by Mona Gallagher

Created on: January 12, 2009

News media and government leaders have told us that global warming is a disaster waiting to happen and because of this warning, the US economy is in danger of sinking further into the abyss of no return. We've been told these "truths" countless times by leaders who produce convincing evidence and over time we accept it as fact without looking at the scientific data.

How many people embrace the theory of global warming? Not one person on planet earth is in favor of a global disaster and would do anything to avoid such a calamity, but we've been force fed facts with inaccurate data. Global warming now referred to, as "climate change" is big business and big government.

The government said it, so it must be true. Global warning is a man made threat and a horrific fate for mankind. According to Al Gore the threat is imminent. "Gore claims that sea level rise could drown the Pacific islands, Florida, major cities the world over, and the 9/11 Memorial in New York City."

Scientists say the sea level has risen at a rate of1.8mm per year for the past 8000 years. No change was detected during the 20th century and no drastic changes are expected on the present trajectory. Some now refer to Al Gore's book as An Inconvenient Exaggeration.

What are a few exaggerations? Exaggerations might have a dramatic affect an already sinking economy. Good stewardship of our natural resources is a positive effort and the right thing to do, but manufacturing a crisis that many experts say doesn't exist is not.

Al Gore's documentary contains inaccuracies say Science & Public Policy Institute experts and the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works released a statement that said, "AP chose to ignore the scores of scientists who have harshly criticized the science presented in former Vice President Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth."

Hype: There is a consensus on global warming.

Truth: The Manhattan Declaration on climate change: "Affirming that global climate has always changed and always will, independent of the actions of humans, and that carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant but rather a necessity for all life;"

"In the United States 31,072 scientists, including the author, have signed a petition rejecting the Kyoto global warming agreement." An additional 1,000 scientists are being verified to be added to the list. Thousands more exist who find the assertion the CO2 will destroy the Earth totally absurd."

Hype: The polar ice cap as a whole is shrinking. Images from NASA

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