[Vision2020] Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?

[heirdoug at netscape.net]

Dr. Tim Ball is Chairman of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project, 
a Victoria-based environmental consultant and former climatology 
professor at the University of Winnipeg. Dr. Ball has an extensive 
science background in climatology, especially the reconstruction of 
past climates and the impact of climate change on human history and the 
human condition.

>From the Canada Free Press:

What would happen if tomorrow we were told that, after all, the Earth 
is flat? It would probably be the most important piece of news in the 
media and would generate a lot of debate. So why is it that when 
scientists who have studied the Global Warming phenomenon for years say 
that humans are not the cause nobody listens? Why does no one 
acknowledge that the Emperor has no clothes on?

Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn't exist. And I am not the 
only one trying to make people open up their eyes and see the truth. 
But few listen, despite the fact that I was one of the first Canadian 
Ph.Ds. in Climatology and I have an extensive background in 
climatology, especially the reconstruction of past climates and the 
impact of climate change on human history and the human condition. Few 
listen, even though I have a Ph.D, (Doctor of Science) from the 
University of London, England and was a climatology professor at the 
University of Winnipeg. For some reason (actually for many), the World 
is not listening. Here is why.

Believe it or not, Global Warming is not due to human contribution of 
Carbon Dioxide (CO2). This in fact is the greatest deception in the 
history of science. We are wasting time, energy and trillions of 
dollars while creating unnecessary fear and consternation over an issue 
with no scientific justification. For example, Environment Canada brags 
about spending $3.7 billion in the last five years dealing with climate 
change almost all on propaganda trying to defend an indefensible 
scientific position while at the same time closing weather stations and 
failing to meet legislated pollution targets.

No sensible person seeks conflict, especially with governments, but if 
we don't pursue the truth, we are lost as individuals and as a society. 
That is why I insist on saying that there is no evidence that we are, 
or could ever cause global climate change. And, recently, Yuri A. 
Izrael, Vice President of the United Nations sponsored 
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirmed this 
statement. So how has the world come to believe that something is wrong?

Maybe for the same reason we believed, 30 years ago, that global 
cooling was the biggest threat: a matter of faith. "It is a cold fact: 
the Global Cooling presents humankind with the most important social, 
political, and adaptive challenge we have had to deal with for ten 
thousand years. Your stake in the decisions we make concerning it is of 
ultimate importance; the survival of ourselves, our children, our 
species," wrote Lowell Ponte in 1976.

I was as opposed to the threats of impending doom global cooling 
engendered as I am to the threats made about Global Warming. Let me 
stress I am not denying the phenomenon has occurred. The world has 
warmed since 1680, the nadir of a cool period called the Little Ice Age 
(LIA) that has generally continued to the present. These climate 
changes are well within natural variability and explained quite easily 
by changes in the sun. But there is nothing unusual going on.

Since I obtained my doctorate in climatology from the University of 
London, Queen Mary College, England my career has spanned two climate 
cycles. Temperatures declined from 1940 to 1980 and in the early 1970's 
global cooling became the consensus. This proves that consensus is not 
a scientific fact. By the 1990's temperatures appeared to have reversed 
and Global Warming became the consensus. It appears I'll witness 
another cycle before retiring, as the major mechanisms and the global 
temperature trends now indicate a cooling.


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