According to the TTAPS study, much of the dust raised by nuclear
explosions would end up suspended above the troposphere, which is the
lower part of the atmosphere. This would reflect some sunlight back
into space, and thus lower global temperatures. The study concluded
that a five thousand megaton nuclear exchange can cause a temperature
drop of about eighty-four degrees Fahrenheit.

This was truly a historic paper, along the lines of Einstein’s “On
the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” and Darwin’s “Origin of the
Species”. Clearly, dust in the upper atmosphere would plunge
temperatures, and humanity had the capacity to reduce temperatures by
eighty-four degrees with existing technology. This was reiterated in
the book The Cold and the Dark: The World After Nuclear War , written
by Paul R. Ehrlich, Carl Sagan, Donald Kennedy, and Walter Orr
Roberts.

It was about ten years after that when another threat was
discussed. This time, it dealt with warming temperatures cuased by
increased carbon dioxide emissions. Rising temperatures would cause
droughts in California, floods in Bangladesh, cause polar bears to be
extinct, cause tropical diseases to spread, all sorts of calamities.
Vice President Al Gore presented this in his movie An Inconvenient
Truth, for which he won a Nobel prize. And all of this is supposed to
result from an increase of two degrees.

It is clear, therefore, that if humanity can reduce global
temperatures by eighty-four degrees, they can reduce global
temperatures by a mere two degrees.

The threat of global warming resulted in the House of
Representatives passing a bill dealing with this. Surely, we can
expect dust to be injected in the upper atmosphere to reduce sunlight,
perhaps even seeing mushroom clouds rise up once again at the Nellis
test site.

Except that the bill does not propose the obvious solution.
Instead, it enacts a cap and trade system, which would impose higher
taxes, thus raising energy costs in an attempt to reduce carbon
dioxide emissions.

One must wonder why this is being proposed as the solution, instead
of blanketing the upper atmosphere with dust. In fact, it seems the
TTAPS study was erased from the government’s consciousness. There is,
in fact, no proof that reducing carbon dioxide emissions would reduce
global temperatures. Clearly, the most obvious solution to this threat
to human civilization is being deliberately ignored in favor of some
complex regulatory scheme which would destroy the economy.

It is here that we get into the crux of the matter. The
environmentalist lobby is not about saving the environment, but
destroying Western industrial civilization. The Kyoto treaty, which
was about reducing carbon dioxide emissions, was only aimed at Western
industrial nations. This war on global warming is really a war on
Western industrial civilization.