The title of this posting is not quite correct.  Although global warming is not a problem, the measures to be taken to alleviate that non-problem constitute a massive crisis that will put all of the global economy and the lives of millions of people in peril.

The following document explains the circumstances of why that is so.

Letter to Representatives Ed Markey and Joe Barton, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce

From
The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

SPPI (Science & Public Policy Institute) Reprint Series ♦ March 30, 2009

([1] Full Text of Letter) (PDF Document — 8.2MB; The file contains a large number of graphics.)

The letter lists and illustrates 50 specific concerns of which each, individually, must be taken as evidence of what Sir Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, former science advisor of Margaret Thatcher, calls “the most lavishly-funded propaganda campaign by the classe politique since Goebbels tried to make Nazism look good.”

Excerpt:

There was no “climate crisis”; there is no “climate crisis”; there will be no “climate crisis”. The right response to the non-problem of “global warming” is to have the courage to do nothing.

You are the guardians of the public purse: do not loose the purse-strings too readily when the scientists cry “Wolf!”

The measures that your Administration currently proposes by way of addressing the non-problem of “global warming” might have been calculated to do maximum damage to the very poorest voters – those who depend upon the taxes of the prosperous for their very survival; those in low-paid jobs in heavy industries that are heavy emitters; those who run the Mom-and-Pop enterprises that are tomorrow’s big businesses; those low-income families who pay a disproportionately large proportion of their income to energy providers.

Rightly, one of the Administration’s own supporters on your Committee has stated that the principal purpose of “cap-and-trade” is not to “Save The Planet” – which it would not do even if it worked – but to raise revenue. If you wish to raise excessive revenue, be honest about it. Say that you intend to tax and tax and tax again. But desist from claiming that you are raising the revenue with the aim of preventing “climate crisis”. Already, every opinion poll demonstrates that, notwithstanding the most lavishly-funded propaganda campaign by the classe politique since Goebbels tried to make Nazism look good, the people are not buying the “global warming” scare any more.

Already, millions face death by starvation, not because of “global warming” (for warmer weather saves lives, while cold weather kills), but because of the misplaced fear of “global warming” that a few malicious and ill-intentioned members of the scientific-technological elite have fraudulently engendered, with the acquiescence of a cloud of what Lenin called “useful idiots” among the academic community who have found it expedient to drift along with the scare by not looking too closely at any of the facts.

The facts are what I have given you in this letter. You need not believe a word I say: for every fact I have given you is taken from the peer-reviewed scientific literature or from the plentiful scientific data that are publicly available. Why not verify what I have said – perhaps by the simple expedient of directing some well-targeted questions at the IPCC? (p. 32 )

–The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley