Did you notice that nothing is ever said about the two major causes of increased emissions other than low efficiency processes. We both know that conservation can be carried out to the thermodynamic limits and no further without dramatic decrease in standards of living, which, in under-developed nations, cannot happen without misery and loss of life. Thus, population growth (Cause 1) and economic growth (Cause 2) must be reduced and, in the case of population growth, change sign. Four aspects of American-style economic systems that must be abandoned are (i) fractional reserve banking, (ii) loss of jobs due to technological progress, (iii) economic inequality, and (iv)financial markets. To raise these important points is political suicide in today’s political climate, which has largely been manufactured with the greatest and most successful propaganda campaign the world has ever seen. Thoughtful engineers should be above the influence of propaganda because they demand mathematical and logical proof of whatever they accept as truth. Oh, if it were only so.

THE PETITION STATES

“We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.

There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other 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. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.”

CO2 DEBUNKED

The late-Carboniferous and late-Ordovician periods were the only geological periods during the Paleozoic Era when global temperatures were as low as they are today. To the consternation of the priests of the global warming religion, the late-Ordovician Period was also an ice age while, at the same time, CO2 concentrations then were nearly 12 times higher than today – approximately 4400 ppm then versus approximately 385 ppm now. According to the priests of the CO2 greenhouse religion, the Earth should have been exceedingly hot. Instead, global temperatures were no warmer than today. Clearly, CO2 proponents do NOT know geology. Moreover, other factors besides atmospheric carbon influence earth temperatures and global warming.

LESS THAN HALF IS NO CONSENSUS

Of 528 total papers on climate change published from 2004 to February 2007, only 38 (7%) gave an explicit endorsement of the “consensus” for the AGW religion. If one considers “implicit” endorsement (accepting the consensus without explicit statement), the figure rises to 45%. However, while only 32 papers (6%) reject the consensus outright, the largest category (48%) are NEUTRAL papers, refusing to neither accept nor reject the hypothesis. This is no “consensus.”

Accordingly, dear readers, do not buy a pig in a poke from the self-anointed priests of the AGW religion.

I’m not an economist, but it appears to me that academic researchers spend far too much time arguing about the value of “the multiplier” and not enough time with supercomputers and the kind of sectoral models that would tell you whether rebalancing the subsidies chart would have a positive or negative effect on the GDP, or would have a greater or lesser effect on global carbon emissions than subsidizing developing countries to stop deforestation.