The Great Global Warming Swindle Page #5

independently by scientists...

from NASA and American's

National Oceanic...

...and Atmospheric Administration.

Solar activity over the

last hundred years...

or over the last several

hundred years...

correlates very nicely

on a decadal basis...

with sea ice and Arctic

temperatures.

To the Harvard astrophysicists...

and many other scientists

the conclusion is inescapable:

The Sun is driving

climate change,

CO2 is irrelevant.

But why, if this is so, are we

bombarded day after day...

with news items about

man-made global warming?

Why do so many people

in the media...

and elsewhere regard it

as an undisputed fact?

To understand the power

of global warming theory,

we must tell the story

of how it came about.

"The weather satellite depicts

a planet that grieves...

...for his lost harvests

and coming to the..."

Doom laid and predictions...

about climate change

are not new.

In 1974 the BBC warned us of

impending disasters

that might seem

strangely familiar.

Again and again,

the newsreels...

have been showing us

disasters of the weather:

...the American Midwest suffered...

...its worst droughts

since the 1930's...

...and tornados were

on the rampage.

And what was going to be

the cause of these disasters?

The man behind the series was...

former New Scientist Editor,

Nigel Calder.

In "The weather Machine"

we reported...

...the mainstream

opinion of the time

...which was global cooling and

the threat of a new ice age.

"Nature's ice dwarfs us and..."

After four decades of

falling temperatures...

experts warn that

a cooler world...

...would have catastrophic

consequences.

"There's the ever-present

threat of a big freeze.

Will a new ice age

claim our lands...

...and bury our Northern cities?"

But in mid to doom and gloom

there was one voice of hope:

a Swedish scientist called Bert Bolin,

...tentatively suggested

that man-made CO2...

might help to warm the world,

although he wasn't sure:

And there's a lot of oil,

and there are vast

amounts of coal...

and they seem to be burning

with an ever increasing rate

and if we go on doing this,

in about fifty years time,

the climate may be...

a few degrees warmer

than today...

we just don't know.

We were also the first to put

Bert Bolin of Sweden

on international television

talking about the dangers of CO2

and I remember being bitterly

criticized by top experts

...for indulging him

in his fantasy.

At the height of the

cooling scare in the 70's...

Bert Bolin's eccentric theory...

of man-made global

warming seemed absurd...

two things happened

to change that:

First, temperatures

started to rise

and second, the miners

went on strike.

To Margaret Thatcher,

energy was a political problem.

In the early 70's the oil crisis had

plunged the world into recession

and the miners had dropped down...

Ted Heath's conservative government

Mrs. Thatcher was determined

the same would not happen to her

she set out to break their power.

"What we have seen in this country...

is the emergence of an

organized revolutionary minority

who are prepared to exploit industrial

disputes but whose real aim is...

the breakdown of law and order

and the distraction of democratic

parlamentary government."

The politization of this subject...

started with Margaret Thatcher.

She was very concerned, always

(I remember when I was Secretary

of State for Energy),

to promote nuclear power,

long before the issue of

climate change came up,

because she was concerned

about energy security

and she didn't trust the Middle East

and she didn't trust the

National Union of Mineworkers

so she didn't trust oil

and she didn't trust coal,

so therefore she thought

we really had...

...to push ahead with nuclear power.

And then, when the climate change

global warming thing came up,

she thought this is great,

this is another argument

because it doesn't have

any CO2 emissions

this is another argument

why we should go for nuclear

and that is what she

was really largely saying

it's been misrepresented

since then.

And so she said to the scientists,

she went to the Royal Society

and she said:

"there's money on the table

for you to prove this stuff"

so of course they went

and did that.

Inevitably the moment politicians

put that weight behind something

and attach their name to

it in some ways of course

money will flow,

that's the way it goes

and inevitably research,

development, institutions,

started to bubble up

(if you put it that way)

which are going to

be researching climate

but with a particular emphasis

on the relationship between

CO2 and temperature.

At the request of Mrs. Thatcher,

the UK Met Office set up

a climate modelling unit

which provided the basis...

for a new international

committee called

the Intergovernmental Panel

on Climate Change or IPCC.

They came out with the first big report

which predicted climatic disaster

as a result of global warming

I remember going to the

scientific press conference

and being amazed by two things:

first, the simplicity and

eloquence of the message

(and the vigour with which was delivered)

and secondly, the total disregard

of all climate science up to that time,

including incidentally

the role of the Sun,

which had been the subject

of a major meeting...

at the Royal Society just

a few months earlier.

But the new emphasis

on man-made CO2

as a possible environmental problem

didn't just appeal to Mrs. Thatcher.

It was certainly something very favourable

to the environmental idea,

what I call the medieval

environmentalism,

a sort of "let's get back

to the way things were

in medieval times

and get rid of all these

dreadful cars and machines"

They loved it, because

CO2 was for them...

...an emblem of industrialization.

While CO2 clearly is

an industrial gas...

and tried and self-tied

in with economic growth

with transportation in cars,

with what we call civilization,

and there are forces in the

environmental movement

that are simply against

the economic growth,

they think that's bad.

It could be used to

legitimize...

a whole sweet of myths

that already existed:

anticar, antigrowth,

antidevelopment...

and, above all, anti that

great Satan:
the US.

Patrick Moore is considered...

one of the foremost

environmentalists

...of his generation.

He is co-founder of Greenpeace.

The shift to climate being

a major focal point

came about for two

very distinct reasons:

the first reason was

because by the mid 80's

a majority of people now agreed

with all of the reasonable things

we in the environmental movement

were saying they should do;

now when a majority of

people agree with you,

it's pretty hard to remain

confrontational with them,

and so the only way to remain

anti-establishment was...

to adopt ever more

extreme positions.

When I left Greenpeace it was

in the midst of them...

adopting a campaign to

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