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Cataclysmic Global-Warming Prediction Could Have Been Released on April 1st

Critic says “left-leaning, Bush-bashing newspaper engaged in distortion”

EDMONTON, March 1, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Edmonton Journal’s Lorne Gunter has written an exposé in response to the UK Guardian’s recent story “Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us”. The Guardian feature details a cataclysmic scenario that is supposed to result from climate-change. Gunter, who calls the UK Guardian a “Left-leaning, Bush-bashing newspaper”, says that the newspaper is “engaged in distortion”. Gunter has written to expose the charade that the report really is.

The Guardian writes that “a secret report, suppressed by U.S. defence chiefs ... warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.” The “secret report, suppressed by U.S. defence chiefs,” as revealed by Gunter, was already known to Fortune magazine last month, who called it an “unclassified report ... that the Pentagon has agreed to share … .”

Gunter reveals that the co-authors work for a California consulting company, Global Business Networks, that “specializes in concocting ‘alternative’ images of the future that encourage its corporate and institutional clients to be ready in case extreme surprises emerge.”

One of the authors, Peter Schwartz, Chairman and founder of GBN, is falsely described by the Guardian as a CIA analyst. Schwartz describes himself as a ‘scenario planning futurist,’ “who ‘helps organizations think the unthinkable by creating alternative stories or scenarios about how the future might pan out,’” Gunter says that the Guardian failed to mention that the chief clients of GBN are Hollywood movie producers who hire the company to consult on science fiction scripts.

Schwartz is also the author of October 2000 book, The Long Boom, in which he predicted that the dot.com generated economic boom would persist for decades. That theory was quickly debunked by reality. Shwartz and company betray their one-world order, population control ideological leanings when they write about creating a "sustainable" global society, saving the planet, a new global civilizaton, etc.

The Guardian also failed to mention that the Pentagon arm that commissioned the report - the Office of Net Assessment - is responsible for fabricating worst-case scenarios for “gaming” exercises which seek to determine if the US military has the capacity to respond.

Gunter criticized the Guardian for only seeking opinions from global-warming proponents and doomsters. He drolly writes that “Maurice Strong mustn't have been home when the Guardian called.”

Gunter concludes by saying that “neither of the co-authors nor GBN nor the ONA is responsible for this hype. They each just performed their ‘scenario-building’ tasks,” he ends his critique, writing “It's the Guardian that engaged in distortion.”

Robert C. Balling Jr., columnist for Tech Central Station, in his column Pentagonal Poppycock, writes in a similar vein when he says “we could all generate a ‘what if scenario’ for the future and fill newspapers with headlines day after day, much to the delight of the environmental community constantly promoting the global warming crusade.”

Balling comments on a recently published paper in the journal Global and Planetary Change, which details the effect that climate-change is having on ocean currents. The authors conclude that the gulf stream is “insensitive to global warming resulting from gradual CO2 doubling,” in other words - is not changing at all.

Other scientists corroborate this finding; Balling writes that three UK scientists, in a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, “found no decreasing trend in the strength of the ocean circulation and heat transfer for a build-up in greenhouse gases. In fact, the authors found the strength of the ocean circulation ‘unexpectedly shows an upward trend, rather than a downward trend’ as we move forward in this century,” Balling reveals.

Lorne Gunter’s Column appeared in the Wednesday 25 February edition of the Edmonton Journal. It is not available on-line.

Robert C. Balling Jr.’s column can be read at:
http://www.techcentralstation.com/030104E.html

Read the related LifeSiteNews.com special reports:

“New Study Shatters Supposed Scientific Consensus on Global Warming”
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/jul/030711d.html

“The Kyoto Accord Justifications - An ‘insult to science’”
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/oct/031008a.html

“Kyoto Will Create Economic, Bureaucratic Boondoggle”
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/sep/020912a.html

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