[Gasification] UK Documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle

[Ken Basterfield]

Peter,
Global warming is happening, Irish beekeepers have had their best honey
crops for years. Whether we are responsible for global warming, I rather
think not, in the main, there are much greater natural forces at work.

However, it must seem like a godsend to the unscrupulous politicians ( most
all of them ) as a bogey man to scare the taxpayers with. Carbon credits?
Another South Sea bubble! What a scam.
Ken 



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[mailto:gasification-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Peter Singfield
Sent: 20 March 2007 14:13
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Subject: Re: [Gasification] UK Documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle


At 11:22 AM 3/20/2007 +0100, kenn johnsen wrote:
>
>
>> Is new labour, not just the old labour, is it not just a name play.
>>
>> Kenn
>> tirsdag 20. mar 2007 kl. 07:57 skrev Ken Basterfield:
>>
>>> David,
>>> I'm all for equal opportunities. Please include New Labour in the
>>> slaughter
>>> list, they deserve it more than most.
>>> Ken
>>>

Ken;

I have been checking out the net in regards to thios present question -- and
your points are more than valid from a political stand point -- the The
Global warming "debate" is more about politics and control than hard
science.

The CO2 question has been greatly blown out of proportion so it has indeed
become just another tool of "control" -- plus another major expense that is
totally unproductive -- trillions being spent that could be better applied
in so many other ways.

Following is a German article -- transultated to English -- that well
presents the dark side of this coin.

Also -- an interesting comment to this article that "presents" as I tend to.

Anyway -- I have no more time for any more of this -- been fun -- but so
much to do now --

Peter / Belize

This article appears in the March 23, 2007 issue of Executive Intelligence
Review. 

Climate Campaign Is a Diversion; Real Danger Is Financial Meltdown 
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche 

The author is the chairwoman of the Civil Rights Solidarity Movement (BüSo)
in Germany. This article has been translated from German. 


The population is currently being conditioned with a dramatic fear-campaign,
to get them to accept a massive shrinking of their living standards and
civil rights—and ultimately a different world order. Governments, the media,
and "objective" scientists are speaking as if in lockstep, since the
International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on Feb. 7 provided the
opening shot for the coordinated campaign for a
paradigm-shift: to address the man-made climate catastrophe, the poor polar
bears, who are swimming all alone toward the last ice floes in a warmed-up
North Sea, and the "fact" that our "planet only has 13 years left." And
Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel tries with some success to appear as
weighty as Al Gore, and, according to Welt online, demands a "leader of the
world." 

While this panic-mongering affects the short-term memory of the citizen ("I
was just in the Alps, where there was really no snow!"), on account of the
fact that the very cold Winter and snow-catastrophe of last year has already
been forgotten, the real drama is playing out on another stage. The
disintegration of the global financial system, which has now convulsed
various sections of the markets as a result of the unwinding of the yen
carry trade, is unstoppable. The collapse of the American real estate
market, especially in the realm of the subprime mortgages, due to the
market-dominant role of the hedge funds, can lead to a crash of the system.
The environmental hysteria is supposed to create a menacing situation in
order to force through dictatorial measures in the resulting chaos. 

In spite of all the swearing that the interest rate rises in Japan were only
"a correction," but would not result in a crash, the disintegration is
proceeding full speed, not only in the emerging markets, where there has
been a collapse of 50-80%. The currently most dramatic situation is the
collapse of the real estate bubble in the U.S.A., where the unsound practice
of the issuance of so-called subprime loans has led multiple credit
institutions into bankruptcy, and is spreading to other areas of the real
estate market and the banking system see this week's Feature. 


Enter the Climate Hoax 

Against this background, the climate catastrophe campaign is exposed as an
effort by the investment banks and the hedge funds to find a new region for
mega-profits, through creating a new bubble. Al Gore, who had sunk,
discredited, into oblivion, due to his ineffective Presidential campaign as
a stirrup-holder for George W. Bush, is now everywhere with his
anti-scientific documentary and lectures in front of companies and hedge
funds, in order to promote the CO2 emissions credit trade as a source of
superprofits. What many of his green supporters don't know, is that Gore
himself has been a hedge-fund manager since 2001. Gore was the proxy
chairman of Metropolitan West Financial LLL (Metwest), whose chairman was
junk-bond swindler Michael Milken, who was jailed for insider trading. In
2004, Gore and David Blood, previously the chairman of the board of Goldman
Sachs Asset Management (aka "Blood & Gore"), founded the London Fund
"Generation Investment Fund," which is itself massively active in the CO2
emissions credits trade. 

"The real subject of what's going on, is the booming emissions trade," wrote
the Daily Telegraph on March 14. "Gore recognized a trend that CO2 emissions
certificates trading would be the hottest business." The Telegraph reported
on the fact that the biggest investment banks in the world have plunged into
this market, which is centered, by the way, primarily in London. Gore, who
has been an official advisor to the British government on climate questions
since 2006, promised about 2,000 companies that are involved in the
emissions trade at a conference in Copenhagen, that he would turn the 2008
Presidential campaign in the U.S.A. into a campaign for climate change. 

Therefore, all the more important is the documentary produced by the British
Channel 4, with the title "The Great Global Warming Swindle," which takes up
many of the scientific counter-arguments against the allegedly man-made
climate catastrophe, and traces the beginnings of this campaign to the
Thatcher Era. This film is an absolute must for anyone who is concerned with
this subject. 

There is a battle raging among climate scientists, geologists, chemists, and
other scientists about the cause for the climate fluctuations which, over
hundreds of thousands of years, have determined the shifts between ice ages,
warming periods, interglacials, and inter-warming periods. All serious
scientists agree that solar cycles, and only to a negligible degree human
activity, are responsible for changes in temperature. In the face of this
clear contradiction between scientific analysis and a propaganda campaign
which has recently been used by the hedge funds, how is it explainable that
Chancellor Angela Merkel used the German presidency of the European Union to
make the subject of climate the top priority? And that, despite the fact
that Merkel is herself a physicist, and therefore surely has the ability to
inform herself on the facts of the matter. 

The suspicion is that governments not only know that the "man-made climate
catastrophe" is a swindle, but that they also know that the system
associated with globalization is coming to an end. And because they don't
have the courage to admit that their incompetent economic policy is
responsible for the current systemic crisis, the climate question serves as
a welcome scapegoat. Because if the financial system collapses, then chaos
threatens, and in this situation they have several emergency measures in
mind. 


Call for Eco-Dictatorship 

Interestingly, the newspaper Die Welt ran a lead article on March 10,
entitled "Our Climate Debate Is Hostile to Progress," which, without any
mention of the financial crash, states: "Meanwhile, the climate must suffer,
in order to secure recognition for the necessity for a political
thunderbolt. We have, that is, only a couple more years time—which we should
not fritter away with the time-wasting and ineffective method of the
previous policy.... In other words, the climate issue finally creates the
very state of emergency that right-wingers and left-wingers as well as
ecological friends of Hitler's "crown jurist" Carl Schmitt would like to
have a license for." The emergency situation as the basis for
dictatorship—that's what this article hints at. Therefore, what motivates
Merkel to make the climate question the main theme at the EU summit, and to
make the arguments of the ecology movement her own? 

Surprisingly clear words come from someone who in previous times has himself
been one of the most ardent supporters of globalization, the Czech President
Vaclav Klaus, who, after the dissolution of the Comecon subjected his
country to the most brutal shock therapy. Before the Cato Institute in
Washington, Klaus elaborated the point that the ecology movement today is
one of the most dangerous of all dangers facing the world. Behind this
"friendly" ideology is an attempt to change the character of the world."They
present their catastrophe scenarios in order to change our world, and that
is very dangerous." And further: "If one theory is laid aside, then they
find another. First there was the threat of overpopulation. Then there was
the ozone hole. Now they come with their thesis about global warming." One
could still add the dying forest, which obviously is as green as ever. 

In an interview in Japan, Klaus remarked that the thesis of global warming
was a myth, an evaluation which is confirmed by every serious scientist. The
IPCC is not a scientific, but a political institution, a kind of
non-governmental organization with a green taste. And on the decision of the
EU Commission to reduce CO2 emissions by 20%, he commented: "This is
obviously such a blunder by so many people, from journalists to politicians.
If the European Commission falls for such a trick, then we have an even
further reason why nations themselves, and not the Commission should make
decisions on such questions...." Obviously Klaus has learned something and
realized, that the new wave of globalization, and eco-dictatorship, would
totally destroy his country. 


U.S. Congress Must Take Up LaRouche's Ideas 

But the current climate hysteria is also leading the American Congress on a
false path. Instead of concerning themselves with the threatened financial
collapse and the prevention of a new war by the Bush Administration against
Iran, and initiating impeachment proceedings against Bush and Cheney, the
Democratic Party has activated its green wing. But the war danger will not
disappear as long as first Cheney, and then Bush are not removed from
office. 

If the human race is to finally come out of the systemic crisis which is
reaching everywhere, then the dangerous ideology of the ecology movement
must be replaced by scientific clarity and, generally, by an affirmation of
scientific and technological progress. Besides, Russia, China, India,
Brazil, the Eastern European nations, the Gulf states, the Maghreb
countries, South Africa, and many others have already made it clear that
they are not ready to allow themselves to be thrown into a dark age without
a fight, and are striving for a renaissance of nuclear energy. 

But finally, the crisis can only be overcome, if the hopelessly bankrupt
financial system is reorganized, and replaced with a new Bretton Woods. Only
if the ideas of Lyndon LaRouche are put into effect in the American
Congress, and not those of Al Gore, does civilization have a chance. 

Link

http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/121638

*************also a comment by anonymous**********

I am not the least surprised that new scientific data are consistent with
solar warming contributing to earth's global warming. At least some
information on that point is now available. 

However, it is too glib to merely say that today's global warming is
entirely to to solar warming. Yes, some of it is due to solar warming. But
all of it? 

It's simplistic thinking to assert that: either (a) earth's global warming
is entirely manmade, or (b) earth's global warming is entirely a solar
effect. 

Gore's point was one that scientists have been making for over two decades:
the earth's atmospheric CO2 levels have been rising for the past century,
and can be accounted for by the burning of hydrocarbon fuels & the
destruction of vegetation. Indeed, much of the emitted CO2 stays not in the
atmosphere but goes into the oceans, so the recorded rise in CO2 in the air
is not the entire story. The oceans have been acting as a carbon sink, as
well as a heat sink. 

This is changing the chemistry of the oceans, which we humans are abusing as
badly as the rest of the planet. What happens when frozen methane hydrates
in cold oceans start to thaw and bubble into the atmosphere? If CO2 is a
greenhouse gas, then methane is much worse! That's why scientists are
concerned about reaching a tipping point, when atmospheric gas changes bring
about temperature changes that we humans have never before experienced. 

My point of view is that global climate changes are a natural cycle, BUT
humans have been changing the planet's natural systems to such a drastic
extent that the evolved buffering systems are being badly degraded. We are
destroying the natural systems that once absorbed much of the impact of
natural changes. 

It might be bad luck that at the same time we are wrecking the planet, the
solar system decides to add to our woes. We can't do much about the latter,
but we can do something about our own abuse of the only good planet we have.

 



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