change, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
• Albert F. Jacobs, MS, P. Geology, retired geologist, co-founder Friends of Science,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Terrell Johnson, ,B.S. Zoology, M.S. Wildlife & Range Resources, Air & Water
Quality, Principal Environmental Engineer, Green River, Wyoming, U.S.A.
• Wibjörn Karlén, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Department of Physical Geography and
Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
• Joel M. Kauffman, PhD (Organic Chemistry, M.I.T.), Professor of Chemistry Emeritus,
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
• David Kear, PhD, FRSNZ, CMG, geologist, former Director-General of NZ Dept. of
Scientific & Industrial Research, Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
• R.W.J. Kouffeld, PhD, Emeritus Professor - Energy Conversion, Technical University
Delft, Driebergen, The Netherlands
Global Warming Skeptics, Page 11
• Olav M. Kvalheim, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Univ. of Bergen, Bergen,
Norway
• Douglas Leahey, PhD, meteorologist and air-quality consultant, President - Friends of
Science, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Marcel Leroux, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Climatology, University of Lyon, former
director of Laboratory of Climatology, Risks and Environment, France
• Bryan Leyland, M.Sc., FIEE, FIMechE, FIPENZ, MRSNZ, consulting engineer
(power), Secretary - International Climate Science Coalition, Auckland, New Zealand
• William Lindqvist, PhD, consulting Geologist and Company Director, Tiburon,
California, U.S.A.
• Keith Lockitch, PhD (Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), Science and
Environmental Policy, Resident Fellow, Ayn Rand Institute, Irvine, California, U.S.A.
• Endel Lippmaa, Prof.Dr.habil (Physics, Chemistry), Chairman - Energy Council of the
Estonian Academy of Science, Tallinn, Estonia
• Anthony R. Lupo, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science, Department of
Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Science, University of Missouri, Columbia,
Missouri, U.S.A.
• Richard Mackey, Statistician, author of papers about the role of the Sun in the Earth's
climate dynamics and biographer of Rhodes W. Fairbridge, Canberra, Australia
• Horst Malberg, PhD, former director of Institute of Meteorology, Free University of
Berlin, Germany
Global Warming Skeptics, Page 12
• Les McDonald, RP Bio; Senior Impact Assessment Biologist, BC Environmental
Protection (retired); Consulting Aquatic Biologist, Cranbrook, British Columbia,
Canada
• Alister McFarquhar, PhD (international economy, Downing College), Cambridge,
United Kingdom
• John McLean, Climate Data Analyst, Post-graduate Diploma of Computer Studies, B.
Arch., Climate Data Analyst, Computer scientist, Melbourne, Australia
• Rob Meleon, PhD, biochemist, CSO Pepscan, Lelystad, The Netherlands
• Fred Michel, PhD, Director, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Associate Professor
of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Asmunn Moene, PhD, MSc (Meteorology), former head of the Forecasting Centre,
Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
• H. Michael "Mike" Mogil, Certified Consulting Meteorologist (three decades with
NOAA), weather educator and science writer, How the Weatherworks, Naples,
Florida, U.S.A.
• Nils-Axel Mörner, PhD (Sea Level Changes and Climate), Emeritus Professor of
Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
• Luboš Motl, PhD, Physicist, former Harvard string theorist, Charles University,
Prague, Czech Republic
• Robert Neff, M.S. (Meteorology, St Louis University), Weather Officer, USAF;
Contractor support to NASA Meteorology Satellites, Retired, Camp Springs,
Maryland, U.S.A.
Global Warming Skeptics, Page 13
• John Nicol, BSc (University of Queensland), PhD (James Cook University); Radio
Physics and High Resolution Optical Spectroscopy, former Senior Lecturer of Physics
at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia; now residing in Brisbane, Australia
• David Nowell, M.Sc., Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, former chairman of
the NATO Meteorological Group, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Cliff Ollier, PhD, Professor Emeritus (Geology), Research Fellow, University of
Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
• Pat Palmer, MAgrSc (agronomy), pollution control expert (sources and effects on
health), retiired from Crop Research Division, DSIR, Christchurch, New Zealand
• Donald Parkes, PhD, BA (Hons), MA, retired Professor Human Ecology, Australia
and Japan
• James A. Peden, Atmospheric Physicist, webmaster Middlebury Networks, Vermont,
U.S.A.
• Al Pekarek, PhD, Associate Professor of Geology, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Dept., St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota, U.S.A
• Daniel Joseph Pounder, BS (Meteorology, University of Oklahoma), MS (Atmospheric
Sciences, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign); Weather Forecasting,
Meteorologist, WILL AM/FM/TV, the public broadcasting station of the University of
Illinois, Urbana, U.S.A.
• Brian Pratt, PhD, Professor of Geology (Sedimentology), University of Saskatchewan,
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Global Warming Skeptics, Page 14
• Dr. Harry N.A. Priem, PhD, Professor (retired) Utrecht University, isotope and
planetary geology, Past-President Royal Netherlands Society of Geology and Mining,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Art Robinson, PhD (Chemistry), founder and Professor of Chemistry, Oregon Institute
of Science and Medicine, Cave Junction, Oregon, U.S.A.
• Robert G. Roper, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
• Arthur Rorsch, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Molecular Genetics, Leiden University,
Leiden, The Netherlands
• Curt Rose, BA, MA (University of Western Ontario), MA, PhD (Clark University),
Professor Emeritus, Department of Environmental Studies and Geography, Bishop's
University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
• Robert Roseman, Meteorology & Climatology, TV Meteorologist, Denver, Colorado,
U.S.A.
• Rob Scagel, MSc (forest microclimate specialist), Principal Consultant - Pacific
Phytometric Consultants, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
• Clive Schaupmeyer, M.Sc., P.Ag. , Coaldale, Alberta, Canada
• Bruce Schwoegler, BS (Meteorology and Naval Science, University of Wisconsin-
Madison), Chief Technology Officer, MySky Communications Inc, meteorologist,
science writer and principal/co-founder of MySky, Lakeville, Massachusetts, U.S.A. .
Global Warming Skeptics, Page 15
• Tom V. Segelstad, PhD (Geology/Geochemistry), Head of the Geological Museum
and Associate Professor of Resource and Environmental Geology, University of Oslo,
Norway
• Thomas P. Sheahen, PhD (physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology),
specialist in energy sciences, notably renewable energy, Oakland, Maryland, U.S.A.
• Paavo Siitam, M.Sc., agronomist and chemist, Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
• L. Graham Smith, PhD, Associate Professor in Geography, specializing in Resource
Management, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
• Oleg G. Sorokhtin, PhD, Director of Ocean Laboratory, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow, Russia
• T. J. ("Jim") Sprott, PhD, OBE, MSc, FNZIC, consulting chemist, forensic scientist,
Auckland, New Zealand
• Walter Starck, PhD (marine science), marine biologist (specialization in coral reefs
and fisheries with 1000 dives from northern Cape York to the Capricorn group),
author, photographer, Townsville, Australia
• Peter Stilbs, TeknD, Professor of Physical Chemistry, Research Leader, School of
Chemical Science and Engineering, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Stockholm,
Sweden
• Malcolm Taylor, Dip ES (Climatology and Hydrology specialization), Power Systems
Analyst, Otago, New Zealand
• Dick Thoenes, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering, Eindhoven
University of Technology, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
Global Warming Skeptics, Page 16
• Wolfgang Thüne, PhD, Dipl.-Met., Senior Meteorologist and Sociologist, Oppenheim,
Germany
• Göran Tullberg, Civilingenjör i Kemi (equivalent to Masters of Chemical Engineering),
currently teacher of Environmental Protection Engineering and Organic Chemistry at
University in Växjö; Falsterbo, Sweden
• Brian G. Valentine, PhD, PE (Chem.), Technology Manager - Industrial Energy
Efficiency, Adjunct Associate Professor of Engineering Science, University of
Maryland at College Park, Dept. of Energy, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
• Gerrit J. van der Lingen, PhD, geologist and paleoclimatologist, climate change
consultant, Geoscience Research and Investigations, Christchurch, New Zealand
• Roderick W. Van Koughnet, BS (Geology), MS (Geology (Geophysics), Wright State
University), Senior Geoscientist, L&M Petroleum, Wellington, New Zealand
• Gösta Walin, Professor, i oceanografi, Earth Science Center, Göteborg University,
Göteborg, Sweden
• Forese-Carlo Wezel, Professor of Stratigraphy (global and Mediterranean geology,
mass biotic extinctions and paleoclimatology), University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy
• Boris Winterhalter, PhD, senior marine researcher (retired), Geological Survey of
Finland, former professor in marine geology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
• David E. Wojick, PhD, P.Eng., energy consultant, Star Tannery, Virginia, U.S.A.
• Arnold Woodruff, M.Sc.(Atmospheric Physics, U.C.W.Aberystwyth), B.Sc.(Physics,
Durham), Terrestial & Spaceborne Exploration Geophysics, Consultant Geophysicist,
Woodruff Exploration & Production Ltd., Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, U.K.
Global Warming Skeptics, Page 17
• Josef Zboril, MSc. (Chemistry), Board Member, Confederation of Industry, Prague,
Czech Republic
• A. Zichichi, PhD, President of the World Federation of Scientists, Geneva,
Switzerland; Emeritus Professor of Advanced Physics, University of Bologna,
Bologna, Italy
• Nicholas Drapela, Ph.D., Chemistry Faculty and Talented Presenter of Myth, Oregon
State University
―Big Oil Money‖
• Global Warming skeptics are often painted
as being funded by oil companies
• If there is money to be made, it is not in
taking the skeptical view
• Huge corporations tap into the global
warming movement for profit
• Continued funding for global warming
research is dependent upon global
warming existing
Method 3 – Silencing Opposition
• In many present (and past) societies,
thought is controlled by eliminating any
opposing voices or ideas
• Examples of countries today which limit
access to free media
– Iran
– North Korea
– China
– Syria
Information Control by Intimidation
• Concerted efforts are made today to
suppress any information or individual
critical of the Global Warming doctrine
• It is common for people to be threatened
today who speak out on this issue
• Much of this has happened locally
• ―All opposition must be stamped into the
ground.‖
– Sturmabteilung, 1921
A History of Intimidation and
Censorship
• 1988 – Prof. Lester Lave, Carnegie Mellon
University, dismissed from a senate hearing for
suggesting that Global Warming was not a
settled science
• 1989 – Meteorology Prof. Reginald Newell, MIT,
lost NSF funding for data analyses that were
failing to show net warming over the past
century
• 1990 – Paper critical to global warming theory
submitted to Science Magazine by MIT
Meteorology prof rejected without review
Threatening Weather?
• Heidi Cullen (The Weather Channel) has
recently urged that any on-air
meteorologist who expresses skepticism
regarding global warming be stripped of
their credentials by the American
Meteorological Society
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=32abc0b0-802a-23ad-440a-88824bb8e528
Controlling the Media?
• The morning of April 4, 2008, the BBC posted a
story on their website entitled ―Global
Temperatures to Decrease‖
• It described how temperatures have not risen
since 1998 and in fact are decreasing despite
massive CO2 emission increases in the same
time period
• Immediately upon posting, a British
environmental activist (Jo) wrote the following
email to the BBC reporter in question…
BBC Email Transcript
To: Roger Harrabin
From: Jo Abbess
Date: April 11, 2008
Time: 10:12am
Subject: Correction Demanded
Dear Roger,
Please can you correct your piece published today entitled, ―Global
Temperatures to Decrease‖? You should not mislead people into
thinking that the sum total of the earth‘s system is going to be cooler
in 2008 than 2007.
Thanks for your attention to the matter, and thanks for paying attention
to all the facts and figures available.
Jo
BBC Email Transcript
To: Jo Abbess
From: Roger Harrabin
Date: April 11, 2008
Time: 10:22am
Subject: Re: Correction Demanded
Dear Jo,
No correction is needed. If the Secretary-General of the World Meteor-
ological Association tells me that global temperatures will decrease
that‘s what we‘ll report.
There are scientists who question whether warming will continue as
projected by the IPCC.
Best wishes,
RH
BBC Email Transcript
To: Roger Harrabin
From: Jo Abbess
Date: April 11, 2008
Time: 10:29am
Subject: Correction Demanded
Hi Roger,
Personally, I think it‘s highly irresponsible to play into the hands of
skeptics who can promote the idea that Global Warming finished in
1998 when that‘s so patently not true.
As time goes by, the infant science of Climatology improves, so please
do not do a disservice to your readership by leaving the door open to
doubt about that.
Jo
BBC Email Transcript
To: Jo Abbess
From: Roger Harrabin
Date: April 11, 2008
Time: 10:49am
Subject: Re: Correction Demanded
The article makes all of these points quite clear. We can ignore the
fact that skeptics have jumped on the lack of increase since 1998
and it is appearing now in general media.
Best to tackle it and explain it, which is what we‘ve done, or people
will feel the debate is being censored, which makes them very
suspicious.
Roger
BBC Email Transcript
To: Roger Harrabin
From: Jo Abbess
Date: April 11, 2008
Time: 11:24am
Subject: Correction Demanded
Hi Roger,
Your word ―debate‖—this is not an issue of debate. This is an issue of
emerging truth. It would be better if you did not quote the skeptics. Their
voice is heard everywhere on every channel. They are deliberately
obstructing the emergence of the truth. Otherwise, I would have to
conclude that you are insufficiently educated to be able to know when
you‘ve been psychologically manipulated. And that would make you an
unreliable reporter. I am about to send your comments to others for their
contribution, unless you request I do not. You may appear in unfavorable
light because it could be said that you‘ve turned your head by the skeptics.
Respectfully, Jo
BBC Email Transcript
To: Jo Abbess
From: Roger Harrabin
Date: April 11, 2008
Time: 11:40am
Subject: Re: Correction Demanded
Have a look in 10 minutes; tell me if you‘re happier.
We‘ve changed the headline and more.
Note the page, date, and time have not been changed.
Roger
BBC Story Changes
Original Story: “This would mean global temperatures
have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question
climate change theory.”
Replaced with: “But this year’s temperatures would still
be way above the average and we would soon exceed
the record year of 1998 because of global warming
induced by greenhouse gases.”
• The BBC will not comment on the
incident
Method 4 – Corporate Propaganda
• Effective propaganda takes big money
• This must either come from
– government
– the wealthy elite, or
– corporations
Propaganda Blitz
• Currently, a $300,000,000 ad
campaign is being carried out by
Al Gore to advertize global
warming
• Gore says this publicity campaign
is paid for by his personal profits
from ―An Inconvenient Truth‖
• Cost of campaign:
– $300,000,000
• Gross receipts for ―An
Inconvenient Truth‖
– $24,000,000
Show Me the Money
• Where is this massive influx of capital coming
from?
• Many corporations stand to profit hugely if global
warming is true
– ―Green‖ energy companies
– Ethanol manufacturers
– Financial companies
• Al Gore and others have invested heavily in
these areas
• The conflict of interest is staggering
NBC‘s ―Green Week‖
• Ostensibly devoted to environmental
issues
• Inordinate amounts of time spent covering
certain ―green‖ products, helpful to the
environment
• These products are made and sold by GE
• GE owns NBC
• A 1-week commercial
– Corporate propaganda
The Environment –
Keeping it Real
• Pro-environment does not necessitate
belief in the Global Warming doctrine
• Sadly, today the Global Warming doctrine
has taken over the environmental
movement
―Who‘s the greenest
of them all?‖
Part Three
Why?
A Paradigm Shift
• ―Do you believe in global warming? That is a
religious question. Are you a believer…or a
skeptic?‖
– MIT Meteorology Professor, Richard Lindzen
• ―‗Global warming‘ has become the grand political
narrative of the age, replacing Marxism as a
dominant force for controlling liberty and human
choices.‖
– Professor Philip Stott
http://www.cdfe.org/global_warming_religion.htm
Behind the Push
• Why do the world‘s most powerful people want
you to feel that you are responsible for
destroying the earth?
• Why would anyone have us believe that the
world is going to end unless we (Americans)
ratify the Kyoto protocol?
• Why are we being pushed so strongly to impose
international solutions to stop the existential
threat of human-caused global warming?
World Government
• One world – the trend
• One world – the motivation
• A New World Order
Global Governance
• ―For the first time, humanity is instituting a
genuine instrument of global governance,
one that should find a place within the
World Environmental Organization…(this
is) the first component of an authentic
global governance.‖
– Jacques Chirac, President of France
6th Conference for the UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change, 2000
A New World Order
• These plans are not new or hidden
• ―In the next century, nationhood as we
know it will be obsolete…all states will
recognize a single, global authority.‖
– Strobe Talbott, Clinton State Dept.
The Birth of the Global Nation, 1992
Bush, the Environmentalist?
One World – Why Not?
• History shows that when power is consolidated,
liberties are removed, and humanity suffers
• Fascism – 6 million killed under Hitler
• Marxism – 20 million killed under Stalin
• Power corrupts
• Revolutionary War and the constitution of the
United States
America, the Impediment
• The solution: Weaken America
• Falling dollar & the Fed
• Open borders
• Energy policy
• Carbon taxes
• Compromises in sovereignty
– Public-Private Partnerships
– The Amero and Mexamericanada
• And the biggest lifeline?
• Oil
Oil = Your Life
• Farms need oil to produce crops
• Trucks need oil to bring food to your grocery
store
• Most plastics are made from oil
• You get electricity largely from oil
• You heat your home with oil
• You cook your food with oil
• You transport yourself to school, work, or home
with oil
• You dress yourself with oil
• Oil controls the world
Carbon Emissions
• CO2 emissions are produced from oil usage
• If you control CO2 emissions, you control the
world
• Global Warming doctrine is critical for using oil
as a means of controlling society
• CO2 levels are increasing. But we are not
allowed to question whether that proves a link
between the use of oil and the predicted
catastrophic warming of the earth
Global Warming as a Tool
• We are being asked to relinquish our
freedoms ―for the greater good‖
• An innate sense of human guilt is being
used against us to give power to a few and
strip individuals of their basic rights
• The Global Warming doctrine is tailor-
made for this purpose
Summary/Conclusion
• Global Warming doctrine is a powerful force in
our world today, affecting every aspect of society
• Techniques such as fear, bigotry, stifling
opposition, and appealing to authority are being
used to advance this doctrine
• Because of its inextricable ties to oil, Global
Warming doctrine is a tool for absolute control of
the world by one body resulting in the loss of our
freedoms
Thank You
Part Four: Epilogue
So if not CO2, then what?
Solar Activity Theory
• Scientists have proposed the following:
• Sunspots go through cycles of activity and
inactivity
• Higher frequency (shorter) sunspot cycles
create stronger solar energy output
• This deflects cosmic rays and reduces
cloud formation
• This increases earth temperatures
Solar Activity Correlation
Why don‘t we hear about this?
• The sun cannot be controlled
• It cannot be used to manipulate for power
and money