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“ AGW: The One-Size Mythology that Fits Multiple Agendas ”. Larry Bell. Ninth International Conference on Climate Change July 7-9, 2014, Las Vegas, Nevada, Tuesday: Panel 5. Recent climate history: Earth began warming out of the last Ice Age about 18,000 years ago.
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“AGW: The One-Size Mythology that Fits Multiple Agendas” Larry Bell Ninth International Conference on Climate Change July 7-9, 2014, Las Vegas, Nevada, Tuesday: Panel 5
Recent climate history: • Earth began warming out of the last Ice Age about 18,000 years ago. • 1,000 years ago Icelandic Vikings settled on Greenland’s southwestern coast. • About 800 years ago temperatures dropped, leading to the Great Famine in Europe. • Around 400 years ago the Northern Hemisphere plunged into depths of a “Little Ice Age” (not a true Ice Age”). • The past century has witnessed two distinct warming periods, between 1900-1945, and between 1975-1998. • Earth has been cooling since then. THE CHICKEN LITTLE SYNDROME: WE ARE DOOMED AGAIN
“Vapors rise as fever settles on an acid sea… Neptune’s bones dissolve… snow glides from the mountain… ice fathers floods for a season… a hard rain comes quickly… the dirt is parched”. Al Gore CLIMATE AS RELIGION: MAN-CAUSED PUNISHMENT HELL
Bureaucracy protecting the planet from carbon hoof prints. ENDANGERMENT: END-RUN OF CONGRESS
International experts agree that US capitalism is causing global climate peril. UN POLITICAL SCIENCE LESSONS: THE IPCC
The return of Chicken Little: money…politics… hot air… cold casualties. DEMANDING TRUTH AND ACCOUNTABILITY