“An apocalypse is a good money spinner. Threatening people with a good scare is a one way of cranking cash. I think a lot of our ecology concerns have been picked up by big business and turned into a handy profit…The problem is that most of the scenarios are half-truths or downright lies…It’s a game they play. Take global warming for example: There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that the world is heating up. Certainly in the last one hundred years the earth’s temperature has varied by half a degree, but the overall temperature rises and falls constantly. You can’t take a hundred-year period out of context and say it represents a trend…
We hear that the polar ice caps are melting, and that the seas will rise by two or three feet in the next fifty years. But who says so? The media does…The most reliable information about the polar ice caps comes from NASA. Their satellite evidence is corroborated by scientists from organizations like the British Antarctic Survey, who examine ice cores taken from the polar regions. Both the “on-site” and satellite evidence clearly shows there has been no overall change whatsoever…
Well, what about the buildup of CO2 in the atmosphere, surely all those toxic gasses might be heating up the earth? I’m sorry to disappoint you: they aren’t. In fact, there isn’t any real evidence to substantiate the widely held belief that carbon dioxide causes temperatures to rise…As CO2 levels were gradually increasing between 1950 and 1970, the world’s mean temperature was actually falling. This seems to be a puzzling contradiction for the greenhouse theory…
Well then, what about the computer weather models that show a dramatic heating of the planet of the next two hundred years? The problem with those models is that they are based primarily on the opinions of a dozen or so senior researchers who initiated the models. They are known to be very inaccurate…The models predominantly discard the effect of cloud cover because the computers can’t properly predict it. So the apocalypse of global warming is based on computer models that state possible weather patterns on a fairly cloudless earth. Weird, but true. Most meteorologists have problems correctly predicting tomorrow’s weather. I wouldn’t get too sucked into their predictions for the year 2193…
You would be naïve if you didn’t understand that there are powerful forces at work which promote the ecological apocalypse for their own political and financial ends. For example, most people wouldn’t accept anymore tax hikes, but if you sold them on the need for a pollution tax to redress the oxygen shortage most would support it. The idea is to feed the wave with enough ambiguous information that excludes contradictory scientific evidence until your political position is established as a fact. It’s the brainwashing that bothers me. There is a racket going on. Selling crises is big business and big politics. You should never forget that.”
Stuart Wilde, in “Whispering Winds of Change“
