GLOBAL WARMING : MYTH VS. REALITY

Most of the so called "greenhouse gasses" have natural sources; volcanoes, animal and plant respiration, and the oceans. The proponents of this greenhouse effect tell us that carbon dioxide is the main problem, and we should be spending billions of dollars trying to cut back on emissions from cars, factories, etc. According to governmental agencies, to cut back these emissions twenty percent in the next ten years, we would have to spend about 100 billion dollars a year. And that would still leave one of the biggest polluters untouched: trees. Yes, trees and plants only clean the air while they are growing. Once fully grown, they actually give off carbon dioxide!

Not to worry however, because carbon dioxide is not the main greenhouse gas that we have to worry about — water vapor is. But the environmentalists can't do anything about it since it occurs naturally from evaporation, so they tell us that carbon dioxide is the problem. Keep in mind, that if we didn't have the small natural greenhouse effect that the water vapor gives us, the temperature on the Earth would be like that on Mars, where a warm day would be zero degrees! And while we're on the topic of messing up the climate, what about the man made Chlorofluorocarbons, otherwise known as CFCs? We have all read that they are putting a hole in the ozone layer, but again, this is not quite the truth. . . .

In most scientific journals a description of the Sun and a description of the Earth may go something like what you will see in the introductory chapter of the book. The Sun-Earth connection is not a new theory. It has long been known there is some method of relation between what happens on the Sun, and its slow methodical effect in the way of climate on Earth . . .

Solar Rain brilliantly lays out chapter by chapter a Sun-Earth causal effect which occurs within hours of its initial event. It develops so rapidly, that what happens on the Sun, can effect what happens on the Earth before many of you will finish the first three chapters. In the famous venue of the slow awakening giant, the world's solar scientists are playing ‘catch-up’ to a new (which is old) understanding of the symbiotic and closely knit relationship between what happens on the Sun, and what can cause almost immediate problems on Earth.

Al Gore reports facts that are intended to convince the readers that global warming is created by humanity's carelessness, and that it is changing our environment in a way which is already detrimental to our wellbeing and that of future generations. However, the other sides of the argument aren't even presented.

For example:

• The Cryosphere
• Glaciers — Gore makes no mention that glaciers have been advancing and retreating since the last ice-age. For example a recent study found Andean glaciers advanced and retreated 4 times from 1250 to 1850 AD.
• Greenland - Gore shows a sketch in his new book of a profile of this ice sheet, with major water flows down to it's base. He depicts a moulin — a massive torrent of fresh melt-water — tunneling straight down to the bedrock below the ice. This is at best theoretical, and at the worst pure conjecture, as these ice sheets can be two miles thick. Crevasses are no way that deep. And no one knows how long the water remains as water as it seeps lower and lower over solid ice.
• Greenland — Many reports show snow has increased in the interior and decreased on the edges. A recent report noted it can change by ± several meters over 20-30 years and concluded it might have to be studied for decades to see if it is thinning.
• Mt Kilimanjaro — Gore claims the nearly snow free peak is due to GW. He ignores inputs that point to a drastic drop in atmospheric moisture, since 1900.
• West Antarctic Ice Sheet — Gore's map defines it as an ice-shelf, whch is a huge difference.
• The Hydrosphere
• Sea Level — Gore talks of an 18 to 20 foot rise. He shows 12 pages of the devastating impact on Florida, San Fran Bay and NY. But he totally ignores forecasts by the UN of a rise of only 0.3 to 2.9 feet by 2100.
• Hurricanes — Claims warm water is the cause. Ignores inputs that ocean has not warmed in the hurricane formation part of the Atlantic. Also ignores the approximate 30 year cycle on hurricanes.
• The Biosphere
• In spite of hundreds, perhaps even thousands of reports on enhanced crop and forest growth from the increased atmospheric CO(2), Gore barely mentions this photosynthesis bounty, and then only as one of his misconceptions.

"The existence of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is vital to life on Earth – in their absence average temperatures would be about 30 centigrade degrees lower than they are today. . . . "

Declassified Key Judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States” dated April 2006

This document is the declassified Key Judgments from the larger, classified National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States that was produced in April 2006. The NIE analyzes the nature of the threat that terrorist groups across the world will pose to US lives and interests, including the Homeland, during the next five years.

The official narrative of the September 11, 2001 attacks has been criticized as little more than a cover story by an assortment of radio hosts, academics, amateur filmmakers and others who have disseminated their arguments on the Internet and cable television in America and abroad. As a motive, they suggest that the Bush administration wanted to use the attacks to justify military action in the Middle East.

Since increasing numbers of people are beginning to consider if there is any truth to the many conspiracy theories and claims being circulated, certain documented facts should not be overlooked. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a final report in October 2005 on the World Trade Center Towers Disaster. Here are factual Answers to Frequently Asked Questions regarding this Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the 9/11/2001 World Trade Center attacks. Here are the facts — as compared to the claims of the proponents of 9/11 conspiracies.

FAQ from the NIST Report  

The film Fahrenheit 9/11 convinces nearly all who see it - and believe it - that George Bush was unfit to lead on 9/11/2001 and beyond. Fahrenheit 9-12 - this book - convinces nearly all who read it that a review of the sources of virtually every frame and every claim in the film reveals that virtually everything in Fahrenheit 9/11 is arguably misleading or inaccurate. Fahrenheit 9-12 is not for everyone - it is just for those intellectually honest people who hate President Bush, as well as for those who do not. The Bush-bashers are doomed to four years of misery and frustration unless the distortions on which they base their bashes will be exposed to them. Fahrenheit 9-12 brings relief to those who have taken Michael Moore's criticisms of President Bush to heart, and who have suffered heartache or heartburn ever since.

Many people who do not hate President Bush will be relieved and reinvigorated once they discover the lack of merit of most of the film's assaults on Bush's character, intelligence, and judgment. Readers who saw or boycotted Moore's film can appreciate Reichel's rebuttals enough to want to show his book to - or buy copies for - friends, colleagues, team-mates, teachers, students, and/or relatives who believe that Fahrenheit 9/11 - the film - deserves even a fraction of the respect, acclaim and/or popularity it has received, thereby reducing tension in many personal or even professional relationships. Fahrenheit 9-12 - this book - replaces ad hominem discord with rational discourse.

A Groundbreaking, meticulous, and scientific analysis of the 9/11 conspiracy theories. The first conspiracy theories about September 11 began to emerge while the wreckage was still smoldering. Today, nearly five years later, hundreds of books and thousands of Web pages are devoted to the idea that the U.S. government encouraged, permitted, or actually carried out the attacks. These theories claim to be based on hard evidence. But an in-depth investigation by POPULAR MECHANICS — first published in the magazine’s March 2005 issue, and now greatly expanded into book form—definitively proves that the evidence most often cited by conspiracy theorists is inaccurate, misinterpreted, or false.

The original article in POPULAR MECHANICS caused a huge groundswell of interest, setting off online debates that continue to this day. Debunking 9/11 Myths expands that investigation to include the 20 most prominent and persistent claims underlying the conspiracy theories, focusing on concrete, physical facts rather than political hypothesizing. Among the issues examined: claims that air traffic control violated standard operating procedures by not immediately intercepting the stricken jets; that the fire caused by the crashes wasn’t actually hot enough to melt steel and cause structural damage in the World Trade Center; that the holes in the Pentagon were too small to have been made by a Boeing 757; and that Flight 93 was actually shot down by an Air Force plane.

The fascinating and in-depth findings come from leading experts in all the relevant fields, including aviation, air defense, air traffic control, civil engineering, firefighting, metallurgy, and geology.

Dylan Avery wrote and directed Loose Change, one of the most-watched movies on the Internet, with 10 million viewers in the past year. "Until the government can prove beyond a shadow of doubt that al Qaeda was behind Sept. 11, the American people have every reason to believe otherwise." Avery is one of perhaps millions of Americans who believe the U.S. government - or rogue elements within it - either orchestrated the attacks or tacitly supported them for nefarious reasons.

Loose Change claims that there is a direct connection between the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the United States government. Purported "evidence" is derived from news footage, scientific fact, and Americans who suffered through that tragic day.

Loose Change  

9-11 Truth

Faced with an angry minority of people who believe the Sept. 11 attacks were part of a shadowy and sprawling plot run by Americans, separate reports were published in September 2006 by the U. S. State Department and the National Institute of Standards and Technology insisting that the catastrophes were caused by hijackers who used commercial airliners as weapons.

9-11 Truth  

Georges Sada was one of Saddam's top generals and foremost military advisors. A truth-teller in a government that made the truth dangerous. A devout Christian in a Muslim country, and a man who would stand up for what was right - even at the risk of his own life.

In this eye-opening expose, General Sada shares his bizarre yet amazing journey as an insider to one of history's most sinister regimes. He also, for the first time, reveals the disturbing truth about Saddam's plots to destroy Israel, hide weapons of mass destruction and overtake the Arab world. As an eyewitness to history, Sada paints a painfully truthful picture of Hussein and his country that is at once personal and alarming, truthful and compelling, candid and sobering. It is a story guaranteed to send shock waves around the world.

OSAMA BIN LADEN and Saddam Hussein had an operational relationship from the early 1990s to 2003 that involved training in explosives and weapons of mass destruction, logistical support for terrorist attacks, al Qaeda training camps and safe haven in Iraq, and Iraqi financial support for al Qaeda - perhaps even for Mohamed Atta - according to a top secret U.S. government memorandum obtained by The Weekly Standard.

The memo, dated October 27, 2003, was sent from Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith to Senators Pat Roberts and Jay Rockefeller, the chairman and vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It was written in response to a request from the committee as part of its investigation into prewar intelligence claims made by the administration. Intelligence reporting included in the 16-page memo comes from a variety of domestic and foreign agencies, including the FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency. Much of the evidence is detailed, conclusive, and corroborated by multiple sources. Some of it is new information obtained in custodial interviews with high-level al Qaeda terrorists and Iraqi officials, and some of it is more than a decade old. The picture that emerges is one of a history of collaboration between two of America's most determined and dangerous enemies. According to the memo - which lays out the intelligence in 50 numbered points - Iraq-al Qaeda contacts began in 1990 and continued through mid-March 2003, days before the Iraq War began. Most of the numbered passages contain straight, fact-based intelligence reporting, which some cases includes an evaluation of the credibility of the source. This reporting is often followed by commentary and analysis.