1、Global Warming Cracked Open: A Peek Inside,April 28, 2008Dr. Nicholas Drapela Department of Chemistry Oregon State University,Thank You in Advance,This is a sociopolitical talk It includes opinions and analysis Full disclosure: I am an OSU faculty member and my views are not those of the university
2、This talk is not sanctioned or sponsored by the university You will probably not hear another like it on this campus Permission requested to question authority,http:/ Global Warming Phenomenon,What is taking place during our lifetime in our society? Global Warming theory Passion Heated arguments Acc
3、usations Threats More than a scientific theory Why?,Reasons to Believe,Ask someone why they believe, or do not believe, in the Global Warming doctrine Then ask yourself if those reasons appeal to reason or to authority,Preview,Global Warming doctrine is no longer just a scientific theory; it is a po
4、pulist social and political tool Many groups in our society benefit from the existence of the global warming doctrine The coercion and propaganda used to advance this doctrine are disturbing, and have borrowed from other historical political movements The benefactors of global warming theory are the
5、 rich and powerful; the losers are the rest of the world Bigger picture implications,Part One,The Engine,Government-Alarmist Cycle,Proposed government intervention Increased government control Decreased personal freedoms Increased tax revenue,Money Notoriety,Alarmists,Government,POWER,$,Peripheral S
6、ocial Engines,Environmentalists (action),Globalists (control),Academia (money),Hollywood (popularity),Public (absolution),Students (focus),Media (hyperbole),On the Bandwagon,“Rarely has such meager science provoked such an outpouring of popularization by individuals who do not understand the subject
7、 in the first place.” MIT Meteorology Professor Richard Lindzen1992,Oregon State University,Oregon Climate Change Research Institute Established 2007 by Oregon State Legislature National Search for director underway What are the stated purposes of this institute?,Source: OSU This Week, Volume 47, No
8、. 17, Feb. 7, 2007,Oregon Climate Change Research Institute,Bring money to OSU Become the authority in Oregon for legislators to cite Oversee a “public information” campaign on global warming Support the new Oregon Global Warming Commission Assist government in implementing policies,Why Rock the Boa
9、t?,Doesnt everyone win in this situation? Isnt it a good cause anyway? Isnt it good for the environment even if its wrong? Does it really matter whether Global Warming doctrine is true or not?,Public Enlightenment,“That propaganda is good which leads to successIt is not propagandas task to be intell
10、igent, its task is to lead to success.” Joseph Goebbels, Minister for Public Enlightenment, National Socialist Party of Germany, 1933,Part Two,Methods,Method 1 Fear,“It is a good thing that global warming has become such a prevalent threatI am glad for the threat of it. Fear has always been the stro
11、ngest force of change among humans.” John Tavares, OSU Barometer Column January 28, 2008,Fear and Propaganda,Fear has always been used to control and motivate It is consistently and intentionally used to promote submission to the aims of global warming,IPCC Lead Author,“To capture the public imagina
12、tion, we have to offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and little mention of any doubts one might have. Each of us has to decide the right balance between being effective and being honest.” Stephen Schneider, Author “The Genesis Strategy” 2007 IPCC report,Fear in the Hea
13、dlines,Headline: “World Must Act Now On Climate” “The world must deal with climate change nowor pay a much higher price later (leaving) half the worlds population without adequate drinking water.” AP article, March 2008,“The Enemy”,For control of a population, an enemy must be set up which is the ca
14、use of all the populations problems For Marxism, it was capitalists For National Socialism, it was the Jews What is it today?,The Perfect Enemy,“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
15、 fit the bill.” The Club of Rome “The First Global Revolution” 1991, page 104,In Their Own Words,“Climate change is mankinds most important challenge. We know the enemy: It is named carbon.” Angel Gurria, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) secretary general, 2008,carbon,Met
16、hod 2 Marginalization,Global Warming skeptics are routinely marginalized as Uneducated Ignorant Anti-environment Uncommon Fringe,The Denier,Skeptics are branded as “deniers” They are immediately ignorant and/or evil,Demonization in History,To blindly accept that a certain group of people are all ign
17、orant or evil is bigotry,Useful Bigotry,Bigotry is often ignored, as long as its used against “the enemy”,Al Gore on Global Warming Skeptics,“Those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority now. Theyre almost like those who believe that the earth is flatThat demeans them a little bit, but its not tha
18、t far off.” “60 Minutes”, March 2008,Global Warming Skeptics,Syun-Ichi Akasofu, PhD, Professor of Physics, Emeritus and Founding Director, International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, U.S.A. William J. R. Alexander PrEng, Professor Emeritus, Department of Civi
19、l and Biosystems Engineering, University of Pretoria, Honorary Fellow, South African Institution of Civil Engineering, South Africa Don Aitken, Vice Chancellor, Univerisity of Canberra John W. Bales, BA, MA, PhD (Mathematics, Modeling), Professor, Tuskegee University, Waverly, Alabama, U.S.A. Timoth
20、y F. Ball, PhD, Chair, Natural Resources Stewardship Project, environmental consultant and former climatology professor, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Alberta, Canada William M. Briggs, PhD., Statistical Consultant (specializing in accuracy of forecasts and climate variability), U.S.A. Stephen B
21、rown, PhD (Environmental Science, State University of New York), Ground Penetrating Radar Glacier research, District Agriculture Agent Cooperative Extension Service, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Mat-Su District Office Palmer; Alaska Agriculture Extension Agent/Researcher, Alaska, U.S.A. Robert M.
22、 Carter, PhD, Professor, Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia Phil Chapman, Geophysicist, NASA Astronaut,Global Warming Skeptics, Page 2,Michael Coffman, PhD, (ecosysytems analysis and climate change), CEO of Sovereignty International, President of Environmenta
23、l Perspectives, Inc., Bangor, Maine, U.S.A. John Coleman, Founder, The Weather Channel, Weather Anchor, KUSI-TV, San Diego, California, U.S.A. Piers Corbyn, ARCS, FRAS, FRMetS, astrophysicist (Queen Mary College, London), consultant, owner of Weather Action long range forecasters, degree in Physics
24、(Imperial College London), England Richard S. Courtney, PhD, energy and environmental consultant, IPCC expert reviewer, Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom Joseph DAleo, MS, BS (University of Wisconsin) Meteorologist and Climatologist (retired), Executive Director, ICECAP (International Climate and E
25、nvironmental Change Assessment Project), Hudson, New Hampshire, U.S.A. David Douglass, PhD, Professor of Physics, University of Rochester, New York, U.S.A. Peter Friedman, PhD, Member, American Geophysical Union, Assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth,
26、Massachusetts, U.S.A. Edgar Grtner, Diplme dEtudes Approfondies (DEA, en Ecologie applique, Redaktionsbro), Frankfurt am Main, Germany,Global Warming Skeptics, Page 3,Fred Goldberg, PhD, Adj Professor, Royal Institute of Technology (Mechanical Engineering), Secretary General KTH International Climat
27、e Seminar 2006 and Climate analyst, Stockholm, Sweden Stanley B. Goldenberg, Research Meteorologist, NOAA, AOML/Hurricane Research Division, Miami, Florida, U.S.A. Vincent Gray, PhD, New Zealand Climate Coalition, expert reviewer for the IPCC, author of The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of Climate
28、 Change 2001, Wellington, New Zealand William M. Gray, PhD, Professor Emeritus (Dept. of Atmospheric Science), Colorado State University, Head of the Tropical Meteorology Project, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.A. Howard Hayden, PhD, Emeritus Professor (Physics), University of Connecticut, The Energy A
29、dvocate, U.S.A. Art Horn, Meteorologist (honors, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, Vermont), operator, The Art of Weather, U.S.A. Craig D. Idso, PhD, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. Zbigniew Jaworowski, PhD,
30、physicist, Senior Science Advisor of the Scientific Council of Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection, Warsaw, Poland Madhav L. Khandekar, PhD, consultant meteorologist, (former) Research Scientist, Environment Canada, Editor “Climate Research” (03-05), Editorial Board Member “Natural Hazard
31、s, IPCC Expert Reviewer 2007, Unionville, Ontario, Canada,Global Warming Skeptics, Page 4,William Kininmonth MSc, MAdmin, former head of Australias National Climate Centre and a consultant to the World Meteorological organizations Commission for Climatology, Kew, Victoria, Australia David R. Legates
32、, PhD, Director, Center for Climatic Research, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, U.S.A. Jay Lehr, BEng (Princeton), PhD (environmental science and ground water hydrology), Science Director, The Heartland Institute, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Bjorn Lomborg, NASA Jennifer Marohasy, BSc, PhD, Bi
33、ologist, Writer, Senior Fellow, Institute of Public Affairs, Director, Australian Environment Foundation, Sydney, Australia Amos Meyer, Theoretical Physics, Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Modeling, Chief Scientist, Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A. Ferenc Mark Miskolczi, PhD, atmospheric physicist, f
34、ormerly of NASAs Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, U.S.A. Dr. James J. OBrien, Emeritus Professor, Meteorology and Oceanography, Florida State University, Florida, U.S.A. R. Timothy Patterson, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences (paleoclimatology), Carleton University, Chair - Internat
35、ional Climate Science Coalition, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Patrick Michaels, Prof. Environmental Science, Univ. Virginia Richard Mourdock, Indiana Geologist,Global Warming Skeptics, Page 5,Gary Sharp, Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study, Salinas, California, U.S.A. S. Fred Singer, PhD, Professor
36、Emeritus (Environmental Sciences), University of Virginia, former director, U.S. Weather Satellite Service, Science and Environmental Policy Project, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. Douglas Southgate, PhD, Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, Ohio State University, C
37、olumbus, Ohio, U.S.A. Roy W. Spencer, PhD, climatologist, Principal Research Scientist, Earth System Science Center, The University of Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A. George H. Taylor, Certified Consulting Meteorologist, Former State Climatologist (Oregon), Past President, American Association
38、of State Climatologists, Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A. Dr. Mitchell Taylor, Biologist (Polar Bear Specialist), Wildlife Research Section, Department of Environment, Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada Anthony Watts, ItWorks/IntelliWeather, Founder, surfacestation s.org, Chico, California, U.S.A. Gerd-Rainer Weber
39、, PhD, Consulting Meteorologist, Essen, Germany Gregory J. Balle, B.E., MSc., PhD. (Joint Aerospace Engineering and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics), Pukekohe, New Zealand Joe Bastardi, BSc, (Meteorology, Pennsylvania State), meteorologist, State College, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Matthew Bastardi, BSc (Meteo
40、rology, Texas A and M University), Florida, U.S.A.,Global Warming Skeptics, Page 6,Ernst-Georg Beck, Dipl. Biol., Biologist, Dept. Biotechnology and Nutrition Science, Merian-Schule, Freiburg, Germany David Bellamy, OBE, English botanist, author, broadcaster, environmental campaigner, Hon. Professor
41、 of Botany (Geography), University of Nottingham, Hon. Prof. Faculty of Engineering and Physical Systems, Central Queensland University, Hon. Prof. of Adult and Continuing Education, University of Durham, United Nations Environment Program Global 500 Award Winner, Dutch Order of The Golden Ark, Bish
42、op Auckland County, Durham, U.K. Andre Bernier, Meteorologist, WJW-TV, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. Sally Bernier, Meterologist, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. Mi.I.Bhat, Professor (Tectonics, Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Kashmir), Sprinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India Sonja A. Boehmer-Christia
43、nsen, PhD, Reader, Dept. of Geography, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom John W. Brosnahan, Vanderpool, Texas, U.S.A., Research Physicist (Atmospheric Remote Sensing), atmospheric science consultant, founder of Signal Hill Research, LLC., former President of Alpha/Power, Inc., founder of LaSa
44、lle Research Inc., founder of Tycho Technology Inc. Reid A. Bryson, Ph.D., D.Sc., D.Engr., Senior Scientist, Center for Climatic Research, Emeritus Prof. of Meteorology, of Geography, and of Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.,Global Warming Skeptics, Page 7,Da
45、n Carruthers, M.Sc., wildlife biology consultant specializing in animal ecology in Arctic and Subarctic regions, Alberta, Canada George Chilingar, PhD, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. Ian
46、D. Clark, PhD, Professor (isotope hydrogeology and paleoclimatology), Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Charles A. Clough, BS (Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), MS (Atmospheric Science, Texas Tech University), former (to 2006) Chief of the US A
47、rmy Atmospheric Effects Team at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; now residing in Bel Air, Maryland, U.S.A. Michael Clover, PhD (experimental nuclear physics); Computer Simulation, Senior Scientist, Science Applications International Corp., San Diego, California, U.S.A. Martin Coniglio, Meteorologi
48、st, KUSA-TV, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. Paul Copper, BSc, MSc, PhD, DIC, FRSC, Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University Sudbury, Ontario, Canada Allan Cortese, meteorological researcher and spotter for the National Weather Service, retired computer professional, Billeric
49、a, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Susan Crockford, PhD (Zoology/Evolutionary Biology/Archaeozoology), Adjunct Professor (Anthropology/Faculty of Graduate Studies), University of Victoria, Victoria, British Colombia, Canada,Global Warming Skeptics, Page 8,Dalcio K. Dacol, PhD (physics, University of Californi
50、a at Berkely), physicist at the US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C, U.S.A. Dave Dahl, BSc (Meteorology, Florida State University), Chief Meteorologist, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS/KSTP-TV, Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A. Willem De Lange, PhD, MSc(Hons), Dphil (Computer and Earth Sciences), Senior Lec
51、turer in Earth and Ocean Sciences, Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand David Deming, PhD (Geophysics), Associate Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A. Robert Durrenberger, PhD, former Arizona State Climatologist and President of the American
52、Association of State Climatologists, Professor Emeritus of Geography, Arizona State University; Sun City, Arizona, U.S.A Freeman J. Dyson, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A. Don J. Easterbrook, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Geology, Western
53、 Washington, University, Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A. Per Engene, PhD, Biologist, Valenvegen, Norway Robert H. Essenhigh, PhD, E.G. Bailey Professor of Energy Conversion, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. David Evans, PhD (EE), MSc (Stat), MSc (EE), MA (Math), BE (EE), BSc, mathematician, carbon accountant, computer and electrical engineer and head of Science Speak, Perth, Western Australia, Australia,
