In the battle for our minds, our time and our tacit support, politicians, propagandists and marketeers the world over are pushing their “agendas” for everything from toys for your children to the biggest debates of our era. It’s the story of how a campaign turned into political bandwagon.
Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” has been labeled a politicization of weak and shaky science. I’m puzzled as to why a politician is the chosen spokes mouth for such a production, anyway. Be that as it may, many of the world’s top environmental science professionals as well as geological and meteorological professionals simply dispute the assertions that as Carbon Dioxide, introduced by human industrialization, increased the temperatures warmed. Scientists rightly assert that Carbon Dioxide is a relatively small part of all greenhouse gases and is not a significant factor of climate warming.
In fact, most of the Earth Science professionals and Paleo-Climatologists in this video directly assert that one who keeps their methods clean and beyond reproach cannot directly link whatever warming is occurring to a carbon dioxide. Oh, there’s some kind of relationship, alright…but it’s not what Al Gore says in his documentary. The data shows that as the climate rises and falls the carbon dioxide levels are not in sync with the temperatures. In fact, unlike Al Gore’s main premise of Inconvenient Truth, that Carbon emissions are the problem, the real inconvenient truth is that the temperature has been reliably proven to have about an 800 year lead on the carbon emissions. So, it seems that the heat (or the rise in temperatures) eventually brings about more Carbon Dioxide…not the other way around.
This all reads like a mantra from a political campaign…a political activist movement, if you will. I for one, will not get on his bandwagon.
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Complete)
—UPDATE—
In an article filled with a gauntlet of rip-roaring charges against Al Gore and “Inconvenient Truth”, WorldNetDaily news editor, Bob Unruh tells how “Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, today told former Vice President Al Gore his theories on global warming are not supported by the facts and if Gore’s desires are implemented, there would be no new businesses, cars or even people allowed in the United States.”
Rep. Barton gives point after point and lists, quite meticulously, the assertions of Gore and bats them down one by one. For instance:
“In your movie, you display a timeline of temperature and compared to CO2 levels over a 600,000-year period as reconstructed from ice core samples. You indicate that this is conclusive proof of the link of increased CO2 emissions and global warming. A closer examination of these facts reveals something entirely different,” Barton said.
Barton said a Science magazine article he was submitting for the record shows that historically, increases in CO2 concentrations actually lagged temperature changes by up to 1,000 years.
“The temperature appears to drive CO2, not vice versa. On this point, Mr. Vice President, you’re not just off a little. You’re totally wrong. And it’s not just this one article; the president of the National Academy of Sciences agreed, under oath, last summer in an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on this very point,” said Barton.
If you’re not convinced that there is more at play here than simply wanting to protect the environment, read this article and pay careful attention to what Czech President Vaclav Klaus has to say about the environmental movement. He sees a strangely hauntingly familiar relationship with today’s movement and the beasts of old Soviet Communism. This is a must-read article.