By Sally Mulder
Environmentalism is a religion based on lies and propaganda. The leaders are hypocrites jetting around the world to preach to the common folk how to consume less, presumably so they can consume more! Unfortunately for two elite environmentalists, Leonardo DiCaprio and Laurie David, parents in the Omaha School District complained about a video and book being used as curriculum. The parents were able to have the environmental propaganda pulled because of inaccuracies and false information.
In order to contrive a visual representation for their false central claim that CO2 controls temperature change, David and co-author Cambria Gordon present unsuspecting children with an altered temperature and CO2 graph that falsely reverses the relationship found in the scientific literature.
The actual temperature curve in the chart was switched with the actual CO2 curve. That is, the authors mislabelled the blue curve as temperature and mislabelled the red curve as CO2 concentration. The real data show that the red curve represents the temperature changes over geological time, followed (lagged) by changes in CO2 concentrations represented by the blue curve. Thus, children tracing the properly labelled curves from right to left (from past to present) can easily see the real, science-based relationship (particularly clear in the interval between 500,000 and 150,000 years ago).
The David-Gordon manipulation is critical because the central premise of the book argues that CO2 drives temperature, yet the ice core data clearly reveal temperature increases generally precede increasing CO2 by several hundred to a few thousand years. This fact may have been too inconvenient for David, who instead presented young readers with an astoundingly irresponsible falsehood. Parents and teachers of these children should be concerned.
DiCaprio’s video:
In the video, DiCaprio attributes global warming to mankind’s “destructive addiction” to oil. He says “big corporations” and politicians gained too much money and power “on our addiction,” making them “dangerously resistant to change.”
In the video, DiCaprio attributes global warming to mankind’s “destructive addiction” to oil. He says “big corporations” and politicians gained too much money and power “on our addiction,” making them “dangerously resistant to change.”
It’s always encouraging to see parents fighting and winning!
There is so much interesting scientific information at wattsupwiththat.com refuting global warming. Happily the information is provided by actual scientists, based on research as opposed to lies spread by the “stars”. You can read the rest of this article here. You might want to check out some of the other articles while you’re at it.