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Global Warming gets the Cold
Freeze
F. William Engdahl
Global
Research
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
The media and governmental hype over a danger from global warming
that already is allegedly causing the polar icecaps to melt and
threaten a global climate catastrophe, looks more and more like
the political hype it is. This year to date, snow cover over North
America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than
at any time since 1966.
According to the US National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) many
American cities and towns have suffered record cold temperatures
in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average
temperature in January "was - 0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000
average."
China is surviving its most brutal winter in one hundred years.
Temperatures in the normally mild south were low for so long that
some middle-sized cities went weeks without electricity because
once power lines had toppled it was too cold or too icy to repair
them.
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There have been so many snow and ice storms in Ontario and Quebec
in the past two months that the real estate market has been hurt
as home buyers have stayed home. In just the first two weeks of
February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, breaking the record
of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in 1950.
Arctic Ice Melt has Reversed
One of the most dramatic results of the record cold over much
of the planet is the reversal of the much-reported melt of the
icebergs in the Arctic Ocean. Last autumn the world was alarmed
to hear from certain climatologists that the ice in the Arctic
had melted to its "lowest levels on record.” What was
carefully omitted from those scare stories was the fact that those
records only date back as far as 1972, and that there is anthropological
and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.
Now, as a result of the recent record cold weather, the ice is
back. According to Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the
Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, the Arctic winter has been so
severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20
cm thicker in many places than at this time last year.
What few people know and what the Global Warming lobby seems
at pains to keep known is the fact that there is considerable
seasonal variation in how much pack ice of the Arctic ice pack
covers the Arctic Ocean. Much of the ocean is also covered in
snow for about 10 months of the year. The maximum snow cover is
in March or April — about 20 to 50 centimeters over the
frozen ocean. The thickness is not one of the universal constants,
never was.
Admit flawed Climate Model
There is also admission by several intellectually honest climatologists
that their predictive models are flawed. Robert Toggweiler of
the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University
and Joellen Russell, assistant professor of biogeochemical dynamics
at the University of Arizona, two very prominent climate modellers,
recently admitted that the computer models that show polar ice-melt
cooling the oceans, stopping the circulation of warm equatorial
water to northern latitudes and triggering another Ice Age (as
in the fictional movie The Day After Tomorrow) are wrong. In a
recent interview Russell said, “It's not ice melt, but rather
wind circulation that drives ocean currents northward from the
tropics. Climate models until now have not properly accounted
for the wind's effects on ocean circulation, so researchers have
compensated by over-emphasizing the role of man-made warming on
polar ice melt.” Now that’s very interesting.
When professors Toggweiler and Russell reprogrammed their model
to include the 40-year cycle of winds away from the equator, then
back towards it again, the role of ocean currents bringing warm
southern waters to the north was obvious in the recent Arctic
warming.
Russian climatologists believe recent weather changes around
the globe are results of solar activity and not man-made emissions.
Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences,
calls the argument for man-made climate change "a drop in
the bucket." His research shows that now the recent very
active solar activity has entered an inactive phase. He advised
people to "stock up on fur coats."
Kenneth Tapping of Canada’s National Research Council,
who oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun, is convinced
we are in for a long period of severely cold weather if sunspot
activity does not pick up soon. The last time the sun was this
inactive, Earth suffered the Little Ice Age that lasted about
five centuries and ended in 1850. Crops failed through killer
frosts and drought. Famine, plague and war were widespread. Harbours
froze, so did rivers, and trade ceased.
The Global Warming Geopolitics
The recent Global Warming hysteria is in reality a geopolitical
push by leading global elite circles to find a way to get the
broader populations to willingly accept drastic cuts in their
living standards, something that were it demanded without clear
reason by politicians, would spark strikes and protest. The UN’s
latest IPCC report on Global Warming calls for diverting a huge
12% of global GDP to “prevent the harmful effects of climate
change.” The UN report, for example, estimated that its
recommendations to reduce certain manmade emissions would cost
about $2,750 per family per year in the price of energy.
Today there are two principal policy options of the Anglo-American
power establishment to impose their further control over a world
that is rapidly slipping out from under them. We might call them
Plan A and Plan B for short.
The first, Plan A, was the option represented by Bush-Cheney
and the big oil and military industrial complex behind them. Cheney
and his close Houston friend, Matt Simmons, propagated the myth
of Peak Oil to lull populations into accepting the inevitability
of $100 a barrel or even higher oil prices. In the meantime, the
relative strength of the Big Oil and the related US military establishment
grew with higher oil prices.
Their global War on Terror provided a cover or pretext to justify
military control over the major oil reserves and oil transit passages
of the world. From Iraq to Afghanistan to Kosovo, the US and NATO
agenda was aimed at future control of the extraordinary economic
powers emerging from Russia to China to India to Brazil and Venezuela
and beyond. Through China’s effective diplomacy in Africa,
many African countries are on the brink of slipping out from under
the US or British control into Chinese or more independent status.
If John McCain becomes the next choice of the US power elites
to be President, that will signal that that military and oil agenda
will escalate, especially as the USA sinks into a severe economic
depression in coming months.
The second broad faction of maintaining their control over the
greater part of the world economy, Plan B, sees Global Warming
and “soft power” as embodied in the organs of the
United Nations and IMF and World Bank as the more suitable vehicle
to convince people to willingly accept drastic reduction in living
standards.
Barack Obama, the apparent choice of the same elites as a “breath
of change” to allow them to regroup after the debacle of
the Bush-Cheney years, would likely opt for the second faction
of the global elite—the Global Warming option to lowering
general living standards, ‘Plan B’ of the Anglo-American
establishment. In a recent campaign speech in Wallingford Pennsylvania,
Mr. Obama replied to a question about Al Gore, the hero of Global
Warming. As President, Obama said he would consider putting Al
Gore in a Cabinet-level position—or higher. He stated, “I
will make a commitment that Al Gore will be at the table and play
a central part in us figuring out how we solve this problem. He's
somebody I talk to on a regular basis. I'm already consulting
with him in terms of these issues but climate change is real."
The two major global factions
Today there are two major factions within the Western political
power establishment internationally. They cooperate and share
broad elitist goals, but differ fundamentally on how to reach
these goals. Foremost is their goal of sharply controlling global
economic growth and population growth. The first faction is best
described as the Rockefeller Faction. It has a global power base
and is today best represented by the Bush family faction which
got their start, as I document in my book, as hired hands for
the powerful Rockefeller machine. The Rockefeller faction has
for more than a century based its power and influence on control
of oil and on use of the military to secure that control. It is
personified in the man who is since 2001 de facto President in
terms of decision-making—Dick Cheney. Cheney was former
CEO of Halliburton Corp., which is both the world’s largest
oilfield services company (now based in Dubai for tax reasons),
and the world’s largest military base constructor.
The second faction might be called the Soft Power Faction. Their
philosophy might be summed up that they think its “possible
to kill more flies with honey than with vinegar.” Their
preferred path to global population control and lowering of the
growth rates in China and elsewhere is through promoting the fraud
of global warming and imminent climate catastrophe. Al Gore is
linked to this faction. So is British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
They see globalist institutions, especially the United Nations,
as the best vehicle to advance their agenda of global austerity.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was created
by the United Nations Environment Programme. Its reports have
been demonstrated to be fundamentally flawed in scientific methodology,
yet they are aggressively being promoted as revealed truth by
the powerful media behind this faction. Others in the circle include
billionaire speculator George Soros, parts of the British Royal
family and representatives of European “old money.”
With the meteorological evidence of their claims for global warming
dissolving as the ice forms anew, it is not surprising that news
of the Arctic refreeze and other contrary evidence to their doomsday
thesis are kept from mainline international media.
F. William Engdahl is a Research Associate of the Center
for Research on Globalization and author of the recently-released
book, Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation
(www.globalresearch.ca). He also author of ‘A Century of
War: Anglo-American Oil Politics,’ Pluto Press Ltd. He may
be contacted at his website, www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net.
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