Larry Bell - Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind The Global Warming Hoax

CLIMATE OF
CORRUPTION

Politics and Power Behind the

Global Warming Hoax

Larry Bell

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Copyright 2011 Larry Bell

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Praise for Climate of Corruption

Larry Bells Climate of Corruption details a timely, compelling narrative concerning the hijacking of science and demonization of carbon by political power brokers and eco-evangelists.

Joseph DAleo, former Weather Channel director of meteorology and weather producer for ABCs Good Morning America

Larry Bell has uncovered through outstanding investigative reporting why and how this scam has been so successful for nearly 20 years now. He describes in precise detail the dozens of constituencies that benefit so much through access to money and power through this crime against humanity And to what end? Larry makes clear to what end: to make evil people rich and powerful and just plain folks all the poorer.

Jay Lehr, science editor, Environment and Climate News

Those of us fortunate enough to have traveled in space bet our lives on the competence, dedication, and integrity of the science and technology professionals who made our missions possible In the last twenty years, I have watched the high standards of science being violated by a few influential climate scientists, including some at NASA, while special interest opportunists have dangerously abused our public trust This important book shines light on the self-serving agendas and shady political dealings behind the global warming hoax that we absolutely must change while there is still time.

Walter Cunningham, Apollo 7 astronaut

Larry Bell connects the dots between indisputable scientific frauds, carbon regulation and marketing scams, and bogus green energy charades. He makes a convincing case that alarmist climate crisis rhetoric is far more political than scientific.

Michael J. Economides, editor-in-chief, Energy Tribune and professor, University of Houston

More praise for Climate of Corruption

Larry Bell has cut through the heavily funded bad science of global warming advocates, the outrageous claims of politicians and scare threats from extremist environmentalists to explain the truth about Earths climate and the man made and natural forces that change it. This book is very readable, clearly presented, detailed and documented, so you know Larry Bell is giving us the real story. He has done an amazing job of sorting it out and putting it in proper perspective.

John Coleman, meteorologist and founder of The Weather Channel

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Dedicated to Al Gore, whose invention of the Internet made this book possible, and whose invention of facts made it necessary

W hat a timely book! Larry Bells insightful overview of global warm ing hysteria will open the eyes of many who still believe in the science as propagated by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and in the promises of politicians to save them from climate disasters. After two decades of corrupt science, we are finally able to learn the truth about the politics behind the conspiracy among a small group of influential scientists to manufacture a global warming scare from data that showed none.

Many would place the beginning of the global warming hoax on the Senate testimony delivered by James Hansen of NASA during the summer of 1988. More than anything else, this exhibition of hyped alarm triggered my active skepticism about the man-made warming scare. This skepticism was further amplified when I acted as a reviewer of the first three IPCC reports, in 1990, 1996, and 2001. Increasingly, claims were made for which there was no evidence; in some cases the evidence was clearly manufactured. For example, the 1996 report used selective data and doctored graphs. It also featured changes in the text that were made after the scientists had approved it and before it was printed. It caused Dr. Frederick Seitz, a worldfamous physicist and former president of the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the Rockefeller University, to write in the Wall Street Journal : I have never witnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer review process than events that led to this IPCC report.

All throughout, politicians loudly proclaimed that the science is settled and proceeded to construct regulatory schemes to limit the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) andin the processto control energy. The capstone to all this fraudulent behavior must surely be the cap-and-trade legislation passed by the US House of Representatives in 2009. It has nothing to do with climate; instead, it is a giant tax scheme that redistributes income from citizens who use energy, whether electricity heat or motor fuel, to the favored few. It has been estimated that this legislation has provided a livelihood to some two thousand or more lobbyists and has placed a corresponding burden on the rest of the population.

By now, the international climate business has degenerated into a scheme to transfer resources from developed to developing nations. Or as cynics put it, from the poor in rich countries to the rich in poor countries.

The truth is that there is no evidence for any significant human impact on global climate, and that there is nothing in a practical sense we can do to affect global climate. And, as Larry Bell points out, a somewhat warmer climate with increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would be beneficial overall to Earths inhabitants, especially to those in developing nations who depend on agriculture for a living. Climate of Corruption brings a breath of fresh, cool air to the overheated climate debate.

S. Fred Singer
Former director of the US National Weather Satellite Service, professor emeritus at the University of Virginia, and coauthor of Unstoppable Global Warming

R egarding climate science there is at least one certainty: There is absolutely no reason to believe that Earth is any warmer now than it was during past periods when life flourishedtimes when agriculture was abundant, pyramids and cities were built, and world citizens became connected in trade and culture.