Armstrong Economics
Well, all the fools who believe in climate change/global warming will be ecstatic to know that they can help the planet through the new proposal from the United Nations and World Bank. These wonderful entities are now forecasting a shortage of water in places like the Middle East by 2050. The solution will be simple: they will tax the rest of us and raise the price of water so that we can “conserve” to help other counties from running out of water.
I really do not understand how raising taxes on water in the USA could help to preserve water in the Middle East — but hey, what do I know? What I do know is that Al Gore said New York would be under water by now because the ice caps were melting. That has not happened, yet now there will be a shortage of water? Does that imply that the ice caps grew larger? This is very confusing and the analysis is rather stupid. They assume whatever trend is in motion will remain in motion; so if the stock market rises today, well it will rise every day forever. Strange analysis.
Comment: It's always amazing how Establishment people like Gore end up touting the same old tired propaganda. Once you step outside the divide and rule nonsense of left and right beliefs and begin to really look objectively at these spell binding messengers like Gore, you can begin to see concurrent themes which occur time and time again and which stretch back at least to the Club of Rome publications in the early 1970s. Once you make the links and know the fundamental beliefs behind all this rubbish (not least the money involved) you can begin to see the Magician behind the curtain.
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Daily Caller
Former Vice President Al Gore raised eyebrows last week when he
suggested that “fertility management” was the key to fighting global
warming and promoting economic development in poor countries. Gore’s
comments drew criticism from free-marketeers who said his remarks amount
to “eco-imperialism.”
“Gore’s agenda for saving the world from global warming has always
included population control,” Myron Ebell, director of global warming
and international environmental policy at the free-market Competitive
Enterprise Institute, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Advocating
population control specifically for Africa is just another form of
imperialism. Gore’s eco-imperialism is uncomfortably close to the
original racist goals of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned
Parenthood, who advocated population control in order to control the
number of black and brown people in the world.”
The world is expected to
have more than 9 billion people by 2075, with much of that growth
coming from developing countries in Africa. This is alarming to
environmental activists like Gore, who argues that “fertility
management” is needed to address a whole slew of global development
issues, including mitigating global warming.
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The New American
Alex Newman
Dec. 18, 2013
Self-styled “global-warming” guru Al Gore (shown) and a gaggle of
supposed “climate scientists” have egg all over their faces — big time.
In 2007, 2008 and 2009, Gore publicly and very hysterically warned
that the North Pole would be “ice-free” by around 2013 because of
alleged “man-made global warming.” Citing “climate” experts, the
government-funded BBC hyped the mass hysteria, running a
now-embarrassing article under the headline: “Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013’.” Other establishment media outlets did the same.
Well, 2013 is almost over, and contrary to the alarmist “predictions” by Gore and what critics refer to as his “doomsday cult,” the latest satellite data show that Arctic ice cover has actually expanded 50 percent over 2012 levels. In fact, during October, sea-ice levels grew at the fastest pace
since records began in 1979. Experts predict the expansion to continue
in the years to come, leaving global-warming alarmists scrambling
fiendishly for explanations to save face — and to revive the rapidly
melting climate hysteria.
In September, meanwhile, data also showed that sea ice levels in Antarctica had expanded to record levels for the second year in a row.
Of course, by now, virtually everyone who has been following news about
“global warming” — now more often referred to as “climate change” owing
to public-relations concerns — also knows that global temperatures have not risen for some 17 years.
The spectacular lack of warming demolished all 73 of the “climate
models” used by the United Nations to push its controversial theories.
According to the dubious theories and predictions advanced by Al Gore
and other alarmists, though, none of this should be happening. “Some of
the models ... suggest that there is a 75 percent chance that the
entire north polar ice cap, during some of the summer months, could be
completely ice-free within the next five to seven years,” Gore claimed
in 2009 at a UN “climate” summit in Copenhagen.
“We will find out.” Indeed, the bogus prediction was wildly off the
mark, to put it mildly, but the establishment press and Gore apparently
do not want the world to find out.
Separately, speaking to an audience in Germany five years ago, Gore —
sometimes ridiculed as “The Goracle” — also alleged that “the entire
North Polarized [sic] cap will disappear in 5 years.” While the original
video of that particular failed prediction appears to have been
scrubbed from the Internet, conservative bloggers managed to track down the same footage from other sources. “Five years,” Gore emphasized again, is “the period of time during which it is now expected to disappear.”
In fairness, Gore was hardly the only hysterical climate-doomsday
proponent to be left looking foolish. In December of 2007, the BBC
highlighted alleged “modeling studies” that supposedly “indicate
northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6
years.” Incredibly, some of the supposed “experts” even claimed it could
happen before then, citing calculations performed by “super computers”
that the BBC noted “has become a standard part of climate science in
recent years.”
“Our projection of 2013 for the removal of ice in summer is not
accounting for the last two minima, in 2005 and 2007,” claimed Professor
Wieslaw Maslowski, described as researcher from the Naval Postgraduate
School who was working with co-workers at NASA to come up with the
now-thoroughly discredited forecasts about polar ice. “So given that
fact, you can argue that may be [sic] our projection of 2013 is already
too conservative.” Other “experts” quoted in the BBC article agreed with
the hysteria.
In the real world, however, the scientific evidence demolishing the
global-warming theories advanced by Gore, the UN, and government-funded
“climate scientists” continues to grow, along with the ice cover in both
hemispheres. In the Arctic, for example, data collected by Europe's
Cryosat spacecraft pointed to about 9,000 cubic kilometers of ice at the
end of the 2013 melt season. In 2012, which was admittedly a low year,
the total volume was about 6,000 cubic kilometers — some 50 percent less
than the 2013 total. Polar bear populations are thriving, too.
Across the southern hemisphere, the data have proved even more
devastating to what supposed “climate scientists” were caught referring
to as their “cause” in the deeply embarrassing ClimateGate e-mails.
First, the figures from 2012 showed a record high level of sea-ice
cover — more than at any point since records began in 1978. This year
set another new record, with ice covering more than 19.5 million square
kilometers of ocean around Antarctica by September.
Around the world, meanwhile, record low temperatures continue to make
a mockery of “global warming” theories. While anecdotal, to be sure,
Cairo, Egypt, just saw its first snowfall in more than 100 years. In the United States there have been thousands of new records
for cold temperatures and snowfalls just in the month of December. In
an extremely bizarre twist, some “climate scientists” have even started
claiming that the freezing temperatures are actually more evidence of
“global warming.”
To explain the universally acknowledged lack of warming over the last
17 years in defiance of all UN climate theories, government-funded
“climate scientists” and the UN have increasingly touted what critics
ridicule as “The Theory of The Ocean Ate My Global Warming.” Under heavy political pressure from the Obama administration and other governments,
the UN ran with the theory, despite the lack of any observable evidence
to suggest the deep ocean is actually eating the UN’s predicted global
warming.
Appearing increasingly detached from reality to independent scientists, the UN claimed in its latest global-warming report to be 95 percent sure that
human emissions of carbon dioxide were to blame for rising
temperatures. Those claims, now widely laughed at around the world, were
made despite the fact that every single one of its computer models has
been entirely discredited by the lack of warming for the last 17 years.
Many experts are now even predicting global cooling.
Top scientists and experts around the world — even many who have
served on the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — have been ridiculing the global outfit and its discredited “climate” report.
Most governments and dictators, however, continue playing along with
what some experts call the climate “charade” or “hoax,” mostly due to
built-in incentives and taxpayer funds that help perpetuate the
unjustified alarmism.
For third-world dictators, the goal appears to be securing trillions in Western taxpayer money
under the guise of “climate” reparations and “justice.” For governments
ruling wealthier nations, the end-game seems to be carbon taxes and a planetary “climate” regime with unprecedented powers over humanity.
Assembled in Warsaw for the latest UN climate summit, even as the
implosion of the “science” behind global-warming theories was accelerating, member regimes agreed to finalize a global climate treaty by 2015.
Polls show that despite hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars
squandered on global-warming alarmism, the American public still refuses
to widely accept the man-made warming theories advanced by an
increasingly discredited UN and its allies. A September Rasmussen survey
of likely voters, for example, found
that just 43 percent of likely U.S. voters believe alleged “global
warming” is caused by human activity. About the same number believe it
is not.
Despite vicious attacks and threats — some of it exposed in the ClimateGate scandal — scientists are increasingly jumping off the sinking “climate” ship
as well. Even some major governments are working to rein in the
out-of-control alarmism, with authorities in Australia, elected in a
landslide earlier this year, promising to liberate the nation from “carbon taxes” while quashing much of the taxpayer-funded “global-warming” juggernaut. Calls for prosecuting “fraud” by “climate scientists” are growing, too.
So far, despite hyping the absurd claims five years ago, the
establishment press has failed to inform its dwindling readership that
Al Gore and his fellow alarmists were proven embarrassingly wrong. No
apologies have been forthcoming from Gore, either, and none of the
“scientists” who made the ridiculous predictions has apologized or lost
his U.S. taxpayer-funded job. In fact, almost unbelievably, the
establishment press is now parroting new claims from the same discredited “experts” suggesting that the Arctic will be “ice-free” by 2016.
As Gore put it in 2009, “We will find out.”
