August 13, 2007
Man-Made Global
Warming? Scientists are Starting to Doubt It
The crashing sounds
reverberating throughout the globe aren’t solely from melting glaciers
smashing into warming seas. They’re also the reverberations of
scientists all over the world dropping their belief in the greenhouse
gases theory of climate change.
This news — which
won’t be on television or in newspaper headlines any time soon — is from
the latest book by Mitch Battros, called “Global Warming—A Convenient
Disguise.” In his just-published tome, Battros collects and conveys
recent opinions and observations from scientists in Australia, Canada,
Europe and the United States who have investigated the greenhouse gases
theory of global warming and come to the same conclusion. It’s wrong.
Part of the problem
is that accurate measurements of changes in the Earth’s atmosphere
reveal that carbon dioxide levels lag temperatures. In other words,
previous climate cycles show that the world starts to heat up before CO2
levels rise, not the other way around. This negates the cause-effect
relationship at the heart of the greenhouse gases theory, which argues
that rises in atmospheric levels of CO2 caused by human
beings burning fossil fuels have made global temperatures go up
steadily, with life-threatening consequences.
In his book, Battros
names 14 of the scientists whose views have shifted. An even more
complete list of scientists no longer sold on the greenhouse gases
theory is available at this Wikipedia URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_global_warming_consensus.
Beyond the ranks of
scientists dropping away from greenhouse gases, Battros also encourages
readers to consider what ancient civilizations such as the Aztecs,
Egyptians, the Hopi and the Mayans had to say about climate change
cycles. One of his goals as an author and an Internet radio talk show
host is to bring back together the communities of western scientists and
those studying ancient mythologies and practicing ancient beliefs.
As Battros points
out, non-Western cultures did not divorce science from religion, so
their priests were scientists and their scientists were priests. This is
an unsettling reminder to truly free thinkers who do not want dogma
backed by data rammed down their throats. On the other hand, to quote
Battros, “It will be interesting when at some point, quantum physicists
push so far past the quantum veil that separates the physical world from
its nonphysical source that they literally bump into the creator of that
source.”
Mostly the author’s
message remains unnerving yet critical, especially in the wake of the
9/11 attack and the Hurricane Katrina devastation. If it’s not accurate
to assert that human activity is the primary cause of global warming,
then to assume that changes in human activity can reverse it or even
slow it down is equally false.
This means the money
we pump into curbing greenhouse gas emissions or developing bio fuels
most likely won’t do much, if anything, to forestall or avert rising
temperatures. It also means that instead of running around trading
carbon caps and insisting that industrialized nations curb their CO2
emissions, we should be preparing for the mass migration that climate
change will make critical to preserve life.
Battros never throws
his hands in the air and despairs. Just the opposite. As in his first
book, he provides the readers with things to think about and do before
any major social disruption is upon them. He warns us fairly not to
expect the government to ride to our rescue in the wake of any
weather-related widespread calamity. Instead we will have to rely on our
own preparations, both practical and spiritual, for the uncertain
journey that awaits all of us who are living in these interesting times.
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