The Face of 'Global Warming'

3000 record low temperatures already set for the month of July '09!

DANG! The weather just won't cooperate with Algore and the purveyors of faux science!

Hysterical Liberals Try to Sell Snake Oil Cures

The more we conservatives present the truth, the more entrenched liberals/progressives seem to become in their lies. They are even attempting to sell 'snake oil' cures to the public for the environment.

Hysterics such as Ma'am Barbara Boxer lead the way.

Read all about it today at Columbia Conservative Examiner.

Tell a friend?

McCain, Graham, Collins, and Snowe

No, it's not a singing group like Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. They are more like 'the four horsemen of the apocalypse.'

McCain, Graham, Collins, and Snowe are the four Republicans who are most likely to vote in favor of the cap and trade energy tax in the Senate.

The good news is that a dozen Democrats have expressed doubt about the bill due to its enormous cost to the citizens and our economy.

Read all about it at Columbia Conservative Examiner.

Tell a friend, and let's get this thing stopped.

Scientific Resources that Refute 'Global Warming'

Contrary to the notion that 'the science is settled' concerning the global warming hoax, there are many strong voices of dissent within the scientific community.

This is the subject of my article today at Columbia Conservative Examiner.

You will find a plethora of quotations and links from/to some of the most respected scientists in the world who not only question the global warming theory but outright reject it based upon hard science.

Please read and share. Thanks!

Second Amendment News Roundup for 11/26/08

Wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving, we at The Liberty Sphere are thankful for all of the faithful readers of this blog.

Focusing on guns, politics, and news of interest, here is today's Second Amendment News Roundup:

Codrea's War on Guns has 'The Second Amendment as It Should Have Been Written.'

Sebastian reports that the NSSF now has a blog.

Traction Control posts a link to a great video on the true meaning of the Second Amendment.

Nicki says that a soccer mom has filed suit over the violation of her rights.

Say Uncle has info on a vote for the most influential person in the gun industry this year.

The Sipsey Street Irregulars reports where baby-killers go when they retire.

Western Rifle Shooters Association posts essential reading on the ongoing financial crisis.

The Rustmeister takes Rachel Lucas apart--for her musical tastes! LOL.

Texas Fred says that a jury is deliberating over whether or not a MySpace hoax was a crime.

Robb Allen posts a good read entitled, 'Weapons Grade Ignorance.'

JR treats us to 'The Basic Bill Drill.'

Roberta X points to an interesting news story she entitles 'Hotels for Hobos.'

Ahab provides a summary of last night's Gun Nuts--The Next Generation.

Dark Blog has 2 MUST-reads:
*Tracing a crime suspect through a relative
*The implied lethal force of government against citizens

For a good laugh, An Ol' Broad's Ramblings has today's edition of 'Obamarama.'

Mindful Musings posts an excellent read entitled, 'Stop Fixing It!'

Breda does some Obama-fisking in 'Promises, Promises.'

The Wandering Minstrel gives us some info on the Springfield Armory M1A Socom II.

Mike McCarville publishes an interesting news story on Obama's birth certificate. This started out as a story on the blogosphere that was dismissed as bogus. But increasingly even 'mainstream' type folk are taking a look, and it appears as if Obama won't provide any proof.

Michelle Malkin reports that now that the liberals surrounding Obama are in power and have more classified information, they are having a change of heart about closing Gitmo. WOW! You mean George Bush could have been right about Gitmo all along???? Say it ain't so! LOL.

Gateway Pundit posts the latest factual information on the global climate. Just wait till you see the numbers!

Obama Delivers Asinine Address on 'Global Warming'

The President-elect is a numbskull when it comes to climate.

Addressing a 'global warming summit' hosted by RINO California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Obama stated that few challenges are more urgent than global warming, and that 'the science is beyond dispute.'

Here is an excerpt from Obama's address:

"Few challenges facing America -- and the world – are more urgent than combating climate change," he says in the video. "The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear. Sea levels are rising. Coastlines are shrinking. We’ve seen record drought, spreading famine, and storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season. Climate change and our dependence on foreign oil, if left unaddressed, will continue to weaken our economy and threaten our national security."

Given that I have addressed this issue numerous times, suffice it to say Obama's ignorance and/or political agenda is encapsulated in this statement: 'The science is beyond dispute.'

This whopper of a barefaced lie closed the book on my ability to give Obama any benefit of the doubt.

Read the entire garbage-spouting Obama-speak HERE at the Boston Globe (h/t to Matt Drudge).

NASA Caught Lying, Global COOLING Underway

If you happen to depend on NASA's chief scientist in charge of climatology for your information on 'climate change,' then you were duped in the month of October.

NASA announced that the month of October was the warmest October on record.

But wait. Reports from across the globe during October indicated that a major cooling effect was underway. From China to Russia, from Sweden to the Arctic, from Alaska to Oregon, California, and Florida, there were reports of record-breaking low temperatures, record snowfalls, and growing, expanding glaciers.

Nobody at NASA took the interest or the time to check out the discrepancies between their records and these various reports from areas around the world.

As it turns out, by NASA's own admission, the month of October was the coldest October on record.

NASA had merely accepted September's reports and reported them as October's.

Thus, without even checking the discrepancies, and without even noticing that October's reports were exactly the same as the previous month's, NASA assumed, either erroneously or deliberately, that October had been unusually warm.

It is to be noted that NASA's point man for climatology is an Al Gore, global warming, hysteria-rousing foot-soldier in the war to change the way America lives and does business by using the 'global warming' mantra as an excuse to usher in more government control over our lives.

The truth is that the earth has been cooling this entire year, in some cases dramatically.

In fact, there has been no discernible increase in global temperatures since the year 1999. But this year, there has been a very discernible decrease in global temperatures.

Yet we are still being sold a bill of goods on the dangers of 'global warming' and 'climate change' by the mainstream media, Al Gore, and certain scientists who also have a specific political purpose behind their hysteria-mongering.

The following reports represent a partial list of those that are available to anyone who wishes to know the truth.

UK Telegraph--'The World Has Never Seen Such Freezing Heat'
Newsbusters--'Surreal Scientific Blunder in Global Temps Measurements'
The Register--'Snow Blankets London for Global Warming Debate'
SwissInfo--'Record Snowstorm Triggers Delays'
Ocala.com--'Record Cold Sweeps over Region'

Second Amendment News Roundup for 4/23/08

Focusing on guns and politics, here is today's Second Amendment News Roundup:

Say Uncle has caught ABC News lying about guns yet again:
http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/04/23/abc-news-lies-about-guns-again/

Sebastian has two must-reads today. The first is on how to get pro-liberty candidates involved in the political process:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/04/23/how-to-affect-change/

And the second is on how Obama's dissing of ordinary Americans in Pennsylvania is a symptom of what's wrong with the Democratic Party in general:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/04/23/hillary-by-ten/

Tam comments on the farcical race between Obama and Clinton in Pennsylvania here:
http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2008/04/imagine-that.html

Dr. John Lott is reporting today that Frito-Lay supports gun control by putting anti-gun messages in Doritos bags:
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2008/04/frito-lay-supports-gun-control.html

Dr. Lott also passes along a VERY important piece of news concerning climate change. The four agencies that track the earth's temps show a drop in the average temp during 2007, which puts us back where we were in 1930:
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2008/04/are-we-heading-towards-ice-age.html

Squeaks has some good reading today that is well worth your time. Read it all:
http://www.squeakywheelseeksgrease.com/blog/2008/04/22/yes-we-will-call-it-rape/

The War on Guns has the quote of the day, and it's about liberals and the Second Amendment:
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2008/04/liberal-interpretation.html

Robb Allen makes an excellent point concerning gun rights and self-defense:
http://blog.robballen.com/archive/2008/04/23/Quote-of-the-Day--How-can-you-take-back.aspx

JR has an important post on developing and improving shooting skills:
http://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/2008/04/fits-gets-letters.html

Alphecca comments on the soaring gas prices and wants taxes repealed on gasoline and diesel. That's exactly what I've been saying all along, for government gets more from a gallon of gas than the oil companies. By the way, McCain has called for the removal of the federal tax on gas in order to provide relief (but the states and municipalities need to do the same thing):
http://www.alphecca.com/?p=729

Armed and Safe points to another gun-grabbing jackbooted thug government agency:
http://armedandsafe.blogspot.com/2008/04/ice-men-cometh.html

Dustin has good info on this week's 'empty holster' protest on college campuses:
http://dustinsgunblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/sccc-empty-holster-protest-this-week.html

The Joyce Foundation is 'buying up' law reviews to run anti-gun messages in light of the Heller case, all with the help of one Barack Obama. Of Arms and the Law reports:
http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2008/04/joyce_obama_and.php

Mike McCarville reports that the Governor of Oklahoma, a Democratic super-delegate, has endorsed Obama:
http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2008/04/superdelegate-henry-endorses-barack.html

Here is some ESSENTIAL reading from Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership:
http://www.jpfo.org/smith/smith-schlemiel.htm

Second Amendment News Roundup for 2/10/08

Focusing on guns and politics, here is today's Second Amendment News Roundup:

The MUST-read of the day is this editorial in Invester's Business Daily on the growing number of scientists who are worried about climate change, not about global warming but about global cooling, based upon their observations of the sun. It seems that normal sunspot activity has been unusually quiet, which usually correlates to a decade of cooling on earth: http://ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=287279412587175

AOL News is reporting that Barack Obama won every state Democratic primary held on Saturday, and by a large margin over Hillary:
http://news.aol.com/elections/story/_a/obama-sweeps-democratic-contests/20080209075609990001

Of Arms and the Law reports that the D.C. vs. Heller case has been all over the news lately in light of the U.S. Congress filing a brief in support of Heller...which Vice-President Dick Cheney also signed, in opposition to the Administration's official position in support of D.C.:
http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2008/02/heller_in_the_p.php

Armed and Safe also comments on the case, noting that there is overwhelming support in the Congress for the Supreme Court to uphold the lower court's overturning of the D.C. gun ban:
http://armedandsafe.blogspot.com/2008/02/perhaps-theres-hope-for-congress-after.html

A controversy over gun laws in South Carolina brought out protesters and counter-protesters recently at the state Capital:
http://www.wspa.com/midatlantic/spa/news.apx.-content-articles-SPA-2008-01-30-0035.html

Dustin's Gun Blog has an excellent post in the form of an allegory on illegal aliens entitled, 'The Bird Feeder':
http://dustinsgunblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/allegory-bird-feeder.html

Bravo for the ladies! The Volokh Conspiracy reports that a brief has been filed in D.C. vs. Heller on behalf of over 100 female legislators and academics who support the overturning of the D.C. gun ban due to women's issues, such as SAFETY and SELF-DEFENSE:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_02_03-2008_02_09.shtml#1202597488

That settles it. All American Blogger has ample proof that something is causing Americans in large numbers to go freakin' nuts. Now it is Toledo, Ohio that wants the Marines kicked out of town:
http://www.allamericanblogger.com/2115/now-the-mayor-of-toledo-kicks-marines-out/

Red's Trading Post says that World Net Daily has picked up the story on the ATF official who left her gun in a bathroom:
http://redstradingpost.blogspot.com/2008/02/world-net-daily-covers-story-on.html

Traction Control has a litmus test for the single-issue voter:
http://tractioncontrol.well-regulatedmilitia.org/?p=961

Tam has the quote of the day over at A View from the Porch:
http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2008/02/they-were-both-poisoned.html

Our favorite intellectual, Dr. Walter Williams, lays it on the line about the silly talk of the politicians concerning the issue of 'change.' In fact, he says they are stupid, and I agree:
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/08/sillytalk.htm

If They Can't Predict Hurricanes, How Can They Predict Climate?

For two years in a row, hurricane forecasters have totally missed the mark on predicting the number of storms and their intensity. In fact, this year is on the mark toward becoming the most inactive hurricane season in 30 years.

The last time the Atlantic basin was this quiet was in 1977.

Of course, we still have a month to go in this year's hurricane season. Things could always change, but realistically such a thing is highly unlikely this late in the year.

In addition, have you noticed that the National Hurricane Center has begun naming storms that do not become hurricanes? Time was that only hurricanes were named. Thus, using today's methodology the number of named storms is higher than normal. This is due to the number of tropical storms that did not reach hurricane strength.

According to Algore, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and others in the political movement known as 'the environmentalist movement,' the last two years should have been two of the most active hurricane seasons on record, due to the effects of 'global warming.'

The standard wisdom of the 'politically correct' environmentalists is that global warming would result in more hurricanes with higher intensity. Of course, for the past two years that prediction has totally missed the mark.

The result has been a devastating drought that has brought severe water shortages in the southeastern and southern states.

The obvious question that arises to the surface in the midst of these embarrassing erroneous predictions is, if forecasters can't accurately predict a hurricane season a couple of months prior to June, then how can they be trusted to predict the future climate of the planet years or decades from now?

One more nail in the coffin of the environmental alarmists is the latest NASA satellite imagery from space, which shows that the ozone hole over Antarctica has almost returned to normal. This means that the planet has been basically healing itself of the destructive effects of ozone over the Antarctic region.

For a full comparative analysis of hurricane predictions and the actual storms that occurred over the last few years, click here:
http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/

Couric/CBS Continue Climate Propaganda

Without missing a beat the Katie Couric/CBS News propaganda machine continued with its erroneous and misleading 'news' stories on climate change. Monday night's broadcast proved what The Liberty Sphere had predicted, i.e., that the mainstream media would deliberately bury stories about NASA's 'mistake' that led to the current climate hysteria.

Five full days had passed since the news broke concerning a Y2K bug that caused a widespread bump in temperature readings by NASA's computers. It was last Wednesday that NASA quietly leaked the information that it had corrected the bug, which resulted in an entirely different scenario concerning global warming.

The corrected information shows that the year 1934 is the hottest in recorded history instead of 1998. In addition, five of the ten hottest years on record occurred before the 1940s, and the decade of the 1930s contains three of the hottest years since records began to be kept.

None of this, of course, was reported by CBS, ABC, NBC, or CNN.

Instead, Couric and CBS News ran a special news report Monday evening that continued to spread half-truths and outright untruths concerning global warming, particularly in light of the fact that the new NASA data shows that the earth is actually 1-2% COOLER than we had originally thought.

If one listened closely to the scientists who were interviewed in the piece, one would notice that no one stated that mankind is the cause for climate change. In fact, at one point a scientist who is examining the data in the Arctic Circle stated that, 'We are continuing to attempt to determine what role humans may have played, if any, in the gradual melting of the ice.'

By anyone's estimation, this is hardly a definitive statement on 'man-made global warming.' The scientist went further to say that 150,000 years ago, the place they were standing would have been much thicker with ice, and that 150,000 years prior to that, the area would be covered with water rather than ice.

300,000 years ago, the Arctic Circle was devoid of most of its ice? Which of the oil refineries and automobiles existing at that time caused this?

In spite of the the obvious uncertainty of the scientists CBS interviewed, the piece deftly glossed over any such backtracking and hedging, and proceeded to frame the entire news story in terms of man-made climate change.

Never once was there any mention of the NASA debacle in the year 2000, which they are just now getting around to correct.

Thus, the propaganda machine is alive and well. The facts be damned.

'Hot' News: Earth Colder Than Expected

The latest news scoop concerning global warming is really hot. Earth is colder than expected. NASA scientists have admitted to a mistake which led to their conclusion that the last decade was the hottest on record.

Never mind that the scientists at NASA quietly corrected the mistake, which now makes the 1930s the hottest on record. You would never know about the mistake or its correction if you depend solely upon the mainstream media for your news.

The fact that an error led to the current hysteria in the media and in certain sectors of the scientific community is no big deal when you have a propaganda machine to run.

However, it is no small consequence that the data that many scientists, politicians, and mainstream media talking heads used to justify their fear-mongering on climate change is entirely wrong. In fact, the corrected information will nearly kill the 'man-is-to-blame-for-global-warming' bandwagon, except for the most die-hard of ideologues.

An overwhelming majority of Americans, 70% to be exact, already believe that climate change is a naturally occurring phenomenon rather than man-made. As the news gets around that the entire basis for the hysteria over global warming is erroneous, that percentage will likely rise to over 90%.

No matter what the facts prove in any realm of human endeavor, we can always depend on about 5-10% who make up the fringe-element of society to discount those facts.

The problem at NASA began with a Y2K bug in the computer program in 2000. The bug caused a widespread bump in temperature readings, leading scientists to conclude that the year 1998 was the hottest on record.

When scientists corrected the problem and ran the data without the bug in the program, an entirely new scenario presented itself. The 1930s had three of the hottest years on record, and the year 1934 now holds the title for being the warmest on record.

But here is the most damning news of all for the global warming fear-mongers. Five (5) of the 10 hottest temperatures on record were recorded BEFORE WWII. This means that the first 40 years of the 20th century produced 5 of the 10 hottest temperatures on record.

Michael Asher of DailyTech has this to say about the updated information: 'The effect of the correction on global temperatures is minor (some 1-2% less warming than originally thought), but the effect on the US global warming propaganda machine could be huge.

'Then again– maybe not. I strongly suspect this story will receive little to no attention from the mainstream media.'

Some would claim that 1-2% cooler temperatures than we originally thought is a minor, almost negligible change.

Not so fast!

Climate 'experts' who have called us 'Holocaust deniers' in their attempts to browbeat skeptics into submission have insisted from the beginning that even the slightest upward move of average global temperatures is enough to sound the alarm.

One then begins to wonder that if such a slight percentage of warming is enough to sound the alarm, then new information that shows we are actually 1-2% cooler than we thought would be enough to turn OFF the alarm.

Not when you have a vested interest in destroying American liberty, free enterprise, and free consumer choice in order to usher in an era of government control over our behavior.

The erroneous data of NASA played right into the hands of extremist environmentalists who wish to change American society from top to bottom. It is highly doubtful that a correction of the erroneous data will change anything at all about a movement that is entirely political rather than scientific.

The usual suspects such as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Ralph Nader, along with their co-conspirators in the leftwing fringe of the scientific community, will continue to attempt to scare Americans into changing their behavior 'in order to save the planet from man-made global warming.'

The 'Flat-Earth Society,' to be sure, will gladly welcome the entire lot into their ranks.

To read the full report, including links, concerning the flawed data and NASA and its quiet correction, click here:

http://michellemalkin.com/2007/08/09/hot-news-nasa-fixes-flawed-temperature-data-1998-was-not-the-warmest-year-in-the-millenium/

RFK Jr. Goes Neanderthal at 'Live Earth'

Washington, DC (TLS). Al Gore's 'Live Earth' concerts didn't exactly set the woods on fire in terms of creating a massive, world-wide groundswell of support for his erroneous hypothesis about global warming. Response to the shindig was mixed, and even green-friendly places like Great Britain referred to the event as 'dull.'

Yet there was at least one moment of excitement when Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. went neanderthal in a rampage against politicians in Washington who express doubt about Gore's spin on the cause of climate change and what to do about it.

Like a bull in a china shop, RFK Jr. referred to those who disagree with the Gore hypothesis as 'traitors.' Here are his exact words:

'Get rid of all these rotten politicians that we have in Washington, who are nothing more than corporate toadies. This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors.'

The environmentalist activist and son of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy grew hoarse from shouting the tirade.

Someone obviously needs to inform Junior that just because one happens to disagree with the hypothesis that mankind is responsible for global warming does not make one a 'traitor.'

As we have reported many times on The Liberty Sphere, the mass of scientific evidence indicates that Gore and his hypothesis are wrong. That makes the entire 'environmentalist movement' wrong.

One can have a healthy concern for the environment without being part of an overtly political 'environmentalist movement' which is nothing more than a front-group for a gang of Socialists who wish to destroy human liberty, freedom of choice, free markets, and American capitalism.

If the movement can convince the majority of Americans that human beings are singularly responsible for climate change, which goes against every known, verifiable scientific fact, then they can also convince gullible Americans that nothing less than a massive change in our way of life, our economic system, and even our form of government is necessary to 'stop global warming.'

The geological record contains ample proof that human beings really can't do a damn thing to stop the planet from undergoing its regular, cyclical changes in climate that fluctuate between warm and cool, and at various points in between, even at times tilting toward extreme conditions such as we found during the Ice Age.

If modern, industrialized mankind is the single biggest source of global warming, then how, pray tell, did the earth emerge from the last Ice Age? There was certainly no burning of fossil fuels at the time. There was no man-made pollution of any kind.

Yet the ice receded so dramatically that what was once an ice-covered frozen wasteland, held captive by a mega-deep freeze, gradually became a human-friendly environment with a moderate climate.

And let's not forget that the Middle Ages were significantly warmer than the present climate. What, exactly, contributed to the gradual cooling that has occurred since then?

With all of our global warming hysteria, the earth is still much cooler than the days when Greenland was exactly as the name denotes--a green land that was lush with plant life and a moderate climate.

Sorry, Junior, but you and your buddy Al Gore simply don't have your facts straight. And, it is obvious that your outburst at Live Earth was an example of the old adage, 'If you can't win a debate with the facts and logic, go ape.'

Climate Expert: Global COOLING On the Way!

Washington, DC (TLS). A noted climate expert, R. Timothy Patterson, professor and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, states that the world should be getting ready for global COOLING, not warming.

Patterson bases his conclusions upon extensive research on sun spots and the evidence of their consequences in the core samples of the mud off the Canadian coast in the Western Canadian fjords.

According to Patterson, all the evidence points to a period of drastic global cooling in roughly 12 years, but we need to begin preparing now.

Read this detailed explanation of Patterson's methodology and conclusions here:
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/comment/story.html?id=597d0677-2a05-47b4-b34f-b84068db11f4&p=4

Global Warming Debate Over Carbon Dioxide

Washington, DC (TLS). A key element in the debate over the cause of global warming is the carbon dioxide issue. Doomsday alarmists of the 'consensus' scientists, who maintain mankind is the cause, point to carbon data as proof that what we are putting into the air has caused temperatures to rise.

'Scientists' of this ilk are behind Al Gore's new movie, which I understand has become required viewing in some colleges for graduation, and is being shown in class after class--sometimes forcing students to see it four times in one day in a variety of classes--in high schools.

The propaganda machine is hard at work attempting to indoctrinate the young that mankind is responsible for global warming and that the carbon we put in the air causes temps to rise.

Hard science, i.e., the study of actual verifiable data, shows otherwise.

Scientists who look at the facts and let the facts dictate their policy proposals, rather than allowing their policy bias to dictate how they view science, state that a rise in carbon is a direct RESULT of rising temperatures and NOT the CAUSE of it.

In short, most reliable and honest scientists know that a rise in carbon does not cause a rise in temperatures, but a rise in temperatures causes a rise in carbon dioxide.

This fact is proved in the geological record. During those periods of the earth's history when the planet has been at its warmest, the presence of carbon dioxide is at very high levels. Yet this was long before current lifeforms were even on the planet. There were no man-made emissions going into the atmosphere to cause such a rise in carbon.

Long after Man appeared on the earth, during those cyclical periods when the temperatures rose significantly, we also see a rise in the amount of carbon. Yet these periods in human history pre-date the industrial era. Once again, there were no man-made emissions going into the atmosphere.

Thus, the observable data proves that rising temperatures cause a concomitant rise in carbon. There is to date NO valid historical scientific data that remotely suggests that a rise in carbon creates a rise in temperatures.

The 'consensus scientists,' therefore, have it exactly backwards.

A Liberty Sphere Classic on Global Warming

Washington, DC (TLS). The following is a reprint of a Liberty Sphere classic from November of 2006. It is a treatise on global warming and the political implications of the belief that mankind is to blame for climate change.

In anticipation of Glenn Beck's expose of the environmentalist movement's grand hoax this evening on the Headline News Network, I decided to post this Liberty Sphere classic for your consideration.

'HOW ENVIRONMENTALISTS CONSORT TO DESTROY AMERICAN FREE ENTERPRISE'
by D. Martyn Lloyd-Morgan

The responsible stewardship of the environment is not up for debate in modern times. Every responsible, thinking person is forced to consider the world around us and the impact the activity of man has upon the earth's ability to sustain and renew life. The debate, therefore, centers upon one single issue--globing warming and its cause.

Global warming itself is not really the issue at all. It is a fact. In the earth's long and sometimes violent history, there have been patterns of warming and cooling that run in cycles, usually in response to the sun's activity. As the sun increases in volatility with solar storms, the impact on earth is quite predictable. Earth's temperatures increase.

For example, during the Middle Ages, long before the burning of fossil fuels, the earth experienced a warming that is well-documented among feudal societies where written descriptions of the climate are preserved from the era. In reading those documents we are struck by the descriptions of various writers who describe warm temperatures in areas that are generally known for the cold.

During the modern industrial era, however, particularly at its infancy in the 18th and 19th centuries, we see descriptions of a much cooler climate than that of the Middle Ages. In fact, there was a mini ice age that occurred early on during the period where unusual cold and snowfalls were described by novelists and historians.

These periods of global cooling occur simultaneously with a leveling out of the sun's activity. As solar storms decrease, the earth responds by a cooling of global temperatures.

Presently we are in the midst of an increase in the sun's activity. This activity has been documented for quite some time, resulting in a slight but observable increase in the earth's temperatures.

Thus, the issue of global warming is not up for debate. It is a fact at present, just as it has been a fact many times throughout the cyclical life of the planet. The debate centers on man's role, if any, in the warming that is occurring.

The 'environmentalist movement' has come down on the side of man's culpability in the warming of the earth's temperatures. With a dogmatism that would put Medieval Catholicism to shame, those who belong to the movement insist, adamantly, that the blame for global warming lies squarely with human beings. Human activity, according to the environmentalist dogma, is the single largest contributor to the increase of the earth's temperatures, and thus, steps must be taken to curb man's activity.

The activity in question, of course, is free enterprise, capitalistic industrialism, and entrepreneurship that supposedly 'rapes the precious environment.' This, according to the High Priests and Priestesses of the movement, must be stopped cold.

At the opposite side of the spectrum lies conservatives, libertarians, and those who adhere strictly to 'hard science.' It isn't that these persons deny the possibility of global warming, or global cooling either, for that matter. Rather, these persons question man's contribution to the process. They are not convinced that human activity has much of an impact one way or the other on changes in the earth's temperatures.

Hard science definitely appears to confirm the notion of the latter group of persons.

Take the example of the mammoths in the North Pole region of the earth. Millions of years ago it is clear that the polar region was warm, blooming with plant life, and inhabited by life forms that fed on the plants that were abundant in the region. Hard science proves that this was the case.

Scientists discovered large mammoths frozen in the ice of the polar region that still had undigested green plants in their mouths. These majestic gargantuan creatures roamed the polar region during an era of the earth's history when there was no ice but plant life, grasses, and trees.

The startling discovery of the frozen mammoths in the polar ice region forced scientists to consider one basic fact--there are times when the earth's climate changes suddenly, unpredictably, and violently.

These mammoths had obviously been feeding on the plant life in the polar region, yet they froze to death so quickly that the plants they had just taken into their mouths were frozen along with them. Preserved in the ice for eons of time, these animals provided hard scientific proof of three basic postulates.

First, the polar region was not always frozen but teeming with plant life. Second, this plant life sustained animal life that in today's climate would not survive the cold of the region. And third, the earth is often unpredictable in its wide variances of temperatures, sometimes resulting in sudden, violent, and catastrophic shifts in temperature.

In short, the mammoths froze to death within seconds or minutes while munching on the plants that once grew in the Arctic.

In addition, the mere fact that the Arctic region contains some of the world's most abundant oil deposits is ample proof that the region was once inhabited by numerous animals that left behind fossils that eventually led to the 'fossil fuel' of oil. Such animals could not survive the harsh climate the region has today.

Thus, observable, documented hard science is in unanimous agreement concerning the earth's climate. In the grand scheme of things, mankind has little to do with it. The dramatic shift of the climate in the Arctic region occurred long before man appeared on the earth. The Ice Age was ushered in by forces totally outside the activity of human beings. The warming that has occurred since the end of the last Ice Age began long before humans began burning fossil fuels.

It can be documented without dispute, for example, that the earth has been warming for centuries. In actuality, taking the long view, the earth has been warming gradually ever since the end of the last Ice Age, long before there was any industrialization.

Why, then, do the dogmatists within the environmentalist movement insist so vehemently that global warming is a man-made phenomenon? Why are those who present an alternative view to the notion that man caused global warming presently referred to by these dogmatists as 'Holocaust deniers?' These are shockingly harsh terms.

This is not all. PBS was scheduled to do a documentary on global warming. They were planning to utilize the expertise of a world-renown scientist at the University of Oklahoma. However, when the scientist explained to the producers at PBS that he planned on basing his views solely on hard science, they told him in no uncertain terms that he MUST lay the blame for the phenomenon on human activity and the burning of fossil fuels. When the scientist protested that such a view is based upon speculation and opinion rather than hard scientific evidence, he was politely told his services would not be needed on the program.

Why? Why is the dogma of the environmentalist movement so important to its adherents that scientists must be browbeaten into submission and the documented scientific evidence ignored?

The answer is that today's environmentalist movement is not a scientific movement but a political one. The movement is a front for those with a definite political agenda.

Consider this. The scientists who belong to the environmentalist movement claim that their basis of authority on the subject of global warming is 'by consensus.' They have arrived at their viewpoint that man is responsible for global warming by consensus, that is, most of the scientists in the movement adhere to a viewpoint that is not universally held by the best minds within the scientific community.

And this is the source of the problem. If science is determined by consensus, it ceases to be science. It then becomes conjecture, opinion, and theory. Hard science is based upon one thing alone--the observable facts. Anything that cannot be verified with observable facts remains in the realm of opinion and theory. But it is not science.

Thus, the environmentalist movement has outed itself as a purely political movement. By admitting to the notion that scientific fact can be determined by consensus rather than hard evidence, the movement has immediately taken itself totally outside the scientific realm.

This leaves only one dire conclusion. The environmentalist movement is nothing more than a political movement that is dedicated to the destruction of capitalism, entrepreneurship, and free enterprise industrialism. Thus, Americans are told how horrible they are for driving SUVs. We are told how wicked are the oil companies. We treated to diatribes about how awful are the chemical companies. To express a belief that nuclear-powered energy sources are an acceptable, clean alternative is to commit the unpardonable sin. This is enough to get you excommunicated by the High Priests and Priestesses of the movement. You will surely go straight to hell.

Thus, the environmentalist movement is today the single largest threat to liberty in the world outside of terrorism. In the name of saving the planet from us wicked human beings, its adherents would dismantle American capitalism and free enterprise. Under the guise of 'doing good' the movement would destroy the basis of the American economy and totally change our way of life.

It is for this reason that many of the ex-Communists and Socialists from the Cold War have joined the environmentalist movement. When the old Soviet Union fell as a result of the policies of President Ronald Reagan, who brought them to the brink of economic disaster with our massive military buildup, the comrades were caught without a cause and with no place to go.

These people always have to have a subversive 'cause' to justify their existence.

Thus, they chose the environmentalist movement as the perfect vehicle by which to push toward their goal of destroying capitalism, dismantling the American economy, burying our prosperity, and eventually bringing the complete demise of a Republic that is dedicated to human liberty.

To buy into environmentalist pronouncements as the musings of concerned scientists is a big mistake. The practice of environmentalists to ignore hard science and smear the good names of respected scientists who do not subscribe to their views is ample proof of the subversive nature of this movement.

Thinking people can see right through the ruse. When science is decided by 'consensus' and not factual evidence, it is clear that anything the man-is-to-blame-for-global-warming crowd has to say is to be viewed with a grain of salt. They are not to be taken seriously, except for their massive and single-minded desire to dominate politics and alter the course of a free society.

As for their anti-American and anti-liberty scheme, we should quickly and forcefully repudiate their statements in the public arena whenever we have opportunity to do so.

Don't Miss 'Climate of Fear' on Global Warming

Washington, DC (TLS). Tonight at 7 PM and again at 9 PM, Eastern Time, Headline News Network will air a special presentation on global warming entitled, 'Climate of Fear.'

The report will feature Glenn Beck and will focus on the vast fear-mongering that has accompanied the dire warnings and predictions of those who subscribe to the 'man-is-to-blame-for-global-warming' theory.

In addition, Beck will expose the hidden political agenda of those who are intent, no matter what the hard science says, to convince us that human beings caused global warming.

Needless to say, the Left does not want you to see this program!

That is all the more reason to watch. It is time that those who are actually concerned about truth and hard science put to rest once and for all the massive hoax perpetrated by those with a vested interest in causing the collapse of capitalism, free enterprise, and free human choice.

Glenn Beck's special report tonight should be an important step in that direction.

MIT Scientist Questions Theories on Global Warming

Washington, DC (TLS). A respected scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who receives no research funding from energy companies, has dared to openly question the current popular theories on global warming.

Richard S. Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT, and he is taking on head-to-head the shrill voices of the politically correct by questioning their dogma on global warming.

Lindzen states that those who would lay the blame for global warming at the feet of human activity have very little credible ground to stand on when the entire history of the planet is objectively considered.

Further, Lindzen states that the computer models that make projections of what the climate will be like 50 years from now are the very same models that predict the weather from day to day, which are wrong 50% of the time at least.

Lindzen provides ample evidence that current computer model projections are highly flawed and that the earth has been in an overall pattern of warming ever since the end of the last Ice Age.

The Liberty Sphere feels that this is a refreshing addition to the debate on global warming, particularly in an era in which some scientists would mandate a sweeping change of lifestyle for humanity based on computer predictions that can't even get next week's forecast correct.

Read Lindzen's article here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17997788/site/newsweek/

The Gingrich-Kerry Climate Debate, April 10

Washington, DC (TLS). A real treat is in store of those living in the Beltway area on April 10, at 10 AM. Newt Gingrich and John Kerry will square off in a debate concerning climate change and the impact of humanity on the process.

This is an event you will not want to miss.

The debate is being sponsored by New York University’s John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress and will take place next Tuesday, April 10, at 10 a.m. in the Russell Senate Office Building.

I have never made any attempt to hide my disgust with John Kerry. However, any public event featuring Newt Gingrich is an opportunity to see one of the most astute political minds at work, not to mention his immense skills in public speaking, fielding questions, and handling himself in a debate.

Read the details of the event here:
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/kerry-gingrich-announce-climate-showdown-2007-04-05.html

Ellen Goodman is an Idiot

Washington, DC (TLS). If there ever were any doubt that Leftist columnist Ellen Goodman is about three cards shy of a full deck, her latest op-ed in the Boston Globe definitively removes that doubt. Completely swallowing the 'man-is-to-blame-for-global-warming' balderdash perpetrated by collectivists who wish to use climate change as an excuse for implementing socialistic restrictions on human freedom and free enterprise, Goodman stated that those who doubt that mankind is to blame for global warming are modern-day 'Holocaust deniers.'

There was a time in the past when Goodman could be respected as an able and capable foe. Articulate and bright, she was a formidable force within the ranks of Liberals, leading their charge in the op-ed pages of many of the nation's top newspapers. With this single remark, however, Goodman has immediately lost her credibility. By comparing modern scientists who doubt the Leftist spin on the cause of global warming to Holocaust deniers, Goodman is actually suggesting evil intent on the part of ANYONE who raises questions about the set of assumptions that lead certain persons to conclude man is to blame for climate change. Holocaust deniers include persons of such ill repute as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Neo-Nazis, Muslim Jihadists, and other terrorists who pose a threat to civilization. The reason why this rhetorical tactic is over the top is that it is designed to browbeat into silence scientific inquiry, which by its very nature is ALWAYS raising doubts. The very reason why we know most of what we know about the universe today is precisely due to the bold, relentless inquiry of those who doubted the commonly accepted paradigms.

For example, before Galileo, over 90% of the educated world at that time clearly did not subscribe to the theory that led him to discover truths that changed all we know about the world. Yet Goodman claims that because a significant number of modern scientists are 90% certain that mankind created global warming, anyone who doubts that this is true is to be labeled as a dangerous subversive closely akin to Holocaust deniers such as Ahmadinejad.

Had Galileo not boldly walked through that narrow 10% window of doubt, which led to his questioning of ALL of our assumptions about the world, then mankind would still be stuck in the Dark Ages. Advances in scientific discovery are made PRECISELY because individual scientists are willing to question commonly-held assumptions. In the case of global warming, however, the scientific community is far from having a 'consensus,' as some claim. Significant doubt remains among some of the best minds in the world as to the degree to which mankind contributes to the problem. In fact, some of the brightest and best are denouncing the latest U.N. Report on Climate Change, as well as the Kyoto accords, as sheer politically-driven propaganda.

As The Liberty Sphere has reported within the last few weeks, two significant books are due to be published this year on the subject of climate change and how mankind actually has little or nothing to do with it. A mere cursory scanning of the history of the earth will show this fact. The Ice Age and the subsequent warming, the Medieval Warming Period and the subsequent 'Little Ice Age,' and the subsequent warming that has occurred since the end of the Little Ice Age, all point to the fact that man's activity has absolutely nothing to do with these cyclical changes in climate, which are attributable mainly to changes in solar activity.

As for Ellen Goodman, it is actually sad to see an otherwise bright woman fall for one of the biggest scams in human history. I expected better.

Nigel Calder, one of the foremost scientists in the world, writes today in the Sunday Times about this very issue. Calder asserts that hard science demands that the orthodoxy be challenged, particularly when it comes to the set of assumptions that lead some to assume global warming is caused by greenhouse gases.

For this MUST-READ, click here:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1363818.ece