Three Mile Island, Global Warming and the CIA

By Aletho News | January 9, 2012

This article will examine some of the connections between the US and UK National Security apparatus and the appearance of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theory beginning after the accident at Three Mile Island.

In the mid 1970s “climate cooling” was the topic of articles in popular magazines such as Newsweek with reports of meteorologists being “almost unanimous” that the trend could lead to catastrophic famines, another little ice age or worse. In 1974 Time magazine published an article titled “Another Ice Age?.” In 1975 the New York Times ran an article titled “Scientists Ponder Why World’s Climate Is Changing; a Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable,” while in 1978 they reported that “an international team of specialists has concluded from eight indexes of climate that there is no end in sight to the cooling trend of the last 30 years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere.”

While it may be true that the “newspaper of record” is not the best source for topics that go beyond the pronouncements of official or “off the record” statements from government agents, it is instructive that the message changed by the end of the decade, after the March 28, 1979 accident at Three Mile Island which had sounded the death knell for the nuclear power industry that is.

Daniel Yergin writes that by the early 1980s “a notable shift in the climate of climate change research was clear-from cooling to warming.”1 Yergin reports that the Department of Defense’s JASON committee had found “incontrovertible evidence that the atmosphere is indeed changing and that we ourselves contribute to that change,” adding “a wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is too late.” Political action was now being called for. That action would entail reducing carbon emissions, something which could be achieved through increased reliance on the now unpopular nuclear power industry.

Nuclear weapons programs rely on the existence of large nuclear processing facilities including mining, milling and enrichment of uranium as well as a highly specialized and experienced labor pool. While it is possible to produce nuclear weapons without a nuclear power industry it is far preferable to have a dynamic nuclear industry in place. The nuclear facilities that existed in 1979 would not last forever and the industry was seen as an essential component of the military industrial complex. These factors may well have been over-riding considerations in the DoD JASON committee report.

One of the principle scientists engaged in formulating the AGW theory was Roger Revelle, a US Navy oceanographer who was employed at the Office of Naval Research. The US Navy was actually central to the development of the civilian nuclear power industry in the US due to its reactor designs for nuclear powered submarines and ships.

Another outspoken early proponent of AGW theory was Britain’s Margaret Thatcher who also sought the construction of new nuclear power plants as well as Trident nuclear submarines along with new nuclear weapons. Her Conservative party also sought to crush the coal miner’s unions with which they had intractable disputes. Britain went on to build new nuclear power plants during the 1980s while firing tens of thousands of coal miners.

In the US, the Carter administration sponsored the establishment of the solar energy industry, another carbon free energy source. George Tenet (later named as director of the CIA) became the promotion manager of the Solar Energy Industries Association which included companies such as Grumman, Boeing, General Motors and Exxon. The proposed ‘renewable’ and ‘green’ energy legislation over the decades consistently facilitated the viability of the development of new nuclear power plants. Other ‘alternative’ energy technologies were never seriously expected to become significant sources of electric power generation.

In 2008 another CIA director, James Woolsey, would also become involved in promoting “a Fortress America of tanks and solar panels, plug-in hybrids and nuclear reactors,”2 only in his case the service to the carbon free industry would come after the CIA stint rather than before. Woolsey has recently appeared in an anti-oil print ad for the American Clean Skies Foundation.

The Institute for Policy Studies reports on Woolsey’s focus as an energy security advisor to the John McCain presidential campaign:

A founding member of the Set America Free coalition, a pressure group aimed at highlighting the “security and economic implications of America’s growing dependence on foreign oil,” Woolsey sees himself as helping pioneer a new political coalition that combines his militarist security ideology with green politics. He says, “The combination of 9/11, concern about climate change, and $4 a gallon gasoline has brought a lot of people together. I call it the coalition of the tree-huggers, the do-gooders, the cheap hawks, the evangelicals, and the mom and pop drivers. All of those groups have good reasons to be interested in moving away from oil dependence.”3

The Set America Free coalition includes liberal groups such as the Apollo Alliance, the American Council on Renewable Energy and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

There is another significant bloc of support for the low carbon paradigm which has a foreign policy orientation. In promoting the reduction in reliance on Middle Eastern oil imports Woolsey is joined by prominent hawks such as Senator Joseph Lieberman, former Senator Sam Brownback, Representative Eliot Engel, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, former national security adviser Robert McFarlane, Thomas Neumann of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), Daniel Pipes of the Middle East Forum, Frank Gaffney head of the neoconservative Center for Security Policy (CSP), Cliff May of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), Gary Bauer of American Values and Meyrav Wurmser of the Hudson Institute.

An outcome of energy independence would be greater freedom to initiate wars of aggression across the Middle East region that would destroy any potential resistance to the greater Israel project. Woolsey’s positions as an advisor to the neoconservative-led Foundation for the Defense of Democracies; and advisory board member of the Likudnik Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs might shed some light on his aims. The low carbon paradigm serves both the nuclear goals as well as the geo-political goals of the neoconservatives.

Notes

1Daniel Yergin, The Quest, Penguin Press

2 Jackson West, “R. James Woolsey and the Rise of the Greenocons”

3 Tim Shipman, “John McCain Hires Former CIA Director Jim Woolsey As Green Advisor,” Daily Telegraph, June 21, 2008.

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January 8, 2012 - Posted by aletho | Author: Atheo, Militarism, Nuclear Power, Science and Pseudo-Science, Timeless or most popular, Wars for Israel | American Clean Skies Foundation, CIA, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, Middle East, R. James Woolsey Jr., Solar Energy Industries Association, United States, Woolsey

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You are correct that there is a conspiracy about climate change but you have identified the wrong villains.

There is a campaign of disinformation being run by the fossil fuel industry. They are using what is referred to as ‘the tobacco strategy’ – the same strategy that was used by the tobacco industry to ward off action against it for decades. In many cases the ‘guns for hire’ scientists who are spreading the disinformation are the very same people who did this role for the tobacco industry, DDT, and CFCs. You can read about it in “Merchants of Doubt”. It is a very well documented book. And the authors would have been sued for everything they own if it was inaccurate as it names names and details all sorts of immoral actions by the fossil fuel companies and individuals such as the Koch brothers.

In the distant past changes in the earth’s climate were driven by changes in the position of the earth relative to the sun, changes in the tilt of the earth and changes in the activity of the sun. These were amplified by greenhouse gases and the albedo effect and resulted in very large shifts in climate over a period of hundreds of thousands of years. All those natural cycles should now be resulting int he earth slowly but surely entering the next ice age and until the 70′s it looked like that is what would happen. However, it is now clear that human induced climate change is overwhelming those natural cycles and each decade is hotter than the one before it.

Comment by Jane R | February 22, 2012 | Reply
- Jane,
  
  I have considered a conspiracy by the fossil fuel industry and have found that there very likely is one.
  
  They have conspired with the AGW fraudsters. In fact, they were set to be the primary beneficiaries of the hoped for cap and trade carbon credits scheme.
  
  The AGW proponents who decry the funding of scientific ‘guns for hire’ by the fossil fuel industry simply ignore the pro-AGW science that the industry has sponsored. Exxon is reported to have spent more on pro-AGW research than anti.
  
  In any event the energy industry’s funding of research is a drop in the bucket next to the $50 billion or so that has been spent by governments trying to come up with evidence to back the AGW hypothesis.
  
  Comment by aletho | February 22, 2012 | Reply
I don’t think there is much doubt that global warming is pushed as a means for cap and trade issues. Carbon footprint is pointed to also as the main contributor. There is not much talk on the increasing frequency of the sun being the main cause of this probably because there is little anyone can do about it. The global warming phenomenon has bee a subject of debate for decades.

Complicating the picture is the fact that erupting strato-volcanoes can alter the weather for years also tossing particle into the air and they have increased lately into an era of increased eruptions. This however has not slowed down warming. You don’t measurie warming necessarily by how much ice appears on the ice caps, you do so by measuring the temperature of the oceans and they are warming. The oceans are warming and that is an indisputable fact and I don’t think it has much to do with carbon emissions.

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/20100108_Is_Antarctica_Melting.html

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/04/antarctic-ice-melting-below-warming-ocean

In the case of antarctica, there is also the matter of a super volcano being positioned under it. The ice pack is being melted from below to a certain degree by this and by the warmer ocean currents. If the ice pack should slide abruptly it would be catastrophic. There is evidence also to my satisfaction anyway it has happened before.

The Babylonian cuneiform tablets contained in the Berlin Museum suggest this scenario has indeed happened before and is known to us as the flood of Noah, except the main character was not named Noah. It is also a subject covered in Velokovsky’s World’s in Collision displaying buttercups still in tact found in the mouths of Siberian wooly beasts indicating they were flash frozen by some type catastrophic event.

In Sitchin’s tales of the Nefilim we see such a description of the polar ice cap slipping off it’s hinges and generating a tremendous tidal wave.

“The moon disappeared. The appearance of the weather changed. The rains roared in the clouds. The winds became savage, the deluge set out. It’s might came upon the people like a battle. One person did not see another, they were not recognizable in the destruction. The deluge bellowed like a bull. The winds whinnied like a wild ass. The darkness was dense. The sun could not be seen.”

“….the biblical and earlier Mesopotamian texts make clear that – the catastrophe began with a rush of wind from the south followed by a watery wave from the south. The source of the waters were the “fountains of the Great Deep” – a term that referred to the great and deep oceanic waters beyond Africa. The avalanche of water “submerged the dams of the dry land” – the coastal continental barriers. As the ice over Antarctica slipped into the Indian Ocean it caused an immense tidal wave. Gushing forth across the ocean northward, the wall of water overwhelmed the continental coastline of Arabia and rushed up the Persian Gulf. Then it reached the funnel of The Land Between the Rivers, engulfing all the lands.”

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sitchin/sitchinbooks.htm

Comment by dublinmick | May 4, 2012 | Reply
could this be the reason why racist/zionists are hellbent on war with Iran? maybe they think money will save them and we all know money is the product of war and desolation.

Comment by maryam fritsch | May 26, 2012 | Reply

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