More United Nations Global Warming Propaganda
Panic! Chaos! Armageddon! Apocalypse! Gloom! Doom!
What happened?
The United Nations, in its continuing quest to be relevant and thereby gain control over the world’s resources and its peoples, has launched another attempt to panic mankind into submission.
The UN, already demonstrably morally and ethically bankrupt (remember their Oil For Food swindle, and how they sat out or are sitting out genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia, and the Sudan?), is playing the only card it holds for all it is worth – the “Man-Caused Global Warming” Joker. This time even their top guy, UN General Secretary Nan Ki-Poo (Sorry, I started to type Ban Ki-moon, but then thought his global warming pronouncements were so operatically overly dramatic that I couldn’t help poking a little low humor at him. For that I apologize, since in my heart of hearts I wish I could come up with something appropriately more humorous and worthy of this UN drama queen).
In the UN’s most recent attempt at relevance:
The United Nations says sea levels will rise 4.6 feet in the next 1,000 years. That’s 5.5 inches per century, slightly less than sea levels rose the past century, and the century before, and … well, you get the picture.
Maybe we should try to put the sea level increases in historical perspective. Have sea levels risen prior to the era of “man-caused” global warming?
Glad you asked.
Since the end of the last glacial period 18,000 years ago, sea levels have risen over 400 feet, or an average of over two feet per century. So now we’re in a panic because we think sea levels will rise less than half a foot per century? When the historical average is over two feet per century? For the past 180 centuries?
Memo to United Nations scientists – the Earth is in an interglacial period. There’s an easy way to tell if Earth is in a glacial or interglacial period. Is Chicago under a mile thick ice cap? If “no,” then we’re in an interglacial period.
If “yes,” then Earth is deep in a glacial period.
Check again in about 10,000 to 20,000 years. The odds are very good you’ll have to dig through a mile of ice to find Chicago again.
The United Nations says that “global warming is unequivocal.” It certainly took the UN a long time to arrive at the obvious. The fact is, global warming has been unequivocal since the early 1900’s, when it was clear that the Little Ice Age had ended in the mid-1800’s, and that a sustained warming period had begun.
Interestingly, this warming period became a cooling period from about 1945 to 1975, during the period of greatly increased production of carbon dioxide from human activities. According to the anthropogenic global warming crowd, it’s not supposed to happen like that. I have been waiting for them to provide a coherent explanation for this anomaly for a long time.
I have also been waiting for them to explain why there was a sustained warming period from 1910 to 1945 that saw an increase of 0.4° C, and that it took almost twice as long, from 1945 to 2005, to get another increase of 0.4° C.
The UN pronouncement is a model for cherry-picking information. It’s interesting when they announce that eleven of the twelve hottest days on record occurred since 1990. Left unsaid is that the recorded record they are looking at only began in 1978, at the end of a prolonged cooling period. More appropriately, according to recently revised NASA weather statistics, five of the ten warmest years occurred before World War II, with 1934 the warmest, 1921 second, and 1998 third.
The UN also cites recent hurricane activity as proof of intensifying storm activity as a result of global warming. Oddly enough, hurricanes have been more numerous and more powerful, even during cooler periods.
During the warming period of 1970 to 1994, hurricane activity was extremely low, resulting in unprecedented coastal population growth and development. Prior to this period of low activity, hurricanes were numerous and strong from 1926 to 1970. Unlike the UN scientists, true experts in hurricanes have long recognized that there is a cycle for hurricane activity that is called the “tropical multi-decadal signal,” and that each cycle can last for 20 or 30 years, or longer.
Much has been made of Katrina and the hurricanes of 2005 by global warming alarmists. These same alarmists have nothing to say about the very benign hurricane seasons of 2006 and 2007. I suppose they will now shift their attention to the cyclone that just killed 15,000 Bangladeshi. However, they will probably not mention that in 1970 an estimated almost half a million Bangladeshi were killed by a cyclone.
Also sure to be overlooked, the over half a million Chinese and Indians killed by three powerful storms in the late 1800’s.
The UN of course notes that global warming will have its greatest impact on the poor. I suppose the UN experts won’t notice that during the past two centuries, more that 131 million perished from famine, or that in recent years famine has become more a result of bad government – China, Ethiopia, North Korea – than of climate change. In fact, only five million of the 131 million deaths from famine occurred after 1970, and almost all were in that paragon of world communism, North Korea.
Predictably, the UN even mentions that wildfires are a sign of out-of-control global warming. However, wildfire frequency has decreased during the past 200 years, while wildfire severity increased due to fire suppression causing fuel buildup in many areas, while population growth and development in fire-prone areas has increased dramatically.
To summarize, the United Nations continues their near-panicked quest to be relevant. They say mankind has caused the world to become abnormally warm, while ignoring much warmer periods like the Holocene Optimum, Roman warm period, and the Medieval Warm Period.
The UN says warming will cause the seas to rise half a foot per century, overlooking that past centuries on average had rates of sea level increase quadruple the current rate.
The UN says the current warming is the highest recorded, overlooking the warming that occurred during the first half of the 1900’s, or the ever greater warming one thousand, two thousand, and five thousand years ago.
The UN says warming will cause more powerful storms, maybe almost as bad as the ones before 1970, or even the horrific ones of the late 1800’s.
According to the UN, warming will also cause more famine, although the trend has been a dramatic reduction in famines during this warmer period, as long as you’re not living in a communist country.
Finally, as fresh as yesterday’s headlines, there are the wildfires, which have been decreasing for 200 years.
The UN’s experts may be dumb, but they and Al Gore are dumb like a fox (although not as smart as an ox). The United Nations experts and Al are betting on ignorance of history and science on the part of the world’s peoples to get their message across.
From all indications, they’re betting on a sure thing.
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Please please please DON'T MAKE UP FACTS. Seriously. God. And I'm an atheist. At least 50% I'm sure is not true. And you sound like a conspiracy theorist. Just to let you know. The UN is not out to get you buddy. God. I'll tell you the frickin' science of global warming. Carbon Dioxide molecules have 3 atoms: 1 carbon, 2 oxygen. This makes it a greenhouse gas. Gases with 3 molecules or more are greenhouse gases. Why do they have to have 3 atoms, you ask? 3 atoms make them just big enough to block stop radiation from leaving the atmosphere. To explain this, you need to know about the greenhouse effect. Energy from the sun travels to Earth as electromagnetic waves. It first encounters the atmosphere. Some infrared radiation and most ultraviolet radiation are reflected by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Some of the rays are reflected by clouds, gases, or dust particles. The energy that gets past the atmosphere next encounters Earth’s surface. Some of it is reflected back into the atmosphere, while the rest is absorbed. When the surface is heated, it radiates some of the energy back into the atmosphere as infrared radiation. This radiation cannot escape back into space. Instead, much of it is absorbed by greenhouse gases. These gases, such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane make life on Earth possible through this effect. This process by which gases hold heat in the air is called the greenhouse effect. There is no question, even among global warming doubters, that burning fossil fuels releases CO2. CO2 is the biggest cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect, or man made global warming. Global warming doubters will say, “What about water vapor, the most common greenhouse gas?!” It is true that water vapor is the biggest cause of the natural greenhouse effect. Why doesn’t water vapor contribute to the enhanced greenhouse effect? Because of saturation. The air can only hold so much water. There is always the same amount of water on Earth because of this and because of the water cycle. Therefore, water vapor always contributes the same amount to the greenhouse effect no matter what.
Dems are always accusing Republicans of using the politics of fear and yet here they are trying to scare us into submission! I hear some of them are saying that we have 10 years and the world is coming to an end! I still have not gotten a response to the following question from anyone of these global warming alarmists. How are they so sure that man is causing global warming when we have had 2 ice ages melt, one with no humans on the planet and the other so called "little ice age" when man was not producing any CO2? My favorite is the supreme court ruling CO2 a pollutant, so what's next, population control because we pollute with every exhale?
Yup of course AGW is real. AIDS wasn't greatly exaggerated. Or Y2K. Or Alar. Or 'the oceans are dying'. Or the ozone hole. Or global COOLING in the 1970's. I am 38 and I have seen a lot of these scares. Over time it was all talk. Funny thing is it is the same people that push these scares. AGW is like everything else, a power play. These people get more power and we give them our money. Worse yet, like Major said, they are banking on how ignorant we are about science, especially physics. Simmons they don't care about you or your family's future, they just want you to buy into their bull so you accept more and more money being separated from your wallet. Once they have your hard-earned money they will move onto another cause celebre. I agree 100% that we need to get going on alt fuels because we are giving Chavez and Putin a crap load of oil dollars. The only problem is oil is such a high-energy fuel, calorie for calorie. All of the alternates have issues as well. E85 for example, is not any kind of holy grail. Hell, we already put 10% ethanol in our tank now, E85 is just 5% more. Why can't we do things like propaganda that is anti-Putin and Chavez for example to get people to think about alternate fuels? Why pick beliefs instead of actual ways to drive the point home that our society needs to start changing as far as our energy systems?
I happen to agree with Simmons. You my friend sound like an alarmist. People who know the facts on Global Warming realize that alarming people is non productive. Those with environmentalist mentalities are DOING what's good for this planet. I suggest you do the same.
Yes, global warming has been hijacked to make money. But that doesn't mean it's not real.
"How are they so sure that man is causing global warming when we have had 2 ice ages melt, one with no humans on the planet and the other so called "little ice age" when man was not producing any CO2?" Great, we have a global warming expert right her (I'm not feeling modest). Ice ages are not primarily caused by the greenhouse effect (CO2 and other greenhouse gases). They are caused by the axis of the Earth and its wobbles, and sometimes by the orbit of the planet as well.
I'm more focused on the man made part and how the ice melted without us and our CO2 emissions being around. Perhaps the author of this post has the better question: "I have also been waiting for them to explain why there was a sustained warming period from 1910 to 1945 that saw an increase of 0.4° C, and that it took almost twice as long, from 1945 to 2005, to get another increase of 0.4° C.?" we all know that way more emissions have been released into the air in this latter part of the century.
The Roamns wrote that they grew grapes and made wine in Great Britain. that hasn't happened in 1K years - til it does - Global Warming is like the Golf channel or Canadian Parliment TV - totally ZZZZZZZZZZZ.
That's Romans! Sorry ya''ll!
Great post. And Simmons, these are all proven facts, just ask a few Climatologists that are not taking in the cool-aid. And the fact they they say CO2 is pollutant is just funny. CO2 is what makes things grow. Without it we would not exists "I have also been waiting for them to explain why there was a sustained warming period from 1910 to 1945 that saw an increase of 0.4° C, and that it took almost twice as long, from 1945 to 2005, to get another increase of 0.4° C.?" Why????? And did we have SUVs back during the Ice Ages. The Earth is always in constant change, and the Sun has a lot to do with that change. Did you know that the axis of the Earth changes and affects the climate also. And the wobble is going to happen in 2012. All the doom and gloom does no good. It is just a way to get into peoples pockets and stuff the Pocket of the Goracle and his disciples.
Thanks for contributing to the conversation. /sarcasm
"Did you know that the axis of the Earth changes and affects the climate also. And the wobble is going to happen in 2012." It's pretty funny when people don't know what they're talking about. First of all, I said above that wobbles and the orbit of the earth affect our climate. Second, it's not like a wobble of the earth is like a quick two minute, two month, or even two year wobble. It wobbles slowly back and forth, and in 2012, it will be in its peak.
Anytime simmons. seriously.
Hey, one day the poles will flip…is that somehow the fault of man as well?
can you give more info