The Climate Change Hoax: The Global Warming Deception E-Book

Catherine Dumont

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• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 66

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Beschreibung

In "The Climate Change Hoax" Catherine Dumont embarks on a courageous journey to dissect one of the most contentious issues of our time. With meticulous research and critical analysis, Catherine Dumont challenges prevailing narratives surrounding climate change, unraveling a web of misinformation and revealing hidden agendas. Through engaging prose and compelling evidence, this book dismantles common misconceptions about climate change, exposing the truth behind the headlines. From examining the science behind climate models to scrutinizing the political and economic interests driving the climate change narrative, Catherine Dumont leaves no stone unturned in his quest for truth. Drawing on insights from leading scientists, policymakers, and activists, "The Climate Change Hoax" offers readers a comprehensive understanding of the complex forces shaping our climate discourse. By untangling fact from fiction, Catherine Dumont empowers readers to think critically and make informed decisions about the future of our planet. Whether you're a concerned citizen, a policymaker, or simply someone seeking clarity amidst the noise, this book is a must-read for anyone eager to unravel the truth behind the climate change debate. Prepare to challenge your assumptions, expand your knowledge, and join the conversation on one of the most pressing issues of our time. Order your copy of "The Climate Change Hoax" today and embark on a journey of discovery that will change the way you think about climate change forever.

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Introduction

In early 1980, Western television was fueled by American TV shows that have now become cult series. Viewers’ attention was divided between the different options: the adventures of a duo of amusing policemen, the unrealistic story of a cyborg or the weepy saga about a family living on the prairie.

While it was unprecedented at the time, a thirteen-chapter scientific TV series managed to take off and enter into the minds of the parents and children of the time, who are now parents. It was Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, written and presented by science communicator Carl Sagan.

Some episodes of the series hinted at nuclear warfare, which is not likely to happen nowadays. However, it also introduced the first statement about the dangers of climate change caused by humans.

In the midst of the Cold War, Sagan was the first thinker who mentioned a “warm war”. For the first time in history, someone in the mass media warned us about the existence of a phenomenon that could accelerate the decline of our planet. Several decades later, that issue is surprisingly relevant.

“Global Warming” is an extended ideology, a sort of moral assumption, a given truth. The idea surged in the 1970s and boomed in the 1990s. Then it became dominant and now is part of the global agenda, it’s within most government’s policies and it is an undeniable fact. But is it real? We receive catastrophic warnings about a terrible future if we don’t stop producing CO2, which is believed to be the cause of the raise in temperatures. There are environmental journalists that deliver panic each time there is a climatic event and remind us that it’s all our fault, ignoring there have always been droughts and hurricanes and floods and snow storms.

In 2021, Bill Gates released a book on climate change, in which he proposes humanity should reduce greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide equivalents) from 51 billion tons a year to zero. In his opinion, that’s the only way to stop global warming and avoid huge catastrophes. Our kids receive that same information at school, and many of them come back home terrified of what will happen if their parents don’t stop using cars, for example.

There are other issues that come into play. Electricity is a means of development. For most poor and developing countries, it is the only way to improve their standards of living and to be- come industrialized countries. There is also a crusade on cryptocurrencies because they consume huge amounts of energy, and over this issue two of the most powerful and wealthiest men on earth are confronted, even when they are both working on the global warming agenda: Bill Gates and Elon Musk. Musk has sup- ported Bitcoin and the cryptos (and has influenced on their prices every time he made a public comment on them), while Bill Gates is one of the crusaders against the “trashcoins”.

Energy is not an innocent subject. The whole industrial revolution was based on it, and its consumption levels are evidently related to income per capita levels, as Gates shows in his book. Oil became so important that there were at least four armed confrontations caused by it. There are billions of dollars at stake (both on policies and on research), while the future of developing countries depends on it. Also, a great part of the scientific community has been silenced so that the “global warming” truth is fully accepted. Former Vice President Al Gore was heading the “global warm- ing” crusade (he even won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts) and released in 2006 a documentary named “An uncomfortable truth” to show how dramatic the climate change situation was. He shared the Nobel Peace Prize together with the IPCC, the Inter- governmental Panel on Climate Change, a UN organization that is highly challenged by hundreds of scientists for manipulating or ignoring evidence in order to back the “climate change” narrative. There was even a “Climate Gate” in 2009, when a hacker released thousands of mails that showed how figures were manipulated to give the idea that temperatures were raising, when in fact they were not.

It is said that global temperatures have raise 1 degree Celsius since pre industrial times, and could make a second degree by 2100. Apocalyptic predictions are made: fires, glaciers melting and raising sea levels, diseases, extinction. But at the same time many scientists claim that global warming as a threat is not that evident, and the same happens with attributing a direct relation between temperatures and CO2 emissions. Since 1998, more than 30,000 scientists signed a petition agreeing that there is no scientific evidence to support the idea that man made global warming exists. Is it just an argument to keep part of the world deprived of energy and development, is it part of a new economic paradigm that would justify the transition towards societies based on new types of energies, or is it a real threat? As “global warming” has become an extended ideology that is driving agendas and policies (even when countries like USA only consume more energy each year), it’s necessary to be informed and to consider a bigger picture regarding fossil fuel energy and the disputes over it.

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Other Types of Energy

Most of the energy that the world uses comes from fossil fuels, that is fuels originally produced by the natural decomposition of buried organisms, which contain molecules that in combustion release energy. Fossil fuels are typically millions of years old, and the most common are natural gas, oil and coal. Energy demand increases globally year after year, but coal’s share is dropping as it is replaced by natural gas and also by other energy sources such as solar, hydraulic and wind energy.

Fossil fuels have been used throughout history in different ways. Ancient civilizations used coal, natural gas and petroleum thousands of years ago, as archeological finds reveal. But their use acquired a key status with the industrial revolution. James Watt’s steam engine was powered with coal in replacement of water, the main source of power before the Industrial Revolution. Steam powered trains, ships and engines made fast travelling and mass production possible. Coal use grew together with mining activity to obtain it. It also started to replace wood for heating. It was first used for electricity in the United States in the 1880s, and by 1960s it was the main source of energy.

First oil wells were found in New York and Pennsylvania in the mid 18th century while digging for salt. It wasn’t until a century later that crude was targeted: drilling technologies improved while potential uses of oil were envisioned. The first use of oil was replacing kerosene in lamps. In 1885, Carl Benz created the first automobile that run on a refined product of oil (gasoline), and twenty three years later Henry Ford released the affordable T model. The demand for gasoline made oil the most used type of energy in the United States a few decades later. Besides cars, the war industry and other means of transport also demanded oil.

In the 1970s, a shortage of oil reserves and high prices due to the Iranian Revolution (1973) and the Yom Kippur war (1979) put the western world in a crisis and made evident their dependence on oil import. It was a turning point in energy policies, and it was precisely in that decade that the idea of “global warming” surged together with the interest in renewable energy sources.