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    a n inconvenient truth

    What Al GoreForgot' To Mention

    Open Your Eyes News presents :

    P resented by: James FairbairnHistorian & editor of www.openyoureyesnews.com

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    There is no opinion, however absurd,which men will not readily embrace as soon

    as they can be brought to the convictionthat it is generally adopted.

    (Schopenhauer, Die Kunst Recht zu Behalten )

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    Problem, Reaction, Solution

    PROBLEMProblems are engineered to provoke fear and outcry

    REACTIONThe public s shock and outrage is channelled through mediacontrol

    SOLUTIONThe public willingly and unquestioningly accept the solution

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    C omposition of Earth's atmosphere

    Name C hemical Formula Percent Volume

    Nitrogen N2 78.08

    Oxygen O2 20.95*Water H

    2O 0 to 4

    Argon Ar 0.93

    *C arbon Dioxide CO 2 0.036

    Neon Ne 0.0018

    Helium He 0.0005

    *Methane C H4 0.00017Hydrogen H2 0.00005*N itrous O xide N2O 0.00003*Oz one O 3 0.000004

    * variable gases Source: PhysicalGeography.net

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    What are 'greenhouse gases'?

    Greenhouse gases, in order of importance:Methane, N 2O, etc. 1%Carbon Dioxide 2%

    Water vapour 97%Carbon dioxide is:

    Necessary for all plant life (photosynthesis)Emitted by all animal and plant life (breathing etc.)

    Annual carbon dioxide emissions:human activity 3%volcanoes. vegetation and soils 5 3%the oceans 44 %

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    C limate C hange Over Time

    SOUR C E: Temperature after C .R. Scotese http://www.scotese.com/climate.htmC O2 after R.A. Berner, 2001 (GEO C ARB III

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    Lessons From History

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    No global warming

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    The Sun

    Source of the majority of our energy and light

    It provides 1, 367 watts per square metre of energy to theEarth s atmosphere

    The sun's emissions contribute to cloud formation.

    When cosmic rays go up the temperature falls (more clouds),when cosmic rays go down the temperature goes up (lessclouds).

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    You are the problem

    Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policytowards the third world. Dr. H enry Kissinger

    In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate350,000people per day. Jacques Cousteau, ecologist in the UNESCO courier (1991)

    A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% declinefrom present levels, would be ideal. Ted Turner, USA's largest private landowner

    All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will acceptthe New World Order. David Rockefeller

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    A new religion in town

    Climate change belief given same legal status as religionDaily Telegraph (UK) 3rd Nov 2009

    Main facets of a successful religious cult:

    Central tenet that is an unassailable truthKnowledge only by the fewTargets the youngSits easily alongside existing religionsBuilds on a sense of guilt

    Demonises unbelieversDoomsday predictionsInfiltration of the political systemWealth & power

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    The high priests

    Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy findshimself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinelyunfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing

    George Orwell

    Main Predictions For 2100Increase of < 3C from current world average 1 4 CSea Levels rise 18-59cmIncreased diseases, floods, droughts, hurricanes, etc.No benefits from warming

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    The story of cap and trade

    Video available athttp://www.storyofstuff.com/capandtrade/

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    No conspiracy, just psychology

    Corporations:are singularly self interestedare irresponsible and place others at risk.try to manipulate everything, including public opinion.display a lack of empathy and asocial tendencies.often refuse to accept responsibility for their own actions

    mislead the public as to their true motivations and goalsrespond to our wants, but also create markets for their ownends.

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    How much money?One Hundred Million Dollars (in U S$ 100 bills)

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    How much money?One Billion Dollars

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    How much money?One Trillion Dollars double stacked pallets

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    How much money?Three Trillion Dollars

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    C limate change = cash cow

    We ve got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing interms of economic policy and environmental policy.

    Timothy Wirth, President of the United Nations Foundation

    Australia produces 1.5% of global CO 2 emissions.ETS aims to reduce Australia s CO2 emissions by 5% in 2020.

    atmospheric CO 2 reduced by 0.0000 45 %

    ETS will raise at least $1 21 billion in tax revenues in its firstdecade (Sydney Morning H erald 31/12/09)

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    Hearts & minds via the mediaThe media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power tomake the innocent guilty and the guilty innocent, and that's power because they control the minds of the masses Malcolm X

    8 April 1977 17 April 2008

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    Fact or fiction?Sea levels could rise by 3m

    (Daily Telegraph 10/1 2 /09)

    Acidifying oceans threaten foodsupply, UK warns (BBC14/12 /09)Climate change forcing polar bearsto become cannibals (The Times 9/1 2 /09)

    The last decade was the warmest onrecord, according to the UK MetOffice (Reuters9/1 2 /09)Global temperatures will rise 6C byend of century (The Guardian 17/11/09)UK should open borders to climate

    refugees (The Guardian 4/12 /09)Climate change may triggerearthquakes and volcanoes

    (New Scientist 23/9/09)

    Can Corals Survive In A WarmingWorld? (NPR11/8/09)

    Antarctic Ice Melt at Lowest Levelsin Satellite Era (Geophysical Research 1 3/5/09)Warmer seas mean more food forfish (New Scientist 25/8/09)Polar Bears are not dying out, sayscientists (Daily Telegraph 22 /6 /09)

    Arctic temperatures higher 1,000years ago than now

    (Climate Dynamics Journal 28/6 /07)

    Climatologists Baffled by GlobalWarming Time-Out (Der Spiegel 19/11/09)Natural disasters at decade low in

    2009-UN report (Reuters 14 /12/09)Plants need more CO 2 , not less

    (Washington Post 4 /9/09)

    Climate scientists crying wolf overcoral (The Australian 19/1 2 /09)

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    Climat e-g at e

    EmailsScientists

    Funding

    The tale of William ConnolleyMcCarthyism

    Where do academics get their funding from?

    Is your funding likely to go up or down if you oppose theorthodox view?If you were Galileo in 1633 what would you do?

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    Fascism:

    A form of political behaviour marked by obsessive preoccupationwith community decline, humiliation or victimhood and bycompensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-

    based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasybut effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandonsdemocratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence, andwithout ethical or legal restraints, goals of internal cleansing andexternal expansion

    Rob ert Paxt o n

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    So how did we get to this point?

    Peak oilThe 'defeat' of communism in the Cold WarDepopulation / eugenicsMoney lots of itSelf perpetuationClima-fascism

    Religion / Doomsday cult

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    The real problems

    Oceanic PlasticBisphenol A

    Oil & Toxic spillsDeforestationBio-FuelsH abitat destructionBees disappearing

    GMOAgricultural run off

    Antibiotic resistanceTar sandsWater (availability andpollution)

    WMD s & Depleted Uranium

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    The real solutions

    Redress imbalance between corporations & democracyBan non bio-degradable plasticsStronger emissions lawsChange the way we buildFood supply chainIncentivise the commercialisation of better technology:

    H empWater from the airGeo-Thermal energyNext- Gen solar powerH ydrogen powered engines

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    Final thoughts

    "Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as youremove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, itshines clear. " Gandhi

    The broad mass of a nation will more easily fallvictim to a big lie than a small one Adolf H itler, Mein Kampf

    "Our lives begin to end the day we become silentabout things that matter. " Martin Luther King Jnr

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