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
The people looked upon Goliath and said, “He is so big! How can David defeat him?” David looked upon Goliath and said, “He is so big! How can I miss?”
With all those legs, maybe a bolo…
Best,
Frank
May I suggest that this blog use a share button that readers can use to share articles with sites like Digg, Reddit, Slashdot and others? Anti AGW commenters and submitters almost always get voted out at those sites. We need to stop that.
alamo (01:40:44) :
“Carbon Credit fraud causes more than 5 billion euros damage for European Taxpayer”
For those who live in Europe. How does it feel to watch your hard earned spendable income dwindle as you learn your wealth is being drained out of your country?
What a shell game.
Well said, Mr. Coleman.
It is a travesty what has happened to your network brainchild. The Weather Channel is a joke these days. No meteorologist ever resorts to watching it anymore. Not after the age of about 15. It must torment you horribly to see the politicization and market forces sheering apart a great idea and turning it into a corporate behemoth and a mockery of science. Now they’re playing movies every week and other weather-related stories every night…you can’t even get the local radar when the network promises it!
Who was it at the TWC offices who remarked that any scientist who did not agree with AGW should have their degree stripped? That pretty much put the final nail in the coffin for me as far as ever turning to that channel again.
Interesting to see what happens to the FOI request just announced by the Bishop’s Hill blog, for transparency on UK NERC academic climate research applications and funding policy. On that council apparently sit some familiar names. The concerns re suspected skewness toward agenda supporting v blue sky money are aired on a linked blog.
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2009/12/10/nerc-and-climate-change.html
Let’s see…
China is out.
India is out.
US is out because Obama can only deliver another talk. Nothing of any substance due to DOA status of Cap and Trade. Also, any treaty must be approved by Senate. Not going to happen.
Average person has no time to think about AGW. When they do have time, it sure is cold and money is short. If something comes up for vote, the big question will be “Will this cost me money?”. The answer is always yes. It will be pointed out cap and trade will double your utility bill and raise gasoline to about $5 per gallon.
Voting for any sort of carbon constraining taxes will be the new third rail of politics.
Expect a lot of talk and scary stories. This issue will continue to fade away and become a trivia show answer.
Copenhagen was the last hurrah. The person who leaked the CRU data timed this perfectly.
2008, right here in Denver Colorado was the high water mark of AGW, when Obama made his promises regarding sea levels.
Its over.
Progress is being made. I visit Democraticunderground daily, just to see what the loonies are up to. Initially, the official “line” was that “climategate” is too inconsequential to merit discussion, and “message discipline” was rigorously imposed. During the last few days, however, several Doubting Thomases have stepped forth, and refuse to be hooted down. Some of them are technically “loaded for bear,” and have skillfully dissected AGW articles of faith. Yesterday, one of them even posted the J. Storrs ice core graphs recently featured here. They are a minority, of course, but the remarkable thing is that they are even being heard to speak.
OT: I put a comment about 3 weeks ago talking about the endless 10 year deadlines to reduce Co2. Here is another report from the BBC’s Richard Black: “Keeping global temperature rise under 2C (3.7F) will be almost impossible unless carbon emissions begin to fall within a decade, analysis suggests. ”
Then there is this from a woman who cannot predict the weather for next week let alone get it right last summer:
“If you go to 2025 before peaking, it’s virtually impossible to stay under 2C,” said Vicky Pope, head of climate science at the Met Office.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/8405025.stm
Here are some more “Free beer tomorrow” 🙁
http://www.climatedepot.com/a/3826/Not-again-Another-10year-climate-tipping-point-warning-issued–Despite-fact-that-UN-began-10Year-Climate-Tipping-Point-in-1989
According to Stocker in the China Daily [1]:
“Extreme weather have become more frequent, he said. Heat waves, for example, now occur once every four years, whereas they occurred once in 1,000 years according to data from centuries back, he said.”
I’m just trying to parse that sentence. First heat waves only happened every 1000 years, but we managed to have a word in English ready for the phenomena. Then there is the problem with getting a 1000 year period from less than 1000 years of ‘centuries back’ level data. Then the ‘extreme weather’ being more frequent – I guess the crop failures in the little ice age (hey, and big one) were from ‘normal’ cold weather (which then by definition isn’t extreme?).
Who swallows this stuff?
It reminds me of an article I read in the China Daily way back in the 80’s. It was surveying how strongly people believed what they read in their paper (it was fairly extreme propaganda back then). They found that the highest rate of belief were with both ‘high ranking cadres’ and ‘illiterate peasants’. I think we are seeing the same kind of thing with Global Warming, the Al Gores and the people uncomfortable with arithmetic.
[1] http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2009-12/10/content_9151145.htm
In the Times today
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6951029.ece
Why does the Met Office need to strongarm support in this way?
Many of the signatories are not climatologists and are therefore no more an expert that I am.
Many have signed for fear of losing their jobs/funding
“Gonna make you an offer you can’t refuse”?
peeke
you obviously miss the point. Without CO2 the AGW Monster wouldn’t exist! Then again, nor would much else that matters to us.
To John Coleman,
it has been said before above me, but your statement is so succinct. Beautifully succinct (except for some folks who are just ‘peekeing’ in). Many thanks for that.
E.M Smith
I still have a copy of, “The Limits To Growth.” that I bought when I was 18 years old and belonged to the fore-runner of the current Green Party in New Zealand 34 yeras ago. By the time I finished reading that book I had serious doubts about its’ whole pretext.
As I matured and learnt a few good political leassons along the way, I gave up that idealistic foolishness, and got back to reality. I’m going to hang onto that book so that I can hold it up to the young, impressionable people around today that, like me at that age, are easily influenced by smart talking shamans promising you salvation from your dire situatuation, which in reality is far less than our forebears overcame to get us to this position.
There is verymuch about our P.C. oriented world that would astound our forebears today. Much is made by the AGW Alarmists about what sort of world we will leave the coming generations if we don’t act immediately to stop this terrible poison called CO2. Many of us here refer to cycles, all natural, that affect the climate. There is another natural cycle that will come into effect in the coming decade. The natural cycle of teen rebellion. If you think it is bad now, and all adults do at all times, just think how bad it is going to be when the children of the world (developed and otherwise) find out that they have been lied to, big time!
The shear arrogance of Jones, Mann et al knows no bonds.
hydrodynamisk etc (pardon the truncation it is getting closer to 1.00 a.m. local time) you are so right. Climatology is becoming, or even has become, a metaphor for a lack of discipline. Unfortunately they are not alone. Many of what I term the “latter day sciences,” i.e. those that started less than 200 years ago often show signs of expediency not tolerated in the older branches of science. Especially not in the oldest branch of all, which in fact is the Main Trunk of science, Astronomy, the mother of all sciences.
Metoerology, geography and climatology are but grandchildren who have fallen far from the influence of true science their grandmother represents. I generalize here, knowing that not all, or even most of the current scientists involved in these disciplines are so corrupt, but it is their outspoken colleagues who drag them down to that level of perception to the public. In the end the silent majority of scientists needs to stand up and distance themselves from the bad science being perpetrated in their name. Otherwise all science will suffer because of their apathy.
I don’t want to state the obvious, but the money will go elsewhere. Those who have the money don’t like to be associated with losers, cheats or fakers. it is not a good look.
John in NZ (00:54:12) : 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.
Exactly, a brand new angry “victim class”, superstitious to begin with and difficult to educate, pulling such stunts as the underwater cabinet meeting in the Maldives. All of Africa believing they will perish due to the developed world and that holding temps to 2 degrees rise is not enough.
That is the scariest part of this fiasco that is eventually going to make the developed world very sorry they started this. Another 40 bn for Nigeria to steal? Every possible disease, drought, flood, adverse weather event will be blamed on the west forever. I can imagine that temp readings coming from the third world will be skewed upwards from the start from now on.
Nothing we can possibly do for them from now on will ever be enough.
Stefan (03:22:58) :
It took maybe 30 years for the greenies to get into positions of authority, but in the meantime the world has moved on and people are more interested in flexibility, adaption, reorganisation, and change.
A very good point. They are stuck in the 60s and 70s, but don’t
underestimate their resolve. Look at what it took to bring this to
light and where we might have been. They’re still pushing, against
all odds.
Time to stop using Google me thinks, let’s have a boycott, spread the word
Despite the bombast from politicos and climate scienticians the data speaks for itself and will prove the AGW crowd wrong, because (to adopt an old environmental movement bumper sticker slogan) “Nature bats last.”
Thousands of endangered Truckers descended upon Sacramento today, to protest the 30 day notice to upgrade your truck or have it seized. Inside, the officials declared they have no choice but to comply with the EPA, which is forcing them to do it. The Truckers argued that there would be 5,000 jobs lost plus many more thousands of small business owner forced to close.
The officials were deaf to reason.
A cop out to be sure, but the EPA has been whispered by the White House to be the bad cop out there, ready to do very bad things to America if Cap & Trade is not passed. This would be one of them.
The EPA really has declared War.
I just found this presentation from CERN, Geneva.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/175641-climategate-revolt-of-the-physicists
“Climate science seemed settled in the 1990s. The only theory around was that the increase in CO2 and other greenhouse gases was causing the increase in world temperatures. But then physicists got involved. My guess is that the average physicist has an IQ of somewhere between 150 and 200. The progress that they have been making is incredible.
…
When Kirkby gets to the screen showing Galactic Modulation of Climate over the last 500 million years and the cosmic ray variation that explains it, take a close look at the line that plots CO2 over the same period. Note that that line doesn’t correspond at all to the temperature periodicity evident in the temperature data. Also listen when Kirkby points out that CO2 concentrations used to be 10 times higher than they are today.”
In their own minds, these people in climatology, government, and MSM aren’t Goliaths but good shepherds, leading the rest of us out of the dark. Hence they can perpetrated fraud and deception with a perfectly clear conscience.
See “Climategate: The good shepherds”:
Lord Christopher Monckton has joined a political party:
http://www.ukip.org/content/latest-news/1363-monckton-joins-ukip
An author identify the socialism theme in the Pyongyan… Danish party, and visit the alternative climate conference.
Info:
“PJTV and CBN, doing the job the multi billion dollar news goliath utterly fails to do. Here, Bruce Bawer, author of the excellent and important book, ‘Surrender’ is reporting for PJTV on the absurd climate conference in Denmark which should much better be called ‘Commiefest’.”
Real theories can be replicated over and over again and when the predictions are confirmed then it gains credibility. Einstein did not need to ask 1700 scientists to sign a petition to prove his theories were correct. This shows a lack of confidence by the AGW people who are not scientists and do not understand how science works.
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/soros-identifies-a-money-supply-for-climate-aid/
Now here’s a scary guy if there ever was one.
Dear Mods please look out for people boosting the BNP from UK. Socialists as in National Socialist. Maggie’s ‘oxygen of publicity’ definitely applies.
Dave Wendt (01:32:25) :
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.
The connection between truth and spirituality is that truth and life are inextricably linked. The AGW/CC crowd, in supporting a huge lie and opposing C02, an essential component of life are, in fact opposing life itself. The AGW/CC monstrosity is the greatest evil mankind has faced since nazism.
But, in order for truth to win, it has to be heard. This is why, in totalitarian countries the first thing they need to control is the media. The MSM, for whatever reason not only failed miserably in their job of getting the truth out, they instead acted as the mouthpiece for the biggest Lie in history. Fortunately, there was the internet, which ultimately will be, and indeed is in the process of being the downfall of that Lie. This site, along with others is responsible for upholding and disseminating the Truth, and for the ultimate demise of the AGW/CC monstrosity.
Frank Koter “David looked upon Goliath and said, “He is so big! How can I miss?”
I think that is a very good observation.
The reaction of the Met Office here in the UK is quite bizarre – to start a chain letter amongst themselves to show how much integrity they have is frankly barking. They’re still in denial.
I can ‘understand’ how the CRU et al played their hand to their advantage – but the Met Office? It’s come as a shock to me.
Thank Christ Al Gore invented in the internet or we’d still be wondering if it was just us that was puzzled by the gap between reality and the propaganda.