| Chapter 4 of my book, titled, "An Inconvenient | | | | Oodnadatta suffered 37 years ago. NSW's high is |
| Hoax," systematically exposes and confronts all | | | | still the 50 degrees recorded 70 years ago. |
| the most current science fiction being shoved | | | | What's more, not one of the world's seven |
| down our throats by the Luddite absolutists and | | | | continents has set a record high temperature |
| pseudo-intellectual scam artists of the left. It is | | | | since 1974. Europe's high remains the 50 degrees |
| devastating. | | | | measured in Spain 128 years ago, before the |
| Unsurprisingly, there is a flurry of new data | | | | invention of the first true car. |
| pouring in even further confirming how utterly | | | | MYTH 5: THE SEAS ARE GETTING HOTTER |
| baseless this invented Green Scare really is, now | | | | Wrong. If anything, the seas are getting colder. |
| even from Obama's own people. Much like the | | | | For five years, a network of 3175 automated |
| Swine Flu and about a gazillion other contrived | | | | bathythermographs has been deployed in the |
| alarmist fantasies from decades past (breast | | | | oceans by the Argo program, a collaboration |
| implants, Alar, the Millenium bug, DDT, etc.), public | | | | between 50 agencies from 26 countries. Warming |
| faith in the environmentalist religion is consequently | | | | believer Josh Willis, of NASA's Jet Propulsion |
| fading, and fast. As Investor's Business Daily put | | | | Laboratory, reluctantly concluded: "There has been |
| it: | | | | a very slight cooling..." |
| Nearly half (48%) believe the cause is naturally | | | | MYTH 6: THE SEAS ARE RISING |
| occurring planetary trends. Just a year ago, only | | | | Wrong. For almost three years, the seas have |
| 34% said warming was a natural phenomenon, | | | | stopped rising, according to the Jason-1 satellite |
| while 47% said human activity was placing the | | | | mission monitored by the University of Colorado. |
| planet at risk of disastrous climate change. That's | | | | That said, the seas have risen steadily and slowly |
| a huge shift. | | | | for the past 10,000 years through natural |
| Interestingly, a growing number of Americans | | | | warming, and will almost certainly resume soon. |
| (58%) say we need to build more nuclear power | | | | But there is little sign of any accelerated rises, |
| plants, with 63% saying that finding additional | | | | even off Tuvalu or the Maldives, islands often said |
| sources of energy is more important than | | | | to be most threatened with drowning. |
| reducing the amount of energy Americans | | | | Professor Nils-Axel Moerner, one of the world's |
| currently consume. They recognize that a growing | | | | most famous experts on sea levels, has studied |
| economy requires more energy, not less, and | | | | the Maldives in particular and concluded there has |
| that nukes are a pollution-free way of getting it. | | | | been no net rise there for 1250 years. Venice is |
| Even countries utterly saturated with the left's | | | | still above water. |
| absurd scare-mongering on this, like Australia, are | | | | MYTH 7: [HURRICANES] ARE GETTING WORSE |
| producing loud voices of reason in an ocean of | | | | Wrong. Ryan Maue of Florida State University |
| bogus, hysterical environmental propaganda. | | | | recently measured the frequency, intensity and |
| As Andrew Bolt, of The Herald Sun put it (on 4 | | | | duration of all hurricanes and cyclones to compile |
| 29/09): | | | | an Accumulated Cyclone Energy Index. His |
| Global warming alarmists must be feeling a chill | | | | findings? The energy index is at its lowest level |
| as new facts overwhelm their fiction. It's snowing | | | | for more than 30 years. |
| in April. Ice is spreading in Antarctica. The Great | | | | The World Meteorological Organization, in its latest |
| Barrier Reef is as healthy as ever. And that's just | | | | statement on [hurricanes], said it was impossible |
| the news of the past week. | | | | to say if they were affected by man's gases: |
| Bolt then issued a challenge... | | | | "Though there is evidence both for and against |
| Here's a test: Name just three clear signs the | | | | the existence of a detectable anthropogenic signal |
| planet is warming...Just three. Chances are your | | | | in the tropical cyclone climate record to date, no |
| "proofs" are in fact on my list of 10 Top Myths | | | | firm conclusion can be made on this point." |
| about global warming. And if your "proofs" indeed | | | | MYTH 8: THE GREAT BARRIER REEF IS DYING |
| turn out to be false, don't get angry with me. | | | | Wrong. Yes, in 1999, Professor Ove |
| Just ask yourself: Why do you still believe that | | | | Hoegh-Gulberg, our leading reef alarmist and |
| man is heating the planet to hell? What evidence | | | | administrator of more than $30 million in warming |
| do you have? So let's see if facts matter more | | | | grants, did claim the reef was threatened by |
| to you than faith, and observations more than | | | | warming, and much had turned white. But he then |
| predictions. | | | | had to admit it had made a "surprising" recovery. |
| The List... | | | | Yes, in 2006 he again warned high temperatures |
| MYTH 1: THE WORLD IS WARMING | | | | meant "between 30 and 40% of coral on |
| Wrong. It is true the world did warm between | | | | Queensland's Great Barrier Reef could die within a |
| 1975 and 1998, but even Professor David Karoly, | | | | month." But he later admitted this bleaching had |
| one of our leading alarmists, admitted this week | | | | "minimal impact". |
| "temperatures have dropped...both in surface | | | | Yes, in 2007 he again warned that temperature |
| temperatures and in atmospheric temperatures | | | | changes of the kind caused by global warming |
| measured from satellites." In fact, the fall in | | | | were bleaching the reef. But this month fellow |
| temperatures from just 2002 has already wiped | | | | Queensland University researchers admitted in a |
| out half the warming our planet experienced last | | | | study that reef coral had once more made a |
| century. (Check data from Britain's Hadley Centre, | | | | "spectacular recovery," with "abundant corals |
| NASA's Aqua satellite and the US National Climatic | | | | re-established in a single year." The reef is |
| Data Centre.) | | | | blooming. |
| Some experts, such as Karoly, claim this proves | | | | MYTH 9: OUR SNOW SEASONS ARE SHORTER |
| nothing and the world will soon start warming | | | | Wrong. Poor snow falls in 2003 set off a rash of |
| again. Others, such as Professor Ian Plimer of | | | | headlines predicting warming doom. The CSIRO |
| Adelaide University, point out that so many years | | | | typically fed the hysteria by claiming global |
| of cooling already contradict the theory that | | | | warming would strip resorts of up to a quarter of |
| man's rapidly increasing gases must drive up | | | | their snow by 2018. Yet the past two years have |
| temperatures ever faster. | | | | been bumper seasons for Victoria's snow resorts, |
| But that's all theory. The question I've asked is: | | | | and this year could be just as good, with snow |
| What signs can you actually see of the | | | | already falling in NSW and Victoria this past week. |
| man-made warming that the alarmists predicted? | | | | MYTH 10: TSUNAMIS AND OTHER DISASTERS |
| MYTH 2: THE POLAR CAPS ARE MELTING | | | | ARE GETTING WORSE |
| Wrong. The British Antarctic Survey, working with | | | | Are you insane? Tsunamis are in fact caused by |
| NASA, last week confirmed ice around Antarctica | | | | earthquakes. Yet there [were the alarmists] last |
| has grown 100,000 sq km each decade for the | | | | week, claiming that Asia was a "region, thanks to |
| past 30 years. Long-term monitoring by the US | | | | climate change, that has far more cyclones, |
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | | | | tsunamis, droughts." Wrong, wrong and wrong... |
| reports the same: southern hemisphere ice has | | | | Bolt wasn't finished... |
| been expanding for decades. | | | | [Every] disaster is now blamed on man-made |
| As for the Arctic, wrong again. The Arctic ice cap | | | | warming the way they once were on Satan. See |
| shrank badly two summers ago after years of | | | | for yourself on the full list, including kidney stones, |
| steady decline, but has since largely recovered. | | | | volcanic eruptions, lousy wine, insomnia, bad |
| Satellite data from NASA's Marshall Space Flight | | | | tempers, Vampire moths and bubonic plagues. |
| Centre this week shows the Arctic hasn't had this | | | | Nothing is too far-fetched to be seized upon by |
| much April ice for at least seven years. | | | | carpetbaggers and wild preachers as signs of a |
| Norway's Nansen Environmental and Remote | | | | warming we can't actually see. |
| Sensing Centre says the ice is now within the | | | | Not for nothing are polar bears--the perfect |
| standard deviation range for 1979 to 2007. | | | | symbol of this faith, bears said to be threatened |
| MYTH 3: [AUSTRALIA HAS] NEVER HAD SUCH | | | | by warming, when their numbers have in fact |
| A BAD DROUGHT | | | | increased. Bottom line: fewer people now die from |
| Wrong. A study released this month by the | | | | extreme weather events, whether cyclones, |
| University of NSW Climate Change Research | | | | floods or blinding heatwaves. |
| Centre confirms not only that we've had worse | | | | Read that in a study by Indur Goklany, who |
| droughts, but this Big Dry is not caused by "global | | | | represented the US at the Intergovernmental |
| warming," whether man-made or not. | | | | Panel on Climate Change: "There is no signal in the |
| As the university's press release says: "The | | | | mortality data to indicate increases in the overall |
| causes of southeastern Australia's longest, most | | | | frequencies or severities of extreme weather |
| severe and damaging droughts have been | | | | events, despite large increases in the population at |
| discovered, with the surprise finding that they | | | | risk." |
| originate far away in the Indian Ocean...A team of | | | | So stop this crazy panic. |
| Australian scientists has detailed for the first time | | | | First step: check again your list of the signs you |
| how a phenomenon known as the Indian Ocean | | | | thought you saw of global warming. How many |
| Dipole (a variable and irregular cycle of warming | | | | are true? What do you think, and why do you |
| and cooling of ocean water), dictates whether | | | | think it? Yes, the world may resume warming in |
| moisture-bearing winds are carried across the | | | | one year or 100. But it hasn't been warming as |
| southern half of Australia." | | | | the alarmists said it must if man were to blame, |
| MYTH 4: [AUSTRALIA'S] CITIES HAVE NEVER | | | | and certainly not as the media breathlessly keeps |
| BEEN HOTTER | | | | claiming. |
| Wrong. The alleged "record" temperature | | | | Best we all just settle down, then, and wait for |
| Melbourne set in January (46.4 degrees) was in | | | | the proof -- the real proof. After all, panicking |
| fact topped by the 47.2 degrees the city | | | | over invisible things is so undignified, don't you |
| recorded in 1851. (See the Argus newspaper of | | | | think? |
| February 8, 1851.) | | | | The evidence is overwhelming. Astrologers are |
| And here's another curious thing: Despite all this | | | | more scientific than liberals. This anti-science |
| warming we're alleged to have caused, Victoria's | | | | crusade is about nothing more than Democrat |
| highest temperature on record remains the 50.7 | | | | power and control, as with everything the left |
| degrees that hit Mildura 103 years ago. South | | | | does. |
| Australia's hottest day is still the 50.7 degrees | | | | |