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that "Himalayan glaciers are among the fastes means of taxing heavy polluters—often underdeveloped retreating glaciers globally due to the effects of globa countries, whose infrastructure relies on old machinery warming”. and which, hence, is polluting. Yet the September 2006 issue of the American Even one of the main promoters of the man-made Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate reported tha global warming line, Dr James Hansen—a man involved "{g|laciers are growing in the Himalayan Mountains, in "Climategate"—is aghast to see the issue reduced to confounding global warming alarmists who have a “cap and trade" system, noting ahead of the December recently claimed the glaciers were shrinking and tha 2009 Copenhagen summit on climate change: "They are global warming was to blame". selling indulgences there. The developed nations wan Reuters news agency reported on 6 November 200 to continue basically business as usual so they are that "Africa's highest mountain might lose its all-year | expected to purchase indulgences to give some smal ice cap and snow by 2015 due to climate changes, amount of money to developing countries. They do tha’ threatening to worsen an already in the form of offsets and tight water supply, the . adaptation funds."” environment group Greenpeace The Copenhagen summit The Copenhagen summit was said". Yet an article in the 23 was there so that the there so that the politicians could use these "facts" and announce a new form o November 2003 issue of Nature stated that “lalithough it's politicians could use these tempting to blame the ice loss "facts" and announce a new economy based on man-made ee slope warning, researchers form of economy based on global warming, namely "cap and ink that deforestation of the 5 rade". mountain's foothills is the more man-made global warming, Alas, the fallacy of the science likely culprit’. namely "cap and trade". upon which this new form o Recently there have been economy is meant to be based warnings portending disaster was shot from under their fee because global warming caused by man threatens to because of "Climategate". It meant that the melt much of the ice covering Greenland. But _ international politicians left the Danish capital withou researchers reported in July 2007 that Greenland really being able to announce their favourite new toy to the was green a half-million or so years ago, covered with world. The question is: how long will it continue to be forests.” Who was to blame for that warming trend? played on the field of international politics? Will it be It was writer and filmmaker Michael Crichton who first relaunched, or simply abandoned to make way for a new prominently identified environmentalism as a religion. toy? oo That was in a speech in 2003,” but the world has moved on apace since then and adherents of the creed now About the Author: have a firm grip on the world at large. Philip Coppens, who divides his time between the UK The sad fact of the matter is that the problem of our — and California, USA, is a regular contributor to NEXUS. climate has been reduced to a debate about man-made His most recent article, "Down into the Giza carbon dioxide emissions, and this has been reduced to — Underground", was published in vol. I7, no. 1. He can be a "cap and trade" system in which the problem is not — contacted by email at info@philipcoppens.com and via seriously addressed, but politicians have come up witha _ his website http://www.philipcoppens.com The Copenhagen summit was there so that the politicians could use these "facts" and announce a new form of economy based on man-made global warming, namely "cap and trade". About the Author: Philip Coppens, who divides his time between the UK and California, USA, is a regular contributor to NEXUS. His most recent article, "Down into the Giza Underground", was published in vol. 17, no. 1. He can be contacted by email at info@philipcoppens.com and via his website http://www.philipcoppens.com Endnotes 8. http/Avww.newswithviews.com/Williams/carole7.htm 1. http//blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/ 9. http:/Ainyurl.com/yegzbtt 2. http://tinyurl.com/yezd99m 10. http:// inyurl .com/34uhoj 3. http-//tinyurl.com/ylyrrrk 11. http/Ainyurl.com/y9ge59u , 4. "Mike" is climatologist Professor Michael E. Mann of 12. Horner, Christopher, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Pennsylvania State University, who came up with the infamous Warming and Environmentalism, Regnery Publishing, Inc., n a ili . o asin Washington, DC, 2007 hockey stick" temperature graph; the "Nature trick" refers to a 13. http:/tinyurl.com/yextbt2 paper by Mann et al., published in the 23 April 1998 edition of 14 s/f Isepp org Archive/controw/ipeccont/ItemOs\htm the journal Nature, that got around a problem with how 5. p://tinyurl. com/ydkzsem temperature data are usually displayed; "Keith" is 16. http,/tinyurl.com/yed3gnz dendroclimatologist Professor Keith Briffa, deputy director of 17. http://epw.senate.gov/hearing_statements.cfm?id=266543 the CRU and lead author of a key paper on tree-ring data in the 18. http:/Avww.oism.org/pproject/ 12 February 1998 edition of Nature. 19. http:/Avww.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3214 5. http:/tinyurl.com/yktuwsg 20. http://tinyurl.com/ybbolqo 6. http://tinyurl.com/yd5xb6z 21. http://tinyurl.com/yexhvov 7. http://tinyurl.com/3xwmdg 22. http://tinyurl.com/yhpfsgm NEXUS ¢ I5 FEBRUARY - MARCH 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com