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  by Susanne Posel
 December 15, 2014
 
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			OccupyCorporatism Website 
			  
			  
			  
			  
			
			 
			  
			  
			  
			The United Nations (UN) 
			
			My World 
			survey is an attempt to understand what is most important to 
			people from all walks of life, in every country, across the globe.   
			With over 7 million participants in the 
			survey, issues the UN is interested in include: 
				
					
					
					Transportation and roads
					
					Forests, rivers and oceans
					
					Climate change
					
					Access to food
					
					Ethical government
					
					Political freedom
					
					Clean water and sanitation
					
					Crime and violence
					
					Access to internet and phone
					
					Employment
					
					Gender equality
					
					Energy
					
					Healthcare
					
					Discrimination and persecution
					
					Education
					
					Disabilities 
			Author and former climatology professor 
			for the University of Winnipeg (UW)
			Tim Ball
			
			asserted:  
				
				"Climate change has happened, is 
				happening and will always happen. Contrary to the message of the 
				last thirty years, current rate of climate change is well within 
				the bounds of natural variability.  
				  
				Thus, a perfectly natural 
				phenomenon became the biggest deception in history." 
			Ball continued:  
				
				"The UN must get out of the climate 
				field entirely. In particular, their Intergovernmental Panel on 
				Climate Change and the Framework Convention on Climate Change 
				have always been biased political instruments and should be 
				immediately disbanded.  
				  
				Then the agency should focus only on 
				issues the people of the world deem important." 
			Tom Harris, executive director of the 
			International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) pointed out that, 
				
				"the 7 million people polled so far 
				indicate that, in comparison with issues such as education, 
				health care, jobs, and energy, they care very little about 
				climate change.  
				  
				Perhaps most out of touch with reality is the UN 
				Secretary General Ban Ki-moon himself who on Wednesday asserted 
				that climate change remains his 'top priority’." 
			Terry Dunleavy, strategic advisor for 
			the ICSC explained that Ban Ki-moon, general secretary for the UN is 
			incorrect when he claimed, 
				
				"science has not only spoken - it is 
				shouting from the rooftops. Our planet has a fever - and it is 
				getting hotter every day." 
			Dunleavy said:  
				
				"Not only is climate science highly 
				uncertain but there has been no statistically significant global 
				warming for 18 years despite a 9% rise in carbon dioxide to a 
				still miniscule 0.04% of our atmosphere.  
				  
				As the scientists 
				explained in their 2012 open letter to Mr. Ban,  
					
					'Global warming 
				that has not occurred cannot have caused the extreme weather of 
				the past few years'." 
			When it comes to deciphering the real 
			effects of climate change, it seems every year is the warmest year 
			on record.   
			The National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
			Administration (NOAA)
			
			stated that 2012 was one of the 10 warmest years on record. The 
			next year, NOAA
			
			claimed that 2013 was the 4th warmest year on record. And it just so happens that NOAA
			
			is decrying that 2014 will be the "hottest year on record so 
			far".   
			Zhengyu Liu, professor of atmospheric 
			and ocean sciences at the University of Wisconsin, explains: 
			 
				
				"Data from observation suggests that 
				the Earth is cooling while the physical data suggests the 
				complete opposite." 
			Liu has been working with professors 
			from many other academias to understand 
			
			the obvious cooling of the 
			planet: 
				
					
					
					Rutgers University
					
					National Center for Atmospheric 
					Research
					
					Alfred Wegener Institute for 
					Polar and Marine Research
					
					University of Hawaii
					
					University of Reading
					
					Chinese Academy of Sciences
					
					University of Albany 
			The issue has been termed the Holocene 
			Temperature Conundrum (HTC) which is
			explained:  
				
				"A recent temperature reconstruction 
				of global annual temperature shows Early Holocene warmth 
				followed by a cooling trend through the Middle to Late Holocene 
				[Marcott SA, et al., 2013, Science 339(6124):1198–1201]. 
				   
				This global cooling is puzzling 
				because it is opposite from the expected and simulated global 
				warming trend due to the retreating ice sheets and rising 
				atmospheric greenhouse gases.    
				Our critical reexamination of this 
				contradiction between the reconstructed cooling and the 
				simulated warming points to potentially significant biases in 
				both the seasonality of the proxy reconstruction and the climate 
				sensitivity of current climate models." 
			Lui suggested:  
				
				"Over the last 10,000 years, Liu 
				says, we know atmospheric carbon dioxide rose by 20 parts per 
				million before the 20th century, and the massive ice sheet of 
				the Last Glacial Maximum has been retreating.    
				These physical changes suggest that, 
				globally, the annual mean global temperature should have 
				continued to warm, even as regions of the world experienced 
				cooling, such as during the Little Ice Age in Europe between the 
				16th and 19th centuries." 
			  
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