“AGW: The One-Size Mythology that Fits Multiple Agendas”
Ninth International Conference on Climate ChangeJuly 7-9, 2014, Las Vegas, Nevada, Tuesday: Panel 5
Larry Bell
Recent climate history:• Earth began warming out of the last Ice
Age about 18,000 years ago.• 1,000 years ago Icelandic Vikings
settled on Greenland’s southwestern coast.
• About 800 years ago temperatures dropped, leading to the Great Famine in Europe.
• Around 400 years ago the Northern Hemisphere plunged into depths of a “Little Ice Age” (not a true Ice Age”).
• The past century has witnessed two distinct warming periods, between 1900-1945, and between 1975-1998.
• Earth has been cooling since then.
THE CHICKEN LITTLE SYNDROME: WE ARE DOOMED AGAIN
“Vapors rise as fever settles on an acid sea… Neptune’s bones dissolve… snow glides from the mountain… ice fathers floods for a season… a hard rain comes quickly… the dirt is parched”.
Al Gore
CLIMATE AS RELIGION: MAN-CAUSED PUNISHMENT HELL
Bureaucracy protecting the planet from carbon hoof prints.
ENDANGERMENT: END-RUN OF CONGRESS
International experts agree that US capitalism is causing global climate peril.
UN POLITICAL SCIENCE LESSONS: THE IPCC
The return of Chicken Little: money…politics… hot air… cold casualties.
DEMANDING TRUTH AND ACCOUNTABILITY