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Salim Mansur

Salim Mansur

  posted on Saturday, November 28, 2009
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Worshipping at church of climate ‘science’

Climate change as a result of the natural cycle of warming and cooling of the Earth has occurred throughout history.

The proposition that, beginning with the industrial age, this natural cycle might have been adversely affected, causing the Earth’s temperature to rise unnaturally and threaten some sort of planetary disaster, is worthy of scientific investigation.

But the proposition became a consensus premise of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change with its first report in 1990.

The IPCC, established by the UN through the efforts of its two organizations – the World Meteorological Organization and UN Environment Program – reports that increased emissions into the atmosphere as a result of human activity are causing a greenhouse effect by raising the Earth’s surface temperature.

For nearly two decades, the IPCC-backed “scientific” establishment made this proposition the official dogma of the environmental movement.

It has pushed the policy of forcefully reducing carbon emissions by industrialized and industrializing countries through UN-backed international treaties such as the Kyoto Agreement of 1997.

Those who question the consensus premise of the IPCC provide independent research on climate change and are skeptical of climate predictions based on computer models are tagged as “deniers” – similar to the despicable folks who deny the Holocaust – by the high priests of the environment movement and their legions of “green” enthusiasts.

Science without a healthy dose of skepticism and which isn’t open to hard questioning becomes ideology.

An ideology is a closed system that distorts or excludes empirical data to serve its dogma.

As opposed to ideology or pseudoscience, science advances through critical thinking by subjecting theories to falsification tests and revisions.

There is no church of science except independent researchers commonly engaged in humility, trust in each other’s integrity, and certain of one thing, as Einstein noted: “That all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike – and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”

The U.K.-based Climate Research Unit is one of the world’s four centres where global-temperature data is compiled.

CRU computers were hacked by a whistleblower. The content of many of the 3,000 leaked e-mails and documents by CRU scientists confirms how much the “science” of man-made global warming has been subjected to deliberately false manipulation of data, deception and pseudoscience.

All in the interests of serving the ideology the IPCC has sold as science and for which it was awarded the 2007 Nobel peace prize.

Ian Plimer is an Australian geologist, a man-made global-warming skeptic and author of Heaven and Earth: Global Warming – The Missing Science.

Plimer writes that insisting “humans change climate requires abandoning all we know about history, archeology, geology, astronomy, and solar physics. This is exactly what has been done.

“The answer to this enigma was revealed last week. It is fraud.”

Now with proof of the scam in the pseudoscience of man-made global warming, the right thing should be a pause in pushing the IPCC agenda by parties invested in promoting it since Kyoto.

But since big governments and organizations such as the UN are not known for acknowledging any error or wrongdoing on their part, the global warming fraud will continue being pushed unless the people put a halt to it.

Nice line, eh

©2005-08 - Salim Mansur, BA, MA, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario.  He is also a columnist at Canada’s Sun Media.  His column appears here with Salim Mansur’s express permission by special arrangement with him.


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