Debunking Global Warming — BNP Releases Briefing Paper to Mark the Copenhagen Conference
The British National Party has released a sensational 40–page briefing paper in which the case for calling into question “man-made global warming” is presented in detail.
The introduction of the paper, which can be downloaded in full by clicking here, states that the BNP is “not a scientific body. It is a political party which believes in the integrity of the nation state.”
However, the paper goes on to state, the “party is deeply sceptical of the view promulgated by the international political elite that global warming is man-made.
“The BNP, like all interested bodies, must weigh the evidence carefully and reach an opinion. In so doing, it must also identify, within the debate, vested interests and influences, both covert and overt.”
The paper points out that there has been “so little debate” which in itself is “remarkable, given that there are many thousands of scientists who have questioned the thesis of man-made global warming. Attempts by these experts to challenge the ‘warmists’ to debate their contention have been spurned.
“When an argument reaches politically-correct dimensions, not least by the BBC, it becomes questionable for that reason alone. Why is debate thwarted? Why are those who hold a contrary opinion silenced and ostracised and by whom?”
The paper goes on to state that “No one understands how the global climate engine works or which the most important inputs are. No one can say for certain what effects man-made influences on any or several of these may be.
“As the information in this paper demonstrates, the claim that the world is warming on account of greenhouse gases is based upon limited, prejudicial and manipulated information.”
The paper, published by the BNP to mark the Copenhagen Conference, says that the “topic of global warming appears to be less about climate than about developing international political power structures aimed at eroding the sovereignty of the nation state.”
It then breaks down the arguments for global warming as a phenomena, and deals with the claims that it is all man-made.
Amongst the research quoted in the paper are letters and the names of many prominent scientists and climate change sceptics who have been denied the right to present their case.
“The bogus claims of global warming really appear to be about the diminution of national sovereignty, creating a precedent to enable the EU to interfere in criminal law and punishment and, crucially, introducing and harmonising taxes — in this instance, ‘green’ taxes,” the paper says.
None of this should suggest that the BNP opposes environmentalism, the paper adds. “To the contrary, the BNP has repeatedly campaigned against the concreting over of large areas of countryside, of over-population caused by immigration and of the congestion that flows from this.
“More pertinent to this paper, the BNP wishes to preserve fossil fuels and for the simple reason that they are finite and will eventually run out or become so expensive that their use will be prohibitive.”
The paper then summaries many of the most important reasons why if global warming is in fact taking place, it is not due to man but rather the result of natural occurrences.
“The extreme language employed by the ‘warmists’ is reminiscent of that used in previous scares, such as with BSE or the Y2K millennium bug, when Tony Blair stated the problem was one of the most serious facing the global economy,” the paper says.
“Supporters of ‘Climate Change’ focus on the extraordinarily narrow horizon of the past 150 years within a time frame of 4.5bn years. Before the industrial revolution, global temperatures varied considerably, and often exceeded those of today, such as in the Eemian Interglacial and during the Roman and Mediaeval periods.
“A recent report from the Japan Society of Energy and Resources stated that climate change is ‘driven by natural cycles not human industrial activity’. The Society dismissed the use of computer models, comparing these with astrology.
“Within global history, polar ice has been present on earth for less than 20 per cent of geological time; climate changes are cyclical and random; the CO2 in the atmosphere – to which human activity contributes the tiniest fraction – is only 0.001 per cent of the total CO2 held in the oceans, surface rocks, air, soils and life; CO2 is not a pollutant but a plant food; the earth’s warmer periods - such as when the Romans grew grapes and citrus trees as far north as Hadrian’s Wall - were periods of prosperity and buoyant harvests.
“It should also be noted that CO2 levels have been much higher in the past: during Ordovician ice-age period, CO2 concentrations were over ten times higher than today,” the paper says.
“Climate Change models engage in selective interpretation of data. None predicted this current period of global cooling. Global warming ceased in 1998. The past two to three years of global cooling have erased nearly 30 years of temperature increase. Meanwhile, global warming on Mars and Jupiter’s moons has been ignored and is clearly not explained by industrialization.
“Similarly, allegations of rising sea levels can be attributed to a number of possibilities: cyclical variance, wind variance, variance in tidal currents, land sink and subsidence.
“Sea levels have risen and fallen over time by perhaps 600 metres. Since the end of glaciation 14,000 years ago, sea levels have risen some 130 metres or as much as 10mm per year as against around 1mm per year recently. This sea level rise created the English Channel, before which Britain was linked to the Continent.
“Global warming is the new secular religion, many of whose proponents doubted Christianity and whose political philosophy was destabilised with the collapse of communism in 1989.
“Many of these elements have migrated into the environmentalist lobby where they continue to campaign against capitalism and big corporations while pursuing their globalist ideals,” the paper adds.
“Vast tomes of expensive and unnecessary regulation have been drafted because of a ‘problem’ that does not exist.
“Vested interests promote ‘global warming’ to excuse greater taxation, regulation and international forums of governance and control. Energy companies and investors stand to gain handsomely from scams such as carbon trading.”
The paper sections are as follows:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Summary of Case Against
3. Professor Plimer’s Killer Statistics
4. Lord Monckton of Brenchley on the Medieval Warm Period
5. The Ozone Layer – Recovering!
6. More on the Ozone
7. The Earth cooled 0.7c in 2007
8. President Vaclav Klaus on Global Warming
9. Global Warming on Mars – and elsewhere – as the Sun Warms Up!
10. What they said about global cooling 1979-94
11. The Cost of Carbon Capture to the Consumer
12. Dangers of Leaking CO2 from Storage
13. Meanwhile, the Earth Continues to Absorb CO2 Naturally
14. Copenhagen Summit Promotes the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
15. UK Government Strategy
16. Devastating Findings by Dr Richard Lindzen Disproves Global Warming (Portand Civil Rights Examiner)
17. Scientists Against ‘Global Warming’ Hypothesis
18. German Scientists Reject Global Warming (Spero News)
19. Some More Deniers
20. Explanation of Carbon Credits
21. The Vast Cost of Inefficient, Subsidised Wind Power
22. Cost of the Climate Change Act to British Taxpayers
23. Booker on Climate Change
24. The Times Reports of Panic Warnings from Gordon Brown:
25. Sunday Times Warns of Colossal Tax Rise
26. More from Monckton
27. Some Brief Facts
27.1 Correlation between CO2 and Temperature Erroneous
27.2 U. S. Senate Minority Report: More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims
28. Some Interesting Thoughts
29. Research employed in this paper
Download the briefing paper by clicking here.
