The Obama administration through the Environmental Protection Agency is about to take a step that will regulate American freedom out of existence. They will do it through almost unlimited regulatory powers authorized by the Clean Air Act.

The Obama administration first appointed yes women to head critical national agencies and then the Obama administration claims the government must act because of their unfounded and unscientific recommendations? This EPA announcement has just moved us another huge step toward executive branch dictatorship and fascism. If congress does not take strong enough action against CO2 emissions we are now told it will be done by EPA regulation and through Obama’s executive orders.

EPA through the clean air act intends to regulate CO2 which really means it will have the power to regulate just about everything in America. Obama and his henchmen and henchwomen makes Pultin look like an authoritative amateur. Obama is bringing in fascism with a reassuring smile and most people just hail Obama like they were 1930’s German transplants.

So do you want to know what is wrong with EPA’s control of Carbon Dioxide? They are putting a naturally occurring gas necessary for life under the Clean Air Act. Doing this is almost as bad as putting all water vapor under government control. Regulating a natural gas that is emitted by everyone and all manufactures gives EPA unlimited power to regulate everything in everyone lives.

The EPA will be effectively running this nation they will have control over manufactures, they will have control over farmers with livestock, they will even have control over what you do in your own home and on your own property. They will implement carbon cap-and-trade schemes that will soon triple the cost of all energy in the United States. That means your electric bills will triple, your gasoline bills will triple, manufactures who use energy will have to raise their prices on all the products that you buy. It really will be the largest hidden tax in the history of the world and it will drive up the price of all manufactured products and even food products. It will also destroy future coal and domestic oil production. It will make coal generation so costly that they will go out of business and the high price of energy will drive energy intensive jobs to nations not run by fools. Implementation of this Carbon tax-and-trade scheme will eliminate another two million more American jobs.

it would be bad enough to do this foolishness in a good economy but doing this now will insure that America will never have a long term recovery from our economic collapse. Along with the foolish deficit spending and the unsustainable debt these carbon cap-and-trade taxes will bring a hyper inflationary depression that will completely destroy the economy of America and totally wipe out the middle class. If you think I am exaggerating allow the Obama administration to carry out these plans and you will soon be in bread lines begging for a handout from the Obama youth brigades working under the direction of Big Sister’s Homeland Security.

Never mind, that man is not even the cause of global warming. There is no correlation between rising CO2 and global warming. Earth records prove that. Besides, the facts are that the earth has been cooling since 1998 even with rising CO2. All this hype on climate change is just a cover to bring in global governance. Call it world communist, world fascism, world socialism its all very much the same to the elite. You have the elite control freaks and the workers. The elite get all the benefits from their enslaved workers on their collective ant farms.

I have to say that everything I said about Obama before the election was understated. This man in just one-hundred days has done more to bring the downfall of America then any foreign or domestic enemy in our nation’s history. You might not see it yet but when his policies fully play out you will see too late what his radical far Left policies did to destroy America.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that Obama is actually trying to destroy this nation on purpose but when you elect a far Left socialist into power and a congress that is almost as far Left where in the world did you actually think they would take this nation? Has any socialist nation ever prospered or the people retained their freedom?

You all better pray that Americans continue to wake up and make the Tea Party Movement a real movement to take America back from the control freaks and fools running Washington D.C. or we soon will have no nation to take back. Meanwhile, tell everyone in power that they had better oppose any carbon legislation or EPA carbon regulation.

EPA Takes First Step Toward Regulating Pollution Linked to Climate Change – First 100 Days of Presidency – Politics FOXNews.com

WASHINGTON — The debate on global warming is set to heat up again with the Obama administration’s release on Friday of an EPA proposed finding that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases are a danger to public health and welfare.

The finding is the first step to regulating pollution linked to climate change.

The agency said, “in both magnitude and probability, climate change is an enormous problem” and that the greenhouse gases listed “endanger public health and welfare within the meaning of the Clean Air Act.”

The EPA concluded that the science pointing to man-made pollution as a cause of global warming is “compelling and overwhelming.” It also said tailpipe emissions from motor vehicles contribute to climate change.

“The Congress is working on a comprehensive solution to global warming, and I am committed to moving clean energy legislation this year that will include perspectives from across our nation to create jobs, improve our national security, and reduce global warming,” she added.

But Republicans, led by Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, say the EPA conclusions will destroy jobs and harm consumers. Inhofe, the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, also accused the president of using the EPA ruling to intimidate Congress to pass his cap-and-trade legislation by saying pass it or face new, onerous regulations.

“As bad as the $700 billion bank bailout was and as bad as the $789 billion stimulus was, at least that was just a one time deal. This will be a tax every year somewhere in the neighborhood of $400 billion,” he told FOX News Radio.

Inhofe, who also issued a statement saying EPA should be stopped in its tracks, added that Congress is much more informed about climate change issues these days and it’s unlikely a tax hike of that size would pass.

“Even if you believe that man-made gases are causing global warming, does it make any sense us to unilaterally tax ourselves when all that will do is send our manufacturing jobs to areas where they don’t have any emissions standards like China and Mexico?” Inhofe asked.

Boxer responded that if Congress “does not act to pass legislation, then I will call on EPA to take all steps authorized by law to protect our families.”

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You may want to know the real story about how the global warming scam got started and how Al Gore got to be a leader in it. You may also want to know that the person who started the global warming theory also cautioned everyone that the data for global warming was not conclusive and told people to use caution because much more research had to be done. But Al Gore dismissed this mentor of his as if he was a senile old man and pushed his own radical catastrophic global warming religion to foster his idea of global governance and also to make himself filthy rich.

You may want to know what this has to do with world trends and Bible prophecy? Simply this. The scam is setting us up for global governance and socialist fascist controls over everyone on earth. Now you know why Obama and why all liberals politicians of the world are pushing this loony religion as some world crises. It really is all about one world global politics and management and control over everyone on earth.

There is no real science to support AGW. Almost all the reports that attempt to support it are funded by those who will only accept AGW outcomes. There is no scientific method, it is not science, it is junk science. The grant money is determining the outcome. Those making a living on the AGW gravy train are not going to run the train off track.

Meanwhile for over a decade now the world has been actually trending colder while CO2 has been rising. Proving that rising CO2 does not cause global warming. That fact is also totally documented in the earth’s geological record. Global warming in past eras always preceded rising CO2 on earth because a warmer earth releases more CO2 from the oceans like a bottle of warm soda releases more CO2 bubbles than a cold soda.

So what does that mean to you. If you allow your representatives to pass carbon legislation’s you can expect all your energy costs to double in price in very short order. If your electric bill is now $100 a month it will soon be $200. If it costs you $500 to heat your house in January it will soon cost you a $1000. You will pay the billions for very high cost windmills that will only be torn down when future environmentalists report on their huge impact on birds, and the mined resources such as copper and iron needed to make them. Not to mention that they are annoying and are not a dependable source of electricity. You can also expect the price of almost everything you buy to go up. It will be like a Value Added Tax was added to everything you buy. The cost of the forced government regulations at all stages of production will simply pass on carbon costs to the consumer. It really will be just another huge hidden tax.

And where will all this carbon tax money go? It will go to carbon schemes that will only line the pockets of those on the global warming gravy train. Then in a decade we will all have a lower standard of living but that is what they want anyway since liberals think we all consume too much and that are high living standards are not sustainable. Meanwhile if global climate conditions continue the earth will grow colder. Then after the social and economic damage is already done your children will still have to pay the social and economic costs of the greatest scam and power grab in human history.

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The Amazing Story Behind Tho Global Warming Scam

By John Coleman
January 28, 2009

The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax we citizens for our carbon footprints. Only two details stand in the way, the faltering economic times and a dramatic turn toward a colder climate. The last two bitter winters have lead to a rise in public awareness that CO2 is not a pollutant and is not a significant greenhouse gas that is triggering runaway global warming.

How did we ever get to this point where bad science is driving big government we have to struggle so to stop it?

The man who had inspired Al Gore and given the UN the basic research it needed to launch its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was having second thoughts. In 1988 he wrote two cautionary letters to members of Congress. He wrote, “My own personal belief is that we should wait another 10 or 20 years to really be convinced that the greenhouse effect is going to be important for human beings, in both positive and negative ways.” He added, “…we should be careful not to arouse too much alarm until the rate and amount of warming becomes clearer.”

And in 1991 Revelle teamed up with Chauncey Starr, founding director of the Electric Power Research Institute and Fred Singer, the first director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service, to write an article for Cosmos magazine. They urged more research and begged scientists and governments not to move too fast to curb greenhouse CO2 emissions because the true impact of carbon dioxide was not at all certain and curbing the use of fossil fuels could have a huge negative impact on the economy and jobs and our standard of living. I have discussed this collaboration with Dr. Singer. He assures me that Revelle was considerably more certain than he was at the time that carbon dioxide was not a problem.

Al Gore has dismissed Roger Revelle’s Mea culpa as the actions of senile old man. And, the next year, while running for Vice President, he said the science behind global warming is settled and there will be no more debate, From 1992 until today, he and his cohorts have refused to debate global warming and when ask about we skeptics they simply insult us and call us names.

So today we have the acceptance of carbon dioxide as the culprit of global warming. It is concluded that when we burn fossil fuels we are leaving a dastardly carbon footprint which we must pay Al Gore or the environmentalists to offset. Our governments on all levels are considering taxing the use of fossil fuels. The Federal Environmental Protection Agency is on the verge of naming CO2 as a pollutant and strictly regulating its use to protect our climate. The new President and the US congress are on board. Many state governments are moving on the same course.

We are already suffering from this CO2 silliness in many ways. Our energy policy has been strictly hobbled by no drilling and no new refineries for decades. We pay for the shortage this has created every time we buy gas. On top of that the whole thing about corn based ethanol costs us millions of tax dollars in subsidies. That also has driven up food prices. And, all of this is a long way from over.

And, I am totally convinced there is no scientific basis for any of it.

Global Warming. It is the hoax. It is bad science. It is a high jacking of public policy. It is no joke. It is the greatest scam in history.

John Coleman
1-29-09

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Brannon House gives a very good explanation of how three different demonically inspired worldviews have merged to create what he calls “One-World Spirituality”. After you read this article you will have a much better understanding of where Oprah, Obama, Al Gore,Tolle are leading the world via the lies from Media, Educational systems, Radical Environmentalism, Emergent Church, WCC, CFR, UN etc.

Over half of America now is under the influence of this new worldview and that includes most of those who call themselves Christians. All of the three worldviews are incompatible with Christianity and when combined they are not only hostile toward Bible believers they also have the power to carry out hostility and persecution on those who oppose them. The root teaching of all of the worldviews can be traced back to people influenced by paganism and the occult.

Christian Worldview Network – Brannon Howse – One World Spirituality: Three Worldviews Merge

Dr. Carlson and I agreed that there are three worldviews that have merged to create a worldview I call One-World Spirituality. These worldviews are evolutionary humanism, Hindu pantheism, and occultism. The theology of this worldview is pantheism, the philosophy is pagan spirituality, the biology is Darwinian evolution, the economic system is socialism, their politics is globalism, and the activism of their worldview is centered on radical environmentalism and political correctness (cultural Marxism). The goals of this One-World Spirituality are a one-world government, a one-world religion, and a one-world economic system.

A belief and commitment to the exclusivity of Jesus Christ in a world of religions is now politically incorrect and does not conform to the mandates of cultural Marxism. The Associated Pressed reported on June 23, 2008 that a June 2008 report released by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that “57% of evangelical church attenders said they believe many religions can lead to eternal life. In all, 70 percent of Americans with a religious affiliation shared that view and 68 percent said there is more than one true way to interpret the teachings of their own religion.” Of course anyone that beliefs this is not really an evangelical Christian. However this report reveals that a Biblical worldview is now the minority worldview in America.

Whether they realize it or not, leaders from business, government, and organized religion are embracing One-World Spirituality. Many within the Emergent Church engage in pagan spirituality, promote pantheism and globalism, and praise the economic worldview of Karl Marx.

Perhaps one of the most visible American politicians who is living out this One-World Spirituality is former Vice President Al Gore. Gore is a former Southern Baptist turned New Ager who has embraced pantheism, pagan spirituality, socialism, and globalism and who is using radical environmentalism to bring his worldview to bear on America and the world.

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Take heed! The “nice” leftist people that you are electing are planing to take this nation to what we fought against in World War II. They plan to replace our system with a global fascist system of total governance over everyone and everything. History is repeating itself on a world scale and this time there will be no America coming to the rescue. It is Big Brother control disguised as democratic compassionate humanitarianism. They brainwash you to fear the Christian Right while they bring in their fascist godless socialism through the Left. This Beast will not follow the American Constitution it will follow the ways of the Antichrist. Learn what global governance is all about by reading the full article. Don’t be just another sheep led to the slaughter.

The inevitability of world government

Among the wide-ranging policies addressed in the Millennium Declaration isAgenda 21, the 40-chapter book that defines “sustainable development.” This feel-good term obscures the devastating policies that put government in control of virtually every facet of human existence. Through various federal agencies, the executive branch has already implemented many of the provisions of Agenda 21. Of great concern are the comprehensive planning measures that routinely destroy private property rights – with no thought about the just compensation required by the U.S. Constitution.

The inevitable move toward global governance that will result from the next election takes the United States further away from its fundamental purpose: to protect the inalienable rights of its citizens. Global governance does not recognize inalienable rights at all. Global governance defines the rights that citizens have and assumes the authority to designate those who are responsible for seeing that these rights are extended to those who do not enjoy them.

Obama’s Global Poverty Act affirms this principle: from those according to their ability; to those according to their need – as defined by the United Nations.

Global governance is not the overthrow of the U.S. government by an invasion of blue-helmeted troops delivered on black helicopters. Global governance is the gradual expansion of international rules and regulations developed by unelected international bureaucrats and voluntarily accepted by the likes of the Clintons, Obama and a Democrat-led Congress.

The Millennium Declaration, which Obama’s Global Poverty Act embraces, also calls for all nations to accept the concept of “sovereign equality.” This term is substantially different from “equal sovereignty.” Equal sovereignty means simply that each nation is sovereign in its own right. Sovereign equality means that limitations on the sovereignty of each nation shall be equal, as defined by the U.N. This concept is discussed at length in “Our Global Neighborhood,” the report of the Commission on Global Governance.

The United States is on the verge of being inextricably trapped in the web of international treaties and agreements that is, in fact, global governance. When the U.S. submits to the International Criminal Court, allows the U.N. the power to tax, and finally, acquiesces to the demand to eliminate the veto in the U.N. Security Council, global governance will become world government, from which there will be no escape.

FrontPage magazine interviews Steven J. Milloy founder and publisher of JunkScience.com. Take heed to what Milloy is saying the Algoreites are a danger to the world and certainly will make you much poorer unless you have your hands in the cookie jar.

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I can’t make Al Gore tell the truth. I can’t make Barbara Boxer tell the truth. I can’t make (NASA climatologist) James Hansen tell the truth. But you know what? I can make a CEO tell the truth. I can maybe even sue a CEO. I can maybe get the Securities and Exchange Commission interested in some of the statements they’ve made about global warming that aren’t true. That’s why we have the Free Enterprise Action Fund, and that’s kind of the route that we are pursuing because we think the CEOs are vulnerable on this.

Once these global warming bills come to the floor and different companies start to see who the winners and losers are, I think at that point we’re going to turn a corner. All the companies want different things, and they are irreconcilable a lot of the times. For example, Alcoa wants Congress to give it free credits — which is basically like getting free money from the taxpayer — for past reductions in greenhouse gases.

Well, a company like Duke Energy, which is a big coal-burning utility in North Carolina, is going to wind up needing to buy carbon credits, which they can’t afford. So Duke is not for carbon credits; they’re for a carbon tax. Well, you can’t do carbon credits and a carbon tax. It’s going to be one way or the other. So when the winners and losers get identified, I think the USCAP will ultimately get blown up. Then we’ll see where things are.

Of course, the alternative is that we’ll get a global warming regime but no one will live by it. U.S. CAP emissions will not go down. It’ll be just like a farm bill. Once you create that global warming constituency, like the constituency made up of the few farmers who get their subsidies, it’ll never go away no matter how bogus it is. Has ethanol gone away? No.

The article gives the connection from eugenics to world population control. The power elite want the earth to have far less people for the sake of the environment. The people they really want to limit are what they consider the genetically inferior underclass. Many of the world birth control polices are toward that end. The common people are so misled or oppressed that they either are forced to submit like the people in China or they are “educated” to support quantity control through birth control and abortion like inner city blacks and the poor in the U.S.

Eugenics and Environmentalism: From quality control to quantity control

Population control today – and the corresponding environmental movements – grew out of the post WWII shift from eugenics to Malthusian programs. The line connecting eugenicists to population control is unmistakable. Population reduction is being used by the elite as a weapon of war against competition, as an assurance of continued domination.

Liberals will never learn that the more government takes over the management of the world the more they will screw things up and make life on earth worse. Their global governance of energy and Co2 output will just bring famine and starvation on the earth.

Government bureaucrats cannot manage this planet. They do not have the required wisdom or the scientific knowledge and too often government is controlled by special interest groups who could care less about the poor. This statement is as true as the the second law of thermodynamics.

Simon Jenkins: The cost of green tinkering is in famine and starvation | Comment is free | The Guardian

While antagonism to science merely impedes progress, antagonism to economics is regressive. American subsidies to ethanol fuel are not just causing “tortilla riots” but costing American taxpayers a staggering $5.5bn a year. Biofuel tankers are circling the globe, burning gasoline and chasing subsidies. They have joined carbon emissions certificates among the world’s greatest trading scams.

If I have changed my mind, I am not sure the same applies to many greens. I have rarely encountered so much fanaticism and blind faith. Did those demanding fuel subsidies not realise that palm oil would wipe out rainforests and that ethanol from corn would use as much carbon as it saved? Did those pleading for wind farms really think they could ever substitute for nuclear power; or those wanting eco-towns not realise they would just add to car emissions? Did they not understand that, once the tap of public money is turned on, lobbyists will ensure it is never turned off – however harmful?

If all these fancy subsidies and market manipulations were withdrawn tomorrow and government action confined to energy-saving regulation, I am convinced the world would be a cheaper and a safer place, and the poor would not be threatened with starvation.

I talked about this yesterday on my other Blog. Seems that Joe Farrah also sees the lack of discernment coming from the Southern Baptist Convention leadership on the issue of global warming. I think the leadership gets caught up into these worldly viewpoints because they are a little to eager to hobnob with elite worldly people and embrace the philosophy’s of men so that they can fit into the fallen world system. In other words they are carnal.

Whither the Southern Baptists?

What is it about major Christian denominations that leads them, inevitably and inexorably, into error?What is it about the world that seduces Christian institutions to forsake the Bible in favor of pop politics and junk science?

What is it about big groups that make them so undiscerning and cowardly?

These are a few of the questions that came to mind as I read through the Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change.

Just as more and more sane, rational, non-hysterical voices within science are beginning to be heard above the din of the carefully orchestrated climate change drumbeat, the Southern Baptists jump on a bandwagon that leads only to sin and deception.

I think I will lose my lunch. These “Christians rounded up by the Leftist social gospel pushing Jimmy Carter apparently neither know the Bible nor can they discern truth. Al Gore again compares his hyped global warming to the rise of the Nazis. He is correct in this. Eco-fascists like Al Gore plan to shove there global agenda down everyone’s throats to redistribute wealth and gain global governance. They are just like the Nazis Fascists.

clipped from www.onenewsnow.com The Tennessean in Nashville describes Gore’s speech this way: “With a green-colored Bible in one hand and his familiar red laser pointer in the other, former vice president and Nobel prize winner Al Gore led 2,500 Baptist preachers and lay leaders through his global warming slide show in Atlanta Thursday. Sounding more like an evangelist than a politician, Gore drew upon Scripture, science and a Sunday school teacher from his home church to urge Baptists to do whatever they could to fight global warming.” The newspaper goes on to quote Gore as telling the crowd that “if we heap contempt on God’s creation, that is inconsistent with glorifying God” — and comparing the “rising storm” of the alleged climate crisis to the rise of the Nazi party in the 1930s. Robert Parham, executive director of the Nashville-based Baptist Center for Ethics, called Gore a “Baptist prophet.” In introducing Gore, Parham said, “prophets are unacceptable because their truth is inconvenient.”

Sustainable Development is where the elite are moving the world and they are using imaginary environmental problems to get us there. It is a mixture of socialism and fascism. It will lead to the Beast system of the Antichrist where everyone and everything will be under global governance

clipped from http://www.christianworldviewnetwork.com/article.php/2969/Tom_DeWeese Under Sustainable Development there can be no limited government, as advocated by our Founding Fathers, because, we are told, the real or perceived environmental crisis is too great. Maurice Strong, Chairman of the 1992 UN Earth Summit said: “A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally-damaging consumption patterns. The shift will require a vast strengthening of the multilateral system, including the United Nations.” The politically based environmental movement provides Sustainablists camouflage as they work to transform the American systems of government, justice, and economics. It is a masterful mixture of socialism (with its top down control of the tools of the economy) and fascism (where property is owned in name only – with no control). Sustainable Development is the worst of both the left and the right. It is not liberal, nor is it conservative. It is a new kind of tyranny that, if not stopped, will surely lead us to a new Dark Ages of pain and misery yet unknown to mankind.

American Thinker: The Return of the Old Gods: A Challenge to Green Evangelicals

So what we have witnessed in the Global Warming debate is a perfect storm of anti-Christian philosophies parading as science. Materialists, Socialists, and Left-leaning types found common cause with neo-pagans and anti-Christian spirituality to advocate a New World Order dressed as a movement to save the planet. A friendly media has nurtured and supported it, and it has advanced through a string of sacraments; separating trash, installing low wattage light bulbs, driving hybrid vehicles, etc. Environmentalism is in all of the schools, and children are being frightened by end-of-the-world scenarios by the prophets of doom while having the Green ethos inculcated in them through letter-writing campaigns and “Earth friendly” checklists. The Environmentalists, heavily financed by left-wing think tanks and environmental-activist organizations, are hurrying to push through Draconian emission standards and to stifle any debate-and that debate is plentiful, indeed.

This is a great article. It gets into much deeper issues then just the Global warming controversy. I hope you will read it.

The Climate Engineers: “Despite the large, unanswered questions about the implications of playing God with the elements, climate engineering is now being widely discussed in the scientific community and is taken seriously within the U.S. government. ”

Think about where this all might soon lead. Environmental groups think that they know what is best for the rest of us and with backing from governments, blocks of nations or green money they choose to play God with our planet and attempt to modify the climate without total consensus. I can foresee that certain governments in this world will not agree on these climate modification and consider them to be hostile actions against themselves. For example Russia will want the climate to get warmer and any attempt at man made cooling might be seen as a plot against their own country. Thus, certain governments and groups might decide what is best for themselves and even take conflicting climate modification actions. The end result being environmental anarchy, climate wars and the destruction of the earth. In other words climate engineers are opening Pandora’s box.

Berit Kjos — Green Lies and Amazing Truths: “‘In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill…’[1] Club of Rome, an elite think-tank working with the UN.
‘…we need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination…. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts…. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.’[2] Stanford Professor Stephen Schneider”

This article should make any sane person realize that the global warming hype really has little to do about the climate it is all about mind control to implement a global socialist agenda.

WorldNetDaily: Czech president’s rebuttal to Gore “Calls former VP’s claim ‘one of the most dangerous arguments”

The global warming hysteria could have global consequences and the Czech President and I are not referring to the earth’s temperature.

Telegraph News Global warming ‘just a natural cycle’: “Global warming comes and goes in 1,500 year cycles which may have more to do with cosmic rays than fossil fuel emissions, according to a new book.
If the genuine warming now being seen is caused by human emissions of carbon dioxide, it would have started earlier, according to the book by two veteran American climate sceptics, Fred Singer and Dennis Avery.
Mr Avery, who was in London yesterday, said: “If this were a CO2 driven warming it should have started in 1940 and risen strongly from there. In fact warming started in 1850 and rose sharply until 1940 then decreased for 35 years.” “