Wheres the Warming

President Clinton set an unprecedented course in November, 1998 when Peter Burleigh, the Acting US Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), signed the Kyoto Protocol on climate change on behalf of the Clinton Administration. By signing the treaty, the President has indicated to the world that he is willing to cede to the international community a powerful tool to control the U.S. economy.

The Kyoto Protocol mandates that by 2008-2012, the United States must reduce its greenhouse gas to 7 percent below 1990 levels. This translates to over a 30 percent reduction in projected energy needs in the U.S. by 2010.

The cost to the U.S. is staggering. Both the U.S. Dept. of Energy and the nationally recognized econometric firm, WEFA, Inc. have independently reported that the Kyoto Protocol would increase the price of gasoline by at least 65 cents per gallon and nearly double the price of overall energy, including electricity. The WEFA report also warns that the treaty, if ever ratified, would reduce family incomes dramatically, cause nearly three million jobs to be lost, and would reduce state tax revenues by almost $100 billion.

Nonetheless, Americans might be willing to pay the price to save the earth if solid evidence existed that global warming was occurring, and our sacrifice would reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. Tragically, neither is true.

Only Developed Nations are bound by the Kyoto Protocol, allowing the Developing Nations to continue emitting greenhouse gases--eliminating the reductions gained by sacrifices made by Americans.

Because the Kyoto Accord applies only to the "developed nations" like the U.S., "developing nations" like Mexico, Brazil, India, China and others can and will continue to increase their emissions as much as they like. Hence, sacrifices made by Americans will be quickly offset by the developing nations. The treaty does nothing to stop global warming, but represents the greatest income redistribution plan ever envisioned by the mind of man. Because of this, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution 95-0 that they would not ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Yet, President Clinton signed it anyway.

Contrary to popular belief, man-caused global warming is not a fact. Paradoxically, the reverse appears to be the case. Nearly 17,000 scientists (two-thirds having advanced degrees) have now signed a petition stating,

"There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of...greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate."

Infrared temperature measurements of the bottom 15,000 feet of earth’s atmosphere by highly accurate NASA satellites reveal that the global temperature has not changed significantly over the past 20 years.

Highly accurate satellite data conclusively shows there has been no global warming over the past 20 years. The 1987-1997 period actually shows a significant cooling! Yet the satellite data is never reported in the press, unless it is being attacked by global warming supporters. Not surprisingly, the attacks are always disproved but that fact is never reported.

Ironically, these temperature measuring satellites were put into orbit in 1979 because of fear we were entering the next ice age! It was the sharp rise in temperature during the last half of the 1980s that provoked the global warming scares. Scientists now know that the warming in the late 1980s and again in the late 1990s is likely caused by sun spots or solar storms, not greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists have long identified the correlation between sun spot activity and the earth’s temperature.

Relative solar energy output as measured by the solar magnetic cycle of sunspot activity is highly correlated with earth’s temperature. The more active the sun the warmer the earth’s temperature.

Dr. James Hansen, who heads NASA’s global warming efforts, has even recanted from his 1988 proclamation to the U.S. Senate that global warming was a fact. In the October 1998 issue of the Proceedings National Academy of Sciences Hansen admits,

"... changes of atmospheric aerosols [particulate matter], clouds, and land-use patterns...offset greenhouse warming. One consequence of this partial balance is that...solar irradiance changes may play a larger role in long-term climate change than inferred from comparison with GHGs [Greenhouse Gases] alone."

The distortion of science for political purposes is beginning to anger journalists. Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe Columnist, asserted on November 5, 1998, "it is important to explode the myth that most scientists are worried about global warming. Politicians shouldn’t be permitted to hijack science in their pursuit of power. Environmentalists and journalists with an antibusiness itch to scratch should be cross-examined whenever they claim there is only one side to an issue of public policy."

Alexander Annett of the Heritage Foundation underscores the seriousness of the deception being forced upon the American people, "The United States Senate has not ratified the Kyoto convention, yet the Administration is rushing to implement its severe terms, which would force Americans to pay more for basic goods and services while sacrificing their personal freedoms to address an unproved environmental threat."

As with most, if not all, global problems proclaimed by the UN and global elite, outright deception is at the heart of the global warming controversy. Proverbs 12:20 warns us that, "Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy." (KJV) While there are those that imagine evil for the world and use deception to advance their beliefs, we are called to be counsellors of peace. To do so brings great joy! V mc