THE MOVIE "An Inconvenient Truth," with which the indoctrinating centers in
the Tri-Valley are propagandizing our children, comes across like this: We only
have 10 years to return to a medieval lifestyle, to figure out how to get the
sun to radiate more than 1.4 kW per square meter without melting the icecaps or
to invent other "alternative" (what a ridiculous name) non-nuclear energy
sources.

The Al Gore (or should I say Goebbels?) propaganda machine seeks to limit
each person to 1 ton of carbon per year. The proposal is to create a system of
carbon allowances that will be the rationing cards of the future.

Kyoto targets, however, will not be met. Two facts about the futility of
controlling emissions:

dioxide as the entire nation of Japan does from useful fuel consumption.

tons per year from human activity.

conveniently leaves out of the companion book to his video because they are
inconvenient to his argument.

not linear; therefore the graph on pages 66-67 is seriously misleading.

climate change a few thousand years ago.

the rotation of the Earth, or both.

Gore fails to mention that introducing coal-fired electrical power generation

in Africa and South America would reduce the 30 percent of global carbon dioxide

emissions from burning wood to cook substantially and save more than 1.6 million
lives per year.

human-attributed catastrophic global warming when scientific agreement only
exists on a narrower range of issues such as the increase in temperature between
1919 and 1940.

desires can be obtained purely by choosing the starting point and the right
ending point and turning the extrapolation crank.

The climate charlatans play up this process to the hilt. Global warmers
select whichever data tend to support their preconceived notions. They never go
back to 1855 or try to explain decreases instead of increases in temperature.
And they keep their data and algorithms close to their chest lest someone check
them and expose the fallacy of their arguments.

Stephen McIntyre, a minerals consultant, recently demonstrated that the
global warmers' favorite graph is wrong. Their reconstruction of global
temperatures over the past 1,000 years shows slight oscillations until a sharp
upward swing (the "blade" of the hockey stick) in recent years. McIntyre showed
that the method used by climatologist Michael Mann and colleagues generates
hockey sticks even from random data. Global warming guru Mann then published a
partial correction but he refuses to release his computer algorithm for further
checking. Diehards such as Mann et al. continue to defend the climate icon.
Others, however, are beginning to downplay the hockey stick graph.

Consider what you get from 1 ton of carbon: You could heat your house with a
small electric stove (1 kilowatt) for six hours a day for 10 months of a year.
Nothing would be left for cooking, lighting, hot water, refrigeration, vacuuming
or washing. No travel would be possible except on foot or on bicycle. A 1-ton
footprint would actually return you to a lifestyle that existed before our
lifetime.

Answering your propagandized children (for the time being they are not yet
recruited to report you to the thought police, but watch out anyway): Giving in
to the global warming lobby when so much evidence indicates that it is a
gigantic paper tiger is irresponsible, unscientific, immature and selfish.

Our children and grandchildren will ask us whether we believed the great hoax
of global warming and I, for one, don't want to be telling them that I kept a
chart of my carbon footprint. I love to take my SUV to Tahoe, ski at night on
well-lit slopes, fly airplanes and do all the power-intensive activities within
my reach.

I recommend you keep doing the same or whatever else you enjoy. Have no fear.
The Earth is a big place and your enjoyment of life will not hurt it in the
least.

Bevc received a doctorate in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley. He was
a postdoctoral fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and Air Force Office
of Scientific Research at Oxford University in England, conducted scientific
research for the Department of Defense and the aerospace industry, and held
senior staff positions at the California Public Utilities Commission. He is a
resident of Danville.

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