Old Disinformation Cloaked as Science

By Floy Lilley, J.D.
December 16, 2004

The assigned spokesperson for U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, Klaus Topfler, read prepared remarks for the high-level Plenary saying, "we want genuine science to lay doubt behind us."

Yes. We do. We who value human civilization truly do.

Will we find any of that genuine science at a U.N. gathering?

What we find are sins of omission and old disinformation.

On a topic as simple as wildfires, supporters of United Nation's efforts are selective about the facts they choose in order to arrive at their agenda's end – the message that humans are everywhere the cause of changes in climate.

A few paragraphs dedicated to "Fires and the greenhouse" in a NCAR report on Climate Change Impacts, blames wildfires on 'human induced' drought.

The authors fail to mention absence of forest management as a factor. Or mother nature. Unmanaged forests blow down, disease-over and become perfect kindling for massive burns ignited by lightning strikes, accident or arson.

No. Just 'human-induced draught' can be causative.

"Many projections of climate change in the West include hotter temperatures and increased drought, a recipe for more forest fires. Society may find itself spending a lot more money on fire suppression – or witnessing more carbon released by wildfires," concluded this piece.

NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. U.S. taxpayers are paying for this biased, agenda-driven propaganda. Again.

In a whipped-up froth over the 'detection of DDT' in his beloved Caspian Sea, a Russian NGO representative displayed obvious ignorance of the genuine science that DDT's suppression was a totally political move by U.S.' William Rucklehouse back in 1972. Disinformation over DDT has led to millions of preventable deaths by malaria, particularly in Africa.

It is difficult not to just shake one's head at the irony displayed by a Russian concerned about a harmless DDT molecule. 80 percent of his Russian male colleagues will die of cirrhosis of the liver by age fifty-four. That's alcohol abuse, not DDT abuse. Is this Russian focused on things that matter?

Who is focused upon things that truly matter, rather than upon the Emperors new clothes?

When asked, "what is your opinion on the declarations of the director of the Danish National Institute for the Evaluation of the Environment, Bjorn Lomberg, about the priority of addressing problems such as AIDS rather than climate change?" EU community representative, Yvo de Boer, in an interview for El Diario responded, "In fact there exist recent studies indicating that the effects of climate change can be gigantic and affect all environments. It is necessary to do more than one thing at the same time."

Boer did not answer the question. He simply said climate change is everything. But that is saying, "I do not understand a single thing about human action and economics."

Throw disinformation into the trash where it belongs and you could learn that Bjorn Lomberg's book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, makes the case that resources are finite and should be focused on key issues, not squandered on the disaster of the day. Lomberg's selection of issue number one in the world is poverty. Lomberg is incredulous that $400 Billion will be thrown at climate change when those funds could, in a single year, bring potable water to all lesser developed countries.

There may be differences of opinions about Lomberg's climate conclusions, but none should deny that poverty, not carbon dioxide, is this planet's chief pollutant.