‘The real threat to national security will be damage done by those claiming climate change is a threat’
Special To Climate Depot
Climate doom progenitors and their fallacies
By Scott Wheeler
The Obama Administration has recently taken to making fantastical claims about global warming–or its latest catchphrase, climate change–and calling it a national security crisis. It seems the more time that passes without the catastrophic doom that has been promised since the ice age scare of the 1970s failed to materialize, the more dire the warnings become.
Last May, President Obama announced to graduating cadets at the Coast Guard Academy:
“So, I am here today to say that climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security.”
Immediate risk? In what way? The president doesn’t say, but his administration seems to have gotten the message.
Recently, CIA director John O. Brennan delivered a speech to a group of national security contractors in which he linked climate change to most major global problems:
“Ongoing conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, Yemen, Libya, and parts of Africa are clear examples. The human toll is reflected in the UN’s recent announcement that the number of refugees and internally displaced persons in the world is the highest it has been since World War II. And of course, all this localized strife gives rise to the persistent threat of international terrorism.
When CIA analysts look for deeper causes of this rising instability, they find nationalistic, sectarian, and technological factors that are eroding the structure of the international system. They also see socioeconomic trends, the impact of climate change, and other elements that are cause for concern.”
Notice how cleverly Brennan uses his words. He claimed that CIA analysts looking for deeper causes of instability see “the impact of climate change”. He uses the words “climate change”, because of course something like a flood will displace people and cause refugees, but that happens in any temperature. That is the normal cycles of a changing climate, not global warming. But then Brennan added this:
“Last year was the warmest on record, and this year is on track to be even warmer.”
To be clear, whether or not 2014 was hundredths or one-tenth of one-degree warmer than any other year is in question, but even assuming it was, how could that one-tenth of a degree or less have affected the events Brennan named? The wars in Syria and Libya started before 2014, not to mention the fact that none …
Climate proponent: ‘Why not a war on global warming?’
Climate proponent: “Why not a war on global warming?”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/12/03/alarmist-why-not-a-war-on-global-warming/
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Anthropology professor Wade Davis wants to declare war on global warming, comparing the battle against CO2 to military conflict in WW2. Writing in The Globe and Mail, based in Toronto, Canada; … Why have we not fully mobilized and declared war on global warming? According to Rajendra Pachauri, former chair […]
— gReader Pro…
Bill Nye: Paris Terrorist Attacks Linked to Climate Change
http://ecowatch.com/2015/12/03/bill-nye-terrorism-climate-change/
“There is a water shortage in Syria, this is fact based—small and medium farmers have abandoned their farms because there’s not enough water, not enough rainfall. And especially the young people who have not grown up there, have not had their whole lives invested in living off the land, the young people have gone to the big cities looking for work.”
“There’s not enough work for everybody, so the disaffected youths, as we say—the young people who don’t believe in the system, believe the system has failed, don’t believe in the economy—are more easily engaged and more easily recruited by terrorist organizations, and then they end up part way around the world in Paris shooting people,” Nye said.
“You can make a very reasonable argument that climate change is not that indirectly related to terrorism. It’s related to terrorism,” said Nye. “So this is just the start of things. The more we let this go on, the more trouble there’s going to be. You can say, ‘We’ll stamp out the terrorists,’ but everybody’s leaving their farms because of water shortages, that’s a little, bigger problem.”…
Watch Now: Hannity on Fox News features exclusive clips of ‘Climate Hustle’: First Time Broadcast of Select Clips
Hannity: “A new documentary called Climate Hustle takes aim at many of the global warming alarmists and debunks much of their so-called science.” Here is a clip of the film. [Show Climate Hustle clip showing that no matter the weather, ‘global warming’ is blamed as the cause.]
Hannity: “The film even goes after Lear Jet Liberal Al Gore. Watch this.” [Hannity then shows 2nd clip featuring Climate Statistician Dr. Caleb Rossiter and Geologist Dr. Robert Giegengack former chair of the Earth Sciences Dept. at the University of Pennsylvania, critiquing Al Gore’s film ‘An Inconvenient Truth.’]
(Background: Skeptical Climate Documentary Set to Rock UN Climate Summit – ‘Climate Hustle’ To Have Red Carpet Premiere in Paris)
Hannity: “The publisher of Climate Depot and the producer of Climate Hustle, Marc Morano is with us.”
Morano: “The goal of these UN climate conferences has nothing to do with science. They actually say even if we are wrong on the science, we are doing the right thing by policy.”
Hannity: “First it was the coming ice age, then it was earth is going to burn up and global warming and now they have climate change. As you pointed out in Climate Hustle, if it snows, if it doesn’t snow, if it rains, if it doesn’t rain, tsunami no tsunami, volcanic activity or not. It’s always climate change, no matter what it is!”
Morano: “Yes. In our film Climate Hustle, we go back to the 1970s. We have Walter Cronkite, ABC News, and Leonard Nimoy — warning of a coming ice age. And we say: ‘Before fossil fuels caused global warming, fossil fuels caused – global cooling. And there was actually the theory that fossil fuel burning was going to block out the sun and cool the earth [in the 1970s]. But now they say the 1970s global cooling scare never happened. Just like they are trying to erase the global warming ‘pause’ never happened. They are actually erasing the past on many important things.”
Morano on Obama’s speech from UN summit: “It was like an apocalyptic doom preacher trying to scare people with no basis in science. The idea that ISIS was created by man-made global warming because there was a drought in Syria is not based on science. In 1933, the government of Syria banned Yo-Yos because they thought they caused drought. And now modern day climate activists want …
French President: ‘I can’t separate the fight with terrorism from the fight against global warming’
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/11/30/climatechange-summit-highlights-idUKL1N13P0FE20151130…
CNN Columnist John Sutter: ‘Climate change is a form of terror’
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/28/opinions/sutter-cop21-paris-preview-two-degrees/…
UN chief Ban Ki-moon: Climate change could have link with terrorism
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/climate-change-talks-paris-ban-ki-moon-1.3341598
”When we do not address climate change properly it may also affect many people who are frustrated and who are impacted, then there is some possibility that these young people who [are] jobless and frustrated may join these foreign terrorist fighters,” the UN chief said.
“There is a concern whether it may overshadow the climate change agreement and I think we have to move on this climate change agreement.”…
AP: ‘AFTER PARIS ATTACKS, INCREASED RESOLVE FOR UN CLIMATE TALKS’
delegates to the two-week talks starting Monday insist they won’t let the Nov. 13 attacks that killed 130 people in the French capital distract them from the task at hand: crafting a landmark deal to fight global warming.
…
Watch: Morano on Obama’s claim that UN summit will ‘rebuke’ ISIS: ‘Take that ISIS, we are going to hamstring our economies, limit our growth, kill our jobs’
Climate change realists Dr. Tim Ball and ClimateDepot.com’s Marc Morano talk about what the world can expect from the upcoming Paris Climate Conference, as well as the ramifications of Notley’s Alberta NDP carbon tax.
…
‘The science says Prince Charles is a fool to blame global warming for the Islamic State’
Let’s fact-check this claim.
2001:
The International Food Policy Research Institute warns that overpopulation and overstocking in the arid Middle East will make droughts worse:
Drought is a recurrent and often devastating threat to the welfare of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) where three – quarters of the arable land has less than 400 mm of annual rainfall, and the natural grazings, which support a majority of the 290 million ruminant livestock, have less than 200 mm. Its impact has been exacerbated in the last half century by the human population increasing yearly at over 3%, while livestock numbers have risen by 50% over the quinquennium.
2008:
Australian researchers predict global warming will actually bring more rain to key parts of the Middle East:
The prospect of climate change sparking food shortages and water wars in the Middle East is less likely than previously thought, with new UNSW research suggesting that rainfall will be significantly higher in key parts of the region.
2010:
Syria gets a drought – like it so often does – albeit one more prolonged than most:
2011:
“Israel is no longer drying up and the severe drought ended two years ago,” Water Commissioner Alexander Kushnir told “Globes TV” today [October 2, 2013]. “We’re emerging from the drought, and the water sector has stabilized at a supply rate for the next 10-15 years.”
2013:
We’re reminded that far worse has happened in Syria before, without man-made emissions being blamed:
The Akkadian empire flourished in the third millennium BC. Sometime around 2,200 BC drought hit, the lands dried and people migrated from urban centres. The government then collapsed, and the mighty empire began to falter in a series of calamities collectively referred to as the third-millennium Mesopotamian urban crisis.
2013:
In fact, the IPCC concedes there is little evidence that global warming (which has paused for 18 years) has brought more droughts around the world:
…In summary, the current assessment concludes that there is not enough evidence at present to suggest more than low confidence in a global-scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century…. Based on updated studies, AR4 conclusions regarding global increasing trends in drought since the 1970s