Koolzuurgas-ideologie: The Great Global Warming Swindle

[Henk op xp]

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Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks schreef:
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> Het leukste van 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' was dat werd onthuld
> dat de Koolzuurgas-ideologie afkomstig is van Margaret Thatcher ten tijde
> van de mijnstaking.


    The Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change: Background, Unresolved *...*
    <http://www.rff.org/Documents/RFF-RPT-kyotoprot.pdf>

"
...
The year 1988 is the point at which climate change and global warming 
emerged as a major
political issue throughout the industrial countries. In the United 
States, Sen. Timothy Wirth (D-Colorado)
had been deeply exasperated by his inability to draw public attention to 
the subject. When summer
arrived he waited for a day forecast to be spectacularly hot, and called 
a hearing at which several experts
testified. With the temperature at 98 degrees and anxiety rising about 
the drought gripping the Midwest
and South, one of the experts, James E. Hansen, told the senators that 
the world was warmer than at any
time in this century. It was 99 per cent certain, he continued, that the 
cause was man-made gases and not
natural variation. “It is time to stop waffling so much and say the 
evidence is pretty strong that the
greenhouse effect is here,” he told a reporter for the New York Times, 
which put the story at the top of
page one.

Hansen’s testimony had unusual force because he was director of the 
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration’s Institute for Space Studies, and the first 
scientist of that stature to declare flatly
that the rising temperatures were related to burning fuel.

Four days later a conference opened in Toronto, attended by several 
hundred scientists, politicians
and officials from 48 countries and the UN. It started the push for 
action by calling for a 20 per
cent reduction in CO2 emissions by the year 2005. Political leaders in 
several countries picked up the
issue. One of them was Margaret Thatcher, the prime minister of Great 
Britain, who had been trained in
chemistry as an undergraduate. In December the UN’s General Assembly 
approved the establishment of
an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to review the science.

The following year at their annual summit meeting, the heads of the 
seven big industrial democracies’
governments called for a treaty —a framework convention, as it became 
known — to limit the
world’s production of CO2. Negotiations shortly got under way.
...
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Ze wordt hier zo expliciet genoemd, wat zou haar exacte rol geweest zijn?

Henk Elegeert

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