GREENIE EVANGELISM

Imagine a tropical South Pacific island about 32 km around and with a central volcanic peak 650 metres high. The slopes of the island taper down to a narrow band of agricultural terraces and coastal flats. Just offshore lie idyllic, clear-water, blue lagoons bounded by fringing coral reefs. All this, and the warm, equable climate of 18-23 degrees annually, is enjoyed by a local population of about 10,000 people.

An aircraft arrives, bearing a party of mostly young, well educated and articulate westerners. They bear sophisticated laptop computers and data projectors, with which they display beautifully crafted photographs and other graphical images that all reinforce one overwhelming message-global warming is here and it is going to wreck your environment and society unless you take steps to prevent it.

You must stop driving cars-not that there are many of those on our island, bicycles, without helmets, being a naturally preferred form of personal transport-and you must mend many other of your ways. Most importantly, seeing as you get one vote (like the USA) at the United Nations, your small nation must align its political support with those other angelic organisations and countries that are fighting to stop the scourge of global warming.

Leading speakers with the visiting group will be female, for the planners of this and similar operations have long since learned that marketing environmentalism using female presenters conveys all sorts of desirable subliminal messages, to do with genuineness, gentleness and looking after Mother Earth.

Few of our islanders have advanced degrees or training, and even fewer have them in science. They are helpless in front of the onslaught of facts and cleverly, but oh so nicely, presented opinion. There are few voices to balance or moderate the propaganda onslaught. Lacking the science facts which show that-outside of computer models-hypothetical human-caused global warming is a contrived problem, our islanders are easily convinced. Their guilt first having been awakened, it is then reinforced, and finally remorselessly jerked. When the aircraft takes the westerners away again, the guilt-as intended-will long remain. And so will the cargo cult expectations of increasing temperatures and rising sea-levels.

Now, unlike the messages of the zealous pro-global warmers, I am not making any of this up. Last week, between May 19th and May 25th, a South Pacific Climate Change team from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) conducted a week-long program of climate-change related activities in Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. The WWF advised that this was the first of a series of similar activities which will be carried out under a three-year project partnership between the WWF, the National Environment Service and other non-governmental organisations (NGOs) under the sponsorship of the European Union. The overall aim of the project is "to support the Cook Islands in implementing its national commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change."

Much of the money that is used to fund these NGO propaganda circuses is donated by well meaning school pupils and other young people, worldwide. "Pernicious" is not a strong enough word to describe the misuse of these funds in support of fundamentalist environmental evangelism.

In the early 19th century, Western nations sent missionaries out into newly discovered Polynesia. Their intentions were undoubtedly benign, but the result was most often a complete undermining of local native culture. Today, Western nations have spawned, and continue to support with tax relief and direct financial contributions, eco-evangelism. As for their former missionary counterparts, organisations like the WWF would like to think that God is on their side. Whether she is or not, many of the activities in which environmental NGOs now engage have become dangerously destabilising of both rational environmental protection and of sensible global governance.

Rarotonga and other South Pacific islands lie within the Pacific political realm of influence of Australia and New Zealand. For the European Union, aided by NGOs, to still be conducting cargo cult exercises in this region in the 21st century is simply outrageous. And, being Australian, I naturally think that the government should do something about it. Perhaps they could send a gunboat on any future such occasions; after all, New Zealand sent one to French Polynesia in protest about nuclear tests that were being undertaken there. Rather than carrying ammunition, the ship could be loaded with a cargo of leaflets, computer slide shows and the type of rationalist scientists who are committed to delivering a balanced account of our planet's always-changing climate.

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A complete list of things caused by global warming

(From Prof. Brignell. See original for links)

Air pressure changes, anxiety, aggressive polar bears, algal blooms, Asthma, avalanches, billions of deaths, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, budget increases, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, cannibalistic polar bears, Cholera, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping, CO2 emissions from plants, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs grow, cold spells, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, damages equivalent to $200 billion, declining fish stocks, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, desert advance, desert life threatened, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, disappearance of coastal cities, Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning polar bears, dust bowl in the corn belt, early spring, earlier pollen season, earthquakes, Earth light dimming, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth wobbling, El Nino intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis,, Everest shrinking, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (ladybirds, pandas, polar bears, gorillas, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang-utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, famine, farmers go under, figurehead sacked, fish catches drop, five million illnesses, floods, Florida economic decline, food poisoning, footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frosts, fungi invasion, Garden of Eden wilts, glacial retreat, glacial growth, global cooling, glowing clouds, Gore omnipresence, Great Lakes drop, greening of the North, Gulf Stream failure, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, heat waves, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, hurricanes, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, inclement weather, Inuit displacement, insurance premium rises, invasion of midges, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, krill decline, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawyers' income increased (surprise surprise!), Nile delta damaged, Malaria, malnutrition, Maple syrup shortage, marine diseases, marine food chain decimated, Melanoma, methane burps, melting permafrost, migration, microbes to decompose soil carbon more rapidly, more bad air days, more research needed, mudslides, next ice age, no more French wine, nuclear plants bloom, ocean acidification, outdoor hockey threatened, ozone loss, ozone repair slowed, ozone rise, pests increase, plankton blooms, plankton loss, railroad tracks deformed, rainfall increase, rainfall reduction, refugees, release of ancient frozen viruses, resorts disappear, rift on Capitol Hill, rivers raised, rivers dry up, rocky peaks crack apart, salinity reduction, Salmonella, sea level rise, sex change, ski resorts threatened, smog, snowfall increase, snowfall reduction, societal collapse, squid population explosion, tectonic plate movement, tides rise, tree foliage increase (UK), tree growth slowed, trees less colourful, trees more colourful, tropics expansion, tsunamis, Venice flooded, volcanic eruptions, wars over water, water bills double, water supply unreliability, water scarcity (20% of increase), West Nile fever, whales move north, wheat yields crushed in Australia, white Christmas dream ends, wildfires, wind shift, winters on Britain colder, wolves eat more moose, wolves eat less, workers laid off, World bankruptcy, Yellow fever.






NATURAL TEMPERATURE OSCILLATIONS IN BRITAIN

June ended in scorching heat over much of Britain yesterday, bringing good news for sellers of ice-cream, barbecues and sunscreen but causing more ballgirls at Wimbledon to wilt in the sun. Last month was on course to have been the hottest June for 30 years, and perhaps the fourth hottest in a century. It continued the trend of extreme weather in 2006, which saw a freezing March and sodden May. William Hill drastically cut its odds on June having the hottest day of the year after a flurry of late betting.

Provisional statistics suggest that they may have been wise to do so. London saw the hottest June day for 61 years, as temperatures reached 31.4C (88.5F) at Heathrow on June 12. The average temperature for Central England for the month could be over 16.1C (61F), including both day and night. This beats even 2003, when heatwaves are reckoned to have killed thousands.

The previous highest average temperature for June was in 1976, when a stifling heatwave hit 32C (90F) or more in southern England for 15 consecutive days. This was a truly phenomenal event - no heatwave before or since has reached such heights for more than five successive days.

The parallels with 1976 do not stop there. Both that year and 2006 have seen extraordinarily long droughts in parts of southern England, lasting well over 12 months. In addition, the June of '76 was a mixed bag of weather, with bouts of cooler and wetter weather breaking up the hot spells - much the same as this year, which featured a powerful Atlantic gale that rolled in last week (around June 20-21) and gave Wimbledon its soggy start. The reason for the drought, and later the heat, was stubborn blocks of high pressure that kept our more usual Atlantic weather at bay. So instead of the expected rain and wind, the Great Drought saw soaring temperatures, wildfires and water rationing. Dire warnings from water companies have brought suggestions that this year could see a similar scenario.

But cool off - we may not be quite so hot and bothered for long. Simply assuming that we are in for a repeat of 1976 - standpipes and all - would be a mistake. Trying to make a long-range forecasts based on previous years is a minefield for the unwary, and this year the outlook is very difficult to predict.

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Many people would like to be kind to others so Leftists exploit that with their nonsense about equality. Most people want a clean, green environment so Greenies exploit that by inventing all sorts of far-fetched threats to the environment. But for both, the real motive is to promote themselves as wiser and better than everyone else, truth regardless.

Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that "liberals" will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly. Evidence never has mattered to real Leftists

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