FOCUS ON STOPPING GLOBAL WARMING AND EXTREME WEATHER IS UNSCIENTIFIC AND IMMORAL
by Tom Harris, ©2014, Executive Director, ClimateScienceInternational
(Nov. 4, 2014) — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Chairman Rajendra Pachauri was right to advocate an “agreement to finally reverse course on climate change” when he spoke to delegates tasked with approving the IPCC Synthesis Report, released on Sunday. The new direction governments should follow must be one in which the known needs of people suffering in the present are given priority over possible future problems.
Today, exactly the opposite is happening. Of the roughly one billion U.S. dollars spent every day across the world on climate finance, only 6% of it is devoted to helping vulnerable societies adapt to climate change that they are experiencing now. The rest is dedicated to trying to stop future climatic events that Pachauri and the IPCC say are coming. Commentators from across the political spectrum are beginning to regard this approach as immoral.
The valuing of people yet to be born more than those suffering today has come about because of several factors: leaders who use the issue to frighten the electorate into giving them more political power, the quest for greater revenue by environmental groups, alternative energy companies, and corporations bidding for mitigation contracts, and of course, an over-confidence about the role of human activity in global climate change.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon exemplified the last of these motivations when he told reporters at this week’s launch of the Synthesis Report in Copenhagen, “Human influence on the climate system is clear – and clearly growing…The atmosphere and oceans have warmed…science has spoken. There is no ambiguity in their message.”
This is totally wrong.
Professor Bob Carter, former Head of the Department of Earth Sciences at James Cook University in Australia, explained, “Science has yet to provide unambiguous evidence that problematic, or even measurable, human-caused global warming is occurring. The hypothesis of dangerous man-made climate change is based solely on computerized models that have repeatedly failed in practice in the real world.”
In their November 29, 2012 open letter to the Secretary-General, 134 climate experts from across the world asserted, “The U.K. Met Office recently released data showing that there has been no statistically significant global warming for almost 16 [now 18] years. During this period…carbon dioxide concentrations rose by nearly 9%…The NOAA “State of the Climate in 2008” report asserted that 15 years or more without any statistically-significant warming would indicate a discrepancy between observation and prediction. Sixteen years without warming have therefore now proven that the models are wrong by their creators’ own criterion.”
Mr. Ban never responded to the scientists’ letter and his statements on Sunday demonstrated that he may not have even read it. The Secretary-General said, “This global system of our earth is having really a high temperature. So when your child is sick with a temperature, you have to take all medication and if necessary bring to doctors. This is what we have to do now, if I compare with our human body conditions. We have to first lower the temperature as you will do to your children. There should be no temperature [rise], first of all. That is what we are doing. That requires some massive and urgent and immediate action. We have to mobilize all financial resources.”
Carter responds, “Although today’s climate and extreme weather are well within the bounds of natural variability and the intensity and magnitude of extreme events is not increasing, there is, most definitely, a climate problem. Natural climate change brings with it very real human and environmental costs. Therefore, we must carefully prepare for and adapt to climate hazards as and when they happen. Spending billions of dollars on expensive and ineffectual carbon dioxide controls in a futile attempt to stop natural climate change impoverishes societies and reduces our capacity to address these and other real world problems.”
Citing thousands of scientific references in leading peer-reviewed journals, the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change demonstrates that the global warming scare is over from a scientific perspective. But, with billions of dollars in public and private funds still pouring into perpetuating alarm, and with the careers of thousands of government bureaucrats and climate researchers at stake, the global warming zombie will undoubtedly stagger on for years to come.
When this, easily the most expensive science policy hoax in history, finally falls into its grave for good, environmentalism will be disgraced and science itself will be discredited. Then no one will believe them when wolves are really at our doors. That may be the most dangerous legacy of the climate scare.
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Tom Harris is Executive Director of the Ottawa, Canada-based International Climate Science Coalition
(www.ClimateScienceInternational.org).
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