It’s official. America is now totally insane over the weather.
It’s official. America is now totally insane over the weather.
Even the Weather Channel that used to simply provide reasonably accurate, short-term information about the weather is now telling everyone we’re doomed because global warming is going to destroy the Earth. Why not just rename it the AlGore Channel?
The weather used to be the concern primarily of farmers and ranchers. It determines how well or not crops would grow and herds will thrive. As America became more urbanized, the rest of the population wanted to know whether to bring an umbrella or what to wear. Now it is a source of daily anxiety over the fate of the Earth.
To make matters worse, people are being told and actually believing that what they do or not can affect the weather in ways to keep the seas and temperatures from rising. It is no longer the domain of the sun, the oceans, volcanoes and clouds. These puny things are nothing compared to what kind of car you drive or what you use to heat your home.
That is a definition of insanity. It is so far removed from reality that Hollywood has to conjure up films showing New York under miles of snow or so-called documentaries demanding that industry must come to a stop in order to save the Earth.
I suggest we need to save the Earth from the legions of fear mongers who are seeking to control our lives for the crime of having abundant food, longer life spans, technological and scientific advances, or that permits you to get on a jet and be anywhere in the world within hours. We take for granted that trucks, the heart’s blood of an economy, will deliver anything you purchase on Monday by the following Wednesday. Try to imagine our nation without cars?
Let me provide an example of how far we have come since I was a child nearly seventy years ago. We had an icebox, not a refrigerator. A man would come and provide a big block of ice to keep food cool for a day or so. Air conditioning meant opening the window and turning on a fan. Washing clothes involved using a washboard and then hanging them out to dry in the sun. There was no television, no computers, no iPods, and no cell phones. Milk was delivered by a horse-drawn wagon during World War II because gas was scarce. Polio crippled thousands of people, including then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Do you really want to return to those “good old days”? In essence, that is exactly what the Global Warming Gestapo wants to inflict on every American these days.
The single most insipid phrase that any environmentalist or politician says is “climate change” because they actually believe humans are responsible for the change and ignore the fact that climate is always in a state of change.
None of us can read a newspaper or a magazine, or turn on the radio or television, without being told that we are just years, if not months, from the horror of global warming. A few weeks ago Colorado was digging out from three horrendous blizzards the likes of which have not been seen in a lifetime, while the East Coast had temperatures in the 70s.
The definition of weather and climate is “chaos.”
Mother Nature has a message for you: Get out of the way! Here comes a flood, a blizzard, a tornado, a tsunami, a hurricane, a wildfire or an earthquake. Get out of the way!
The wisest climatologists who study weather trends over hundreds of years have no idea why mini-Ice ages or warming spells occur and meteorologists with access to the most sophisticated computer models cannot tell you with any certainty what the weather in your area will be a week from now!
In Congress, the newly empowered Democrats are getting ready to impose an insane program of “caps and credits” on so-called greenhouse gas emissions that is straight out of the UN’s Kyoto Protocol that totally exempts China and India, home to more than two billion of the six billion people on Earth.
Meanwhile, those same greenhouse gases are being emitted globally by millions of livestock that are responsible for 9% of anthropogenic CO2 (Carbon dioxide) emissions, 37% of methane emissions, 64% of ammonia emissions, and 65% of global nitrous oxide.
When you add in the methane and other emissions of the world’s swamps and forests, and all the chemicals emitted by the world’s active volcanoes, plus the fact that every human on Earth exhales two pounds of CO2 every day, the notion of crippling every element of the nation’s economy to “control” such things is, well, insane.
Carbon dioxide is not a “pollutant” no matter how many times Speaker Pelosi, Senator Boxer, Governor Schwarzenneger and a legion of global warming alarmists say it is. It exists in the Earth’s atmosphere and, other than the oxygen that keeps us alive, is the single most important part of our environment because all vegetation, forests and crops, depend on it.
Is there more of it around? Yes, since 1850 the Earth’s population has increased 600%! Is it a bad thing? No. The Earth has had periods of far higher CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere and life thrived.
Right now, that eminent body of scientists, the Supreme Court of the United States, is deciding whether CO2 is a pollutant. That is insane.
Finally, during the last 100 years, the average global temperature has increased less than one degree centigrade. Some places like the poles remain encased in ice and snow all year. Other places like the deserts remain arid all year.
What we do not lack is a legion of “scientists” who cannot wait to run out in the streets and announce that their research conclusively proves we are doomed. We have others who run around saying that our weather is unusual or getting worse. It’s the weather! The weather is always in a state of change.
Are we supposed to return to the days when virgins were thrown into volcanoes or hearts were cut from living bodies in order to appease the gods that “control” the weather? Or are we all going to fall victim to those in Congress and elsewhere who insist we ruin our lives in order to achieve “control” over the weather?
It’s the weather! Get over it!
Alan,
You are both wrong and right. The world is getting warmer and man may have had a hand in it. You are absolutely right, though, it is no cause for hysteria and little we could do to keep it from happening in any case. I liken this hysteria to an old woman standing on a chair screaming her head off at a bug, while her myopic old husband stares at the floor asking “What bug”. She is right there’s something there, she’s wrong making it a cause for turning the whole house upside down trying to get rid of it when its 1-billion plus siblings are lurking in the wings ready to take its place. In the case of Granny Gore, she’s … I mean he’s got the idea we’re about to get swept away by hurricanes and tsunamis, when the reality is our toes are getting a bit damp and the breeze is a bit stiffer.
The real scientist (the few with a little remaining objectivity) will tell you the models are just models; and have yet to show us anything beyond conjecture. We are having a warmer than usual winter now and also one last year, but then we saw the same thing happen in 1931-1933, and every bit as warm. Also, we are ‘experiencing’ this unusual weather at ground level mainly over the eastern half of the United States, home to the largest heat-islands and fuel consumption on the planet. Local is not global, and it is not the first time GW advocates have jumped the gun declaring a regional anomaly definitive proof. Global atmospheric and oceanic averages have not increased beyond that coinciding with the observed long-term trend.
There are four terms in play in this debate: global warming, anthropogenic global warming, climate change, and greenhouse-effect. People use these terms interchangeable, but they aren’t. Greenhouse-effect has nothing to do with planetary warming, or cannot short of building a solid-glass structure encompassing the whole planet (see http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadFAQ/BadGreenhouseFAQ.html). Atmospheric warming and radiating are not ‘greenhouse-effect’, though they do have a great deal to do with weather and temperature. There is no trapping, as the GW proponents so love to argue, only changes in the energy flux. Still, the term serves to describe the effect certain gases have on average air temperature. The first thing to note, however, is the effect is a “good thing”, because without it we’d all be dead. The other thing is, if geological and hurricane records are to be believed, periods of high CO2 and warm temperatures coincide with milder (not harsher) weather over most of the globe and the historical trend since 1877 may bear this out (see http://www.cgfi.org/materials/articles/2002/may_7_02.htm & http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/NWS-TPC-4.pdf). Rather than foretelling ‘super-storms’, we may be in for fewer and slightly weaker storms. Who knows?
The real debate is not that the climate will change (it constantly changes), it is whether human influence is more than slight and whether there are so called ‘tipping points’ we might trigger. The answer is, again, yes and no. The record shows hundreds of thousands of such events, all without the agency of humans. That we might trigger such an event is just possible, but far from probable given our ‘push’ is tiny compared to other forcing factors. Supposing for a moment we were in the process of causing such a tipping, what is the probability that nature, over the same time period, will provide not one but dozens of such tippings? The answer is it is a virtual certainty. It happens all the time, and we call it ‘the weather’. Regardless, human forcings will not cause any radical changes on the order of 150-foot flooding, massive droughts, super-hurricanes, &c; and if any of those things do happen, look for some other cause than our puny efforts.
Some further interesting reading:
http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm likely benign impacts
http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/kling/paleoclimate/index.html other culprits for climate change
http://nicholnl.wcp.muohio.edu/WCP221Fall2004Folder/ClimateChange.html climate changes through history
http://www.weather2000.com/faq/faq_warming.html
http://www.stanford.edu/~moore/Boon_To_Man.html good source, but out of date
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060317114727.htm more evidence of little storm and flood change
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06204/707710-113.stm good news to some
http://www.ncpa.org/ba/ba337/ba337.html geological argument from 2000
http://ff.org/centers/csspp/misc/library/globalwarming.html
http://ff.org/centers/csspp/pdf/20061121_gore.pdf great rebuttal of Gore with scientific explanations and calculations – I really love this guy and want to read more of his stuff
http://ff.org/centers/csspp/docs/gerhardppt.ppt great slide show
http://ff.org/centers/csspp/pdf/gerhardnotes.pdf and accompanying notes
http://ff.org/centers/csspp/pdf/20050919.pdf
http://www.livescience.com/environment/050621_warming_changes.html an example of the hysteria – This guy is making the same mistake about species change and linking it (without showing any causality) with climate change. Sure there is species change, but species change happens all the time with or without our presence. Also, relies heavily on computer models (which can be made to predict anything).
Environmentalists have pulled a clever switch – transposing Means and Ends. They present preventing global warming as the End and curbing industry and crippling the American economy in the process as the means. In truth I believe crippling industry and the American economy are the Ends and Global warming is the means.
Last November, our local high school hosted the annual “mock” United Nations and the delegation of students representing Great Britain esposed the dangers of “global warming.”
Of course the “facts” in the Powerpoint presentation, debates, and subsequent vote to support the reduction of so-called “greenhouse” gases showed the total extent of indoctrination that has infiltrated our public “educational collectives” to embrace the “global warmist’s” propaganda.
Of course there was absolutely no discussion or references to the total amount of naturally produced (i.e. the sun, oceans, lakes, forests, swamps, ruminants, volcanoes, etc.), “global warming gases” compared to those attributed to humans. That would certainly reduce the hype.
I refuse to argue with the hysterics. I just tell them that when England’s wine is outselling France’s, and Greenland is really green and completely free of glaciers, both conditions of 1000AD Europe, then we may have something to talk about, but still not to lament: Where’s the “bad” about warming?
Thank you for this bit of sanity. I refuse to watch the Weather Channel any longer, I seek and find much better (accurate) weather info elswhere. I really don’t like being preached.
I get sick of the weather channel going tabloid too. The only thing you can be sure of with the weather is that it will be unpredictable. I’ve been reading through decades old stacks of wildlife and geographic magazines I’m recycling, and what I’m struck by now in hindsight is all the “science” we blindly accepted back then, which predicted global doom, ice ages, oil gone dry, global starvation, dehydration and nuclear holocaust. How inconvenient that we are all still alive and driving around with gasoline? The effect of man on the enviroment is muted by the fact India, China and others will never comply with Kyoto, and China will just pick up the industrial contracts American industries lose trying to comply. A perfect example is the paper mill in Lyons Falls, NY, because it shut down they were no longer “grandfathered” and when a new owner was finally found, they had to change the emissions system, that done at great debt, Pres. Clinton signs a trade deal that allows chinese imports to put the mill out of production. Instead of sustained yield forestry that has existed here for over a century, it means forests are being levelled permanently in China. So much for protecting the enviroment. So all our forest land here either gets sold for developement, or permanently locked up by state purchase. So we could see that much touted “timber famine” the wile eyed preservationists once screamed about, but simply because we are not allowed to cut any trees. This country, once all it’s raw materials and finished product ability have been sold overseas, will be helpless should we get into a prolonged world war, we have literally been sold into slavery, and the Kyoto Accord or “treaty” is just the final kiss of death for the American industrial giant.
As an advocate of abandoning the CO2 fixation—neurosis, psychosis or simply envirotheology?; I’ve become convinced– nothing like a little scientific reading and a bit of Rachel Carson’esque research, that aviation is the culprit.
We’ve gone from predictions of the ice age 25yrs. ago to a Whitney Strieberesque scenario of a superheated city; and the answer is always evil oil conglomerates and corporate America.
hmmmmm.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the innerworkings of the GREENHOUSE layer and how airplane contrails affect its nighttime transparency to earth’s radiation of heat, I suggest you read my article: Air traffic a culprit in global warming , Frank J. Heller, Brunswick BRUNSWICK TIMES RECORD, 08/31/2001 at http://www.timesrecord.com/website/archives.nsf/56606056e44e37508525696f00737257/8525696e00630dfe85256ab9005e6033?OpenDocument.
If you’re serious about this aspect of global warming; I have the talking points of a briefing I gave Sen. Olympia Snowe’s policy staff last month.
see my article on Global warming and AVIATION at http://www.timesrecord.com/website/archives.nsf/56606056e44e37508525696f00737257/8525696e00630dfe85256ab9005e6033?OpenDocument
To me, the worst is when a respectable science magazine, Discover, prints an article which purports to “prove”that anthropogenic climate change has occurred by printing side-by-side recent photos & ones taken over 100 years ago, allegedly on the same day of the year & at the same place. There are so many changes that have occurred – cities built & expanded; roads paved; rivers dammed; homes built; etc, which affect the temperature of the immediate locale that aren’t even mentioned!
Alan,
I suspect that you;re in a state of denial over global warming. Global warming is a real and terrifying phenomenon. The average temperature today is warmer than it was 100 years ago. Climate Change is also a real thing. Currently in my country we are experiencing the worst drought in recorded history and tough water restrictions are in place. Not due to climate change? Please explain otherwise.
“It is no longer the domain of the sun, the oceans, volcanoes and clouds. These puny things are nothing compared to what kind of car you drive or what you use to heat your home.”
“Do you really want to return to those “good old days”? In essence, that is exactly what the Global Warming Gestapo wants to inflict on every American these days.”
I dont buy strawman arguments either, they dont prove anything either, deliberate strawman arguments simply mean that the respondant is dishonest, and best case ones just mean that the respondant doesnt pay attention to detail. The first has never been quoted by anyone anywhere. The second one is just so asinine its not worth even a second thought.
The idea that excess carbon dioxide is not a pollutant and by implication not responsible for global warming is false as well. Any metriculation chemistry student can and will tell you that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. Furthermore, when considered that the change in the last 100 years has been multitudes greater than any other period in history, its not hard to extrapolate that human activity has a large effect in global warming.
“Right now, that eminent body of scientists, the Supreme Court of the United States, is deciding whether CO2 is a pollutant. That is insane.”
A quick search of peer reviewed articles shows that 100% support the global warming phenomenon, not one rejects the idea of global warming in which CO2 is a contributor.
Okay, yes, Al Gore might or might not be a delusional attention seeking clown (I dont know, I have yet to see An Inconvenient Truth), and alright, the weather channel might be hysterical beacons of liberal propoganda, but that doesnt mean they’re wrong. Nor does it mean that because THERE ARE holes in the Kyoto Protocol that its not a good thing. Finally it most definately does not mean that we are free to pollute as we please, how we please, when we please and how long we please.
Had you just said that the weather channel (and for that matter just about every weather channel around the world) is becoming a farcical, hysterical and rhetoric filled tabloid, thats one thing. To deny something which there is not only ample evidence to support, but not one shred of peer reviewed evidence against bears the mark of delusion.
To aussie young lib; you fail to bring in the established fact that CO2 has also been a significant factor during the last few ice age periods where global temperatures dropped. Thus bringing in to question its causal weight in global warming.
And there are a lot of the vaunted peer reviewed studies that go against CO2 and the current global warming hysteria.
You need to do a little more research young aussie. Maybe when you learn to look at all the factors instead of just ones you favor, you and your country will be able to move forward and not follow the hysterical EU in all things silly.
Carbon Dioxide is a plant food…the N.E. biomass is expanding at a rate of 2-3% over consumption. It is now regarded as a renewable energy field suitable for conversion on an annual basis.
Ice core data …Volstok…revealed four other periods over the past 400,000 years when temps and CO2 rose to present levels…no humans involved; and they dropped as organic plant life and other natural forces ‘ate’ the excess CO2. Biologists are discovering a resurgance of life forms which thrive on CO2
Yo, Aussie…there is global warming on Venus and Mars. ‘plain that please!
my plants love CO2!
Out here in Las Vegas, aka. clown town USA, winters and summers have been cooler than average, does that mean we are part of the global cooling phase of the earth?
What young aussie fails to mention is that global warming proponents fail to tell their easily influenced and led audience members that their evidence is based on computer modeling. A hobby at best since most wx computer models are proven wrong most of the time.
Apparently there is global warming on Mars & Venus…young aussie, plz. explain?
the EU parliament did a lot of scientific consulting prior to adopting a policy on tax aircraft emissions….the primary finding is that CO2 is NOT the problem in the Greenhouse Layer; but water vapour. NASA says it’s the ’800 lb gorilla in global warming’.
I suggest the ‘yng Aussie’ and go GOOGLE “aviation’ ‘contrails’ global Warming’ and perhaps ‘UK’ and ‘switzerland’. and learn what the real cause of the warming of the atmosphere in the Northern hemisphere.
Then he should look at the graphs generated from the VOLSTOK ice core data, put on his thinking cap, and tell us why, during the four peaks in temp/CO2 over the past 400,000 years , both the temp and CO2 levels dropped suddenly….Divine intervention or a catastrophic Goregasm?
Indeed, there is a runaway greenhouse effect on Venus. Venus, however, does not have oceans or much (if any) water – which made all the difference. Earth’s oceans dissolved the CO2 and converted it to sediments such as limestone. If all the Earth’s carbon were “dug up” and converted back to CO2, our atmosphere would have about the same density as Venus’. Venus is also closer to the sun (about 0.7 the Earth-sun distance). The intensity of radiation from the sun that hits Earth’s atmosphere is roughly 1,350 watts per square meter per second (this is called the “solar constant”). For Venus, it’s about 23,280 watts per square meter per second. This value is 17 times larger. Perhaps that contributed to Venus’ runaway greenhouse effect. Mars on the other hand does not suffer from a runaway greenhouse effect. Those here insisting on using Google as a research tool should strive a little harder to find a more reliable tool.
To state that Venus has a greenhouse effect and that humans didn’t cause it – and to imply that consequently humans can’t contribute to global warming on Earth since humans didn’t cause GW on Venus is a logical fallacy.
To dismiss computer models as a “hobby,” or as “just models,” or as being “tweakable” in order to get a “desired” output reveals a lack of knowledge of the scientific method and how computer modelling works. Some results may not be completely correct, but that does not mean that they are completely wrong either.
Earth surely goes through some natural cycles. But if (and I mean IF) humans indeed contribute to global warming (if even a small amount), then it only seems like the responsible thing to do to minimize the harmful effects we cause to the environment.
What many people may not realize, is that the universe is pretty inhospitable to life like our own. Earth is the only planet in our solar system capable of sustaining human life – and is the only planet in the universe that we know of which is capable of this. There are many things that are required in order to keep us alive. Really, Earth is a pretty rare planet.
Further, if we learn that the Earth is warming, and that humans are NOT contributing to it, research should STILL be done to find ways to stop it. Venus’ atmosphere is roughly 100 times denser than Earth’s (a little over a tenth that of water), and the surface temperature on Venus is 882 degrees F – hot enough to melt lead. If our planet is headed toward that – whether we are responsible for it or not – we should do all we can to prevent it.
I am puzzled as to why global warming is a political discussion at all. It should be left to scientists to discover if it is real or not, and to figure out the best actions to prevent it if it is real. Asking a politician to answer these questions is like having your auto-mechanic perform your open-heart surgery – politicians simply do not have the know-how to discern if global warming is real or not….
Cheers,
william
You are absolutely correct, Alan. Excellent article !
As far as I’m concerned, there is no such thing as global warming, since 1940. This was made very clear by many scientists in the field, including Bob Carter from Australia and also Zbigniew Jaworowski, world-renowned atmospheric scientist and mountaineer, who has excavated ice out of 17 glaciers on six
continents in his 50-year career. The shift from warm to cool climate might have already started, says Jaworowski. There are also many other excellent researchers in this topic, including Fred Singer and even NASA maintained websites from John Daly, which have shown that out of 200 scientific supervised stations in question, more than 100 have shown a net cooling trend since 1900. This is especially important when one looks at the recent cooling of Antarctica of roughly 1 deg. F from 1986 to 1999. This has again been very well documented by US scientists in 2002, as well as other measurements since that time. Greenland has also shown “significant statistical cooling” in the last 40 or 50 years, according to the Journal of Geophysical Review of the Danish Meteorological Institute, BBC News,March 2003.
The climate , right now as we speak, is much colder than it was 1,000 years ago. Greenland was ice free in many areas in the South; today it is all frozen in the same areas where it was ice free ! Sea levels were 3 feet HIGHER a thousand years ago in the Pacific than they are today. Sea levels are now 19 inches lower in the Atlantic than they were 1,000 years ago. Sea levels are FALLING by 2mm/per year in the Arctic Ocean, and sea levels are so low now in the Indian Ocean that boats have to go around canals !
If anyone has any comments or questions, go to http://iceagenow.com for detailed information on cold and snow updates, extreme weather, growing glaciers worldwide, FALLING sea-levels, and more. It also explains why we are headed into an ice age cycle. It’s an excellent site !
If anything, we should be concerned about abrupt cooling ! The interglacial warm period is coming to an end, and glaciers in Central Greenland are GROWING by some 7.2 miles per year. Sea Levels are FALLING in most areas now, including the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, and Indian Ocean. Also, did anybody bother to see the extreme cold in California, where over 90 percent of citrus was wiped out recently ? It snowed in Orlando,FL in mid November 2006 – first time ever so far south. There was 3 feet of snow in Colorado in mid-September 2006, and the earliest snow in recorded history in Illinois and Michigan in early October 2006. Already this January, reports of 30 foot snows in SE Colorado, and arctic air is making a come-back across the nation with many record lows set recently, especially out West.
If anyone has any comments or questions, go to http://iceagenow.com for detailed information on cold and snow updates, extreme weather, growing glaciers worldwide, FALLING sea-levels, and more. It also explains why we are headed into an ice age cycle. It’s an excellent site !
And lastly, I suggest to ignore the false propaganda spewing from your television screens, newspapers, magazines and government schools. And lastly, don’t forget to have an extra pair of jackets handy before it gets brutally cold !
Kenneth Lund
You are absolutely correct, Alan. Excellent article !
As far as I’m concerned, there is no such thing as global warming, since 1940. This was made very clear by many scientists in the field, including Bob Carter from Australia and also Zbigniew Jaworowski, world-renowned atmospheric scientist and mountaineer, who has excavated ice out of 17 glaciers on six
continents in his 50-year career. The shift from warm to cool climate might have already started, says Jaworowski. There are also many other excellent researchers in this topic, including Fred Singer and even NASA maintained websites from John Daly, which have shown that out of 200 scientific supervised stations in question, more than 100 have shown a net cooling trend since 1900. This is especially important when one looks at the recent cooling of Antarctica of roughly 1 deg. F from 1986 to 1999. This has again been very well documented by US scientists in 2002, as well as other measurements since that time. Greenland has also shown “significant statistical cooling” in the last 40 or 50 years, according to the Journal of Geophysical Review of the Danish Meteorological Institute, BBC News,March 2003.
The climate , right now as we speak, is much colder than it was 1,000 years ago. Greenland was ice free in many areas in the South; today it is all frozen in the same areas where it was ice free ! Sea levels were 3 feet HIGHER a thousand years ago in the Pacific than they are today. Sea levels are now 19 inches lower in the Atlantic than they were 1,000 years ago. Sea levels are FALLING by 2mm/per year in the Arctic Ocean, and sea levels are so low now in the Indian Ocean that boats have to go around canals !
If anyone has any comments or questions, go to http://iceagenow.com for detailed information on cold and snow updates, extreme weather, growing glaciers worldwide, FALLING sea-levels, and more. It also explains why we are headed into an ice age cycle. It’s an excellent site !
If anything, we should be concerned about abrupt cooling ! The interglacial warm period is coming to an end, and glaciers in Central Greenland are GROWING by some 7.2 miles per year. Sea Levels are FALLING in most areas now, including the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, and Indian Ocean. Also, did anybody bother to see the extreme cold in California, where over 90 percent of citrus was wiped out recently ? It snowed in Orlando,FL in mid November 2006 – first time ever so far south. There was 3 feet of snow in Colorado in mid-September 2006, and the earliest snow in recorded history in Illinois and Michigan in early October 2006. Already this January, reports of 30 foot snows in SE Colorado, and arctic air is making a come-back across the nation with many record lows set recently, especially out West.
If anyone has any comments or questions, go to http://iceagenow.com for detailed information on cold and snow updates, extreme weather, growing glaciers worldwide, FALLING sea-levels, and more. It also explains why we are headed into an ice age cycle. It’s an excellent site !
And lastly, I suggest to ignore the false propaganda spewing from your television screens, newspapers, magazines and government schools. And lastly, don’t forget to have an extra pair of jackets handy before it gets brutally cold !
Kenneth Lund
You are absolutely correct, Alan. Excellent article !
As far as I’m concerned, there is no such thing as global warming, since 1940. This is made very clear by many scientists in the field, including Bob Carter from Australia and also Zbigniew Jaworowski, world-renowned atmospheric scientist and mountaineer, who has excavated ice out of 17 glaciers on six
continents in his 50-year career. The shift from warm to cool climate might have already started, says Jaworowski. There are also many other excellent researchers in this topic, including Fred Singer and even NASA maintained websites from John Daly, which have shown that out of 200 scientific supervised stations in question, more than 100 have shown a net cooling trend since 1900. This is especially important when one looks at the recent cooling of Antarctica of roughly 1 deg. F from 1986 to 1999. This has again been very well documented by US scientists in 2002, as well as other measurements since that time. Greenland has also shown “significant statistical cooling” in the last 40 or 50 years, according to the Journal of Geophysical Review of the Danish Meteorological Institute, BBC News,March 2003.
The climate , right now as we speak, is much colder than it was 1,000 years ago. Greenland was ice free in many areas in the South; today it is all frozen in the same areas where it was ice free ! Sea levels were 3 feet HIGHER a thousand years ago in the Pacific than they are today. Sea levels are now 19 inches lower in the Atlantic than they were 1,000 years ago. Sea levels are FALLING by 2mm/per year in the Arctic Ocean, and sea levels are so low now in the Indian Ocean that boats have to go around canals !
If anyone has any comments or questions, go to http://iceagenow.com for detailed information on cold and snow updates, extreme weather, growing glaciers worldwide, FALLING sea-levels, and more. It also explains why we are headed into an ice age cycle. It’s an excellent site !
If anything, we should be concerned about abrupt cooling ! The interglacial warm period is coming to an end, and glaciers in Central Greenland are GROWING by some 7.2 miles per year. Sea Levels are FALLING in most areas now, including the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, and Indian Ocean. Also, did anybody bother to see the extreme cold in California, where over 90 percent of citrus was wiped out recently ? It snowed in Orlando,FL in mid November 2006 – first time ever so far south. There was 3 feet of snow in Colorado in mid-September 2006, and the earliest snow in recorded history in Illinois and Michigan in early October 2006. Already this January, reports of 30 foot snows in SE Colorado, and arctic air is making a come-back across the nation with many record lows set recently, especially out West.
If anyone has any comments or questions, go to http://iceagenow.com for detailed information on cold and snow updates, extreme weather, growing glaciers worldwide, FALLING sea-levels, and more. It also explains why we are headed into an ice age cycle. It’s an excellent site !
And lastly, I suggest to ignore the false propaganda spewing from your television screens, newspapers, magazines and government schools. And lastly, don’t forget to have an extra pair of jackets handy before it gets brutally cold !
Kenneth Lund
Hold it william, I don’t think Venus has much of an atmosphere; or one with a layer that shields it from solar radiation.
My point was that the sun is going through a period of intense radiation and every planet is being affected by rising temps.
Global Warming is a massive political discussion because the emissions requirements now being set affect every one of use; and ‘green’ industries are making billions from carbon trading schemes.
fhj wrote:
“Hold it william, I don’t think Venus has much of an atmosphere; or one with a layer that shields it from solar radiation.”
Well… I told you that Venus has an extreme atmosphere. What one “thinks” doesn’t affect the truth. Look it up for yourself – it’s true. You asked for an explanation for greenhouse on Venus, and when you get one, you state something that is utterly false and you apparently refuse to learn anything about it. We have sent probes to Venus. And those probes don’t last long due to the extreme conditions. Venus’ atmosphere is roughly 100 times denser than Earth’s, and the surface temperature on Venus is roughly 880 degrees F. I’m not making this stuff up. Use that “google” you scorned Aussie for not using!
“My point was that the sun is going through a period of intense radiation and every planet is being affected by rising temps.”
What is the basis for this hypothesis? Why is the sun now going through a period of intense radiation? This is just speculation on your part. There are cycles of solar activity that vary over an 11 year cycle. This has to do with sunspots and the sun’s magnetic field being twisted via differential rotation. And this does indeed have an effect on Earth’s climate – but it is only on 11-year cycles.
And if the sun is indeed going through a period of intense radiation, then shouldn’t we do anything we can to preserve the habitability of our planet?!?
“Global Warming is a massive political discussion because the emissions requirements now being set affect every one of use; and ‘green’ industries are making billions from carbon trading schemes.”
Personally, I don’t care who’s making or losing money. If Earth is headed towards a climate inhospitable for life (human life especially!), then who cares if certain people lose money! Seriously, does money really matter?!? Putting money at the forefront of this discussion is extremely shallow. Life on Earth is at stake if global warming is indeed real! Unfortunately, global warming IS a political issue… but it SHOULD reside solely as a scientific issue. It’s a political issue because people don’t want to lose money.
Look, I don’t know if global warming is real, and I don’t know if humans are contributing to it. But it shouldn’t be conveniently ignored by money-minded politicians. It should be studied further, and in the mean time, I don’t see any harm (other than less profits) from reducing human CO2 until further details are known. There are more important things in life than money.
Regards,
william
I call that bluff, where? A quick search reveals not one single peer reviewed study which disproves the theory of global warming, or even remotely ambigiously states that it is a maybe.
“Ice core data …Volstok…revealed four other periods over the past 400,000 years when temps and CO2 rose to present levels…no humans involved; and they dropped as organic plant life and other natural forces ‘ate’ the excess CO2. Biologists are discovering a resurgance of life forms which thrive on CO2″
And?
“Yo, Aussie…there is global warming on Venus and Mars. ‘plain that please!”
Venus has an extreme, dense and highly greenhouselike atmosphere, extreme quantaties of Carbon Dioxide, a greenhouse gas, and it happens to be much closer to the sun.
“What young aussie fails to mention is that global warming proponents fail to tell their easily influenced and led audience members that their evidence is based on computer modeling. A hobby at best since most wx computer models are proven wrong most of the time.”
A quick google reveals that extensive data has been collected, particularly in the last 30 years, and not just bunged up on a computer program.
“the EU parliament did a lot of scientific consulting prior to adopting a policy on tax aircraft emissions….the primary finding is that CO2 is NOT the problem in the Greenhouse Layer; but water vapour. NASA says it’s the ‘800 lb gorilla in global warming’.”
And where did they say that CO2 is not a major contibutor to the greenhouse effect?
“Hold it william, I don’t think Venus has much of an atmosphere; or one with a layer that shields it from solar radiation.”
Nonsense. A quick search reveals the following “The pressure at the planet’s surface is about 90 times that at Earth’s surface—a pressure equivalent to that at a depth of 1 kilometer under Earth’s oceans.” Further detailed research also reveals that without the greenhouse effect of CO2 the temperature would not be that far from Earth. (Herrick R.R., Phillips R.J. (1993), Effects of the Venusian atmosphere on incoming meteoroids and the impact crater population, Icarus, v. 112, p. 253-281)
Yes, Americans are all insane anyways. There is NO such thing as Global Warming ! see my latest below:
As far as I’m concerned, there is no such thing as global warming, since 1940. This was made very clear by many scientists in the field, including Bob Carter from Australia and also Zbigniew Jaworowski, world-renowned atmospheric scientist and mountaineer, who has excavated ice out of 17 glaciers on six
continents in his 50-year career. The shift from warm to cool climate might have already started, says Jaworowski. There are also many other excellent researchers in this topic, including Fred Singer and even NASA maintained websites from John Daly, which have shown that out of 200 scientific supervised stations in question, more than 100 have shown a net cooling trend since 1900. This is especially important when one looks at the recent cooling of Antarctica of roughly 1 deg. F from 1986 to 1999. This has again been very well documented by US scientists in 2002, as well as other measurements since that time. Greenland has also shown “significant statistical cooling” in the last 40 or 50 years, according to the Journal of Geophysical Review of the Danish Meteorological Institute, BBC News,March 2003.
The climate , right now as we speak, is much colder than it was 1,000 years ago. Greenland was ice free in many areas in the South; today it is all frozen in the same areas where it was ice free ! Sea levels were 3 feet HIGHER a thousand years ago in the Pacific than they are today. Sea levels are now 19 inches lower in the Atlantic than they were 1,000 years ago. Sea levels are FALLING by 2mm/per year in the Arctic Ocean, and sea levels are so low now in the Indian Ocean that boats have to go around canals !
If anything, we should be concerned about abrupt cooling ! The interglacial warm period is coming to an end, and glaciers in Central Greenland are GROWING by some 7.2 miles per year. Sea Levels are FALLING in most areas now, including the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, and Indian Ocean. Also, did anybody bother to see the extreme cold in California, where over 90 percent of citrus was wiped out recently ? It snowed in Orlando,FL in mid November 2006 – first time ever so far south. There was 3 feet of snow in Colorado in mid-September 2006, and the earliest snow in recorded history in Illinois and Michigan in early October 2006. Already this January, reports of 30 foot snows in SE Colorado, the eighth coldest January on record in Goodland,KS (according to the NWS), and arctic air is making a come-back across the nation this February.
And lastly, I suggest to ignore the false propaganda spewing from your television screens, newspapers, magazines and government schools. And lastly, don’t forget to have an extra pair of jackets handy before it gets brutally cold !
Kenneth Lund