Climate alarmism was born on the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970.
by Dr. Ed Berry
(editing in process)
In 1987, the United Nations Brundtland report warned that human CO2 might (but not for sure) raise global temperatures enough to harm agriculture, raise sea levels, flood coastal cities, and disrupt national economies. The report called for a major global effort to curb human CO2 emissions and promoted “sustainability” as a possible solution to human-caused environmental problems.
In 1988, James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), testified before a Senate committee that included Al Gore and predicted the world was headed for a global warming disaster.
In 1988, the UN formed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which assumed Assumptions (1) and (2) are true.
Deep State U.S. President G.H.W. Bush (1989-1993) was the main force in forming and funding the IPCC, even while he was vice-President under President Reagan.
In 1990, the IPCC’s First Assessment Report made global headlines, claiming that human CO2 emissions caused global warming and warning that the world must immediately reduce its CO2 emissions by 60 percent to save the planet.
In June 1992, President G.H.W. Bush, 107 other world leaders, and 20,000 climate activists attended, at America’s expense, the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. Bush signed the UN Earth Charter that gives the UN governance power over the United States.
Maurice Strong, Secretary General of the Earth Summit, spoke,
“We need a system of global governance through which nations can cooperate and deal with issues they cannot deal with alone. The ultimate example is climate change.”
In 1992, Al Gore claimed, using the invalid consensus argument,
“Only an insignificant fraction of scientists deny the global warming crisis. The time for debate is over. The science is settled.”
Climate alarmism did not begin in the normal scientific process. It began in Strong’s incubator that protected IPCC’s climate theory from scientific critique. It flourished when environmental organizations adopted it into their programs.
President GHW Bush notified climate scientists with government contracts to attend an EPA meeting.
I attended the EPA meeting at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. The seats rose from the speaker’s platform. I sat near the top. About 100 climate physicists attended. Most of us knew each other.
A man in a suit popped out of the door by the platform and said, in essence,
“We don’t need any more physics research because we already know human carbon dioxide causes climate change. So, we are terminating contracts with physicists and contracting with ecologists to predict coming disasters.”
The speaker asked if anyone had any questions. I said,
“We don’t know if human CO2 changes the climate. We don’t even know how clouds and ocean currents change the climate. Who are you?”
He answered,
“I am an EPA lawyer, and I know more about climate physics than you do.”
Bush supported the Club of Rome. He announced the “New World Order” as he fired climate physicists. He flooded the universities with blood money to hire ecologists so he could dumb down America’s climate science and promote the climate fraud.
Scientists who kept their university jobs had to “go along” with the climate fraud or lose their jobs. They had to wear masks to associate with the climate alarmists. Midnight came, and their masks had compromised their beliefs for so long that they had forgotten how science works.
In 1993, Vice-president Al Gore continued America’s flow of blood money to universities to support ecologists who would promote false climate science.
The key point is that President GHW Bush began the climate fraud in America.