New Report Refutes Global
Warming
From Newsmax
Posted 11/26/2006
A recent report from
Britain's Sir Nicholas Stern warned of the devastating economic effects global
warming could have on the world in coming years.
But a British researcher has added his voice to those saying the
"hysteria" over manmade global warming distorts the truth.
Stern — former chief economist at the World Bank — cautioned that if greenhouse
gas emissions weren't significantly reduced, by 2050 the global economy would
shrink by up to 20 percent, millions of people would be permanently displaced
and droughts would plague the earth.
Now journalist Christopher Monckton, who was a policy adviser to Margaret
Thatcher, has published a detailed report attacking the manmade global warming
theory from various angles — including the so-called "medieval warm
period."
The United Nations, which has issued a widely quoted report on global warming,
"abolished the medieval warm period — the global warming at the end of the
First Millennium A.D.," according to Monckton.
A U.N. report in 1996 "showed a 1,000-year graph demonstrating that
temperature in the Middle Ages was warmer than today," Monckton writes in
Britain's Sunday Telegraph.
"But the 2001 report contained a new graph showing no medieval warm
period. It wrongly concluded that the 20th century was the warmest for 1,000
years . . .
"Scores of scientific papers show that the medieval warm period was real,
global and up to [5 degrees Fahrenheit] warmer than now.
"Then, there were no glaciers in the tropical Andes; today they're there.
There were Viking farms in Greenland; now they're under permafrost. There was
little ice at the North Pole — a Chinese naval squadron sailed right around the
Arctic in 1421 and found none."
Monckton also writes that Antarctica has cooled and gained ice-mass in the past
30 years, and the oceans have cooled sharply in the past two years.
He calculates that global temperatures will rise only .18 to 2.5 degrees in the
coming century, "well within the medieval temperature range."
And he suggests that rather than point to greenhouse gases as the culprit
behind any measurable global warming, we might blame the sun. He cites a
scientist who maintains that in the past half-century the sun has been warmer,
for longer, than at any time in at least the past 11,400 years.
Monckton's conclusion: "Politicians, scientists and bureaucrats contrived
a threat of Biblical floods, droughts, plagues, and extinctions worthier of St.
John the Divine than of science."
[Note
from cwp. Did these people have a
political agenda, or was it just plain, old-fashioned greed? But then idolatry and greed are always
connected!}
