The Great Global Warming Swindle Page #8

of the science chapter

...had been deleted.

These included statements like:

"None of the studies cited

has shown clear evidence...

...that we can attribute

climate changes...

...to increases in

greenhouse gases."

"No study to date has

positively attributed...

...all or part

of the observed

climate changes to

man-made causes."

Professor Seitz concluded:

"I have never witnessed

a more disturbing corruption

of the peer-review process

than the events that

led to this IPCC report."

In its reply, the IPCC...

did not deny making

these deletions;

but it said that there

was no dishonesty...

or bias in the report,

and that uncertainties about...

...the cause of global warming

had been included.

The changes have been made,

it said, in response

to comments...

...from governments,

individual scientists

and non-governmental

organizations.

When I resigned from the IPCC

I thought this was the end of it;

but when I saw the final draft,

my name was still there.

I asked for it to be removed:

Well, they told me,

that I had contributed

so it'd remain there.

So I said:
"No, I haven't contributed

because they haven't

listened to anything I said".

So in the end it was

quite a battle

but finally I threatened

legal actions against them

and they removed my name,

and I think this happens

a great deal;

those people who are specialists

but don't agree

with the polemic

and resigned...

(and there have been

a number that I know of)

they are simply put

on the author list...

and become part of these...

top scientists.

Research relating to

man-made global warming

is now one of the best

funded areas of science.

The US government alone spends...

...for than 4 billion dollars a year.

According to NASA

climatologist Roy Spencer,

scientists who speak out...

...against man-made global warming

have a lot to lose.

It's generally harder to get

research proposals funded

because of the stands

we've taken publicly,

and you'll find very few of us

that are willing to take public stand

because it does cut

into the research funding.

It is a common prejudice

that scientists

who do not agree...

with the theory of man-made

global warming...

must have been paid by

private industry to tell lies.

I get it all the time:

"You must be in the pay

of the multinationals".

Sadly, like most of the

scientists you'll talk to,

I haven't see a penny

from the multinationals.

I'm always accused of being paid

by oil and gas companies.

I've never received a nickel

from the oil and gas companies.

I joke about I wished

they would pay me

then I could afford

their product.

Whenever anybody says that...

I'm in the pay of an oil company,

I say my bank manager

would wish.

There's almost no private sector

investment in climatology

and yet, to be involved

in any reseach project

which involves an industry grant,

no matter how small,

and spell ruin to a

scientist's reputation.

Modern technology fuelled

by greenhouse gases.

Patrick Michaels is Professor

of Environmental Sciences

at the University of Virginia.

He was chair of the committee

on Applied Climatology

at the American Meteorological Society,

president of the American Association

of State Climatologists,

the author of three books on Meteorology,

...and an author and reviewer

on the UN's IPCC.

But when he conducted research

which was part funded

by the coal industry,

he found himself among those

under attack from

climate campaigners.

"British based corporations...

are some of the worst climate

criminals on the planet...

Shell is based in the UK,

right here, in London

and we have the right and the duty

to take it back into public ownership,

dismantle it, break it up

and send its managers

to rehabilitation training

and send its managers

to rehabilitation training.

But reasoned debate...

is not the only casualty in

the global warming alarm.

As international public

policy bears down

on industrial emissions of CO2,

the developing world is coming

under intense pressure

not to develop.

"I'm not expert on climate change,

I'm not scientist,

what I'm gonna say next

is a great big turn off,

is just that:
turn it off!

Anything you don't need,

you're not using,

it's easier than you think

to make a difference."

Delegates from

around the world...

are flying into Nairobi

for a conference

sponsored by the UN

to talk about global warming.

Civil servants,

professional NGO campaigners,

carbon offset funder managers,

environmental journalists and others,

will discuss every aspect

of man-made climate change:

from how to promote

solar panels in Africa,

to the relationship between

global warming and sexism.

The conference lasts ten days;

the number of delegates

exceeds 6,000.

The billions of dollars

invested in climate science

means there's a

huge constituency

of people dependent

upon those dollars

and they will want to

see that carry forward,

happens in any burocracy.

Where I live we have local council,

a local council global warming officer.

There's a huge tail out there of people

who have in one way

or another

been recruited to join this

particular bandwagon.

Anybody who then

stands up and says:

"hey, wait a minute,

let's look at this coolly

and rationally and carefully,

and see actually how much merit,

how much this stands up,

they will be ostracized.

Scientists, accustomed to the relatively civility

and obscurity of academic life,

suddenly find themselves

publicly attacked...

if they dare to challenge

the theory of...

...man-made global warming,

...vilified by campaign groups

and even within

their own universities.

there's an old English saying:

"if you stand up in the coconut-shy,

they're gonna throw at you".

So I understand there's

going to be some of that,

but it gets pretty difficult

and pretty nasty and very personal.

And I've been death threats

and all sort of things

so I'm not doing it for my health.

These days, if you are skeptical

about the Litany around

climate change,

you are suddlely like as if

you are a Holocaust denier.

The environmental movement really

it is a political activist movement

and they have become hugely

influential at a global level.

And every politician

is aware of that today.

Whether you are in the left,

in the middle or the right,

you have to pay homage

to the environment.

In the past moth,

the global warming campaign

has won a great victory:

the United States government,

once a bastion of resistance,

has succumbed.

George Bush is now an allied.

Western governments have now

embraced the need for

international agreements

to restrain industrial production

in the developed and developing world.

But is it what cost?

Paul Driessen is a former

environmental campaigner.

My big concern with

global warming,

is that the policies

being pushed...

to supposedly prevent

global warming...

are having a disastrous effect

...on the world's poorest people.

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