UNITED NATIONS – Despite record cold around the globe, increasing ice sheets at the poles and vast snow fields covering large swaths of North America, the United Nations has announced its next global warming international meeting for New York City on Sept. 23, 2014, under the banner, "Climate Summit 2014: Catalyzing Action."
The 2014 UN global warming summit is being billed as a prelude to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, Conference in 2015, at which UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon hopes to advance the UN agenda to get a final international agreement signed in Paris to replace the expiring Kyoto Protocol carbon emission reduction agreement dating back to 2008.
"I challenge you to bring to the summit bold pledges," Ban Ki-Moon said in a UN statement. "Innovate, scale-up, cooperate and deliver concrete action that will close the emissions gap and put us on track for an ambitious legal agreement through the UNFCC process."
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The UN is pressing ahead with a global warming agenda despite increasing scientific evidence the earth has entered a new cooling period and amidst continued fallout from what has become known as "Climategate," the release in November 2009 of thousands of emails circulated among members of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] following the hacking of a server at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom.
"Climategate" simply documented the falsification of scientific data to "prove" key global warming theories.
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Global warming critic Marc Morano, in a debate televised on UN television during the UN's 2013 climate summit in Warsaw, Poland, on Nov. 19, 2013, challenged a UN interviewer in a heated exchange that scientific evidence no longer validates the UN assumption the earth is warming.
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In a sometimes contentious interview, Morano charged the UN IPCC reports are political, not scientific, arguing the most recent report, issued in September 2013, "was essentially written by a handful of UN scientists that they are fulfilling a narrative on man-made global warming."
Morano cited various scientific studies that he asserts undermine the UN IPCC's allegation that a scientific consensus has "settled the global warming thesis."
"The settled science which the UN IPCC claims, seems to be changing by the week," Morano countered. "We had two contrary studies in one week."
The UN interviewer asked Morano what it would take for him to be convinced their exists a man-made global warming threat.
"You would have to see unprecedented climate and weather and we have neither," Morano answered. "Multiple studies, in fact hundreds of scientists have shown the medieval warm period was as warm or warmer than current temperatures."
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2013: Least extreme U.S. weather ever
As the UN was announcing the 2014 Climate Summit in New York City, Morano's website, ClimateDepot.com, was publicizing a study issued this week by the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center documenting that U.S. weather in 2013 was the least extreme ever, with the number of tornadoes the lowest in several decades, the fewest U.S. forest fires since 1984, and the number of days of 100-degree Fahrenheit heat turning out to be the lowest in the past 100 years of available records.
"Whether you are talking about tornadoes, wildfires, extreme heat or hurricanes, the good news is that weather-related disasters in the United States are all way down this year compared to recent years and, in some cases, down to historically low levels," Morano notes, citing National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, data.
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Among the "Top 10 Stories of 2013," as reported by German Magazine Der Spiegel, was listed a 16-year global warming pause as documented by credible climate scientists worldwide.
"An unexpected development has been occupying the attention of climate scientists," Der Speigel noted in the sub-heading to a story on "the mysterious" temperature development of the past years. "The air appears not to have warmed up in the last 16 years. Obviously natural phenomena are covering the increasing impact of greenhouse gases."
Still, as suggested by Der Spiegel’s comment, "global warmers" appear reluctant to abandon an ideological commitment to the theory human-produced, or "anthropogenic," causes have created a "greenhouse effect" in which carbon dioxide emitted in the burning of hydro-carbon fuels including oil, coal, and natural gas, have caused temperatures on earth to rise.
Global warming skeptics, in addition to Morano, have argued in print the evidence global warming has halted means UN theories of anthropogenic global warming should be abandon.
"It's time to completely revamp the models so that they start to resemble reality," wrote climate skeptic P. Gosselin this week in response to the Der Spiegel article. "It's also time for the media to rethink their position ion the issue rather than trying to hopelessly prop it up."
WND recently reported that within the span of a week, Cairo saw its first snow in 100 years. Oregon, like several other states, reached its coldest temperature in 40 years. Chicago saw its coldest days ever, and – as if to add finality to the trend – Antarctica reached the coldest temperature ever recorded anywhere on earth.
Ironically, just a few years ago, believers in anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming – since renamed “climate change” – claimed cold weather and snow would soon be just a memory.
"Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past," announced the headline in Britain’s newspaper the Independent at the turn of the millennium. The report quoted David Viner, senior research scientist at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, long considered an authoritative resource for global warming research, as saying snow would soon be "a very rare and exciting event" in Britain.
"Children just aren't going to know what snow is," he said.
The rhetoric and predictions of global warming acolytes have been every bit as confusing in the United States, with former vice president and carbon-credit entrepreneur Al Gore telling an audience in a 2009 speech that "the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years." And of course his 2006 documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" famously predicted increasing temperatures would cause earth's oceans to rise by 20 feet, a claim many scientists say is utterly without rational basis.
How such predictions square with current weather reality – multiple reports of the coldest weather in a generation – is unclear.
Fact: The earth has not warmed for the last 15 years. This now-widely-known truth was confirmed in September in a leaked report, the result of six years’ work by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, touted as the world authority on climate change and its supposed causes.
Indeed, researchers were so flummoxed at the utter lack of evidence supporting anthropogenic global warming that, as the London Daily Mail reported, the “world's top climate scientists were told to ‘cover up' the fact that the earth's temperature hasn't risen for the last 15 years.”
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Well-known scientist Art Robinson has spearheaded The Petition Project, which to date has gathered the signatures of 31,487 scientists who agree that there is "no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate."
Among the scientists signing the petition are 9,029 who hold doctorate degrees in their field of study.
"We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December 1997, and any other similar proposals,” the petition continues. “The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind."
Robinson, who has a Ph.D. in chemistry from Cal Tech, where he served on the faculty, co-founded the Linus Pauling Institute with Nobel-recipient Linus Pauling, where he was president and research professor. He later founded the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine.
He told WND, very simply, that weather does change over time and that the global system goes through cycles, some slightly warmer and some slightly cooler than others.
Right now it's cool. While it was snowing in Cairo for the first time in a century, Jerusalem received up to 20 inches.
Robinson also told WND it's interesting to be living in a period when carbon dioxide is rising, yet temperatures are flat or going down.
"We just have to get used to fluctuations," he said. "Earth does go through cycles."
What, then, is behind the widespread obsession – with so little evidence – with global warming, and the resulting desire to implement massive new governmental policies? The answer, says Robinson, is not complicated: "Power and money."
Power is obtained through laws and rules created in response to supposed global warming that limit what people can do with their own lives and property. Through carbon credits and "green" energy projects, which have made Al Gore enormously wealthy, massive amounts of money change hands.
Just weeks ago, the United Nations and World Bank lobbied for spending $600 billion to $800 billion a year on "sustainable energy" to replace oil and gas.
The U.S. has already given tens of millions of dollars to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
