Days Volume Two

* Who is right? Two authors, both with scientific backgrounds, both apparently totally plausible. Both diametrically opposed. One ridicules global warming as the product of hysteria and political agendas. The other ridicules the sceptics. Both appeared in the same paper on the same day. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24098313-7583,00.html VESTED interests have hijacked the climate debate, and taken Australia's future hostage. The ransom they demand? Simple agreement or, at the very least, compliance. Voices of dissent face derision. Legitimate questions are met with ridicule. But with many of the squabbling forces of power in this country now apparently united in their enthusiasm for an emissions trading scheme, it is more important than ever that we go back and examine the basis of their campaigns. It has been an article of faith for many years that humans are gradually destroying the environment, and are specifically responsible for global warming via man-made

* Despite all the evidence that the recent warming trend is natural and unstoppable, millions of well-educated people and many respected organisations - and even national governments of major First World nations - are telling us that the Earth's current warming phase is caused by carbon dioxide emitted from power plants and autos and methane from rice paddies and cattle herds. The alarmists say these gases are causing Earth's natural 'greenhouse' to overheat, with deadly effects. They tell us modern society will destroy the planet unless we radically change human energy production and consumption. They warn that the polar ice caps could melt, raising sea levels and flooding many of the world's most important cities and farming regions. They ask society to renounce most of its use of fossil fuel-generated energy and accept radical reductions in food production, health technologies and standards of living to 'save the planet'... However the alarmists don't

* People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. AJ Liebling 2007: Global Warming Alarmism Reaches A "Tipping Point" The American people will soon be asked to support global warming cap-and-trade legislation that will be billed as a "solution" to global warming. These bills come at a time when the science is overwhelmingly taking away the basis for alarm. An abundance of new peer-reviewed studies, analyses, and data error discoveries in the last several months has prompted scientists to declare that fear of catastrophic man-made global warming "bites the dust" and the scientific underpinnings for alarm are "falling apart." I have addressed global warming on the Senate floor more than a dozen times since 2003, and today's speech will reveal that peer-reviewed studies and scientists are coming over to many of the concerns I raised years ago. I want to talk to you today for what may be a personally unprecedented two hours or m

* Greenhouse Warming Advocates Say: "Nineteen ninety-nine was the most violent year in the modern history of weather. So was 1998. So was 1997. And 1996.... A nine-hundred-year-long cooling trend has been suddenly and decisively reversed in the past fifty years.... Scientists predicted that the Earth will shortly be warmer than it has been in millions of years. A climatological nightmare is upon us. It is almost certainly the most dangerous thing that has ever happened in our history." "Climate extremes would trigger meteorological chaos—raging hurricanes such as we have never seen, capable of killing millions of people; uncommonly long, record-breaking heat waves; and profound drought that could drive Africa and the entire Indian subcontinent over the edge into mass starvation." "From sweltering heat to rising sea levels, global warming's effects have already begun.... We know where most heat-trapping gases come from: power plants and vehicles. And we know

* http://inhofe.senate.gov/pressreleases/climateupdate.htm Climate Change Update Senate Floor Statement by U.S. Sen. James M. Inhofe(R-Okla) January 4, 2005 As I said on the Senate floor on July 28, 2003, "much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science." I called the threat of catastrophic global warming the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people," a statement that, to put it mildly, was not viewed kindly by environmental extremists and their elitist organizations. I also pointed out, in a lengthy committee report, that those same environmental extremists exploit the issue for fundraising purposes, raking in millions of dollars, even using federal taxpayer dollars to finance their campaigns. For these groups, the issue of catastrophic global warming is not just a favored fundraising tool. In truth, it's more fundamental than that. Put simply, man-induced global warming is an article of religious faith. Therefore