Global Warming or Global Manipulation?

This blog started life as a response to Demdem’s posting, Adressing Global Warming, and his (her?) great praise for the diplomatic skills of Al Gore, a politician I have little trust in. There are, of course, arguments against climate change and Al Gore in particular. The following article apeared in the Daily Telegraph on 25^th October 2009, by Christopher Booker, from which I have extracted the following passages:

“The IPCC, through its series of weighty reports, was now to become the central player in the whole story. But rarely has the true nature of any international body been more widely misrepresented. It is commonly believed that the IPCC consists of “1,500 of the world’s top climate scientists”, charged with weighing all the scientific evidence for and against “human-induced climate change” in order to arrive at a “consensus”.

In fact, the IPCC was never intended to be anything of the kind. The vast majority of its contributors have never been climate scientists. Many are not scientists at all. And from the start, the purpose of the IPCC was not to test the theory, but to provide the most plausible case for promoting it.”

Later in the article Booker proclaims of the, now famous, hockey stick graph:

“One of the hockey stick’s biggest fans was Al Gore, who in 2006 made it the centrepiece of his Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth. But it then turned out that almost every single scientific claim in Gore’s film was either wildly exaggerated or wrong. The statistical methods used to create the hockey-stick graph were so devastatingly exposed by two Canadian statisticians, Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick (as was confirmed in 2006 by two expert panels commissioned by the US Congress) that the graph has become one of the most comprehensively discredited artefacts in the history of science.” (1)

The following quote, taken from a 1993 report by the influential Club of Rome, must inevitably lead one to question the agenda of the social engineers and propagandists:

"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill ... All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself." (2)

It’s not that I completely reject the concept of global warming, its more that the influential governing bodies of this globalised world, (not necessarily to be confused with national governments) now employ public diplomacy, propaganda, public relations and media manipulation on such a collossal scale that it is no longer possible for the individual to easily determine truth from fiction. While governments are eagerly engaged in nation branding and public diplomacy, they forget that populations will instinctively understand that they are being sold a construct rather than a truth. This must eventually lead to an undermining of trust and authority. I don’t possess the technical knowledge to make an informed decision on the veracity of climate science, (I know, I have tried) I wish I could trust in my government, my leaders and an un-biased media to make the aguments clear to me, but you know, I don’t trust them an inch!

(1) - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6425269/The-real-climate-change- catastrophe.html

(2)— in The First Global Revolution, pp.104-105 by Alexander King, founder of the Club of Rome and Bertrand Schneider, secretary of the Club of Rome, Orient Longman Ltd., Hyderbad, (1993)