Index
A few key-news items that relate
to the global-warming hype and hysteria
Snow comes earlier and leaves later in
Alberta, putting the lie to claims of "global warming".
Spring 2009 in Alberta |
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June 9th, 2009: No global warming here. |
June 9th, 2009: No global warming here. |
Spring 2007 in Alberta |
Apr. 19, 2007: Despite the hype regarding the global warming
trend (at the rate of 1°F for all of the last century), Alberta is not a beneficiary of that today. It has been
a long and cold Spring so far this year. Daily temperatures at
the current time are 10°C below the long-term norm for this time of
the year (Bruderheim
night-time lows for April 18 and 19 were about 0°C, while the
day-time high for Apr. 19 was 2°C), and today the
area SE from the City of Edmonton was hard-hit by a bad snow storm
that knocked down power lines in the service areas of Fortis and
Battle River REA, leaving thousands of residents and about 2,000
homes,
farms and businesses without power, necessitating emergency shelters to be put into
operation. |
Massive power outage
Apr, 19 2007 - 6:30 AM
EDMONTON/630 CHED - Fortis Alberta is working to restore electricity
to a large chunk of central Alberta.
Power is out in Camrose, Tofield, Daysland, Ministik, Ferintosh, The
County of Camrose and Beaver County and Riley...as well as
surrounding area.
Weather is blamed but the cause of this massive power failure
southeast of Edmonton has not been determined.
The Tofield School and CW Sears School in Tofield and Riley School
are closed today because of the power failure.
No buses will be running. (Source
630 CHED)
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More on the power outage in central Alberta |
Some global-warming alarmists claim that even colder weather is
man-made. It seems hardly possible that every turn of the
weather can be caused by global warming and that all of that is
man-made, but they claim otherwise.
They feel that something must cause
the weather to change for the worse, and that cannot possibly be
Nature. Therefore it must be mankind that causes everything
bad. After all, so some people claim, the world without people would
be perfect, therefore the world can be perfected only if we get rid
of humanity, whom they see as a cancer on the face of the Earth.
So, they initiate a witch hunt. That has happened before when
superstitions triumphed over hard and cold scienctific facts.
When the weather trends took a turn for the worse during the onset
of the Little Ice Age the witch hunts
started, intensified every time the Little Ice Age intensified and
didn't stop until the Little Ice Age abated. (See:
Climatic Change and Witch-Hunting, by historian Wolfgang
Behringer — off-site)
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Spring 2005 in Alberta |
Apr. 29, 2005:
After some snow and -5.5°C the night before, the tulips were
hanging their heads a bit. The temperature never went above freezing
that day. That was what we saw in Bruderheim of the massive
cold wave that dumped 53 cm of snow in Ohio. |
Apr. 30, 2005:
The following morning things weren't much
better. It had snowed some more, and the temperature had
dropped to
-4.8°C over night, rising to 2.4°C during the day.
Mind you, today, the 1st of May, 2005, the day-time high was 9.8°C.
It seems that the tulips will recover. |
Fall 2004 in Alberta |
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Sep. 9, 2004; The thermometer read 40°F,
but that is wrong. It got knocked off by the wind a couple of
times during the short and cooler than average summer we had. That
affected its accuracy. The true temperature at the time was 0.1°C
(32°F) |
At the same time, this was the view across
the backyard.
Harvesting of the wheat crop is normally about 30 - 50% finished at
this time of the year. But this is not a normal year, and the
harvesting is only about 5% done. |
Spring 2003 in Alberta |
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Apr. 27, 2003
Morning view from our door to the garden. That
is what global warming is like? Wouldn't we love to hear David Suzuki explain that?
However, lately he's been keeping strangely quiet. Could it be that his alarmist ideology
is under the weather of one of the coldest winters the northern hemisphere experienced in
the last five decades? |
May 5, 2003
View at noon from our window upstairs to the north.
The temperature was 0°C (32°F) at the time the photo was taken. It was
snowing and had been snowing uninterruptedly and very lightly in most of Alberta since the
morning of the previous day. There are still no explanations from pop-scientists
like David Suzuki and his collaborating climate alarmists. It looks as if they'll just lie
low and wait things out.
If only they would drop out completely. Think of
how much that would save us in taxes — about $3,000 per year per
capita. That is the price that we will be paying for Paul
Martin's $10 billion scheme for asset transfers from Canada to
underdeveloped nations, whereby we can pollute if we pay fines to
them. |
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A few news items relating to the
global-warming hype and hysteria:
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The calculations done by General Circulation Models (GCMs) are
the main source of the information that fuels the global warming hysteria.
Nevertheless, not one of them comes acceptably close to accurately calculating
what the climate presently is at any location, let alone of the whole Earth.
Not only that, but all of the GCMs differ widely from one another as to what the
climate was in the past, and as to what it is supposed to be in the future.
Therein lies the problem. No one in his right mind will base any decisions
about the future on tools that cannot determine with acceptable accuracy what
the present is and the past was.
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The Past and Future of Climate
By David Archibald, Ph.D., May, 2007 (Full
Article — 377 kB PDF file, off-site)
From the article:
The anthropogenic (man-made) contribution to the average global
annual temperature values is the difference between the green line
(temperatures resulting only from all natural causes) and the black
line (temperatures that result from all natural and anthropogenic
causes).
An overview of David Archibald's findings
about the correlation between solar activity trends and climate
trends is contained in this
record of a slide presentation he gave:
Solar Cycle 24: Implications for
the United States
David Archibald
International Conference on Climate Change
March, 2008
He makes no bones about that,
AGW
Proponents are Exactly Wrong
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The Earth is getting colder and this will
accelerate.
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Carbon dioxide has a minuscule warming
effect.
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Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide will
increase agricultural productivity.
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The ideal atmospheric carbon dioxide
level is a minimum of 1,000 ppm
He states in the last slide of his presentation:
Implications for the United
States
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The climate-driven reduction in
agricultural production should be planned for.
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Coal-fired power generation should be
increased.
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Coal to liquid fuels capacity should be
installed.
It would be a good thing for anyone who doubts the
accuracy of those assertions to
look through the whole presentation and the comments David
Archibald provided. Understand the evidence and reasoning (that will
only take a few minutes). After all, some of the most eminent
climate scientists in the world agree with David Archibald.
Gallery of Temperature Change Data (off-site)
This is the most comprehensive compendium of temperature graphs I
have seen. It quite nicely illustrates that the only constant of
climate change is constant change. The graphs cover records and
reconstructions of temperatures covering intervals ranging from 1980 -
2007 to 542 million years before the present to now. The gallery
shows ten graphs in all.
And, yes, there were times during the past 542 million years when it was
much hotter than it is now, but there were also times when it was much
colder. It is unavoidable to conclude that we will almost
certainly soon have another interval when it will be much colder than it
presently is. In fact, the current levelling-off of the global
average annual temperature trend (something that no self-respecting
climate alarmist dares to tell the public about) could well signify the
beginning of that cold period to come.
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EIR
(Executive Intelligence Review) Science,
March 2, 2007
THE FRAUD OF
GLOBAL WARMING
True C02 Record Buried Under Gore
by Laurence Hecht,
Editor, 21st Century Science & Technology
From the article:
The historical record of atmospheric carbon
dioxide concentrations, claimed by the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) as the justification for greenhouse gas
reduction, is a fraud. Research by a Freiburg, Germany
professor, Ernst-Georg Beck of the Merian-Schule, shows that the
IPCC construed and concocted the pre-1957 CO2 record from
measurements on recently drilled ice cores, ignoring more than
90,000 direct measurements [of atmospheric CO2] by
chemical methods from 1857 to 1957.1 .... (Full
Article — 410 kB PDF file, off-site)
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1. "180 years accurate CO2 air gas analysis by chemical methods
(short version)," an unofficial extract, Dipl. Biol. Ernst-Georg
Beck, Merian-Schule Freiburg, 8/2006 [http://www.climatepolice.com/Co2_report.pdf],
and private communication.
Note:
Ferdinand Engelbeen has
justified and somewhat serious reservations about the
compilation by Ernst Beck. He argues that in all
likelihood only the minimum values compiled by Ernst Beck should
have been used and that those do not vary much from the values
measured in ice cores.
According to a group of scientists [leading
climate researchers from throughout the world] brought together
by documentary-maker Martin Durkin, if the planet is heating up,
it isn't your fault and there's nothing you can do about it.
We've almost begun to take it for granted that climate change is
a man-made phenomenon. But just as the environmental lobby think
they've got our attention, a group of naysayers have emerged to
slay the whole premise of global warming.
It is not likely that the video by Martin Durkin
will turn the tide of the propaganda war for the promotion of the
global-warming hype and hysteria.
As if it followed Hitler's
prescription for what constitutes successful propaganda for a single
cause, the global warming hype has become all-pervasive,
ever-present and "the one truth" that the purveyors of the
global-warming hysteria wish the masses to believe in.
Failing any intervention by outside forces, such as that by the
Allied Forces against Hitler, the global-warming hysteria is now
burning so brightly that nothing will stop it anymore until it has
burned itself out. In that process it consumes far more of the
world's economic resources than humanity can afford to lose.
Thereby it causes on a global scale, through economic stagnation and
literal starvation, the deaths of far greater numbers of people than
Hitler managed to kill directly and indirectly.
Worse yet, the economic consequences of the global-warming hype are
being imposed by the developed nations on the developing nations,
earning the developed nations hatred and perhaps worse from the
suffering developing nations. Regardless of the outcomes of
those developments, this time it is not likely that any of the
guilty will be brought to trial. They therefore continue to
lie with impunity and without fear.
Aside from that, the group of naysayers that allegedly "emerged to
slay the whole premise of global warming" did so not just now but
has done so already for quite a few years. They achieved over
the years nothing more than to put a few tiny dents and almost
invisible scratches into the shining and apparently invincible armor
of the global-warming hype.
The truth by itself will not win against all-out propaganda.
For the truth to win requires that our education systems (including
the media) spend more time and effort promoting the truth than they
do in promoting propagandistic lies.
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Liar, liar, pants on fire
Suzuki walks out of AM640 after global
warming debate
AM640 Toronto Radio
Feb, 15 2007 - 3:20 PM
TORONTO - Turns out noted environmental activist Dr David Suzuki
isn't as mild mannered as you may have thought. He stormed out of
our studios this morning after a debate with host John Oakley over
the merits of the Kyoto Accord. Suzuki says whether the Harper
government agrees or not, Canada is already on board with the plan.
Oakley says he welcomes all voices in the debate. Suzuki countered
by asking if he'd welcome a creationist to chat about evolution. (Full
Article)
In that interview Suzuki claimed that global warming
"nay-sayers" are "shilling" for "the fossil-fuel industry", and that
his foundation is funded by private individuals. The truth is
quite different.
Suzuki also claimed in that interview that 2,500 scientists signed
the IPCC "report". However, the "report" was actually signed by
only 51 individuals (not all of them scientists).
Moreover, the "report" referred to by Suzuki is a summary of the IPCC report.
The IPCC report that it summarizes has not yet been published and is scheduled for publication
in July of this year. Is that perhaps to provide enough time to
make its conclusions fit the IPCC "summary" - a political statement
- that has been in the news for the last little while? (Check:
Global
warming charlatan)
I received a request for a donation from
the David Suzuki Foundation. He would be so proud — I
recycled it.
Edmonton Journal, Mar. 2007. Venting
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Don't ruin economy over tiny temp rise
BY MARK STEYN
Chicago Sun-Times Columnist
Chicago Sun-Times
February 11, 2007
Mark Steyn is not too impressed by the IPCC's recent publishing of a
"summary" on a climate change report awaiting to be published only a
few months from now. He writes:
Our Thought For The Week comes from the
Boston Globe's Ellen Goodman: "I would like to say we're at a
point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say
that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust
deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the
present and future."
That would be yours truly: the climate holocaust denier. ...
It bothers Mark Steyn just a tiny wee bit that
global warming during the last century has not yet added up to more
than about a 1°F increase in annual average temperatures, and yet
many people the world over have their knickers in a knot over global
warming, but you better read
the full story.
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Lying For Justice [so as to vilify human progress
— ed.]
By William Gairdner, PhD.
We have heard so much over the years about how humans are a
cancer on the face of the Earth. Not only that, but we hear
constantly that humans are the only living beings who pollute the
environment, that to kill unborn children is one of the best method
for bringing the escalating crime rates under control (Henry
Morgentaler, Canada's premier abortionist), and that to save the
environment it is absolutely necessary to bring the human population
levels down to where they were before Columbus travelled to America
or, better yet, to eradicate humanity altogether.
Here is a view that counters all of those arguments against human
nature and against human existence. The view deals with nothing new,
just things that environmental extremists did their best all along
to suppress by not even coming close to mentioning them.
Full
Story (off-site)
Sunday
November 27, 2005 at 7pm ET on CBC Newsworld
Given its full and all-out support of the hype in connection with
the announcement of the IPCC's 2007 report on global warming, it is
incredible that in its Nov. 2005 newsreport the CBC presented
information on the objective science of global climate trends.
It seems very unwise for a national news organization to present in
one year the cold, hard and objective global-warming science and not
quite two years later global-warming catastrophe propaganda that
almost entirely contradicts its earlier objective report.
It makes one think that the asylum has been taken over by its
inmates, but check the video files of the 2005 CBC program that are
entirely in accord with the global warming information compiled in
the Bruderheim REA's web pages on global warming.
Links to the 2005 CBC newsworld program
The truth presented in the preceding program was then wiped out
by the CBC's propagandistic Feb. 2007 refutation of the truth:
Climate change
An 'unequivocal' truth
Global warming is man-made — and getting
worse, scientists conclude
(Full
Story)
Dear CBC, especially Peter Mansbridge, you violate one of the
first principles of successful propaganda. When you tell lies
you must tell them persistently and without flinching. Never
tell the truth one day and a lie opposing that truth the next day.
To do otherwise destroys your credibility:
Wer einmal lügt dem glaubt man nicht,
und wenn er auch die Wahrheit spricht.
That German-language maxim translated into the much more
efficient English becomes:
Once a liar, always a liar.
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Climate Experts Speak Out in New Video - Science
underlying Kyoto Protocol seriously flawed
Climate Catastrophe Cancelled: What You're Not Being Told About the
Science of Climate Change
A press release (with links to video files that are a must-see) by researchers at the University of Calgary, in
cooperation with the Friends of Science Society (original date of
release 2005 04 13)
Full Story
(off-site)
By
Sherwood, Keith and Craig Idso
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
Editorial Commentary
Volume 6, Number 37: 10 September 2003
...[T]wo scientists from the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial
Physics of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
challenge the politically-correct global warming dogma that vexes the
entire world. Bashkirtsev and Mashnich (2003) say that "a number of
publications report that the anthropogenic impact on the Earth's
climate is an obvious and proven fact," when in actuality, in their
opinion, "none of the investigations dealing with the anthropogenic
impact on climate convincingly argues for such an impact."....
In light of these several sets of real-world observations, we
would not be at all surprised to find that Bashkirtsev and Mashnich
will indeed be proven correct in their prediction of imminent, if not
already-in-progress, global cooling.
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Long-Range U.S. Drought
Forecast (2003 03 17)
Dr. Theodor Landscheidt from the Schroeter
Institute for Research in Cycles of Solar Activity predicts that
it
will remain dry until 2007, upon which there will be seven to eight years of wet weather
followed by another dry period that will peak in the 2025-2030 interval.
There are good reasons to believe the prediction. Unlike the general circulation
models used by climate alarmists, Dr. Landscheidt's forecasting technique produced other
predictions that were right on the nose. Moreover, his technique accurately
simulates the climate the way it was – going back to the year 1900, a level of
accuracy that the climate alarmists still only dream of and hope to be able to achieve if
only they were to receive increased funding from our hard-earned tax-dollars.
More
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Junk Science, by William Gairdner
Why do teachers so often force-feed kids one-sided
facts and theories about the world? Wouldn't education be much more
stimulating if schools focused on broad underlying debates, instead
of assumed dogma?
For example, over the years my children have all gotten scary
lectures on "global warming." They learn that global temperatures
could rise 5 to 10 degrees celsius in the next fifty years mostly
because of burning fossil fuels. Polar ice-caps could melt. Oceans
might flood coastal cities. No wonder kids want to be tucked in at
night!
A thorough teacher would have told them this was just one
dismal theory; there is no convincing scientific proof of global
warming. In a 1993 poll of U.S. meteorologists, 49% said there has
been no global warming, 33% said "don't know," and only 18% thought
there had been some. While we have more carbon-dioxide in the
atmosphere than a few decades ago, we had a ton more a few million
years ago - and maybe could use a lot more: global warming would be
a boon to food production worldwide....
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Weather
reports that the global-warming alarmists rather would neither have published nor
read, but even if they can't avoid them, they would most likely blame them on global
warming anyway.
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Thought Control
— Having offended advocacy researchers, being contrary to political correctness,
having stirred up a hornet's nest or gone against the rules of environmental politics used
by the Greenies — whatever the cause may be, Bjorn Lomborg, author of
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the
Real State of the World, a book declared by some people to be "...
probably the most important book on the environment ever written", is being severely
and unjustly attacked and criticized in
a witch hunt by the liberal-oriented Scientific American and other climate alarmists.
Moreover, the "Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty (DCSD)
has found that [Bjorn Lomborg is] "systematically one-sided" in a
decision handed down 7
January 2003." The DCSD based its decision solely on the unsubstantiated
and uncorroborated critiques published by the Scientific American. See Bjorn
Lomborg's response to the collection of hostile articles by the Scientific American. (Jan.
4, 2002; PDF file, 151 kB).
It appears that if someone tells the scientific truth and nothing but
the truth, the Scientific American will vilify him in an ad-hominem attack, and the Danish
Committee on Scientific Dishonesty will find him guilty of being systematically one-sided.
It seems that the DCSD finds fault with Bjorn Lomborg for being one-sidedly honest
and so inflexible that, unlike the Scientific American critics, he doesn't lie even a
little, not even inadvertently. What has the world come to? Being objective
and honest in the reporting of scientific endeavors is now a crime!
The
Economist
calls the efforts of the climate alarmists to tar and feather Bjorn Lomborg's reputation
and credibility "Orwellian" and states that "The panel's
ruling—objectively speaking—is incompetent and shameful", in a January 9,
2003 article titled "Thought
Control".
The causes of the Orwellian aspects of the conflict between climate
alarmists on the one hand and objective researchers and writers on the other,
are explained very well by
Onar Åm in an e-mail message dated February 3, 2000. The intensification of the
war between the climate alarmists and the promoters of truth and objectivity that Onar Åm
foretold would happen is taking place right now.
Bjorn Lomborg is right in the midst of a heated battle between objective
science and good-old 19th-century-type fascism, not the Nazi-type fascism but the type
that puts the perceived good of Nature – corroborated with facts or not – above
the human good, at any cost. That 19th-century fascism wants to stop the progress of
science and technology, even at the cost of human progress, and even if it means the
eradication of humanity or having humanity return to the stone age. It is a war by
the Luddites and the Saboteurs against technological progress all over again. Some
of the more radical factions of the Greenies use even identical tactics against comparable
targets.
You may think that global warming or, better, the ratification of the
Kyoto accord that our Leader, Jean Chrétien and his Liberal Party, threatens to have
passed by Parliament before Christmas and ram down our throats will have little impact on
you or your family. You would be seriously wrong in thinking that.
Gwyn Morgan, president and CEO of Encana Corp., stated in a letter to Jean
Chrétien that the Kyoto accord is "one of the most damaging international agreements
ever signed by a Canadian Prime Minister."
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Blame sun for global warming:
Science proving that industry is off the hook for Mother Nature's woes, by Lorne Gunter, EDMONTON JOURNAL, Sunday 2
December 2001, p. A18
Index to
more of Lorne Gunter's articles on global
warming and the Kyoto accord
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The first casualty of political war
The Report Newsmagazine, 10-21-2002,
Up
Front, by Colby Cosh
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Eco-global cross-purposes
The Report Newsmagazine, 10-21-2002,
Up
Front, by Colby Cosh
On September 17, an atmospheric scientist for the Australian government,
Paul Fraser, declared that he expects the infamous "ozone hole" over the
Antarctic to be closed by 2050 as humankind reduces its
output of the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) which have been steadily replaced in
refrigeration systems worldwide under the 1987 Montreal Protocol. But could it be
happening sooner than expected? Thirteen days later, the U.S.'s National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that the "hole" (actually just a
thinning of the ozone layer that protects life on earth from solar radiation) had shrunk
dramatically and actually split into two smaller holes....
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See the movie accessible at the
NASA website
via the following links. The shrinking of the "ozone hole" is truly
astounding. What is even more amazing is a corresponding massive increase in
atmospheric ozone right next to the vanishing "ozone hole".
View an
MPEG movie (2
Mbytes) or a
QuickTime movie
(10 Mbytes) of the 2001 and 2002 ozone holes side-by-side from September 22 through
October 6 for each of the two years.
Isn't it very odd that we saw nothing about that in the
media? Does that mean that good news is not news worth reporting? Still, the
"ozone hole" is not a hole. It is a reduction in the ozone in the
atmosphere in the area over and surrounding the South Pole that reaches its peak in
September and October. The ozone content of the atmosphere is by no means uniform
over all areas of the globe and varies considerably with the seasons.
Censorship of anti-climate-alarmist scientific news
about the global environment is common-place in the media. Take the fact that the
news about the non-existent ozone hole is old news. It has been know since 1994 and
before that the ozone-hole alarm was a mistake, perhaps even a hoax, based on false
premises:
New
Scientific Evidence Proves
Ozone Depletion Theory
False
New scientific evidence continues to demonstrate that the ozone depletion
models -and the resulting ban on CFCs- are based on a Big Lie
By Rogelio Maduro
Introduction
A 2002 press release by the Christian Heritage Party goes as follows:
COMMUNIQUÉ of the CHRISTIAN HERITAGE PARTY of CANADA, Volume 9 No.11 - Mar.18,
2002REASONS TO RE-EXAMINE KYOTO
Three recent news items give Canada good reason to re-examine the Kyoto
Accord on climate change:
The BBC reports that there is a growing group of scientists who question:
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whether global warming is happening,
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if it is, whether human activity is primarily responsible, and
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whether the Kyoto Accords would be effective in dealing with the problem - if one
exists.
Most climate measurements are taken from weather stations near major cities, and those
cities are massive sources of heat, which can and often does distort the temperature
readings taken there. Space-based readings from satellites show much less heat buildup,
and in any case, the pattern of increase that has been recorded on earth's surface goes
back well over a century - long before the post WW II industrial explosion.
In addition, NASA reports that the polar ice caps are melting - on Mars. It's
unlikely that this is caused by too many people driving SUVs; but it could be caused by
increased solar flare activity - in which case, "global warming" is a misnomer,
and we might be looking at "solar system warming", not caused by human activity
at all.
Finally, there's question whether the anti-industrial strategies of Kyoto will be
effective at all - especially if emerging nations, with their huge and growing
populations, refuse to sign on.
The Canadian Association of Manufacturers warns that implementing the Kyoto Accords could
cost Canada 450,000 jobs. Canada's major trading partner, the United States, has
refused to implement the Kyoto Accords; that could wreak further economic havoc on Canada
if we proceeded alone.
Nevertheless, it makes sense on the intuitive level that increased industrial activity
could significantly affect the environment, and concern for stewardship of the earth - and
our desire to leave the world to our children and grandchildren in a condition at least as
good as we received it - should indeed motivate us to study the issue more closely.
There are ways in which Canada could pioneer changes that would enable industrial growth
in the emerging nations without harming the environment.
Brazil, for example, has made a major shift away from petroleum-based fuels to renewable
energy sources that are cleaner-burning i.e. ethanol. Such a change in Canada could set a
pattern that would preserve petroleum reserves for higher uses, such a petrochemical
manufacturing, help the United States get free from reliance on Middle East oil - which is
a major focus of the power manipulations of Wahabbi Islamist radicals like al-Qaida, and
benefit the environment. In addition, such a shift would eventually provide a stable
market for more than 30,000 family-sized farms right here in Canada.
It's an area of research into which Canada ought to invest major resources - and soon.
By RON GRAY [email protected]
CHP National Leader |
It is not very likely to happen that Canada will devote
major resources to research into global warming. After all, if the Canadian Federal
Government were truly concerned, what would be better than to measure the weather in the
Arctic, where all of that permafrost is supposed to be melting. If the government
were truly concerned, would it shut down weather monitoring stations in many
northern
locations?
In the 1950s Canada had about 15 permanent weather monitoring stations in the
Arctic. Today only five remain, and the Federal Government announced recently that
it will shut down some more of those. Will one or two weather stations in the
Canadian Arctic be enough? Well, we didn't have them for most of the 10,000 years
civilization has been around, and life went on anyway, and people still had to pay their
taxes.
There was a time when ten percent taxation caused people to revolt or
emigrate, whereas today we are quite content that 57 percent and more of our average
income going to the governments is a reasonable figure, so why not cut a corner with the
weather stations here and there. Won't that keep our taxes from going up?
Canada always had lousy weather: nine months of winter and three months of
poor sledding, but it was quite attractive to the first settlers. It had no income
tax returns, low taxes, playing cards for money, and for about 200 years no lawyers.
Still, the Canadian weather was always so extreme that Canadians never quit talking
about it since they got here. Two extremes describe the Canadian weather:
In Summer skeeters bite your nose.
In Winter nose and toes get froze.
It gets worse after that, and so does our taxation.
Courtesy
Tim Rotheisler &
The REPORT
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* The Winnipeg Free Press, Sept. 21, p.
A-15, reference to the possibility of Saddam Hussein's production of weapons of mass
destruction; Quoted in Peter Warren's
Stupidest Canadian Comment Contest
(as of Nov. 23, 2002 Jean Chretien's comments ranked #1)
Further Reading:
At the United Nations, the
Curious Career of Maurice Strong
Fox News, Thursday, February 08, 2007
By Claudia Rosett and George Russell
NEW YORK — Before the United Nations can save the
planet, it needs to clean up its own house. And as scandal after scandal
has unfolded over the past decade, from Oil for Food to procurement
fraud to peacekeeper rape, the size of that job has become stunningly
clear.
But any understanding of the real efforts that job entails should begin
with a look at the long and murky career of Maurice Strong, the man who
may have had the most to do with what the U.N. has become today, and
still sparks controversy even after he claims to have cut his ties to
the world organization. (Full
Story — Off-site)
Fight Kyoto
by Ezra Levant
Book information
Interview with
Ezra Levant, author of the new book Fight Kyoto, transcript by J. L. Jackson,
broadcast December 9, 2002 on the Cat Country Radio show Agritalk with Jim Fisher.
Make sure you do not miss the excerpt that deals
with Maurice Strong, the real power behind Kyoto: "Maurice Strong: A Dr.
Evil-style strategist. Owner of a 200,000-acre New Age Zen colony [in Colorado]. Designer
of a proposal to "consider" requiring licences to have babies. The architect of
the Kyoto Protocol." It is an eye-opener, especially the strong ties to the powers in
Canadian politics. For example: Maurice Strong gave Paul Martin his first job during
university break "and made him and his family unimaginably rich."
At Ezra Levant's website there are more links to articles that are based on
excerpts from his book.
International Man of
Mystery: Who Is Maurice Strong?
The adventures of Maurice Strong & Co. illustrate the fact that nowadays you don't
have to be a household name to wield global power. ...
Meet Maurice
Strong
Maurice Strong: The new guy in your future! By Henry Lamb January, 1997....
Maurice Strong, "Stockholm to Rio: A Journey Down a Generation."
Maurice Strong, Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Earth Council
Earth Council Alliance
Strong,
Maurice F., 1929- . Papers, 1948-2000: Guide
Harvard University Library
Dossier -
Maurice Strong
... Policy Research. Maurice Strong. Maurice Strong is a senior advisor to United Nations'
Secretary General Kofi Anan.
The Earth
Charter's Unholy Ark
With today's emphasis on "honoring the past
and imagining the future," many see nothing wrong with redesigning the
"memories" of the past to reflect their vision of the future. Many environmental
visionaries have called for "new stories" that replace the old truths and
redirect our values. The message in this new ark serves the purpose well. It puts new
meaning into old memories and usurps the honor inherent in the original. But that's part
of the UN plan. There is little appreciation for God's law and His treasured covenant (the
binding agreement He made with His people long ago) in our pluralistic, postmodern age.
To fill the vacuum, even staunch Communists such as Mikhail Gorbachev call
for spiritual revival. They envision a union of religions, all molded and conformed to a
global, earth-centered spirituality. The gods, spirits and pantheistic forces of
indigenous religions fit right in. Long a promoter of the Earth Charter and its socialist
regulations, the former Soviet ruler knows well that strategic visual images inspire the
masses and speed transformation. [See The State of the World
according to Gorbachev]
So does Maurice Strong, the powerful founder and leader of the Earth Council. Though
usually hidden behind the scenes, Strong is no minor player in this global contest for the
minds of the masses. He led the UN Environmental Programme, directed the 1972 and 1992 UN
Conferences on the Environment and Development, founded Planetary Citizens, directed the
World Future Society and founded and co-chaired the World Economic Forum. He is a member
of the Club of Rome, trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and Aspen Institute, a member of
the UN Commission on Global Governance, and Senior Advisor to the World Bank as well as to
UN Secretary General Kofi Anan [See Towards A Rapid Reaction
Capability for the UN].
The
Earth Charter
The Earth Charter and the Ark of the Gaia Covenant. Copyright © Terry Melanson.
"The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like
the Ten Commandments."
— Maurice Strong
Earth
Charter displayed at United Nations
In 1987, the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development
issued a call for creation of a new charter that would set forth fundamental principles
for sustainable development. The drafting of an Earth Charter was part of the unfinished
business of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit.
In 1994 Maurice Strong, the secretary general of the Earth Summit and chair of the Earth
Council, and Mikhail Gorbachev, president of Green Cross International, launched a new
Earth Charter initiative with support from the Dutch government. An Earth Charter
Commission was formed in 1997 to oversee the project and an Earth Charter Secretariat was
established at the Earth Council in Costa Rica.
Update 2005 06 17:
2. Is the right to water a new concept within human
rights’ legislature?
The right to water is explicitly enshrined in two UN human rights
treaties - the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of
Discrimination against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the
Child, as well in one regional treaty – the African Charter on the
Rights and Welfare of the Child. The Geneva Conventions guarantee the
protection of this right during armed conflict.
In addition, the right to water is an implicit part of the right to an
adequate standard of living and the right to the highest attainable
standard of physical and mental health, both of which are protected by
the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
However, some states continue to deny the legitimacy of this right. In
light of this fact and because of the widespread non-compliance of
States with their obligations regarding the right to water, the UN
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights confirmed and
further defined the right to water in its General Comment No. 15.
Adopted on 26 November 2002, this document provides guidelines for
States Parties on the interpretation of this right under two articles
of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Article 11 (the right to an adequate standard of living) and Article
12 (the right to health). [Source]
It makes one wonder. Do only women and children have
a right to water and to clean water? But then CEDAW is not about
women's rights,
it is about disfranchising men,
and the Conventions on the Rights of the Child are not about the rights
of children,
they are about
disfranchising parents, with both of those objectives serving to
implement
the agenda for the planned
destruction of the family, so that out of the resulting rubble of
civilization a global socialist totalitarian state can be constructed.
Canada's Commitment to Earth
Worship at the Roots of Rapid Change to Canadian Law
An exploration of the history of the relationship between
Maurice Strong and Paul Martin. Maurice Strong gave Paul Martin
his his first job during summer vacation in university, hired him for
Power Corporation Canada Ltd. after Martin finished university, and
offered Martin a sweetheart deal, the purchase of Canada Steamship
Lines, that made the Martin family unbelievably rich.
Importantly, the article identifies Paul Martin's commitment to
support the plan by Maurice Strong, Michael Gorbachev, Kofi Anan and Stephen
Rockefeller to impose a universal religion of Earth worship on the world
population. The new-age religion is to replace all others.
The Canadian government provided millions
of dollars in funding for
the development and goals of Maurice Strong's new-age religion. The Canadian federal
government also provided a
$161 million
in contracts to Canadian Steamship Lines,
a corporation that has most of its fleet of about 50 ships registered in
Barbados and Liberia and that uses shoddy labour practices
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