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The 'Green War' Heats Up E. Ralph Hostetter The window of the global warming issue will soon begin to close. No doubt those who have benefited most by the climate change hoax are smart enough to anticipate this. Climate, over the centuries, has fluctuated from cooling periods to warming periods and back again with variations of a few degrees dominating each climate change. However, average temperature differences over a century or more may be less than 1 degree Fahrenheit, as was the case from 1898 to 1998. Predictions, not based on past science, have always been higher. Such was the well-documented case of the predictions of Swedish professor Svante Arrhenius who advanced the theory in 1896 that increases in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at ground level might have effects on temperature. He computed by hand what supercomputers do today. The results are the same. He predicted that with a 50 percent increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, average temperatures on the planet would increase by some 7 to 11 degrees Fahrenheit.
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In 1896 there were no motor vehicles or airplanes. The world's population was less than 2 billion. It reached 2 billion in 1930 and added another 4 billion by 1998. Carbon dioxide had increased by 30 percent over a 140-year period, most of that during the early part of the Industrial Revolution when coal was the principal source of energy, and long before the onslaught of vehicular and air traffic of the past 100 years. A 100-year, well-documented test has been completed that disproves the theory that increases in carbon dioxide will lead to drastic increases in global temperatures that will, in turn, lead to billions of deaths by floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, famines, disease and pestilence. Over the past century, temperature averages across the contiguous United States did not show a strong long-term upward or downward trend. The beginning of the century was generally cool for the first 30 years. The lowest average yearly temperature of the century was recorded in 1917 at 50.72 degrees Fahrenheit. From 1930 to 1950, the temperatures ranged above normal with the warmest year of 1934 recording an average yearly temperature of 54.91 degrees Fahrenheit. This record would not be broken for the next 64 years, or until 1998, with an average annual temperature of 54.94, a difference of 0.03 of 1 degree, declared by then Vice President Al Gore as "the hottest year in history." Beginning in 1950, a cooling period set in with mostly below average temperatures until 1980. It was during this time that an "ice age" was prognosticated. Volumes have been written about the dire predictions of the ice age people who would soon magically morph into global warmers.
Newsweek magazine's Earth Day issue in 1975 reported, "There are obvious signs that the earth weather patterns have begun to change dramatically . . . Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climate change." Newsweek conceded, however, that such solutions as "melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot to retain the Earth's heat" might create other problems. A 1978 National Academy of Sciences Study suggested the possibility of huge year-round snowfields in the United States and Europe. Lowell Ponte, in his 1976 book, "Cooling," claimed that "the cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people in poor nations because of floods, violent storms and other destructive phenomenona." From 1980 on, the average temperatures began to rise as they did in the 1930s, and will no doubt continue a warmer trend for some years to come. In the likely event the 30-year cycle of warming and cooling periods continues as it has over the past century, a cooling trend will begin sometime about 2010. As the global warming activists detect an approaching cooling period, the rhetoric will become more shrill. As the global warmers lose their grip on a failed agenda, they will involve themselves in acts of desperation. The American public must be ever more vigilant in the next few years to guard itself against left-wing political movements that may endanger not only the economy but the culture of the American citizen for years to come. Hell has no fury as an activist whose agenda has been scorned. In a last gasp effort, the extremists in the global warming movement will not give up easily. It has started. Where hundreds of thousands of deaths were predicted, claims of approaching deaths are increasing to millions. One particular claim is that billions will die from lack of water by the year 2050. Such irresponsible claims are already terrorizing our children — the most impressionable of all society. A major survey in England of 1,150 youngsters, between the ages of 7 and 11, found "worries about global warming are keeping kids awake at night . . . Other dreads include health problems, death and flooding . . . The most feared consequences of the crisis include widespread health problems and possible death (36 percent) as well as the eventual submergence of entire countries (England)(29 percent)." In response, an unsigned blogger commented: "If people really understood the goal of the left in using the environmental movement with indoctrinating not only kids but politicizing science to further their ends, they would recognize that we are in the midst of a ‘green war' — a war for our futures, and as real as the one against terrorists."
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