The Climate Change Boogeyman

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The deliberate attempts to rope children in as 'little activists' inevitably will involve scaring them. This is a grossly irresponsible thing for any adult to do, and everyone involved should be deeply ashamed of themselves. Corporations such as the WWF and Greenpeace, and goodness know how many others on smaller scales, make a lot of money out of scaremongering. But their drive to boost their incomes even further by spreading terror does not make it right. Not least because the case for serious concern over AGW is so flimsy, based as it on rigged computer models of dubious practical value, and not on evidence from the real world. A world in which nothing whatsoever unusual has been observed in weather, in ice, in sea level changes, and so on in the 20th and 21st centuries - the ones in which we are told the 'disruption' is underway.

John Shade 6:07PM March 03, 2011

I can't helped but notice that Trish is one of those people trying to profit from the manufactured CO2 crisis. She's written two books promoting the pseudo-science and, of course, attacks "big oil". Sell your snake oil elsewhere Trish.

Michael Caddo of VA 3:32PM December 02, 2009

I can't helped but notice that Trish is one of those people trying to profit from the manufactured CO2 crisis. She's written two books promoting the pseudo-science and, of course, attacks "big oil". Sell your snake oil elsewhere Trish.

Michael Caddo of VA 3:32PM December 02, 2009

All the greening and other efforts to reduce the human impact are just band-aids. Human culture based on ever growing population is the cause of the problem. All the leaders of the world - governmental, industrial, religious, etc. - benefit from a
growing population. And therefore are the principle promoters of the cause. Until recently, a majority of the human population benefit from a growing population and support the concept which prevents leaders from taking firm steps against the trend - except in China. And, the Chinese leaders are condemned, nearly worldwide, for taking their position on population. This argument can be expanded upon with analysis and example. However, the precept as expressed is evident.

T. R. Page of NC 9:38PM September 20, 2009

In 1988 James Hansen testified before congress to scare us about global warming. See his failed predictions on page 7 of this PDF from NASA’s website as published back then:
http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1988/1988_Hansen_etal.pdf
All satellite data, including this from the University of Alabama at Huntsville proves that he was wrong. The predicted warming never occurred:
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/HANSEN_AND_CONGRESS.jpg
2008 was even colder than 1988. Had he predicted what actually happened, no one would have seen the need to waste hundreds of billions of dollars. Now the politicians are threatening to burden the economy with their Cap-and-Trade scheme, which amounts to a massive tax increase on all conventional energy usage, to be paid for by you every time you buy something manufactured or transported using energy, which includes nearly everything you spend your money on. It’s ironic how they claim to be protecting the children from doomsday, when they are really impoverishing your children’s future with this additional burden. Here is more background on this deliberate hoax from 1988:
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/hansens_anniversary_testimony/
31,478 scientists signed a petition opposing the man-made global warming theory. Their reasoning is outlined in a peer reviewed journal article detailing the evidence that disproved the theory. Please follow this link:
http://www.petitionproject.org/
We are being forced to pay for less economical sources of energy while being told they are viable alternatives. This is a lie. All of the so-called ‘alternative’ sources of energy, including wind and solar, equal less than one percent of mankind’s needs. Meanwhile our far more economical access to hydrocarbon energy and nuclear energy is being throttled for no good reason.
Ignoring lying journalists, lying activists, lying teachers, and lying politicians, we can turn to what the scientists themselves studying this subject have reported to us:
"The reason why Dr Mörner, formerly a Stockholm professor, is so certain that these claims about sea level rise are 100 per cent wrong is that they are all based on computer model predictions, whereas his findings are based on "going into the field to observe what is actually happening in the real world".
When running the International Commission on Sea Level Change, he launched a special project on the Maldives, whose leaders have for 20 years been calling for vast sums of international aid to stave off disaster. Six times he and his expert team visited the islands, to confirm that the sea has not risen for half a century. Before announcing his findings, he offered to show the inhabitants a film explaining why they had nothing to worry about. The government refused to let it be shown."
http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=3116
Ominous parallels:
http://www.archive.org/details/TheBigLieMan-madeGlobalWarming
If your cause is noble, why can’t you tell the truth about it?

Barry of CA 11:10AM July 08, 2009

Hi Maura,
Great blog! Thanks for taking on the skeptics. They can talk all they want to, but their rhetoric isn't going to help get us out of this mess created by the profit-takes-all petroleum program we've been following for the past half-century.
When it comes to our children, there's no need to frighten them with tales of planetary distress. What kids need to know is that we're here to protect them and take care of them, and that we're doing that by making changes to the status quo today. Creating a sustainable future for them to grow into is a task that we must all work together to achieve. Children can take part by being taught better habits than our generation learned in the disposable society of the greatest generation. This stuff isn't rocket science, and we can raise our children to think about their planet, business, and consumption differently than the way we learned. It's just a matter of changing our habits and sharing better new approaches with our kids. But we're all going to need to work together and those who profit from destroying our environment need to face the fact that their run on our future is over. Little by little even the largest corporations are making the kinds of changes that will effectively help the planet on the basis of scale. Skeptics and mouthpieces for industry might want to review their priorities.
thanks,
Trish Riley*
author, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Green Living and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Greening Your Business. www.gogreennation.org

Trish Riley of FL 9:37PM June 27, 2009

Reading the previous responses,you would think there is debate about the greatest problem of our day,global warming. The science is there about the carbon output(manmade output) into the atmosphere and we are recording the highest levels of CO2 ever in the atmosphere. Satellite photos document glaciers, ice caps and mountain ice All Disappearing and ocean temperate measurements document the warming and we still doubt. When all the ice is melted, the effect on ocean currents, sea life and our life because of our freshwater needs from the melting ICE on the planet will be profound and probably catastophic. We have to begin doing something about this and quickly. Believe that our planet is changing so rapitdly that it might not be able to support the incredibly diverse animal, plant and ultimately our lives and I believe children really understand the simplicity of this. The great worry is that it will take thousands of years to decrease the CO2 put into the atmosphere unless we somehow can take it out. Please begin the next phase of the debate-What can we do about this?

C.A. Snyder of TX 8:05PM June 20, 2009

No need to worry about "climate change". The world will run out of food long before climate change is a significant issue. You won't care that it is warming when there are no longer any fish, meat or vegetables to eat. Or perhaps Soylant Green was not a scary story but a prediction of the future.

Wayne 5:52PM June 17, 2009

Oh, now it's "Climate Change".... The "Global Warming" strawman was becoming a bit tattered by the relentless forces of common sense and facts.
Say, what happened to keeping religion out of schools? No clear thinking individual can deny that "little 'e'" environmentalism has evolved into "Big E" Environmentalist Religion. Its intolerant dogma controls schools, courts, media, government and politics - Kinda sneaked past that whole "separation of church and state" barrier, eh?
Joe of IA wants to believe that "...humans are the cause..." So Joe, what was the cause of the previous 11 periods of glaciation - all followed by fluctuating periods of "Global Warming"?
Don't know about you Joe, but I'm thinkin' that living in in a tropical climate is probably more fun then living on a frozen sheet of ice.... But hey, that's just me.
Just keep in mind that nothing grows on a sheet of ice. On the other hand - maybe we get more rain forests.
Bottom line - Climate has always been changing, hotter - colder, but always in flux. Get a new worry and a religion different from neo-pantheist, "Environmentalism".
As always, remember... "Going Green Has Gone Too Far"... Get your bumper sticker today.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 12:15PM June 17, 2009

The real problem with the climate change dialogue is that it has become politicized and thus polarized. Because a 'liberal democrat' brought this issue to the masses in a way unmatched by others, it had to become a political debate. It is the political agenda that is causing the most harm.
Fact is we don't know how extensive human impact will be in the end, we just know it's happening, humans are the cause despite political voices effectively persuading otherwise. Our children must be prepared for an uncertain future and the only way to do this is through parents taking the lead without their political persuasion further impeding change. This truly is a matter of human race existence or extinction, it doesn't matter on what side of the aisle you prefer to sit.

Joe of IA 11:13AM June 16, 2009