Goebbels Warming — A Propaganda Crisis in America

By Mick Gregory

An ironic fact, yesterday it was -74 degrees in Antarctica (that is 74 degrees below zero Fahrenheit).
It would be inconvenient for the media to show that temperature, today while Al Gore is holding up his Oscar for “An Inconvenient Truth” on page one.

What particularly amazes me is that the cooling trend has actually become more pronounced since the mid-1980s. Air temperatures recorded continuously over a 14-year period ending in 1999 declined by 0.7 degrees in Antarctica’s polar desert valleys.

Why aren’t your daily newspapers reporting these trends? It doesn’t fit the agenda?

That’s the problem. If I thought Al Gore’s movie was as you like to say, fair and balanced, I’d say, everyone should go see it. But why go see propaganda? You don’t go see Joseph Goebbels’ films to see the truth about Nazi Germany. You don’t go see Al Gore’s films to see the truth about global warming.

—Sterling Burnette of a prominent scientific think tank

In another recent study authored by Ian Joughin, a geologist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology and Slawek Tulaczyk, a professor of earth sciences at the University of California Santa Cruz, the study found that the ice sheet is gaining 26.8 billions tons of ice a year.

There is a curious thing going on in the scientific community. Scientists who produce research that does not comport with accepted wisdom on global warming – like Doran and Joughin – feel compelled to disavow their findings. Or, at least, to suggest that their results are aberrational.

Indeed, a decade ago, the Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, released a study that found the continental United States has actually gotten cooler, rather than warmer, over the past third of a century.

Yet, the scientists who produced the center’s study went to great lengths to assure that their findings did not undermine prevailing notions about global warming.

Then there was the study by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla.

They took Antarctic ice core samples from the last three glacial cycles (the transitional periods between ice age and planetary warming) to ascertain the relation between rises in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and increases in planetary temperature.

Based on global warming theory, there should first have been a rise in carbon dioxide levels followed by a rise in temperature levels. But, in fact the opposite actually occurred.

It seems clear that much of the scientific community is in denial about global warming. That scientists are so empathetic to the IPCC, the NRDC and other global warming doomsayers that even those scientists who produce research that contradict the global warming orthodoxy are unwilling to admit as much.

The real crisis isn’t the ebb and flow of global temperature, it is the powerful corrupt force of the Media, Democrat Progressives, and Academia in shaping the news and science reports.

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