Vol. 25, No. 4 - Access to Energy Newsletter

This month, the executive branch of the United States government - "led'' in this case by William Clinton, Albert Gore, Bruce Babbitt, and Timothy Wirth - will, according to these individuals, agree to a treaty for mandatory international rationing of carbon dioxide production. In order to diminish opposition to this treaty, each of them is engaged in the dissemination of outright lies in the American media.

"Secretary asks: Where have all the glaciers gone?'' by Bruce Babbitt, in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, November 6, 1997, p 11 B, is a pretended tour of Glacier National Park, where glaciers have been receding as the earth continues its 300-year warming following the Little Ice Age - a warming correlated in its long and short cycles with solar activity (see Access to Energy 25-3).

Babbitt's tour blames the warming of the Earth that commenced 300 years ago on human carbon dioxide emissions even though he well knows that virtually all of that warming predated significant human carbon dioxide production and temperatures have been level to slightly cooler during the period of maximum carbon dioxide release.

Babbitt says, "The carbon dioxide spewed up over Charles Dickens' London and spread around the Earth still hovers above.'' In fact, the half-life of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is about 15 years as determined by carbon 14 tracer measurements of atmospheric nuclear test residues (see Access to Energy 22-1, p 3). Charles Dickens died in 1870, so about [(100) - (100 / 2¹⁰)] = 99.9% of the carbon dioxide released during his life has already been distributed to non-atmospheric locations, such as oceans and the tissues of plants and animals.

Babbitt says, "To do nothing is to leave children and grandchildren locked in a car on a hot day with the windows sealed tight.'' Even the most extreme of the global warming gurus have not predicted conditions remotely comparable to this mythical car.

Babbitt compares scientists who oppose this treaty to people who claim that cigarettes are harmless. He lists tiny countries such as Bangladesh and Nigeria, which emit less than 1% as much carbon dioxide as the United States, as examples of countries that the treaty excludes - and makes no mention that it also excludes Red China, whose emissions will soon exceed those of the United States.

Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior of the United States, is a liar. He should be dismissed from office.

Meanwhile, Albert Gore says, "As far back as we can measure, CO2 and temperature have gone up and down in lockstep'' (see The New American, December 8, 1997, p 14). There is not a shred of evidence to support this claim; moreover, there is a wealth of evidence showing it to be false. The temperature record of the past 3,000 years (see Access to Energy 25-3, p 2), for example, shows that the atmosphere during about two-thirds of those 3,000 years was warmer than it is today with five distinct warm eras. Yet, during all of those warm periods, carbon dioxide was lower than today.

Albert Gore claims that tropical diseases are moving north because of global warming. He says, "A few years ago somebody got malaria in Detroit - a tropical, subtropical disease. In the month he got malaria, the average temperature was six full degrees warmer than the 30-year average for that month.'' Gore failed to mention that about two million children die of malaria each year because DDT, which saved more than 500 million lives before it was banned, is not available. He also omits mentioning that all of the warming in the past 300 years was less than ordinary fluctuations such as the 6º F in Detroit and that malaria is spread by mosquitoes, not temperature.

Gore calls those scientists who disagree with his claims about global warming "probably crazy,'' and, like Babbitt, falsely blames carbon dioxide emissions for glacier melting.

Revealing a little more of his agenda, Gore told a recent White House global warming conference (see The New American, Novem-ber 24, 1997, p 9) that fighting "climate change'' will require more vigorous measures to curb the planet's human population.

Albert Gore, Vice-President of the United States, is also a liar and should be removed from office.

Of Timothy Wirth, his often quoted statement speaks for itself: "We've got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.'' President Clinton recently hosted 100 weather forecasters in the White House, urging them to sell global warming to their viewers. We suppose the pitch would be something like this: "There is an 70% chance of rain tomorrow and a 100% certainty that the President can forecast the weather 100 years from now.'' For examples of Clin-ton's lies, just tune in randomly to any speech he makes on virtually any subject. Even polls of his supporters indicate that the majority of them know that he is not truthful.

So, this gaggle of liars is going to ration your carbon dioxide emissions. Perhaps Population Reduction Al will want to include the carbon dioxide emitted when humans breathe.

In The Wall Street Journal, November 13, 1997, p B7, John J. Fialka reports that the United States Energy Information Administration now predicts that the demand for energy will result in an increase of 34% in American carbon dioxide emissions above 1990 levels by 2010. The world percentage increase is expected to be much higher.

Yet, President Clinton says he will sign a treaty mandating carbon dioxide emissions no higher (and probably lower) than 1990 levels. The United States Energy Department predicts that these mandatory limits will reduce American steel production by 20% and cause 100% of primary aluminum plants in the United States to close.

Most other American industries are expected to decrease production by amounts between these two percentages. The only way that world economic activity could avoid a devastating depression if this treaty passes would be for the closed industries in developed countries to be moved to China, Mexico, and other countries not covered by the treaty - where they will, of course, produce carbon dioxide.

Even if we did not have data thoroughly refuting the global warming myth (see Access to Energy, November 1997), the flood of lies emanating from the Clinton Administration would make it obvious that their position cannot be supported by truthful statements.

The potential worldwide effects of their dishonesty are devastating. If this treaty becomes law, a lot of people are going to die.

How is it possible for Americans to be involved in a nationwide controversy wherein one "side'' of the debate is populated by such simplistic liars as those illustrated above? These people might as well be saying that the earth is flat and that two plus two equals five - they would, in that case, be no more demonstrably wrong. Yet, they believe, with reasonable cause, that they will be able to sell these lies to the American people - with the help of their unscrupulous fellow travelers in the American press and other media.

Timed for release four days before the start of the global warming treaty conference in Japan (so that refutation will be publishable only after the conference has ended), the Science section of USA Today for November 27 reports that Science will publish on November 28 an article by one Wallace S. Broecker warning that global warming threatens to make the temperature of Europe 20 degrees colder. Ocean currents driven by global warming, he says, will do this deed.

Never mind the historical record showing that European weather was actually milder and more favorable during the Middle Ages 1,000 years ago when world temperatures were warmer by approximately the same amount as is predicted (incorrectly) by the global warmers -Broecker is selling the claim that warming the atmosphere will, as he states, give London a climate comparable to Spitzbergen, Norway, which is 600 miles north of the Arctic Circle. One wonders if his goal is to look so ridiculous that other global liars appear to be moderates.

Analysis of the facts relevant to global warming is so simple that it hardly even qualifies as "science.'' We need only simple graphs of temperature vs. time to dispose of the global warming myth - graphs that any 12-year-old child should easily be able to interpret.

We need, however, something more. We need citizens who value the truth enough to seek it out and to demand it of others to whom they listen, and we need citizens who are intellectually capable of reading a simple graph. By this I do not mean intelligent enough to read a graph. Only the less than one percent born severely mentally retarded lack the necessary intelligence. I mean minimally educated to the point that they will apply their brains to independently interpreting a graph or its textually stated equivalent - rather than simply trusting and parroting whatever propaganda happens to reach their eyes and ears.

The fact is that America increasingly lacks people whose interest in the truth and whose willingness to think is sufficient to permit the analysis of a set of data showing temperature as a function of time. This lack has been primarily caused by tax-financed, socialized government schools. These schools have deteriorated so severely that two generations of Americans - current students and their parents - have sharply reduced moral standards and mental abilities. There are, of course, some Americans who have managed to avoid these problems even while attending government schools, but the general effects on public morality and intellectual performance have been disastrous.

Most Americans today respond to the blessing of children by simply turning their offspring over to the state to raise. The state then divests them of moral character on the pretext of "honoring diversity'' and of intellectual ability claiming it must "not diminish anyone's self-esteem.'' Moreover, with the exception of a minority of good teachers, who are effectively neutralized by the system, the more than two million unionized bureaucrats and teachers (about equal numbers of each) wallowing in this $300 billion-per-year, tax-financed wasteland are themselves among the least capable members of our society.

We may or may not be able to stop the global warming mania. If we do not, the world's people will pay a terrible price. If, however, we are unable to recognize the problems that the very existence of this mania reveals and to correct those problems, the descent of mankind into an age of antitechnological mysticism and irrationalism with concomitant mass suffering and slaughter of human beings may well occur.

Each of us can do only a small amount toward the defeat of the global warming treaty, but most of us can do much toward correction of the underlying problems. Most of us have children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, or friends or associates with children who need an opportunity to be more than future mindless automatons of the state.

Thousands of years of human knowledge - including especially that of recent centuries which have included the rise of science and technology and the development of inexpensive means for the dissemination of knowledge and wisdom in all subjects - are now easily available to us. It is our duty to make an intelligent selection of that knowledge available to the young people of our immediate acquaintance. They must learn to think and to learn what others have thought and discovered. They must learn not to trust and parrot unscrupulous manipulators who seek to control and ruin their lives.

Although I personally advocate homeschooling and the abolition of tax-financed schools, it is not necessary to join the 3% of American families who are now homeschooling their children in order to help your young people. Even a child in the socialist schools spends only a part of his productive time in that environment. Each child should have available - at least for use in his recreational hours - a wealth of good material in science and the humanities.

Enclosed with this Access to Energy is a flier describing the curriculum that the Robinsons have developed with the help of several colleagues. In addition to our teaching method and support materials such as exams and exercises, this curriculum includes about 120,000 pages of unedited books in the humanities and science that we have selected from among the vast storehouses of human knowledge. This is the very best collection of its kind available. (We have even included three recent years of issues of Access to Energy - not great literature, but nevertheless a source of truths of current interest.) Although there are about 20,000 homeschooled students now using this curriculum and many more expected to adopt it during the coming months, these books and materials need to be much more widely available - especially to public school children. Please consider making them available to young people whom you know.

The price is $195 per set, but we also offer a scholarship program. That program works as follows: If $195 is more than you can afford, you can send any lesser amount that you can easily afford, and we will send the curriculum for that amount. This is not a discount; it is simply a scholarship honor system to which everyone has access. We do not want anyone deprived of these materials because of finances. So far, sales of curriculums at the full price have enabled us to provide a large number of curriculums at scholarship prices.

Consider a young person whom you know. Please help us to give that student an opportunity to learn the thoughts and thought processes of many of the greatest minds who have ever lived. It is the legacy of those minds and the truths which they offer that must stand between our people and the enemies who seek to brainwash them. Only such trained minds can protect and extend the legacy of our civilization.

We received the following letter from Dr. Tatsuo Iwazumi, dated September 7, 1997: "Dear Dr. Robinson:

"I have been your subscriber for some years and always admired your uncompromising efforts to tell scientific truths to the public. I don't know how many subscribers you currently have but I wish you have them by the millions. In order to increase the readership, I suggest to expand the subject matters discussed in your news letters with stories contributed by the readers. I have been a muscle biophysicist for over 30 years, and have seen so many researchers who are unbelievably incompetent in physics and mathematics. Very few biological scientists are trained in abstract and logical thinking by way of constructing mathematical theories as physicists do. As a result, their research methods are almost entirely devoted to discovery by shooting in the dark. In the process of random shooting, it is natural for people to rely on wild guesses and mysticism. The consequence is excessive waste of money and efforts, which leads to the need of financing inefficient research by means of federal funding. Another disturbing behavior in the majority of researchers is that they seem to believe that theories are made to be proved. It is of course politically very desirable to support theories when they are advanced by famous people. Indeed, most fraud in research is motivated by the desire to support a theory. I am always amazed by the creativity and zeal of researchers who interpret experimental data to support a theory. This is precisely because doing so is the most effective way to prolong research and to keep money coming their way. If every researcher was required by law either to propose a theory with testable predictions or to disprove existing theories, waste in research will be drastically reduced.

"I think the world of science will be much better place if the following words were posted in every science class in the world.

1. Theories are made to be disproved, and theories without testable predictions are worthless.

2. Honesty and negativism are the basis of science.

3. Science and politics don't mix.

4. Where politics thrives science is doomed.''

Radiation, Science, and Health, Inc., P. O. Box 843, Needham, MA 02194, has been compiling data on the health effects of low-level radiation under the guidance of its Board of Directors, which includes many prominent researchers in this field. Included in their February 1997 draft compilation are Figures 1 and 2.

Figure 1 is from Bogen, K. T., "A Cytodynamic Two Stage Model That Predicts Radon Hormesis (Decreased, then Increased Lung-Cancer Risk vs. Exposure),'' Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Preprint UCRL-TC-123219, and is based upon the data of B. L. Cohen, "Test of the linear-no threshold theory of radiation carcinogenesis for inhaled radon decay products,'' Health Physics 68, p 157-174. Figure 2 is from Kendall, G. M., et al., "Mortality and occupational exposure to radiation; first analysis of the National Registry for Radiation Workers,'' British Medical Journal 304, p 220 (1992).

The line labeled "BEIR IV'' in Figure 1 corresponds to the discredited no-threshold linear hypothesis, while the line labeled "CD2'' conforms to the experimental data which shows the hormesis discovered by Cohen. Up to a level of about 6 pCi/L, residential radon is seen to lower the risk of lung cancer. Cohen does not provide data above the levels shown, so this theoretical curve is drawn to conform to the expected deleterious effects of radon at higher levels - estimated here to be above 10 pCi/L.

Cohen's comprehensive work, which we have discussed in several earlier issues of Access to Energy, shows quite clearly that inhalation of radon at the levels found in many American homes has a protective effect against lung cancer. Only when the air concentration of radon exceeds the levels shown is there an opposite effect.

Figure 2 summarizes studies of leukemia incidence in 95,000 workers in British nuclear weapons plants between 1955 and 1988. Both the total cancer mortality and the leukemia mortality decreased inversely with increase in radiation exposure. The higher the amount of radiation to which the workers were exposed, the lower the cancer rate. Optimum for protection by radiation from death due to all cancers was at a lifetime dose of at least 20 cSv, while the lifetime optimum for protection from death by leukemia was between 10 and 30 cSv.

In these 95,000 nuclear workers, those who received sufficient doses of radiation had much less cancer than those who were exposed to less radiation. Of course, had the radiation level risen too high, this effect would have disappeared, and, at sufficiently high radiation levels, cancer incidence would have been increased.

Radiation, Science, and Health, Inc., has compiled a substantial number of such studies, which all lead to the same conclusion that low-level radiation decreases cancer, lengthens life, and enhances health.

The most sensible use of low-level radioactive waste is as a concrete and insulation additive in residential homes - especially in areas where there is insufficient natural radiation for optimum health.

Throughout the United States, the large enviro groups and other an-titechnologists (spell that "antihuman,'' for it is the humans that technology supports whom they really wish to eliminate) are attacking any sort of energy generation that works and claiming to support alternative technologies - which are essentially defined as those that are not practical for significant energy generation. While nuclear power remains quarantined and attention is focused on the attempt to dismantle part of the hydrocarbon energy system by means of a global warming treaty, hydroelectric power, an inexpensive and completely clean technology bequeathed to us from previous generations, is under attack.

The formula for assault on America's hydroelectric dams is now standardized. First, it is claimed that the dam interferes with fish migration and needs to be modified with updated fish passage devices. Then the price of the modifications is artificially inflated, so that it exceeds the cost of tearing down the dam and also exceeds the income from the dam. After that, discussion moves to who will pay for the destruction.

Long ago all dams were required to be registered and licensed by government. Now, if the dam owners or users do not pay for modifications - which are deliberately priced as high as necessary to exceed their ability to pay, then the dam's license is not renewed. Many dams are currently caught in this web of deceit, and now one has succumbed.

In The Wall Street Journal, November 25, 1997, p B4, Neil Ulman reports the plight of the 160-year old Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in Augusta, Maine. Clinton Administration bureaucrats demanded $10 million in dam modifications, claiming that they would help the fish (the opposite may actually be true), while the dam owner said it could accomplish the same objective with $1.5 million in modifications. Now, this 3.5 megawatt dam has been ordered destroyed.

Gloating over their victory, one Margaret Bowman, "director of hydropower'' for the enviros that call themselves "American Rivers'' said, "This case goes beyond relicensing. The federal government has until now viewed dams as permanent structures on the landscape. This recognizes that they have a finite lifecycle.'' In support of her demand that the company pay for the destruction of its own dam, she said, "As a child, I was taught that when you're finished playing in the sandbox, you should pick up your toys before you go home.'' Next to fall may be the 125-foot high, 10-megawatt Project Dam built in 1913 in Washington State. Once again, fish passage is standing in for the Spotted Owl as a completely contrived and hypocritical excuse. Several other western hydroelectric dams are also near destruction. The Savage Rapids irrigation dam on the Rogue River in Southern Oregon is also slated for destruction - again because farmers are unable to pay a cost of fish passage modifications that has been artificially inflated by enviro bureaucrats and antitechnologists.

The envy that drives these haters of humans and human accomplishments will never be satiated. It will devour all that it can.

Every American property owner should read "The Consensus Process: Developing an appropriate response,'' Eco-logic, May/June 1997, p 14, available from Eco•logic, P. O. Box 191, Hollow Rock, TN 38342, or telephone (901) 986-0099. The so-called "consensus process'' is becoming the method of choice for enviro and other anti-private property groups to compromise property rights, diminish the freedom of property owners, and seize private property. With money provided by the Clinton Administration, these "consensus'' takeovers are in progress by unelected and often unappointed local and regional bureaucracies throughout the United States.

The formula for these takeovers is now well established. Funded by federal executive branch agencies and enviro groups, "stakeholder'' councils are formed in towns, counties, and regions. These supposedly grassroots efforts to address local "land use, environmental, and ecological concerns'' seem to arise spontaneously.

In fact, these events are preplanned with goals and decisions already reached before the first meetings quietly take place. After the effort is carefully populated with community "failures'' and others who think it offers personal benefit and is firmly controlled by the initiating bureaucrats, public meetings are held to give the enterprise a facade of public "input.'' Once it gets rolling, local business leaders often join -sacrificing honesty and ethics and giving credibility by their presence -in order to protect their own self-interests.

"Consensus'' enters in because all public meetings of these groups are run with the intention solely of ratifying the socialist objectives of the initiating bureaucracy. No votes are taken or other mechanisms allowed to intervene whereby the community might democratically express itself or fundamental human rights might be applied.

The Eco•logic article seems a little dry until one recognizes the formula as one that is currently plaguing his community. We had such an effort here some years ago by an unelected bureaucracy that calls itself the "Rogue Valley Council of Governments.'' The solid citizens of the community eventually cooperated in dismantling it except for a small cadre of community losers who continued an ineffective, hibernating activity. Now, however, it is back with the same RVCOG creating a new "stakeholder'' facade to "address local land use issues.'' This is very dangerous to freedom and to public morality.

Alexander Poniatoff, founder of AMPEX Corporation, began his career flying a plywood airplane for the Czar in World War I and then fought with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks. He told me once of his arrival back in his home town from the European front only to find the surrounding region embroiled in the Communist revolution.

A Communist commissar for his village had already been appointed. The appointed individual had previously held office as the village bum. Poniatoff said that this was a standard Communist practice. The failures of society were appointed to rule over the productive. Failures could be counted on for a maximum of envy, a minimum of ability (and therefore were unable to interfere with their controllers), and a maximum of obedience (since their only status derived from that awarded by their masters). Consensus bureaucrats likewise populate their efforts as much as possible with the lowest common denominators of the community - for similar reasons.

Many organizations are publishing special global warming issues in hopes of derailing the Clinton Administration intentions in Japan. In addition to Access to Energy and the many publications that we have referenced in past issues, the following recent issues are valuable:

Eco-logic for July / August 1997, available from P. O. Box 191, Hollow Rock, TN 38342, and (901) 986-0099.
"Warming? Cooling? Eco-Alarm and the Totalitarian Agenda,'' The New American, December 8, 1997, available from 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, WI 54914, and (920) 749-3784.
"Earth Summit Fact Sheet - Kyoto Information Center,'' availble from The National Center for Public Policy Research, 300 Eye Street, N.E., Suite 3, Washington, DC 20002, and (202) 543-1286.

"The Coming Ice Age - Why Global Warming is a Fraud,'' 21st Century Science and Technology, November 1997, from P. O. Box 16285, Washington, DC 20041, and (703) 777-7473.

"The Costs of Kyoto,'' from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, 1001 Connecticut Avenue, N. W., Suite 1250, Washington, DC.

"The Earth is Fine! Save Yourself!'' a general antienviro poster to lift your spirits, available from The National Anxiety Center, P. O. Box 40, Maplewood, NJ 07040, and (973) 763-6392.

Nature 388, pp 699-701, trumpets the funding of a 20-million-dollar project to sequence the DNA of the malaria parasite. This is supposed to be basic research related to developing a vaccine. While basic research and eventual vaccines are nice, what about the children who are dying at a rate of one every 12 seconds right now, while they are being denied access to a proven mosquito suppressor, DDT? According to the U. S. National Academy of Sciences, DDT saved 500 million lives before it was banned and suppressed world wide.
The Web site of Environment News Service carried an article on November 27, 1997, by one Claire Gilbert claiming that the exhaust of jet aircraft is causing global warming. No technology is safe from being demonized in the global warming feeding frenzy - a frenzy based entirely on claimed atmospheric temperature changes that do not exist.
The Wall Street Journal, November 26, 1997, p 1, says that the Pentagon has reported that more than 25 nations have or may be developing nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and the means to deliver them. The response of the Clinton Administration has been to completely terminate all civil defense programs in the United States and to stall all workable strategic defense development.

We suppose that a completely vulnerable American people is expected to be more amenable to global totalitarianism.

Living and Dying in Dirty Air: What the Science Tells Us by Robert F. Phalen, published by the George C. Marshall Institute, 1730 K Street, NW, Suite 905, Washington, DC 20006-3868. It turns out that the science underlying the Environmental Protection Agency's new "clean air'' standards is so shaky that these standards may actually be directly harmful to public heath.
"The Sky Isn't Falling, and the Ocean Isn't Rising'' by S. Fred Singer in The Wall Street Journal, November 10, 1997, p A22. Citing the experience of earlier climate periods, Singer shows that global warming (which he does not endorse), if it were to occur, would be most likely to cause ocean levels to decrease as they did, for example, during the warming between 1900 and 1940, which is associated with recovery from the Little Ice Age. Also, other geological factors are at work that render human influence on sea levels negligible.
A friend writes that, in the latest Batman movie, a mad scientist confronts Bruce Wayne with a proposal to stop production of CO2 and halogens with resulting deaths of countless millions, which the scientist says is a small price to pay. Wayne disagrees saying, "People come first.'' It is good to see Batman still fighting for justice and truth.
"Education'' in Straight Talk, July 17, 1997, p 6 from P. O. Box 960, Pigeon Forge, TN 37868. The typical Japanese high-school graduate has the equivalent of four full years more than an American.