GLOBAL WARMING: WHAT A CLIMATE CON!

No one knows what is going to happen but almost all the computer models on which man-made climate change claims are based have been shown to be wrong.”

THE WORLD HAS NEVER BEEN WARMER

Not so. Around 1,000 years ago when there were no cars or factories belching pollution, temperatures were actually warmer than today, allowing Vikings to till farms in currently frozen Greenland. it has  also been documented that vines flourished in Britain as far north as Lincolnshire during Roman times. Accurate satellite, balloon and mountain-top observations made over the past three decades have not shown any significant change in the long-term rate of increase in global temperatures. Temperatures recorded in the past 100 years, when global warming is supposed to have soared, are within natural variations recorded over the past millennium.

GLOBAL WARMING CAUSES EXTREME WEATHER

There is no evidence that global warming is influencing our weather. There have always been heatwaves, hurricanes and cold snaps but they are unpredictable. in fact the number of hurricanes is lower now than it was 50 years ago and there were more global droughts in the first half of the 20th century. “One of the huge myths is that extreme weather conditions are increasing around the world,” says Booker.
 
GLACIERS ARE MELTING AND THE SEA’S GETTING HOTTER

It’s possible to find all sorts of different scenarios which change over time. According to the Us National snow and ice Data Center in Colorado, the low point of Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 26 per cent since 2007, ice thicknesses are also increasing in Greenland and Antarctica. Glaciers have been receding and growing in cycles for hundreds of years. scientists know  of at least 33 periods of glaciers growing and then retreating.

This is normal and in fact the size of a glacier is also linked to rainfall levels. Recently scientists retracted their claims that glaciers in the himalayas could disappear by 2035 because of global warming. As for the oceans, temperatures fluctuate naturally. At present we’re in a cool phase so we can expect harsher winters and lower summer temperatures for a few years. This year record low temperatures have been recorded as far south as Cuba.

WE MUST SPEND BILLIONS TO PROTECT THE PLANET

Throwing money at climate change would be a major waste of aren’t man-made there’s little we can do to intervene.

Here government figures show that combating climate change will cost taxpayers £18billion from now until 2050. In the United States alone it’s been calculated that putting measures in place to cut emissions to levels demanded by campaigners would cost 2.4million jobs. The best strategy is to invest in atmospheric research and in reducing emissions sometime in the future if the science becomes more compelling.

EVIDENCE FOR WARMING IS OVERHWHELMING

Alarmists quote reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations organisation, to support predictions. Yet even the IPCC admits that forecasting climate change – just like predicting the weather more than a few days ahead – is notoriously difficult, even with the latest computers.

Over the past two years the Earth’s surface has actually cooled. Going back in time temperature increases can also be attributed to the fact that most of the observations are taken in cities or airports where temperatures may be skewed higher.

POLAR BEAR NUMBERS ARE DECLINING

Images of polar bears clinging pathetically to melting ice have made them the poster animals for climate change. There are thought to be between 20,000 and 25,000 polar bears in 19 population groups around the Arctic. While polar bear numbers are decreasing in two of these populations, two others are definitely on the increase. We don’t populations are doing so the truth is that no one can say for sure how overall numbers are changing.

One explanation for the increases may be a reduction in hunting but it’s just as likely that global warming is not having the terrible effect that TV images of the bears appear to show.

ATMOSPHERIC CO2 LEVELS ARE DANGEROUS

There is no proof carbon dioxide (CO2) is driving global warming. The role of the gas in polluting the atmosphere and causing global warming has been overstated. In fact CO2 gas accounts for a tiny fraction, measuring much less than one per cent of the atmosphere. If there is a greenhouse effect then it is actually being caused mainly by water vapour and clouds, which are beyond our control.

Even if we accept the risks posed by CO2 the role played by man is miniscule. Some scientists believe carbon dioxide levels fluctuate naturally with the temperature  of Earth. Warmer ocean water expels gases, some of which are carbon dioxide.
 
ALL TOP SCIENTISTS STILL BELIEVE IN WARMING

Not the case. There is a growing group of dissenters but the problem is that politicians who are setting the climate-change agenda have based their policies on flawed research. The American climate- change campaigner Al Gore has, for example, based his claims on the hockey-stick model. Booker claims some supporters of global warming are now discredited after leaked e-mails showed how they covered up contradictions.

He says: “The leaked documents show the scientists trying to manipulate data through their tortuous computer programmes, always to point in only the one desired direction: to lower past temperatures and to ‘adjust’ recent temperatures upwards in order to convey the impression of an accelerated warming. There are now hundreds of world-ranked scientists who dispute the thesis that Earth is warming because of man-made emissions.”

More than 17,000 scientists have signed a petition circulated by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine stating: “There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of  Earth’s climate.”

Compiled by Adrian Lee.

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