More Cracks in the Fraudulent Global Warming Consensus

Al Gore claimed, "The entire global scientific community has a consensus on the question that human beings are responsible for global warming."

Bill Clinton said, "The science is clear and compelling. We humans are changing the global climate."

David Milliband, the UK environment minister predicted, "I think that the scientific debate has now closed on global warming, and the popular debate is closing as well."

It should have been obvious long ago that this was a political (or even religious) belief not a scientific one.

First and foremost, science doesn't operate on consensus. Einstein's theory of relativity overturned the world-wide scientific community. They didn't take a vote. They checked the facts of reality, and let that be the arbiter.

Secondly, there never was a consensus. From the start the "science is settled" claims were an attempt to intimidate opponents. It was an attempt to brow beat skeptics into remaining silent. The government backed it up by liberally passing around grants to scientists that would toe the line. Skeptics got left out in the cold. Little wonder then, that there were few vocal opponents of the theory.

That's no longer the case. The argument for anthropogenic global warming is so weak that more and more scientists are attacking it. Today, another scientist has joined the fray. Professor Billy Gray, a 50 year member of the American Meteorological Society, penned a letter attacking the idea today.

He opens by saying, "I am very disappointed at the downward path the AMS has been following for the last 10-15 years in its advocacy of the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) hypothesis. The society has officially taken a position many of us AMS members do not agree with. We believe that humans are having little or no significant influence on the global climate and that the many Global Circulation Climate Model (GCMs) results and the four IPCC reports do not realistically give accurate future projections."

That's polite academic speak for: this theory is totally unsupported by evidence. It is at best a fiction, and at worst a fraud. Professor Gray goes on to list a number of problems with the man made global warming argument, and you owe it to yourselves to take a look.

Of course, these numerous problems raise the question: Why did environmentalists and governments around the world jump on board to the global warming bandwagon, and defend it so arduously after it was shown to be deeply flawed?

It's a complex question. As for the rank and file environmentalists, they have always been long on desire to "save the world" and short on desire to fact check the claims made by their leaders. It's easy to feel like you are "part of the solution" by writing a check to Greenpeace, and voting for candidates like Al Gore, Kerry, Obama, McCain, or Romney. It's comparatively hard to investigate the science for yourself.

This has led environmentalists to champion an endless series of junk science based solutions. We had a new ice age, the hole in the ozone layer, acid rain, running out of landfill space (have you ever driven through Kansas?), predictions that claimed the Amazon rainforest would be entirely deforested by now, and now most famously anthropogenic global warming. It's disconcerting that with a dismal track record like that, environmentalists are still taken as honest and serious.

Of course, many of the members are just leftists looking for excuses for more government control. Have you ever noticed that despite the terrible pollution of the Soviet Union and China, socialism is always the answer to any environmentalist question? Have you ever puzzled at the fact that America has vastly cleaner air and water than any totalitarian country, and yet Capitalism is always to blame for every environmentalist ill?

It's easy to see why governments around the world are so on board with the global warming theory. Every proposed solution means they become bigger and more powerful. They get to regulate more, tax more, and control their citizens more. Thousands of pointless jobs will be created that can be passed out as political favors. Bureaucratic fiefdoms will be created for favored friends and relatives to rule over.  They get to do all of this, and claim a mantle of righteousness.