Guest post by John Coleman – KUSI-TV, Weather Channel Founder
December 7, 2009
David and Goliath
The 21st century Goliath is Global Warming. It is a powerful six-legged monster. In no order of strength, those legs are:
(1) The big money climate change scientists and their powerful institutions from governmental centers to Universities,
(2) The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which is a Geneva-based, highly funded bureaucracy controlled by one-world government political activists,
(3) Environmentalists who seek to use threats of climate chaos to stop the use of fossil fuels and return to a simpler, more “natural”, primitive lifestyle,
(4) Government at all levels whose political leaders find dealing with global warming is their opportunity to save us all from disaster cementing their status and success,
(5) The media populated by people who love to warn us of impending disaster and give us the advice we need to cope, who believe in Al Gore and his political party and who know that “the sky is falling” is the best headline of them all,
(6) Al Gore, who uses his status as a successful former Senator and Vice President to provide a platform to promote his message of doom and gloom, a message he learned in his only college science class and must have truly believed for many years but should see now is only an empty threat.
The total financial resources and power structure behind Goliath are staggering.
Goliath now occupies Copenhagen. For the 15th time, Goliath is meeting to publicize his long list of threatened consequences if do not head his demands. The ice will melt, the coasts and islands will flood displacing millions and killing tens of thousands; the polar bears and eventually thousands of other species will die as habitats are destroyed; hurricanes will become superstorms wrecking havoc on the coastal cities killing tens of thousands; heat waves will kill more hundreds of thousands as they grip the planet; drought and heat will destroy our agriculture starving untold millions more. He tells us this is because of our carbon footprints left by our burning of fossil fuels emitting exhaust of carbon dioxide.
Fifteen thousand “delegates” are attending Goliath’s conference coming by hundreds of private jet aircraft, riding in over a thousand limos, occupying every hotel room for miles around and all living on expense accounts paid by taxpayers and stock holders. They are making speeches, politicking one another and most importantly negotiating how much the people of each of their nations will reduce their carbon footprints in coming years, having a major impact on all our lifestyles.
Meanwhile, here at home The Environmental Protection Administration, part of Goliath’s government leg, just classified carbon dioxide as a pollutant that is an endangerment to our lives. And the US Congress is working with the President on legislation known as Cap and trade that will make all of us pay taxes for our carbon footprints.
Goliath is a rich and very powerful monster. He thrives on carbon dioxide.
David is tiny and weak. He is composed of:
30 thousand scientists who sign a petition but only a few hundred of whom have the specialized education, skill and positions to do unfunded or underfunded research that debunks the carbon dioxide greenhouse claims of Goliath,
A handful of struggling policy institutes that strive to stage events to educate the public and media about the global warming myth,
The internet, a resource that is open to all on both sides to communicate and educate and organize and protest as best the skeptics can, There skeptics have established websites and blogs and posted videos, some serious and some as clever as animated musical parodies,
Talk radio with a hundred solid talk hosts who cover all aspects of the folly of global warming and reach several million people,
And a small cadre of elected officials from one or two Senators to a hand-full of members of the House of Representatives, to the President of Czech Republic and a small collection of other office holders who understand the science and are brave enough to join a minority group.
We are outmanned, poor by comparison and somewhat leaderless and disorganized.
How can David win this battle? The rocks he throws are small and his rock pile is small. Time is short before the consequences of increased government control, a scaled back and altered lifestyle and, most of all, establishment of bad science as a controlling instrument.
David has one great strength, however: Truth.
There is no significant man-made global warming, there has not been any in the past and there is no reason to fear any in the future. Carbon dioxide is a natural trace gas in the atmosphere with very limited greenhouse impact on temperatures and naturally produced CO2 greatly exceeds the CO2 produced by burning fossil fuels. There is no tipping point when the impact of CO2 sets in to cause an increased impact because of “forcing.” The bad science behind the global warming myth is based on a hypothesis that has failed.
Superman fought for “truth, justice and the American way.”
So is David. But he is no Superman. The battle goes on.
John Coleman
http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner
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Very nice. Although I would add the agenda-driven Nobel commitee to the list, maybe as a tail. But then again, it’s possible that the Nobel clowns are being paid by powerful interests within government.
It’s good to see that public opinion is turning around on this issue. Wired is getting their butts whipped by their readers at the moment after posting an article titled “The Psychology of Climate Change Denial”. First, they disabled commenting on the article and, after a few people complained, they changed their minds and opened the article to a flood of complaints and negative reactions. Check it out.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/climate-psychology/
John Coleman is absolutely right. It will be a long and very bitter battle.
But he doesn’t even mention the ‘seventh leg’, the big financial operators like Goldman Sachs who made a killing out of the sub-prime housing scam, the ‘bailout’ scam and are 100% up for the cap and trade scam – by far the biggest and most lucrative of them all.
Too big to fail.
But eventually the truth will out.
At that time, the people need to hold these wicked clowns to account.
Looks like the MSM is exploding with the climategate story.. finally. Advice to AGW scientists: if you were involved jump while you can! Advice to skeptics and deniers etc:: do not hound these scientist and do not insult them etc…they probably had a “good” ulterior motive (the Earth and its future which is very laudable) apart from the financial gain. Take the J Chirsty attitude… serene LOL
Well said, Mr Coleman. What we need, perhaps, is An Army of Davids.
Republicans Plan to Form Counter-Delegation at Climate Conference
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/09/republicans-plan-form-counter-delegation-climate-conference/
It’s not nice too fool with Mother Nature. I hope one of the major talking points of the Republican delegation to Copenhagen is thee Deep Solar Minimum we are in and the brutally cold last two winters we have.
Al Gore Destroyed By Mother Nature on CNN 12-09-09
I would pefer to think of us “deniers” as:
“Batman, not Superman. He didn’t just show up with powers, he had to train his brain and his body and his skills. He gets dirty along the way. His character might be a little less sunny but it’s bulletproof.”
Thanks to T.C
It’s more like we are the Lilliputians that have to try to handle a potentially dangerous Gulliver.
Nicely done. You might want to look into The Club Of Rome as instigator of many of those “other legs”. They were behind the “Running Out Oh NO!” computer “projection” games of the 1970’s green movement (“Limits to Growth: by Meadows et.al.) and are reputed to be behind the AGW “movement” as well. Never mind that we can’t have AGW if we’ve run out… logical consistency is not their “thing”. They just look for a scare angle to exploit. But have very influential membership.
BTW, being “leaderless” can be an advantage. It lets you run an “underground” resistance, for example. No one appointed me. No one gave me orders. I get no funding. So none of those things can be threatened.
I’ve had someone badger me about stuff not being “peer reviewed” (and thus subject to the organized power grab structure). My response that I had something better than that, I was public reviewed; ended the event. Folks who are command and control oriented do not know how to handle those who are “coopetition” driven in a self organizing “mob”. A “market place of ideas”.
And finally, we have the blessing of the frigid weather. God must be a comedian to taunt Al Gore this way. I heard, back to back on the radio, Al Gore giving a rant about the UEA leak being unimportant because all you had to do was open your window and look at the hottest decade ever; followed immediately by a new flash of massive blizzards in the midwest and freeze warnings in California… Nearly busted a gusset 😎
I’ve done an ‘informal poll’ by making snide remarks like: “any more global warming like this and I’m going to freeze to death!” to random folks during the week. 100% have been clearly against the AGW thesis (with me giving no clue of my beliefs beyond the one snide / joke phishing line…) and when prompted with a follow on more anti-AGW line, they have all added an assessment of AGW as various levels of hokum or bunk. Several have commented “it is just a power grab” or just a “money grab”.
The AGW thesis was in trouble already, but Cimategate coupled with some killer cold weather has made for a very cynical and to some extent restive and bitter voter base. The more this is “rammed through” the more damage the AGW folks are doing to their long term position. All it needs now is a bit of a “push” from us…
We are not weak. We have Joe Bastardi on our side.
http://www.kerrytherealmccoy.com/garrettandjoe2.JPG
We have also time on our side, just to endure, resist and truth will come out. In USA, it is already coming (check average temperatures for last two years).
8) The energy companies realizing a full decade ago “Hey, we need to diversify out of oil – if only for the public perception thing.” Extend this to GE finding a major market for turbines-in-triplicate. (With a natural gas turbine, a 1kW turbines gets you mighty close to 1kW continuous. With wind, good siting gets you to 1kW gets you .3kW. ) GE owns NBC….
MSM in NZ is starting to give time to the skeptics. TV3 news tonight had a piece on Climategate and referred to the emails as leaked rather than stolen.
I have no doubt the AGW movement will eventually collapse. Real science always wins in the end, even if it takes a few decades. But I am a bit concerned about a few things.
Firstly, the AGW true believers may resort to violence when it becomes clear they are not going to get their way. A fanatic who knows he is losing is very dangerous.
Secondly, the third world, or do we call them developing countries these days, have been expecting billions in compensation for the damage caused by the emissions of “rich” countries. Not just the governments but the ordinary people believe they are owed. There is going to be a lot of resentment as a byproduct of this mess.
Lastly, scientists will not be trusted as much in the future. This whole mess only got off the ground because people trust science. If it had only been Al Gore, politicians and the media singing the global warming song, people would have been more skeptical. On balance this is probably a good thing.
An army of Davids, or maybe just a ‘pebble’ in the right place.
Sadly, I’ve spoken with people recently who have no idea who David and Goliath were, therefore making a comparison is almost a waste of time. Is it really that difficult for our society to teach a few biblically sourced stories?
Anyway, this is a really succinct article, I’m passing it around tomorrow. Meanwhile, the Wired article Mapou linked to has 44 comments, only 2 are supportive of the AGW party line. Very interesting.
I have hope that the wheels are falling off of this thing even as we watch. It’s truly exciting, and fascinating, and all that.
“Superman fought for “truth, justice and the American way.” So is David. But he is no Superman. The battle goes on.”
Mr Coleman, ‘global’ and ‘American’ are not interchangeable. This is a global issue that goes way beyond the values and aspirations of any one nation, and one that completely transcends the petty partisanship of US domestic politics.
I will happily add my voice and effort to any movement that aspires to seek out the truth about climate change – whatever that truth might be. But if you’re looking for a global army to fight for the ‘American way’, count me out.
VG (00:14:58) :
Looks like the MSM is exploding with the climategate story
This is a CYA move. The AGW ship. the SS Calamity is sinking.
As we’ve seen from the ClimateGate leak, alarmists at the CRU did not validate (verify) their model for paleoclimate study of past temperatures. We can have no confidence that they have made any efforts to validate their other models, at least until they have performed a full disclosure proving so.
This is a point that will resonate with all the engineers in the world: if we -the engineers – release a product (a house, a bridge, an airplane or whatever) that fails and it was based on non-validated models we will do prison time or recieve a similar harsh punishment. When the leading institution behind the IPCC use unvalidated models to assess the climate, that is to an engineer as releasing an airplane that is not tested. All engineers will understand this point no matter what they understand about climate science.
Top story on Huffington Posts Green Tab has this as the first comment about The Copenhagen Summit. Is somebody handing out brains over there?
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” An Incredibly Expensive F o l l y ”
“Why Failure in Copenhagen Would Be a Success”
CO2 Emissions Cuts Will Cost More than Climate Change Itself
Based on conventional estimates, this ambitious program would avert much of the damage of global warming, expected to be worth somewhere around €2 trillion a year by 2100. However, Tol concludes that a tax at this level could reduce world GDP by a staggering 12.9% in 2100 — the equivalent of €27 trillion a year.
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It is, in fact, an optimistic cost estimate. It assumes that politicians everywhere in the world would, at all times, make the most effective, efficient choices possible to reduce carbon emissions, wasting no money whatsoever. Dump that far-fetched assumption, and the cost could easily be 10 or 100 times higher.
To put this in the starkest of terms: Drastic carbon cuts would hurt much more than climate change itself. Cutting carbon is extremely expensive, especially in the short-term, because the alternatives to fossil fuels are few and costly. Without feasible alternatives to carbon use, we will just hurt growth.
Secondly, we can also see that the approach is politically flawed, because of the simple fact that different countries have very different goals and all nations will find it hard to cut emissions at great cost domestically, to help the rest of the world a little in a hundred years.”
Me;
Yes Virgina there is a Santa Clause.
E.M.Smith (00:49:25) :
+1000
“Goliath is a rich and very powerful monster. He thrives on carbon dioxide.”
Phrases like these are just as idiotic as Hansens “trains of death”.
No, peeke, “trains of death” is specifically designed to make people think of the Holocaust, Nazism, and among worst chapters in human history.
The phrase calling the AGW monster a carbon consumer is a humorous catchphrase.
I am truly in awe of your humor impairment.
Given the incredible disparity in financial resources, the almost complete domination by the alarmists of every means of opinion formation in society[news, entertainment, education,etc.], the ability of the rational viewpoint to turn the tide of public opinion in the face of a two decade long massive propaganda campaign from the climate alarmists has to rank as a miracle. Were I a more devout believer, I might be moved to suggest that it indicates that God is on our side. Or perhaps the spirits of our Founding Fathers, observing from their graves, the intent of our present flock of collectivist politicians to destroy the magnificent gift they gave to humanity at a terrible personal cost, were moved to place their indomitable wills behind the effort to derail this runaway train. I realize that such spiritual arguments are unlikely to draw a friendly reception here, but, though “the truth will out” is a very powerful notion, the success that has been achieved does seem to defy rational explanation.
Goliath may be a wealthy smooth talker but he doesn’t seem to have the powers of observation nor statistical skills. David, on the other hand is a bright boy who is quickly marching down the road to battle with the stiff winds of the earth’s climate at his back that seem to ignore Mannian curves.
“seventh legged” – “cosa nostra”
http://www.europol.europa.eu/index.asp?page=news&news=pr091209.htm
“Carbon Credit fraud causes more than 5 billion euros damage for European Taxpayer”
“The European Union (EU) Emission Trading System (ETS) has been the victim of fraudulent traders in the past 18 months. This resulted in losses of approximately 5 billion euros for several national tax revenues. It is estimated that in some countries, up to 90% of the whole market volume was caused by fraudulent activities.
Indications of suspicious trading activities were noted in late 2008, when several market platforms saw an unprecedented increase in the trade volume of European Unit Allowances (EUAs). Market volume peaked in May 2009, with several hundred million EUAs traded in e.g. in France and Denmark. At that time the market price of 1 EUA, which equals 1 ton of carbon dioxide, was around EUR 12,5. “
Somewhat off-topic, but related: remember the Google discussion about “climate-gate” not showing up in the search recommendations? Here in Switzerland, climate-gate is number one on Bing, number two on Yahoo, and still nowhere to be found in Google.
Every day still sees new reports and new articles about melting glaciers, dying polar bears, and the scientific consensus. As far as I have seen, the MSM here has yet to even mention the existence of another viewpoint.