Boy Columnist, otherwise known as Lexington Herald-Leader editorialist Larry Keeling, threw one of his patented temper tantrums in the 18 November issue, this time about a recent Interim Legislative Committee meeting in which Chairman Jim Gooch mispronounced viscount and therefore committed the unpardonable sin during a meeting regarding global warming, which BC figured was stacked with non-scientists to cavalierly pooh-pooh the notion that humanoids are actually changing the climate. BC’s point of reference for all things pointing toward the falling of the sky was the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).
The IPCC is a scientific intergovernmental body set up by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The fact that the IPCC is an outgrowth of a United Nations action should be warning that whatever it claims will be anti-American and most likely structured to garner cash from this country. It is in the process of distributing information that condemns mankind for its callous disregard of the earth and all of its processes, thus leading to the total loss of nations, millions of people, and (gasp) endangered species of one kind or another.
The IPCC’s main spokesperson, with whom it has just shared the Nobel Peace Prize, is Al Gore, probably the highest-profile non-scientist in the world right now. The Nobel-awarders have not explained how either Gore or the IPCC have saved peace in the world, but then the prize has often had nothing to do with peace, as witness its presentation in recent years to the late Yassir Arafat, perhaps the world’s best-known terrorist a few years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev, onetime head of the Soviet Union and therefore head honcho of the KGB, and Jimmy Carter, who makes it a routine practice to speak ill of this country when he travels to other countries.
The IPCC report is a political document, not a scientific instrument. The film An Inconvenient Truth, much ballyhooed by Gore, its star, and Hollywood, can be shown in England’s public schools only if the teacher explains to the students that (1) It is a political movie, not a scientific one; (2) It contains nine errors; and (3) The teacher point out the errors to the students. In addition, there is a huge segment of the scientific community that is having none of the greenhouse-gas theory as it relates to human contribution to the slight global warming in progress, such warming absolutely nothing new in the climate-cycles that have always been present.
The climate experts claim that there have been four “ice-ages” in the world’s history, one of them featuring a glacier reaching into northern Kentucky and actually carving out the Ohio River as part of its process of expansion and subsequent melting back toward the North Pole. Since there apparently were no developed nations – at least according to current standards – during those mega-millennia years ago, any action by mankind had nothing to do with either the cooling or the warming that took place.
This is from the San Jose Mercury News of 16 November: “New satellite imaging has revealed that hurricanes Katrina and Rita produced the largest single forestry disaster on record in America - an essentially unreported ecological catastrophe that killed or severely damaged some 320 million trees in Mississippi and Louisiana. The die-off, caused initially by wind and later by the pooling of stagnant water, was so massive that researchers say it will add significantly to the greenhouse gas buildup - ultimately putting as much carbon from dying vegetation into the air as the rest of the American forest takes out in a year of photosynthesis.”
In other words, natural phenomena have infinitely greater impact on climate than anything mere man can do. A good site to visit, especially since it has a great article on the last 112 years of Kentucky climate, is http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/. Boy Columnist is swallowing the propaganda put out by the doomsayers, but that part of the scientific community calling attention to the sun vis-à-vis its current relationship to earth is bound to gain ground. This seems to be the raison d’etre for the slight warming taking place, not anything that man can control, except as a local matter.
And so it goes.
Jim Clark
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