Congress cancels hearing on global warming...due to unusually cold weather?

The Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality hearing...in room 2123 Rayburn House Office Building has been postponed due to inclement weather. The hearing is entitled “Climate Change: Are Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Human Activities Contributing to a Warming of the Planet?”

Most members of the U.S. Congress are so clueless that the irony of canceling a “HOUSE HEARING ON WARMING OF THE PLANET” because of unusually cold weather is completely lost on them. But I have no doubt that the preachers of doomsday scenarios about global warming - especially their prophet Al Gore - are acutely aware of the inconvenient truth this irony betrays.

What I suspect will prove even more inconvenient for them, however, is the documentary being aired tonight in London on Channel 4, which features “leading scientists” debunking the myth that carbon dioxide (CO2) released by human activity is the primary cause of global warming. They proffer instead what I’ve been arguing in layman’s terms for years: namely, that climate change is a cyclical phenomenon that results more from the sun’s radiation on the atmosphere than from anything having to do with the whims and wastes of humankind.

…warmer periods of the Earth's history came around 800 years before rises in carbon dioxide levels. [Professor Ian Clark, an expert in palaeoclimatology from the University of Ottawa]

Nevertheless, given the faith so many people - especially in developing countries - place in decrees from the United Nations, I feel obliged to clarify the relevance of its Summary for Policymakers on the “human and natural drivers of climate change” that was published earlier this year. Because the Chicken Littles of global-warming have touted it as offering definitive proof that CO2 emissions from human activities present a clear and present danger of tipping Earth in the Balance. But here’s a little of what Professor Paul Reiter, of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, had to say about that UN report:

It was a sham. This list [of ‘more than 2000 of the world’s leading scientists’ who allegedly endorsed the report] included the names of scientists who disagreed with its findings....That is how they make it seem that all the top scientists are agreed....It's not true.

(In fact Professor Reiter claims that he had to threaten legal action against the UN to have his name removed from the report.)

Therefore, I urge you to contact Channel 4 for a DVD of this program. Because it will provide a sobering antidote to the infectious hysteria about global warming that Gore’s Inconvenient Truth has spread all over the world. Indeed, just nine months ago I declared that I’d written My final word on global warming. But after watching Gore emit so much hot air on this issue during the recent Academy Awards, which over one billion people reportedly inhaled, I felt compelled to sound this (CO2) red alert.

NOTE: Since Gore’s claims about global warming are about as scientific as a groundhog’s forecast about the end of winter, it might be helpful to know that Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil predicted that we’d be experiencing the warmth of an early-Spring by now. Instead, we’re suffering the sub-freezing effects of a prolonged winter, which was punctuated by another school-closing, hearing-canceling snowstorm just yesterday….


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