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by Ronald Kessler - - Tuesday,November 9, 2021

OPINION:

If you want to know why President Joe Biden’s entire climate agenda is a fraud, read the Washington Post and the New York Times.

Buried inside both papers were news stories reporting that despite the unprecedented shutdown of worldwide economies because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere remained unchanged or increased slightly.

The news reports were not based on information on a right-wing website. Instead, they reported on readings from the official U.S. government source for carbon dioxide measurements in the atmosphere.

“Economies worldwide nearly ground to a halt over the 15 months of the coronavirus pandemic, leading to a startling drop in global greenhouse gas emissions,” the Washington Post’s story last June 7 said.

“But the idle airplanes, boarded-up stores and quiet highways barely made a dent in the steady accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Monday had reached the highest levels since accurate measurements began 63 years ago,” the Washington Post story said.

Similarly, the New York Times reported last June 4, “Despite the economic collapse resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, which has led to sharp declines in carbon dioxide emissions, the amount of the greenhouse gas has continued to climb.”

Indeed, “Scientific instruments atop the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii showed that levels of carbon dioxide in the air averaged 419 parts per million in May, the annual peak, according to two separate analyses from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,” the New York Times story said. “Those readings are about half a percent higher than the previous high of 417 parts per million, set in May 2020.”

Even National Public Radio, in a more recent story on Oct. 25, reported the startling findings.

In other words, even though automobile traffic ground almost to a halt, airlines canceled flights, train schedules were curtailed, and offices, schools, and factories were shut down during the pandemic, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was not affected.

Of course, climate scientists have tried to explain away the failure to see a change in atmospheric carbon dioxide, which is the main component of greenhouse gases that are believed to trap heat from the planet’s surface that would otherwise escape into space.

“People may be surprised to hear that the response to the coronavirus outbreak hasn’t done more to influence CO2 levels,” said Ralph Keeling, a geochemist who runs the Scripps Oceanography CO2 program, according to the New York Times story. “But the buildup of CO2 is a bit like trash in a landfill,” he said. “As we keep emitting, it keeps piling up. The crisis has slowed emissions, but not enough to show up perceptibly at Mauna Loa.”

Yet, in a news release, Scripps scientists offered an entirely different explanation: that even a sharp drop in emissions from human activity “is overshadowed by natural variability in carbon emissions from vegetation and soil in response to seasonal changes in temperature and soil moisture.”

So the main culprit allegedly causing global warming is not human activity, as we have been told by Mr. Biden and almost every media outlet, but rather our vegetation and soil.

The fact is that while average global temperatures have increased 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit since the 19th century, the idea that human activity is responsible for global warming has always been merely a theory. Now we know the answer.

When carbon emissions declined drastically during the pandemic, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere remained unchanged or actually increased, demonstrating that human activity has nothing to do with carbon dioxide levels that according to the dogma cause climate change. 

The corollary to that is that all the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on electric cars, charging stations, solar panels, and retrofitting homes and offices to combat global warming will be a colossal waste of money.

As Mr. Biden himself said in unscripted remarks that few in the media picked up during his State of the Union address, “The United States accounts, as all of you know, for less than 15 percent of carbon emissions. The rest of the world accounts for 85%. That’s why I kept my commitment to rejoin the Paris Accord because if we do everything perfectly, it’s not going to matter.”

If ever there was a need for pointing out that the emperor has no clothes, this is it.

Ronald Kessler, a formerWashington Post and Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, is the author of “The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game.”

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Ronald Kessler is an American journalist and author of 19 non-fiction books about the Secret Service,FBI, and CIA.

Kessler is The New York Times best-selling author of 19 non-fiction books about the Secret Service, FBI, CIA, war on terror, Laura Bush, Joseph P. Kennedy, and Palm Beach. Kessler began his career as a journalist in 1964 on the Worcester Telegram, followed by three years as an investigative reporter and editorial writer with theBoston Herald. In 1968, he joined the Wall Street Journal as a reporter in the New York bureau. He became aninvestigative reporter with TheWashington Post in 1970 and continued as a staff writer until 1985.

Kessler has won 17 journalism awards, including two George Polk Awards — one for national reporting and one for community service. He won the top prize for business and financial reporting given by the Washington chapter of the Sigma Delta Chi society of professional journalists. Kessler has also won the American Political Science Association's Public Affairs Reporting Award, The Associated Press' Sevellon Brown Memorial Award, and Washingtonian magazine's Washingtonian of the Year award. He is listed in "Who's Who in America."[1]

Kessler's background and approach

In 1970 Kessler joined the Washington Post as an investigative reporter and continued as a staff writer until 1985.[2] In 1972, he won a George Polk Memorial award for Community Service because of two series of articles he wrote—one on conflicts of interest and mismanagement at Washington area non-profit hospitals, and a second series exposing kickbacks among lawyers, title insurance companies, realtors, and lenders in connection with real estate settlements, inflating the cost of buying homes.[3][4] He was also named a Washingtonian of the Year by Washingtonian magazine that year.[5] In 1979, Kessler won a second Polk Award, this one for National Reporting for a series of articles exposing corruption in the General Services Administration; he won even though his editor,Ben Bradlee, had not submitted his stories for consideration.[4][6] Kessler's Washington Post stories reporting that Lena Ferguson had been denied membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) because she is black led to her acceptance by the DAR and widespread changes in its policies to increase membership by blacks.[7]

After leaving the Washington Post, Kessler authored 19 nonfiction books on intelligence and current affairs. Five of his books reached the hardover nonfictionNew York Times Best Seller list: The Secrets of the FBI (2011), In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect (2009), described by USA Today as "the inside scoop on those stern-faced guys who protect the president," Laura Bush (2006), a biography of the first lady; A Matter of Character (2004), an admiring look at George W. Bush's presidency; and Inside the White House (1995), a behind-the-scenes expose of presidencies from Lyndon B. Johnson to Bill Clinton.."[8] A sixth book, The Season: Inside Palm Beach and America's Richest Society(1999), an investigative report on the lives of multi-millionaires in Palm Beach, Florida, made the New York Times bestseller list for business books.[9] Kessler’s book The FBI: Inside the World’s Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency led to the dismissal of William S. Sessions as FBI director over his abuses.[10]

In his book The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI, Kessler presented the first credible evidence that Bob Woodward’s and Carl Bernstein’s Watergatesource dubbed Deep Throat was FBI official W. Mark Felt. The book said that Woodward paid a secret visit to Felt in California and had his limousine park ten blocks away from Felt’s home so as not to attract attention.[11] Jon Stewart of The Daily Show said Kessler's The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack is a "very interesting look inside the FBI and CIA, which I think is unprecedented." [12] The Washington Times said of the book, "Ronald Kessler is a veteran Washington-based investigative journalist on national security...His unparalleled access to top players in America's counterterrorism campaign allowed him a rare glimpse into their tradecraft, making The Terrorist Watch a riveting account." [13]

Kessler's book, In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect, was described by USA Today as a "fascinating exposé...high-energy read...amusing, saucy, often disturbing anecdotes about the VIPs the [ [Secret Service] ] has protected and still protects.....[accounts come] directly from current and retired agents (most identified by name, to Kessler's credit)....Balancing the sordid tales are the kinder stories of presidential humanity...[Kessler is a] respected journalist and former Washington Post reporter....an insightful and entertaining story."[14] Newsweek said of the book, “Kessler’s such a skilled storyteller, you almost forget this is dead-serious nonfiction.... An afterword reveals new details about Kessler’s discovery of a third uninvited intruder during last year’s White House State Dinner... The behind-the-scenes anecdotes are delightful, but Kessler has a bigger point to make, one concerning why the under-appreciated Secret Service deserves better leadership.”[15]

Kessler's latest book, The Secrets of the FBI, was published August 2, 2011. The book presents revelations about the Russian spy swap, Marilyn Monroe's death, Vince Foster’s suicide, the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, and J. Edgar Hoover’s sexual orientation. For the first time, it tells how the FBI caught spy Robert Hanssen in its midst and how secret teams of FBI agents break into homes, offices, and embassies to plant bugging devices without getting caught and shot as burglars. [16]

From 2006 to 2012, Kessler was chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com. Kessler's work for Newsmax generally focused on conservative and national security issues. However, he wrote the Wall Street Journalop-ed "The Real Joe McCarthy," which attacked efforts by some conservative writers to vindicate the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy.[17]

More recently, Kessler wrote the Newsmax article Obama Was Born in the United States, exposing mythology about whether Obama is a U.S. citizen. He also wrote Obama is Quick Study in Intelligence Briefings, reporting that intelligence officials are impressed by how Obama takes intelligence briefings. For his Newsmax columns, Kessler won the firstRobert Novak Journalist of the Year Award in 2010.[18]

On Jan. 4, 2010, Kessler wrote a Newsmax article revealing that the Secret Service allowed a third uninvited guest to attend President Obama’s state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh besides party crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi on Nov. 24, 2009.[19] The Secret Service confirmed the third intrusion “following a report by Ronald Kessler, a journalist who writes for Newsmax.com,” the Washington Post said. “Kessler reported that the agency discovered the third crasher after examining surveillance video of arriving guests and found one tuxedoed man who did not match any name on the guest list.”[20]

On April 14, 2012, Kessler broke the story that the Secret Service had removed and sent home agents assigned to protect President Obama during his trip to Colombia because they had been involved in hiring prostitutes there.[21]

On November 9, 2012, Kessler broke the story that an FBI investigation led to the resignation of David H. Petraeus as CIA director. The concern was that Petraeus had put himself in a compromised position, opening himself to potential blackmail by foreign intelligence services.[22] Kessler's subsequent story on Nov. 11 said an FBI source had told him on Oct. 10 that agents on the case were outraged because they were told by senior officials that the FBI was going to hold in limbo their findings until after the election, when Petraeus would be told to resign. The day after the election, James R. Clapper Jr., the director of National Intelligence, told the CIA director to resign.[23]

After National Public Radio (NPR) fired Juan Williamsas a news analyst, Kessler wrote The Juan Williams I Know. Based on his book The Secrets of the FBI, Kessler wrote “Russia Tried to Swap Spies Hanssen, Ames”.[24] After the terrorist bombing at the Boston Marathon, Kessler wrote "Behind the Boston Bombing Case".[25]

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  1. ↑ Ronald Kessler biography, Newsmax.com. Accessed March 3, 2008.
  2. ↑ Ronald Kessler Biography. NewsMax. Retrieved on 2008-03-22.
  3. ↑ Scandal Series Wins Prize. Oakland Tribune (1973-02-01). Retrieved on 2008-03-22.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 McBee, Susanna (1979-02-12). "Reporter Is Cited For GSA Articles", Washington Post. Retrieved on 2008-03-23.
  5. ↑ Past Washingtonians of the Year. Washingtonian. Retrieved on 2008-03-26.
  6. ↑ Hershey, Edward. A History of Journalistic Integrity, Superb Reporting and Protecting the Public: The George Polk Awards in Journalism. Long Island University. Retrieved on 2008-03-22.
  7. ↑ Washington Post, March 12, 1984, page A1; April 18, 1984, page C1; April 5, 1984, page C3; March 27, 1985, page A22.
  8. ↑ USA Today, May 7. 2009, page 5D
  9. ↑ *New York Times* search query
  10. ↑ Washington Post, June 19, 1993, page A1; Washington Post, July 20, 1993, page A1.
  11. ↑ Washington Times, June 2, 2005, page A11; New York Post, June 3, 2005, page 14; Washington Post, December 20, 2008, page A1.
  12. ↑ The Daily Show, March 12, 2008 access date 2009-04-24 The Daily Show
  13. ↑ Washington Times, December 18, 2007, page A15
  14. ↑ USA Today, Aug. 18, 2009, final edition, page 3D
  15. ↑ Newsweek, Aug. 4, 2010 access date 2010-8-5 [1]
  16. ↑ |url=http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-FBI-Ronald-Kessler/dp/0307719693/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_2
  17. ↑ Kessler, Ronald (2008-04-22). "The Real Joe McCarthy", Opinion, The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved on 2008-04-25.
  18. ↑ Newsmax's Kessler Wins Top CPAC Journalist Award. Newsmax (2010-02-20). Retrieved on 2010-02-21.
  19. ↑ Newsmax, Jan. 4, 2010 access date 2010-8-14.[2]
  20. ↑ Washington Post, Jan. 5, 2010, page A01.
  21. ↑ Washington Post, April 14, 2012, page A18
  22. ↑ Kessler, Ronald (November 9, 2012). "FBI Investigation Led to Petraeus Resignation", Newsmax. Retrieved on November 11, 2012.
  23. ↑ Kessler, Ronald (November 13, 2012). "FBI Suppressed Petraeus Scanndal to Protect President", Newsmax. Retrieved on November 14, 2012.
  24. ↑ Kessler, Ronald (August 1, 2011).“Russia Tried to Swap Spies Hanssen, Ames”. “Newsmax”.
  25. ↑ Kessler, Ronald (May 13, 2013). "Behind the Boston Bombing Case". "Main Justice".

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