Koolzuurgas-ideologie: The Great Global Warming Swindle

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Henk op xp schreef:
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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.
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>
> 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.
> ...
> "
>
> Ze wordt hier zo expliciet genoemd, wat zou haar exacte rol geweest zijn? 

Ah ...

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0420-31.htm

"...

No one pretends that phasing out carbon-based fuels will be easy. The 
momentum of the climate system means that "a certain amount of pain is 
inevitable," says Michael Oppenheimer. "But we still have a choice 
between pain and disaster."

Unfortunately, we are getting a late start, which is something of a 
puzzle. The threat of global warming has been recognized at the highest 
levels of government for more than 25 years. Former president Jimmy 
Carter highlighted it in 1980, and Al Gore championed it in Congress 
throughout the 1980s. Margaret Thatcher, (oogjes dicht, Martijn :) ) the 
arch-conservative (ok, kijk maar weer. :) ) prime minister of Britain 
from 1979 to 1990, * delivered some of the hardest-hitting speeches ever 
given on climate change *. But progress stalled in the 1990s, even as 
Gore was elected vice president and the scientific case grew definitive. 
It turned out there were powerful pockets of resistance to tackling this 
problem, and they put up a hell of a fight.
...
"
.. zelfs the Queen :
"
So it was extraordinary when London's Observer reported, on October 31, 
2004, that the Queen had "made a rare intervention in world politics" by 
telling Blair of "her grave concerns over the White House's stance on 
global warming."


...

"The Queen first of all made it clear that Buckingham Palace would be 
happy to help raise awareness about the climate problem," says the 
source, a high-level environmental expert who was briefed about the 
conversation. "[She was] definitely concerned about the American 
position and hoped the prime minister could help change [it]."
...

Temperatures are rising, the Queen learned from King and other 
scientists, because greenhouse gases are trapping heat in the 
atmosphere. Carbon dioxide, the most prevalent of such gases, is 
released whenever fossil fuels are burned or forests catch fire. Global 
warming, the scientists explained, threatens to raise sea levels as much 
as three feet by the end of the 21st century, thanks to melting glaciers 
and swollen oceans. (Water expands when heated.)
This would leave much of eastern England, including areas near 
Sandringham, underwater. Global warming would also bring more heat waves 
like the one in the summer of 2003 that killed 31,000 people across Europe.
...

At the time of his meeting with the Queen, Blair was being attacked on 
climate change from all ideological sides, with even the Conservatives 
charging that he was not doing enough.
...

"

Enfin, het maakt helder waarom (zeer waarschijnlijk) Bush uit een ander 
vaatje tapt ....

Terug naar Thatcher:
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/Speeches/results.asp?w=global+warming+nuclear&btn=Search

http://www.margaretthatcher.org/Speeches/results.asp?w=global+warming&btn=Search


http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=107346
"
1988 Sep 27 Tu


  Speech to the Royal Society

...
* The environment *

Mr. President, the Royal Society's Fellows and other scientists, through 
hypothesis, experiment and deduction have solved many of the world's 
problems.

—Research on medicine has saved millions and millions of lives as you 
have tackled diseases such as malaria, smallpox, tuberculosis and 
others. Consequently, the world's population which was 1 billion in 
1800, 2 billion in 1927 is now 5 billion souls and rising.

—Research on agriculture has developed seeds and fertilizers sufficient 
to sustain that rising population contrary to the gloomy prophesies of 
two or three decades ago. But we are left with pollution from nitrates 
and an enormous increase in methane which is causing problems.

—Engineering and scientific advance have given us transport by land and 
air, the capacity and need to exploit fossil fuels which had lain unused 
for millions of years. One result is a vast increase in carbon dioxide. 
And this has happened just when great tracts of forests which help to 
absorb it have been cut down.

For generations, we have assumed that the efforts of mankind would leave 
the fundamental equilibrium of the world's systems and atmosphere 
stable. But it is possible that with all these enormous changes 
(population, agricultural, use of fossil fuels) concentrated into such a 
short period of time, we have unwittingly begun a massive experiment 
with the system of this planet itself.

Recently three changes in atmospheric chemistry have become familiar 
subjects of concern. The first is the increase in the greenhouse 
gases—carbon dioxide, methane, and chlorofluorocarbons—which has led 
some[fo 4] to fear that we are creating a global heat trap which could 
lead to climatic instability. We are told that a warming effect of 1°C 
per decade would greatly exceed the capacity of our natural habitat to 
cope. Such warming could cause accelerated melting of glacial ice and a 
consequent increase in the sea level of several feet over the next 
century. This was brought home to me at the Commonwealth Conference in 
Vancouver last year when the President of the Maldive Islands reminded 
us that the highest part of the Maldives is only six feet above sea 
level. The population is 177,000. It is noteworthy that the five warmest 
years in a century of records have all been in the 1980s—though we may 
not have seen much evidence in Britain!

The second matter under discussion is the discovery by the British 
Antarctic Survey of a large hole in the ozone layer which protects life 
from ultra-violet radiation. We don't know the full implications of the 
ozone hole nor how it may interact with the greenhouse effect. 
Nevertheless it was common sense to support a worldwide agreement in 
Montreal last year to halve world consumption of chlorofluorocarbons by 
the end of the century. As the sole measure to limit ozone depletion, 
this may be insufficient but it is a start in reducing the pace of 
change while we continue the detailed study of the problem on which our 
(the British) Stratospheric Ozone Review Group is about to report.

The third matter is acid deposition which has affected soils, lakes and 
trees downwind from industrial centres. Extensive action is being taken 
to cut down emission of sulphur and nitrogen oxides from power stations 
at great but necessary expense.

In studying the system of the earth and its atmosphere we have no 
laboratory in which to carry out controlled experiments. We have to rely 
on observations of natural systems. We need to identify particular areas 
of research which will help to establish cause and effect. We need to 
consider in more detail the likely effects of change within precise 
timescales. And to consider the wider implications for policy—for energy 
production, for fuel efficiency, for reforestation. This is no small 
task, for the annual increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide alone is of 
the order of three billion tonnes. And half the carbon emitted since the 
Industrial Revolution remains in the atmosphere. We have an extensive 
research programme at our meteorological office and we provide one of 
the world's four centres for the study of climatic change. We must 
ensure that what we do is founded on good science to establish cause and 
effect.

In the past when we have identified forms of pollution, we have shown 
our capacity to act effectively. The great London Smogs are now only a 
nightmare of the past. We have cut airborne lead by 50 per cent. We are 
spending £4 billion on cleansing the Mersey Basin alone;[fo 5] and the 
Thames now has the cleanest metropolitan estuary in the world. Even 
though this kind of action may cost a lot, I believe it to be money well 
and necessarily spent because the health of the economy and the health 
of our environment are totally dependent upon each other.

The Government espouses the concept of sustainable economic development. 
Beginning of section checked against BBC Radio News Report 0700 28 
September 1988

Stable prosperity can be achieved throughout the world provided the 
environment is nutured and safeguarded.

Protecting this balance of nature is therefore one of the great 
challenges of the late Twentieth Century [End of section checked against 
BBC Radio News Report 0700 28 September 1988.] and one in which I am 
sure your advice will be repeatedly sought.
Peroration

I have spoken about my own commitment to science and to the environment. 
And I have given you some idea of what government is doing. I hope that 
the Royal Society will generate increased popular interest in science by 
explaining the importance and excitement of your work. When Arthur 
Eddington presented his results to this Society in 1919, showing the 
bending of starlight, it made headlines. It is reported that many people 
could not get into the meeting so anxious were the crowds to find out 
whether the intellectual paradox of curved space had really been 
demonstrated. Should we be doing more to explain why we are looking for 
the Higgs Boson at CERN and trying to decode the human Genome? This is a 
golden age of discovery and new thought. The natural world is full of 
fascination providing the doors of understanding are opened. I applaud 
our Royal Society for its manifold achievements and congratulate you Mr 
President on your splendid leadership. I ask you to drink a toast to the 
Royal Society.
"

Verder:

http://www.margaretthatcher.org/Speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=108102&doctype=1
"
1990 May 25


  Speech opening Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research


Dr. Houghton] Mr. Chairman

Many of us have been worried for some time now about the accumulating 
evidence of damage to the global environment and the consequences for 
life on Earth and for future generations. I spoke about this to the 
Royal Society in 1988 and to the United Nations General Assembly in 
November last year. Today, with the publication of the Report of the 
Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, we have an authoritative 
early warning system, an agreed assessment from some three hundred of 
the world's leading scientists on what is happening to the world's 
climate—all this under your distinguished chairmanship, Dr. Houghton. I 
congratulate you on getting three hundred distinguished scientists to 
agree on a single report—you must be quite a chairman! It is a triumph 
for you today, both the Report and the opening of the new Centre for 
which you have obviously been very eager.

Your Report confirms that greenhouse gases are increasing substantially 
as a result of Man's activities; that this will warm the Earth's 
surface, with serious consequences for us all, and that these 
consequences are capable of prediction. We want to predict them more 
accurately and that is why we are opening this Centre today.[fo 1]

We have therefore a Report of historic significance. It is not something 
arcane or remote from everyday concerns. What it predicts will affect 
our daily lives. Governments and international organisations in every 
part of the world are going to have to sit up and take notice and respond.

Of course, there is a lot more that we still need to find out but if the 
Panel's predictions are broadly right, then the world could become 
hotter than at any time in the last 100,000 years and just to get our 
time perspectives right, can I remind you that Abraham was around only 
5,000 years ago!
...
"

De Britten (b)lijken/zijn? dus hoofdzakelijk verantwoordelijk voor veel 
van de verhalen over ´global warming´ en de instituties daarin betrokken.

Henk Elegeert

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