Get out the fur coats, because global cooling is coming! A world-renowned atmospheric scientist and mountaineer, who has excavated ice out of 17 glaciers on 6 continents in his 50-year career, tells how we know.

Since the 1980s, many climatologists have claimed that human activity has caused the near-surface air temperature to rise faster and higher than ever before in history. Industrial carbon dioxide emissions, they say, will soon result in a runaway global warming, with disastrous consequences for the biosphere. By 2100, they claim, the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration will double, causing the average temperature on Earth to increase by 1.9°C to 5.2°C, and in the polar region by more than 12°C.

Just a few years earlier, these very same climatologists had professed that industrial pollution would bring about a new Ice Age. In 1971, the spiritual leader of the global warming prophets, Dr. Stephen H. Schneider from the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, claimed that this pollution would soon reduce the global temperature by 3.5°C.1 His remarks were followed by more official statements from the National Science Board of the U.S. National Science Foundation, ”. . .[T]he the present time of high temperatures should be drawing to an end . . . leading into the next glacial age.” In 1974, the board observed, “During the last 20 to 30 years, world temperature has fallen, irregularly at first but more sharply over the last decade.”2

No matter what happens, catastrophic warming or catastrophic cooling, somehow the blame always falls upon “sinful” human beings and their civilization — which is allegedly hostile and alien to the planet.

In 1989, Stephen Schneider advised: “To capture the public imagination . . . we have to . . . make simplified dramatic statements, and little mention of any doubts one might have. . . . Each of us has to decide the right balance between being effective and being honest.”3 This turned out to be an “effective” policy: Since 1997, each of approximately 2,000 American climate scientists (only 60 of them with Ph. D. degrees) received an average of $1 million annually for research;4, 5 on a world scale, the annual budget for climate research runs to $5 billion.6 It is interesting that in the United States, most of this money goes toward discovering the change of global climate and its causes, while Europeans apparently believe that man-made warming is already on, and spend money mostly on studying the effects of warming.

Governments of many countries (but not the United States, Australia, or Russia) signed the infamous Kyoto Protocol, which is aimed at the mandatory reduction of oil, coal, and gas combustion. Should this convention be universally implemented, the drop in world temperature would be hardly perceptible, but there would be a drastic and very noticeable regression in the economy. In 2100, under the mandatory emission restrictions of the Kyoto Protocol, the temperature would be diminished by 0.2°C, or, to use the figures of the global warmers, with Kyoto, the temperature increase that we would experience in the year 2094, would be postponed until the year 2100. Thus, the Kyoto Protocol buys the world six years.7

But the losses resulting from the compliance with the Kyoto Protocol would reach $400 billion in the United States alone. The reduction of the world domestic product, when added up across the whole century, would reach $1.8 trillion, while the so-called benefits of the emissions reduction from the Kyoto Protocol are around $0.12 trillion.8 By 2050, in Western Europe and in Japan, the Gross National Product would be reduced by 0.5 percent in comparison with 1994; in Eastern Europe, this reduction would reach 3 percent, and in Russia 3.4 percent.8 Experts working for the Canadian government concluded that the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol would necessitate energy rationing, which would resemble the gasoline rationing during World War II.9

„21st Century Science & Technology", Winter 2003-2004

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This article, in a shorter form, appeared in the Polish weekly Polityka on July 12, 2003.

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Zbigniew Jaworowski Ur. 1927. Profesor, lekarz, ekspert od wpływu promieniowania na zdrowie. Pracował w Instytucie Onkologii w Gliwicach, w Instytucie Badań Jądrowych w Warszawie, w Centralnym Laboratorium Ochrony Radiologicznej w Warszawie, gdzie kierował Zakładem Higieny Radiacyjnej. Od 1993 roku pracuje w Centralnym Laboratorium Ochrony Radiologicznej w Warszawie, jest przewodniczącym Rady Naukowej. Obecnie na emeryturze. Jest członkiem wielu stowarzyszeń i organizacji naukowych w kraju i za granicą: m.in. Komitetu Ochrony Radiologicznej Państwa, Komitetu Naukowego Narodów Zjednoczonych, Rady Naukowej Centralnego Laboratorium Ochrony Radiologicznej, Polskiego Towarzystwa Badań Polarnych, Norwegian Physical Society. Od 1973 r. jest członkiem Naukowego Komitetu ds. Skutków Promieniowania Atomowego przy ONZ (UNSCEAR); a w latach 1978-1979 był wiceprzewodniczącym, a w latach 1980-1982 przewodniczącym tego Komitetu. Był uczestnikiem, bądź przewodniczącym blisko 20 Grup Doradczych Międzynarodowej Agencji Energii Atomowej (IAEA) w latach 1970-78 i Programu Środowiskowego ONZ (UNEP). Autor 230 prac naukowych, czterech książek i setki artykułów popularyzujących naukę. Jego hobby to alpinizm i narciarstwo.  Strona www autora  Liczba tekstów na portalu: 9  Pokaż inne teksty autora  Najnowszy tekst autora: Co nie będzie dyskutowane w Kopenhadze na szczycie o ograniczeniach emisji CO2