F. William Engdahl, Global Research
April 7, 2008
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8583
The media and governmental hype over a danger from global warming that
already is allegedly causing the polar icecaps to melt and threaten a
global climate catastrophe, looks more and more like the political hype
it is. This year to date, snow cover over North America and much of
Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.
According to the US National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) many American
cities and towns have suffered record cold temperatures in January and
early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in
January "was - 0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 average."
China is surviving its most brutal winter in one hundred years.
Temperatures in the normally mild south were low for so long that some
middle-sized cities went weeks without electricity because once power
lines had toppled it was too cold or too icy to repair them.
There have been so many snow and ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in the
past two months that the real estate market has been hurt as home buyers
have stayed home. In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto
received 70 cm of snow, breaking the record of 66.6 cm for the entire
month set back in 1950.
Arctic Ice Melt has Reversed
One of the most dramatic results of the record cold over much of the
planet is the reversal of the much-re****ted melt of the icebergs in the
Arctic Ocean. Last autumn the world was alarmed to hear from certain
climatologists that the ice in the Arctic had melted to its "lowest
levels on record." What was carefully omitted from those scare stories
was the fact that those records only date back as far as 1972, and that
there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts
in the past.
Now, as a result of the recent record cold weather, the ice is back.
According to Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice
Service in Ottawa, the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not
only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than
at this time last year.
What few people know and what the Global Warming lobby seems at pains to
keep known is the fact that there is considerable seasonal variation in
how much pack ice of the Arctic ice pack covers the Arctic Ocean. Much
of the ocean is also covered in snow for about 10 months of the year.
The maximum snow cover is in March or April - about 20 to 50 centimeters
over the frozen ocean. The thickness is not one of the universal
constants, never was.
Admit Flawed Climate Model
There is also admission by several intellectually honest climatologists
that their predictive models are flawed. Robert Toggweiler of the
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University and
Joellen Russell, assistant professor of biogeochemical dynamics at the
University of Arizona, two very prominent climate modellers, recently
admitted that the computer models that show polar ice-melt cooling the
oceans, stopping the circulation of warm equatorial water to northern
latitudes and triggering another Ice Age (as in the fictional movie The
Day After Tomorrow) are wrong. In a recent interview Russell said, "It's
not ice melt, but rather wind circulation that drives ocean currents
northward from the tropics. Climate models until now have not properly
accounted for the wind's effects on ocean circulation, so researchers
have compensated by over-emphasizing the role of man-made warming on
polar ice melt." Now that's very interesting.
When professors Toggweiler and Russell reprogrammed their model to
include the 40-year cycle of winds away from the equator, then back
towards it again, the role of ocean currents bringing warm southern
waters to the north was obvious in the recent Arctic warming.
Russian climatologists believe recent weather changes around the globe
are results of solar activity and not man-made emissions. Oleg
Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, calls
the argument for man-made climate change "a drop in the bucket." His
research shows that now the recent very active solar activity has
entered an inactive phase. He advised people to "stock up on fur coats."
Kenneth Tapping of Canada's National Research Council, who oversees a
giant radio telescope focused on the sun, is convinced we are in for a
long period of severely cold weather if sunspot activity does not pick
up soon. The last time the sun was this inactive, Earth suffered the
Little Ice Age that lasted about five centuries and ended in 1850. Crops
failed through killer frosts and drought. Famine, plague and war were
widespread. Harbours froze, so did rivers, and trade ceased.
The Global Warming Geopolitics
The recent Global Warming hysteria is in reality a geopolitical push by
leading global elite circles to find a way to get the broader
populations to willingly accept drastic cuts in their living standards,
something that were it demanded without clear reason by politicians,
would spark strikes and protest. The UN's latest IPCC re****t on Global
Warming calls for diverting a huge 12% of global GDP to "prevent the
harmful effects of climate change." The UN re****t, for example,
estimated that its recommendations to reduce certain manmade emissions
would cost about $2,750 per family per year in the price of energy.
Today there are two principal policy options of the Anglo-American power
establishment to impose their further control over a world that is
rapidly slipping out from under them. We might call them Plan A and Plan
B for short.
The first, Plan A, was the option represented by Bush-Cheney and the big
oil and military industrial complex behind them. Cheney and his close
Houston friend, Matt Simmons, propagated the myth of Peak Oil to lull
populations into accepting the inevitability of $100 a barrel or even
higher oil prices. In the meantime, the relative strength of the Big Oil
and the related US military establishment grew with higher oil prices.
Their global War on Terror provided a cover or pretext to justify
military control over the major oil reserves and oil transit passages of
the world. From Iraq to Afghanistan to Kosovo, the US and NATO agenda
was aimed at future control of the extraordinary economic powers
emerging from Russia to China to India to Brazil and Venezuela and
beyond. Through China's effective diplomacy in Africa, many African
countries are on the brink of slipping out from under the US or British
control into Chinese or more independent status.
If John McCain becomes the next choice of the US power elites to be
President, that will signal that that military and oil agenda will
escalate, especially as the USA sinks into a severe economic depression
in coming months.
The second broad faction of maintaining their control over the greater
part of the world economy, Plan B, sees Global Warming and "soft power"
as embodied in the organs of the United Nations and IMF and World Bank
as the more suitable vehicle to convince people to willingly accept
drastic reduction in living standards.
Barack Obama, the apparent choice of the same elites as a "breath of
change" to allow them to regroup after the debacle of the Bush-Cheney
years, would likely opt for the second faction of the global elite-the
Global Warming option to lowering general living standards, 'Plan B' of
the Anglo-American establishment. In a recent campaign speech in
Wallingford Pennsylvania, Mr. Obama replied to a question about Al Gore,
the hero of Global Warming. As President, Obama said he would consider
putting Al Gore in a Cabinet-level position-or higher. He stated, "I
will make a commitment that Al Gore will be at the table and play a
central part in us figuring out how we solve this problem. He's somebody
I talk to on a regular basis. I'm already consulting with him in terms
of these issues but climate change is real."
The two major global factions
Today there are two major factions within the Western political power
establishment internationally. They cooperate and share broad elitist
goals, but differ fundamentally on how to reach these goals. Foremost is
their goal of sharply controlling global economic growth and population
growth. The first faction is best described as the Rockefeller Faction.
It has a global power base and is today best represented by the Bush
family faction which got their start, as I document in my book, as hired
hands for the powerful Rockefeller machine. The Rockefeller faction has
for more than a century based its power and influence on control of oil
and on use of the military to secure that control. It is personified in
the man who is since 2001 de facto President in terms of
decision-making-Dick Cheney. Cheney was former CEO of Halliburton Corp.,
which is both the world's largest oilfield services company (now based
in Dubai for tax reasons), and the world's largest military base
constructor.
The second faction might be called the Soft Power Faction. Their
philosophy might be summed up that they think its "possible to kill more
flies with honey than with vinegar." Their preferred path to global
population control and lowering of the growth rates in China and
elsewhere is through promoting the fraud of global warming and imminent
climate catastrophe. Al Gore is linked to this faction. So is British
Prime Minister Gordon Brown. They see globalist institutions, especially
the United Nations, as the best vehicle to advance their agenda of
global austerity.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was created by the
United Nations Environment Programme. Its re****ts have been demonstrated
to be fundamentally flawed in scientific methodology, yet they are
aggressively being promoted as revealed truth by the powerful media
behind this faction. Others in the circle include billionaire speculator
George Soros, parts of the British Royal family and representatives of
European "old money."
With the meteorological evidence of their claims for global warming
dissolving as the ice forms anew, it is not surprising that news of the
Arctic refreeze and other contrary evidence to their doomsday thesis are
kept from mainline international media.
F. William Engdahl is a Research Associate of the Center for Research on
Globalization and author of the recently-released book, Seeds of
Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation
(www.globalresearch.ca). He also author of 'A Century of War:
Anglo-American Oil Politics,' Pluto Press Ltd. He may be contacted at
his website, www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net.
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"What if a small group of these world leaders were to conclude the
principal risk to the earth comes from the actions of the rich
countries?...In order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the
only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse?
Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?" Maurice Strong,1990
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