Transcript ICCC_09 - Climate Conferences

Debunking Global
Warming Propaganda
The 2009 International
Conference on Climate Change
New York, March 8-10
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Propaganda?
Did you say propaganda?
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Times Square, March 2008
During ICCC meeting
HSBC.COM/CommitToChange
Full time ad on these billboards runs
about $700,000 per month.
The gloom-and-doom ad ran about
¼ of the time
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The Solution
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A Piddling $300 M
At this time last year,
Al Gore unveiled
$300 million
“advertising blitz”
… aka $300
million
propaganda
campaign
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60 Minutes
We’re a
tiny, tiny
minority
All 32,000
of us
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The Head Gore-on Speaks
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Gore: “Now I’m going to show you recently
released the actual temperatures” [sic]
It’s nice to have
actual temperature
data from 2020!!!
Gore shows no time scale
or temperature scale
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1980
1990
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2000
2010
2020
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How about some real data?
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Vested Interests
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More Propagandists
These are Scientists ?
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The Alliance for Climate Protection
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We Can Solve It
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Advisory Committee
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Frances Beinecke, Natural Resources Defense Council, Pete
Cartwright, Former Calpine CEO, Karen Florini,
Environmental Defense, David Foster, Blue-Green Alliance,
Michel Gelobter, Cooler, Inc., KC Golden, Climate Solutions,
Paul Gorman, National Religious Partnership for the
Environment, Jonathan Lash, World Resources Institute, Bill
Mitchell, Flatcoat Consulting, Billy Parish, Ashoka Fellow,
Carl Pope, Sierra Club, Jerome Ringo, Apollo Alliance, Rob
Sargent, Environment America, Read Smith, Smith Farms,
Stephen Smith, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
Repower America (No known humans in charge)
This Is Reality (”)
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The Climate Group (I)
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The Climate Group (II)
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Earthwatch (I)
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Earthwatch (II)
Earthwatch: “Addressing climate change is a major component
of environmental responsibility, particularly in individual
behaviour, corporate investment and conduct, and
government policy.”
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Union of Confused Scientists
UCS:
“Global warming
is one of the
most serious
challenges
facing us”
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We Can Solve It
Solution:
Chicken manure,
sunbeams, and
breezes
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US Climate Action Partnership
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USCAP Members
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More USCAP Members
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And, of course…
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The UN IPCC, funded by governments
around the globe eager to get their hands
on American money
Next slide: A picture of an individual who
has done as much climate research in 2
years as the UN IPCC has done in history
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For the Kiddies
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Experts
Producer: An Inconvenient
Truth
Trustee: NRDC
Author: Stop Global Warming:
The Solution
“Bozo of Climate Change
“Bono
Advertising copywriter
Active environmentalist
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Children: What did these experts
say?
Football player
Singer
Actor
Actress
Comedian
Snowboarder
Surfer
Oh, and an astronaut
who said
(Nothing about global warming)
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Listen up, kiddies!
Does Peanut Butter cause Jelly?
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Forget the big stuff!
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Humans produce
3.5% of all CO2
emissions.
About 25% of humanproduced CO2 comes
from the US.
So, the US produces
about 1% of the CO2
that enters the air
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Science, according to
David & Gordon
Wrong identification (CO2 is blue curve)
No numbers here
No numbers there
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First Principle of Causality
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The cause must come before the effect.
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Wet sidewalks do not cause rain and lung
cancer does not cause cigarette smoking.
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CO2 is a lagging indicator
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From Science :
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“High-resolution records from Antarctic ice cores
show that carbon dioxide concentrations increased by
80 to 100 parts per million by volume
600 ± 400 years after the warming of the last three
deglaciations.” [emphasis added.]
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Hubertus Fischer, Martin Wahlen, Jesse Smith, Derek
Mastroianni, Bruce Deck, “Ice Core Records of Atmospheric CO2
Around the Last Three Glacial Terminations,” Science, vol.
283. no. 5408, pp. 1712 – 1714 (12 March 1999)
See also Nicolas Caillon, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, Jean Jouzel,
Jean-Marc Barnola, Jiancheng Kang, Volodya Y. Lipenkov,
“Timing of Atmospheric CO2 and Antarctic Temperature
Changes Across Termination III ,” Science, vol. 299, no. 5613,
pp. 1728 - 1731 (14 March 2003)
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CO2 is 0.038% of Atmosphere
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Cause & Effect
If T increases
Solubility decreases
… and CO2 leaves the water
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Heart before course?
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Low Resolution Graph
Line width = 5,000 years
On this graph, 1000 years
occupies about one pixel’s
width
This graph cannot possibly be used to
tell cause from effect … whether the curves
are switched or not
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Is the “cause” even present?
400,000 years
If CO2 caused the warming, …
Uh, where did the CO2 come from ?
Wile E. Coyote’s back pocket?
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Longevity
Atmospheric CO2: 750 Gtonnes
Annual Oceanic emissions &
absorption 90 Gtonnes
Annual plant growth & decay:
60 G tonnes
Care to do some arithmetic?
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A Multiple Lie
1. CO2 is not a polluting gas
2. Carbon dioxide is not 82% of our greenhouse gas
Domestic cows are not the major source of CH4
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Covering All the Bases
Yeah, global warming causes extreme heat, extreme cold,
extreme rainfall, extreme drought, extreme sunshine,
extreme cloudiness, …
Another Principle of Causality:
If it “causes” everything, it causes nothing.
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Disaster is Coming to Town!
I wonder what the melting point of ice is
at the South Pole, whose highest temperature
on record is - 14 ºC (7 ºF)
Coldest: -83 ºC (-117 ºF)
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Flat-Out Deception
“one slice” = CO2 (now)
“whole pie” = CO2 (in the
horrible future)
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“Now we know.”
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Non-sequiturs abound
Conserving energy will keep us from running
out of space in the atmosphere?
We have a carbon budget? How much do
they give us?
Yes, Children, each of you can stave off a trillionth of a degree if you
reduce your carbon footprint. Eat your veggies.
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Conclusions
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We face a truly massive
propaganda campaign
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No scientific truth in history
has every required a
propaganda campaign to
support it.
The campaign is so
important to some people
that they propagandize
children
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And turn them into little
tattle-tales
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Final Words
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In 1818 Michael Faraday wrote:
“Experiments do not always owe their
value to the hypothesis which
accompanies them”
Remember that, whenever anybody tells
you what caused today’s weather.
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Q&A
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It’s your turn …
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