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The Climate Change Climate Change

The number of skeptics is swelling everywhere.

• By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL

Mr. Fielding decided to vote against climate-change legislation.

If you haven't heard of this politician, it's because he's a member of the Australian Senate. As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to pass a climate-change bill, the Australian Parliament is preparing to kill its own country's carbon-emissions scheme. Why? A growing number of Australian politicians, scientists and citizens once again doubt the science of human-caused global warming.

Associated Press

Steve Fielding

Among the many reasons President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly jamming a cap-and-trade system through Congress is because the global warming tide is again shifting. It turns out Al Gore and the United Nations (with an assist from the media), did a little too vociferous a job smearing anyone who disagreed with them as "deniers." The backlash has brought the scientific debate roaring back to life in Australia, Europe, Japan and even, if less reported, the U.S.

In April, the Polish Academy of Sciences published a document challenging man-made global warming. In the Czech Republic, where President Vaclav Klaus remains a leading skeptic, today only 11% of the population believes humans play a role. In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to tap Claude Allegre to lead the country's new ministry of industry and innovation. Twenty years ago Mr. Allegre was among the first to trill about man-made global warming, but the geochemist has since recanted. New Zealand last year elected a new government, which immediately suspended the country's weeks-old cap-and-trade program.

The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. -- 13 times the number who authored the U.N.'s 2007 climate summary for policymakers. Joanne Simpson, the world's first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, expressed relief upon her retirement last year that she was finally free to speak "frankly" of her nonbelief. Dr. Kiminori Itoh, a Japanese environmental physical chemist who contributed to a U.N. climate report, dubs man-made warming "the worst scientific scandal in history." Norway's Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, decries it as the "new religion." A group of 54 noted physicists, led by Princeton's Will Happer, is demanding the American Physical Society revise its position that the science is settled. (Both Nature and Science magazines have refused to run the physicists' open letter.)

The collapse of the "consensus" has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth's temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans. A global financial crisis has politicians taking a harder look at the science that would require them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon.

Credit for Australia's own era of renewed enlightenment goes to Dr. Ian Plimer, a well-known Australian geologist. Earlier this year he published "Heaven and Earth," a damning critique of the "evidence" underpinning man-made global warming. The book is already in its fifth printing. So compelling is it that Paul Sheehan, a noted Australian columnist -- and ardent global warming believer -- in April humbly pronounced it "an evidence-based attack on conformity and orthodoxy, including my own, and a reminder to respect informed dissent and beware of ideology subverting evidence." Australian polls have shown a sharp uptick in public skepticism; the press is back to questioning scientific dogma; blogs are having a field day.

The rise in skepticism also came as Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, elected like Mr. Obama on promises to combat global warming, was attempting his own emissions-reduction scheme. His administration was forced to delay the implementation of the program until at least 2011, just to get the legislation through Australia's House. The Senate was not so easily swayed.

Mr. Fielding, a crucial vote on the bill, was so alarmed by the renewed science debate that he made a fact-finding trip to the U.S., attending the Heartland Institute's annual conference for climate skeptics. He also visited with Joseph Aldy, Mr. Obama's special assistant on energy and the environment, where he challenged the Obama team to address his doubts. They apparently didn't.

This week Mr. Fielding issued a statement: He would not be voting for the bill. He would not risk job losses on "unconvincing green science." The bill is set to founder as the Australian parliament breaks for the winter.

Republicans in the U.S. have, in recent years, turned ever more to the cost arguments against climate legislation. That's made sense in light of the economic crisis. If Speaker Nancy Pelosi fails to push through her bill, it will be because rural and Blue Dog Democrats fret about the economic ramifications. Yet if the rest of the world is any indication, now might be the time for U.S. politicians to re-engage on the science. One thing for sure: They won't be alone.

Could Australia Blow Apart the Great Global Warming Scare?

A great article from Australia. 

Ian Plimer's book, Heaven and Earth, Global Warming: The Missing Science, has been received with such enthusiasm and is into its third print run in as many weeks. [It's now up to the fifth printing.]  (To be releases in the US on July 1.)

What does Plimer's book say? Here is Sheehan's summary:

Much of what we have read about climate change, [Plimer] argues, is rubbish, especially the computer modeling on which much current scientific opinion is based, which he describes as "primitive."…

The Earth's climate is driven by the receipt and redistribution of solar energy. Despite this crucial relationship, the sun tends to be brushed aside as the most important driver of climate. Calculations on supercomputers are primitive compared with the complex dynamism of the Earth's climate and ignore the crucial relationship between climate and solar energy.

To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable—human-induced CO2—is not science. To try to predict the future based on just one variable (CO2) in extraordinarily complex natural systems is folly

The Cap and Trade Bill in Congress needs to be stopped based on flawed science, dramatic increased costs to American consumers and the number of jobs that will be lost in America.

Open letter to the Congress and Administration

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A family tragedy caused by MOLD

Check out this blog of Andrea Fabry.  Her family lived in mold infested house for 8 years.  Everyone in the family was sick with all kinds of weird conditions.  An incredible story.

Brain Trauma - Damn Mold - Update 8

My next 7 sessions went well and I seemed to feel better after each.  More focused and calmer.  I was very impressed.  I was given graphs showing where I had been and where I was now.  It was very clear that my brainwave patterns had changed dramatically.  My left, right, front and back lobes all were much more in sync.  Where they had been separated from each other, they now were oscillating together. 

Lee showed me where I could still improve and would benefit from more training.  He explained that I probably had been "stuck" since my auto accident 35 years ago.  So it should not be a surprise that I would need more sessions.  They recommend that you wait 2-3 weeks before more sessions.  So 3 weeks later, I did 10 more sessions.  It was a paradox to me though.  While I mentally felt so much better, I had been experiencing other symptoms.   I had nausea, diarrhea, and sleep problems again.  It did not make sense.  I prayed and thought a lot about this.  My answer came out of the blue.

I consult with a number of start up businesses.  So I spend considerable time in different offices. While I was at one of those offices, one of their executives approached me and said, “Pat, you know a lot about health.  Why do I get a terrible cough, post nasal drip and stuffy every time I am in this building, and I am fine on weekends?  I asked a few questions and bingo, I had my answer.  This building had mold!!  It was the only thing that could explain his symptoms. His symptoms would leave after about 2 hours after him being out of the building.  While he was sensitive to mold, he had an immune system that recognized the mold toxin and eliminated it fairly quickly. Well, my immune system does not do that!

As I wrote extensively here, I am extremely sensitive to mold, I have a genotype where my immune system does NOT recognize the toxin.  The toxin is fat soluble.  It gets locked up in a cycle with cholesterol.   Cholesterol carries the toxin all over the body, particularly the brain.  It kicks off an inflammation cascade causing illness systemically.  The toxin is a potent neurotoxin.  Since the body considers cholesterol a very valuable chemical, it does not excrete much of it.  It recycles it constantly.  So the toxin has no way out.  And it becomes cumulative.

I asked more questions about that office and sure enough there had been numerous incidents of water damage in the past that had not been remediated.  A few times water had built up in the ceilings until it burst through the ceiling tiles.  With water damage like that, it is inevitable that mold would grow.  And as the weather warmed, the mold would bloom.  It was likely to be in the AC system as well.  I left the building and have not been back.  When I consult with them it is now over the phone. 

I immediately went on CSM, cholestyramine, which binds to cholesterol in the bowels and carries it out.  I felt worse for about 3 days but on the 4th day I turned a corner and began to feel really good.  Mold had been effecting me a lot and I had not recognize it. 

I talked with Lee about the mold and we decided to do a bit of an experiment.  He did another brain assessment in order to compare where I was now after clearing the toxin to where I was after 20 sessions.  I was way better but had not been able to "hold" some of the improvement to my brain patterns.  We then did 4 more sessions and it was clear that I was “holding” the changes better since the toxin was no longer present in my body.  I thought that was very cool and so did he. 

He was unaware of the issues with mold but now felt he had a new piece of useful info for people whose training simply did not seem to hold as well as it should.  Since about 25% of the population has a genotype that has problems clearing mold toxins, he knew he was running into that across the thousands of clients he and his affiliates worked with.  In fact, he said the clients with Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia were the toughest ones to help. 

This also caused me to research afresh what Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker had been doing recently.  I made an appointment to go see him again.  More on that coming in the next post.