The Year the Global Warming Hoax Died

When did the global warming hoax die? Historians are likely to pinpoint 2007. It will take another decade to insure it cannot be revived, but the avalanche of scientific studies and the cumulative impact of scientists who have publicly joined those who debunked the lies on which it has been based will be noted as the tipping point.

It took some forty years to unmask the Piltdown Man hoax that began in 1912 alleging that the skull of an ancient ancestor of man had been found in England. Any number of British anthropologists unwittingly contributed to the hoax by confirming the authenticity of the skull until it was found that the jaw of an orangutan had been cunningly attached. The unmasking of "global warming" has taken well under than half that time.

The hoax has mainly been a creation of the United Nations Environmental Program and took off in earnest with the 1992 Earth Summit. It culminated in 1997 with the Kyoto Climate Control Protocol, an agreement to reduce the generation of carbon dioxide, a "greenhouse" gas (CO2) said to be the cause of an accelerated warming of the earth. By 2005, 140 nations had ratified the pact, agreeing to reduce CO2 emissions. Notably exempt from the pact were nations such as China and India. Few, if any, nations have ever met the limits that require reductions in CO2 production, primarily the result of the use of so-called "fossil fuels" such as oil, natural gas, and coal.

The United States refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and, at one point, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution rejecting it. This has not kept the U.S. from spending billions on so-called "climate research" intended to address climate change with the aim of reducing or capturing CO₂ emissions. Had that money been devoted to maintenance of the nation's infrastructure, tragic events such as the collapse of the Minnesota bridge over the Mississippi might have been averted.

In August, it was revealed that NASA scientists had corrected an error that resulted in 1934 replacing 1998 as the warmest year on record in the U.S. Repeatedly the data put forth to justify the global warming hoax has been debunked.

As Dr. David Wojick recently noted, "The real significance is that such a small correction can make such a big difference. The reason is that the much touted warming of the last three decades is merely a return to earlier warm times, after an equally long period of cooling...There is no way this pattern constitutes a warming trend...In short, there is no evidence for human-induced global warming in the U.S. temperature record."

"Anthropogenic (man-made) global warming bites the dust," declared astronomer Dr. Ian Wilson after reviewing a new study that has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research authored by a Brookhaven National Lab scientist Stephen Schwartz. A former Harvard physicist, Dr. Lubos Motl, said the new study has reduced global warming fear-mongers to "playing the children's game to scare each other."

The new research concludes that the Earth's climate is only about one-third as sensitive to carbon dioxide as a series of reports by the UN's International Panel on Climate Change has asserted for years. The IPCC reports have been increasingly dismissed as deliberate distortions of data that amount to little more than propaganda to advance the "global warming" hoax.

Having testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, paleoclimate scientist Bob Carter noted in a June 18, 2007 essay that global warming has stopped. There has been little, if any, global warming since 1979, a period over which atmospheric CO₂ has increased by 17 percent. Thus, the connection between CO₂ and "global warming", the key to the claims that it is occurring and will increase has been proven wrong.

Prior to and during 2007, one research study after another revealed that the central premise of "global warming" lacks any scientific merit. One by Dr. Tim Patterson concluded that, "The earth temperature does respond to the solar cycle as confirmed by numerous studies." The solar cycle is known to be about eleven years in length and reflects increased or decreased sunspot (magnetic storms) activity. It is the Sun that largely determines the Earth's temperature, which is never the same throughout the planet, given seasonal and solar changes.

In 2007, meteorologist Anthony Watts who led a team of researchers revealed that, "The U.S. National Climate Data Center is in the middle of a scandal. Their global observing network, the heart and soul of surface weather measurement, is a disaster." It had been discovered that many of the measuring stations were placed in locations such as on hot black asphalt, next to trash burn barrels, beside heat exhaust vents, and even attached to hot chimneys and above outdoor grills!

In May 2007, Dr. Reid Bryson, the founding chairman of the Department of Meteorology at the University of Wisconsin dismissed fears of increased man-made CO2 in the atmosphere. He called the "global warming" argument "absurd." As to any increase in the Earth's temperature, he said, "Of course it's going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the industrial Revolution, because we're coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we're putting carbon dioxide in the air."

On August 15, 2007, meteorologist Joseph D'Aleo, the first Director of Meteorology at The Weather Channel and former chairman of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, said, "If the atmosphere was a 100 story building, our annual anthropogenic (man-made) CO2 contribution today would be equivalent to the linoleum on the first floor."

When Newsweek magazine recently devoted a cover story calling the growing international body of scientists debunking global warming "deniers", it was forced to debunk itself when one of its own editors called the article "highly contrived" and "fundamentally misleading."

Thus, it will be people like former Vice President Al Gore or actor Leonardo DiCaprio, whose reputations are now heavily invested in the "global warming" hoax, who will continue to fight a rear-guard action. The mainstream media is likely to be supportive until it too is forced to admit the truth of the science regarding the Earth's climate.

There will be dying gasps to this hoax, not the least of which is a planned $100 million media blitz by Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection, but the public is already far more concerned about instability in the Middle East, the forthcoming national elections, and shocks to the U.S. economy to accord such an effort much credibility.

Hoaxes have a life of their own and "global warming" is now coming to an end. Mark 2007 as the year it began to seriously bleed to death.