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Jul 10 - (Excerpts) - On July 11, the Union of Concerned Scientists
(UCS) announced that it had launched “a national advertising
campaign as part of a broader effort to showcase the dedication and
personal histories of scientists studying climate change.”
I know quite a few climatologists and meteorologists and the ones I
know have been courageously refuting the global warming fraud for
years, even decades. Beyond them, thousands of comparable scientists
have signed petitions and statements to the effect that global
warming was and is a hoax.
The UCS campaign, however, is “an effort to educate the public about
the work scientists undertaken in their efforts to document and
understand human-caused global warming.” Excuse me, but there isn’t
any human-caused global warming. There isn’t any global warming
insofar as the Earth has been cooling for the past decade.
The UCA is part of a broad pushback against the November 2009
revelations that have since become known as “Climategate.”
That fraud has now
been whitewashed by supposedly independent panels reviewing the emails and
activities between Penn State’s Prof. Michael Mann, the CRU’s Phil Jones, and
Ken Briffa, and others.
The so-called independent panels, mindful of the millions of dollars in climate
change research grant funding that both Jones and Mann had brought in for their
respective universities, saw no evil, heard no evil, and read no evil.
As a full-fledged partner in the global warming hoax, ... when the (Climategate)
emails were leaked, Francesca Grifo, a senior scientist and director of the UCS
Scientific Integrity Program, was asked by Science Insider what she thought. She
declined to be interviewed, but later issued a statement through a spokesperson.
“We expect a high degree of scientific integrity by scientists, whether they be
in university labs or federal offices. But what may or may not have happened
does not change the science—ice sheets are melting, sea level is rising and the
top ten hottest years since 1880 include 2001 through 2008.”
Not so. As reported on July 16 by
The Heartland Institute’s James Taylor, “In the Northern Hemisphere, Arctic
sea ice is currently 19 percent below the 30-year average. In the South
Hemisphere, however, Antarctic sea ice has grown to a record extent, continuing
a pattern of growth that has been ongoing since NASA launched the NOAA satellite
instruments in 1979. The growth in Antarctica is so extensive that the poles as
a whole have more total ice than the 30-year average.”
Just what is the Union of Concerned Scientists?
The UCS was founded
in 1969 by students and faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology to oppose U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. By 1998, it was
assuring the public that American analysts had exaggerated North Korea’s ability
to produce nuclear weapons.”
So the UCS is essentially a leftist propagandist organization that is anti-war,
anti-nuclear and missile defense, and totally political.
The UCS continues to cling to the view that “Global warming is one of the most
serious challenges facing us today.
There is no global warming. The so-called greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide and
methane, extremely minor factors, play no role in climate change within an
atmosphere composed primarily of water vapor.
I suggest a name change. The UCS should call itself the Union of Concerned
Propagandists.
© Alan Caruba, 2010
See entire article:
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/07/union-of-concerned-propagandists.html
