Is the issue of man-made global warming dead?

Roger Simon asks the question. I hope the answer is a big, resounding YES!

I know this sounds premature, but the failure of UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen has in all likelihood made anthropogenic global warming a dead issue.

Another nail in its coffin appeared on the site of insciences organization yesterday:

Cosmic rays and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), both already implicated in depleting the Earth’s ozone layer, are also responsible for changes in the global climate, a University of Waterloo scientist reports in a new peer-reviewed paper.

In his paper, Qing-Bin Lu, a professor of physics and astronomy, shows how CFCs – compounds once widely used as refrigerants – and cosmic rays – energy particles originating in outer space – are mostly to blame for climate change, rather than carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. His paper, derived from observations of satellite, ground-based and balloon measurements as well as an innovative use of an established mechanism, was published online in the prestigious journal Physics Reports.

“My findings do not agree with the climate models that conventionally thought that greenhouse gases, mainly CO2, are the major culprits for the global warming seen in the late 20th century,” Lu said. “Instead, the observed data show that CFCs conspiring with cosmic rays most likely caused both the Antarctic ozone hole and global warming. These findings are totally unexpected and striking, as I was focused on studying the mechanism for the formation of the ozone hole, rather than global warming.”

Roger has even more on this at his Pajamas Media column and I recommend you read it all. Man-made global warming is one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated on the American public and the world. People were duped into buying things and altering their behavior based upon this lie. It was pushed on television all over the place, from evening sit-coms to kids’ morning shows. NBC even went so far as to broadcast their Sunday Night Football candle-light.

A number of mommy bloggers bought into man-made global warming and pushed it on their blogs thinking they were “saving the planet,” when in reality, they were only empowering people like Al Gore.  Every time I went onto a mom’s blog and saw links on their side bar or read posts in which they extolled the virtues “going green,” I felt kind of bad for them. They thought people like Al Gore were being truthful when they said the earth was in serious jeopardy. Instead, they were selling these moms nothing but snake oil.

I only hope that the lie of man-made global warming dies a very public death so there is no more ambiguity or uncertainty about it.