Part 1
I have always been skeptical of Global Warming as a manmade phenomenon. With the Earth being millions and millions of years old, brief periods of too hot or too cold have always existed. Even centuries of extreme climate condition mean little in Earth's timeline. The Earth's relationship to the Sun seems to be the most critical for determining significant extremes in our climate as will as other naturally occurring phenomenon. Being something of a scientist myself, and certainly capable of reading and understanding scientific papers published in peer reviewed scientific journals, about 18 months ago I decided to find the scientific article that first proposed Apocalyptic Global Warming. After googling "origin apocalyptic global warming", I was stunned to find virtually none listed, as I scanned through the Google references. Instead, all referred to an article published online on February 15, 2011 on the American Thinker web site by Mark Musser entitled The Nazi Origins of Global Warming. This article spurred my interest in this obvious hoax and so I continued researching the information in the article.
It mentioned a book, Dance with the Devil, written by an Austrian Nazi, Guenther Schwab, 1902-2006, in 1958. Schwab was born in Vienna and despite his parents wishes for him to become a business man or professional, became an Austrian forest ranger and member of the "green" movement. Beside the environmental philosophy of the Green Party, eugenics played a major role in regard to racial purity and population management for early twentieth century greens. In 1924, Schwab began his career in the Austrian wilds as a forest ranger and would have been content to pass his days watching wildlife, but in 1928 he read a book that changed his life. That book was Mein Kampf. He was so taken by it, that he quit his job and moved to Munich and joined Hitler's Brown Shirts (SA, Sturmabteilungen).
Schwab served as a low ranking Nazi officer in a non combat or death camp role during WWII. Because he was a Nazi, he was barred from obtaining any significant work after the war so he turned to writing, penning several children's book about animals. In 1958, his critical work Dance with the Devil was published in German, but at first was sold mostly under the counter because of its controversial subject matter. The book was fiction, an allegory, voicing his concerns about man's, primarily America, destruction of the environment. The Devil, one of the main characters, is portrayed as the stereotype of a corporate CEO, in a well appointed office, somewhat over weight, dressed in an expensive business suit and chomping on a cigar. One by one his underlings report to him how man is destroying the planet in many different ways. He usually tries to back up these claims by referencing real scientific papers. Interestingly, he uses these papers to criticize American and western European capitalism, never Nazi Germany since his reason for writing the book, was his hatred for America and capitalism for defeating Germany and his beloved Fuhrer. One whole chapter, fifteen, was devoted to eugenics and he considers population growth in Asia , Africa, and South America to be the number one reason for the destruction of the planet. Only one paragraph in the entire book, in Chapter 3, refers to carbon based apocalyptic global warming, and without the usual scientific references to back it up. A few 19th and early twentieth century scientists postulated industrial pollution as having a very minor effect on the environment and may have served as the template on which he exaggerated. Gradually his book came out from behind the counter and by 1962 had been translated into 61 different languages including English. Over a million copies were sold and supplied Schwab with enough income to start a foundation, The World League for the Preservation of the Planet. To head his foundation, he appointed his friend and fellow Nazi Werner Haverbeck, who propagandized Hitler Youth during the war and whose wife was a Holocaust denier. These they were also instrumental in forming the German Green Party in the 1980s. So here we have a foundation allegedly for the preservation of the planet run by two Nazis who detest American capitalism.
Naturally, anyone with a hatred for the United States and a fictional book about environmental destruction would become a darling of the United Nations. After cleaning up of his reputation, by ignoring the eugenics chapter in his book (much like Margaret Sanger's reason for starting Planned Parenthood) and his Nazi past, the book became the basis for UN environment policy for years to come and in 2002 he was given a special award by the UN.
At this point the story grew somewhat fuzzy for me. I had to find the link or links from Guenther Schwab to Al Gore in order to find how the hoax was perpetuated. It was obvious to me that a dunce like Al Gore probably never read Dance With the Devil when it was published in English, he was only about 15 at the time. His father would have thrown the book away, since Al Gore Sr. was the an example of the stereotype the book was depicting as the destroyer of the environment. The Gore estate in Tennessee sits on the most polluted stream in Tennessee due to the royalties the family receives from phosphate mining. Senior also went to work for Armand Hammer's Occidental Petroleum after leaving the Senate in 1973. After a little research I found the link, another despicable character who I will tell you about in Part 2.
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