A hoax is a deliberately fabricated falsehood made to
masquerade as the truth. Those who the hoax is geared toward are unaware of
being deceived.
The latest hoax which is being performed on humans is that
of “climate change.” I say “being performed on humans” because this hoax isn’t
being perpetuated towards a particular country or race, a specific culture or
society, or a certain gender or political group but on mankind, that is everybody
on planet Earth; in 2016, 178 countries have been duped into signing the Paris
Climate Agreement.
Outside of legislature, the governments have enlisted the
MSM and “climate change” scientists to help promote this hoax on a grand scale.
For those who deny “climate change” or even question it, they are publically
shamed on social media and in some instances beat down.
Those who disagree with “climate change” are also labeled as
“climate change deniers” or “global warming deniers.” The National Center for
Science Education (NCSE), a not-for-profit membership organization in the
United States whose stated mission is to “educate the press and the public on
the scientific and educational aspects of controversies surrounding the
teaching of . . . climate change,” describes “climate change deniers” as “disputing
differing points in the scientific consensus” and continues by saying that
deniers either “deny the occurrence of climate change” or accepts “climate
change” but denies human activity as the culprit.
Often, the reason for disbelieving in man-made global
warming seem to be political rather than scientific; eg - "it's all a
liberal plot to spread socialism and destroy capitalism". But even if
“climate change” wasn’t a political issue, and it is these people can’t be
looked at as being truthers or conspiracy theorists because of our governments
past actions. Such actions include the WMD debacle of President George Bush’s
presidency or President Barack Obama’s “Operation Fast and Furious” sting
operation.
It isn’t “climate change” per say which is being pressed on
people as much as it is “manmade climate change,” there is a difference.
Governments despise people having freedoms; they want to control others whether
it’s through legislature or just manipulating people. So the “man made” part of
“climate change” is key to controlling and manipulating others.
The mantra of those who believe in “climate change” is that
“97% of climate scientists agree that
climate change is real.” Those who spew this propaganda never mention the
benefits of fossil fuels (the main culprit of “climate change”). The benefits
of fossil fuels and how the West, the U.S. in particular wouldn’t exist as it
does today without them is never discussed. They are just trying to scare the
public into believing something must be done immediately to reverse “climate
change.”
Let’s look at the mantra a little closer, how did they come
up with the statistic of “97% of ‘climate change’ scientists agree?” We can
thank John Cook, a research assistant professor at the Center for Climate
Change Communication at George Mason University for this misleading stat. Cook
oversees Skeptical Science (SkS), (along with a global team of volunteers) a
non-profit science education organisation.
Skeptical Science came about when Cook heard a speech by U.S.
Senator James Inhofe in 2007 who claimed that global warming was a hoax.
In 2003, Cook lead-authored an award-winning paper,
“Quantifying the Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming in the Scientific Literature”
analyzing the scientific consensus on climate change which presented the “97%”
stat. This paper was highly influential towards President Obama and U.K. Prime
Minister David Cameron in which they cite on many occasions when discussing
“climate change.”
Within 24 hours of publication, the paper was tweeted by
President Obama's and received MSM world-wide coverage. The paper has been
downloaded 161,443 times and it continues to be cited in a wide range of
scholarly journals.
To come up with “97%,” Cook examined nearly 12,000 climate
abstracts from 1991–2011 searching for keywords such as ‘global climate change’
or ‘global warming’. Then, in Cook’s survey, each paper was classified into one
of the seven above categories: explicit endorsement with quantification, explicit
endorsement without quantification, implicit endorsement, no position, uncertain,
implicit rejection, explicit endorsement without quantification, explicit
rejection with quantification.
The findings were that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no
position on Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW), 32.6% endorsed AGW, 0.7%
rejected AGW, and 0.3% were uncertain about the cause of global warming. Among
abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1% endorsed the consensus position
that humans are causing global warming.
In another paper, “Consensus on Consensus: A Synthesis of
Consensus Estimates on Human-Caused Global Warming” 90%-100% of climate
scientists “overwhelmingly agree” that humans are causing global warming. The
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) agrees that “human influence
has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century”
and some will go as far as to claim as far back as the beginning of the
Industrial Age. Note how “man made” and “human-caused” is emphasized in this
paper.
No doubt “Quantifying the Consensus on Anthropogenic Global
Warming in the Scientific Literature” will be used to help pass the Paris
Climate Agreement and boost the legitimacy of the Obama administration's
signature climate policy, the Clean Power Plan. French foreign minister Laurent
Fabius, called [the Paris Climate Agreement] a "historic turning point"
and the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy, echoed
the minister's remark when she said it was an "incredible
achievement." Indeed it is a “incredible achievement” to get 178 out of
195 countries (91%) to agree on a hoax.
There are two issues which are problematic, one being that
Cook’s paper is peer-reviewed which means those who are academics believe the
same thing Cook is passing off as fact. These left-wing professors will be
indoctrinating future students into this perverse ideology of “climate change”
in the future.
Secondly, many generations of higher education students will
be forced-fed this false science because Cook co-authored the college textbooks
Climate Change: Examining the Facts with
Weber State University professor Daniel Bedford and coauthored the textbook Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis.
Cook also authored the book Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand. It will
only be a matter of time before this trickles down into public education, aka
government-sponsored propaganda, err, education.
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