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When political correctness substitutes for science, the results are sure to be illogical. Global warming is an outcome in search of a cause — a solution in search of a problem. The pre-ordained outcome is government control and taxation of all industrial activity. So now, the search is on for any evidence, real or imaginary, that industrial activity is harmful to the environment. So far, the only "proof" of future warming has come from computer generated forecasts, which can be easily manipulated to show just about anything. It is my opinion, based on the material cited below, as well as my years of careful observation (of the news media, not the weather) that the entire "global warming problem" is a rather transparent hoax. The forces of nature are hundreds of times more powerful than the influence of human activity, so if there is to be any warming or cooling, it will almost certainly be the result of a change in solar activity, volcanic eruptions, or other natural phenomena. And whatever the cause, the amount of warming that has occurred is not enough to warrant any action, even if there were any action to take. The debate over global warming is driven by those who make their decisions based upon other people's emotional outbursts, TV sound bites and bumper stickers, rather than rational thinking. The people who are most upset about global warming are the people who don't believe that God created the heavens and the earth. (Ironically, these are some of the same people who teach "survival of the fittest" in the public schools.) The earth was designed and built by someone who still has his hand on the thermostat to this day. If that is not true, and we merely evolved into what we are today, then we have no choice but to continue evolving and adapting when the temperature goes up or down. The primary "greenhouse gases" are carbon dioxide and water vapor. CO2 is a nutrient, not a pollutant, and all living things benefit from having more of it. The same is true of water vapor. Carbon dioxide is actually good for the forests, grasslands and other vegetation. When plant-growers want to stimulate plant growth, they introduce more carbon dioxide. All life on earth is carbon-based and carbon dioxide is an essential ingredient in our environment. It is not a pollutant.  Without the greenhouse effect, the earth's average temperature would be below zero on the Fahrenheit scale. Several atmospheric gases are responsible for the greenhouse effect, not just CO2. Between 94 and 98 percent of the warming effect is due to ordinary water vapor, which comes from the oceans and lakes, and therefore cannot be controlled or regulated by any government action. Next in importance are carbon dioxide and methane. Man-made emissions are responsible for less than 3 percent of the total emissions, according to the US Energy Information Administration. (See page 18 of this document.) On the average, the earth radiates exactly as much energy out into space every night as it absorbed from the sun the previous day. The "greenhouse effect" keeps us from freezing at night and roasting during the day. The "greenhouse effect" is a wonderful thing, and I'm all for it. The output power of the sun — the source of almost all the earth's warmth — is variable. Variations in solar activity are generally proportional to both variations in atmospheric carbon dioxide and atmospheric temperature. To put it another way, rising Earth temperatures and increasing carbon dioxide may be effects and our own sun the cause. Occasionally you may hear of a press release declaring the previous year to be the "hottest year on record." The inept news media distribute these stories and the poorly-educated masses generally believe them. However, as most climatologists know, these reports generally are founded on ground-based temperature readings, which are misleading. The more meaningful and precise orbiting satellite data for the same period (which are generally not cited by the press) have shown no warming year after year. Accurate widespread temperature records at ground level have been kept for only about 100 years. Weather observations in most cities are made at the airport(s), where nobody lives, and where there is more concrete than grass, and generally no trees. One of the national news media's pet projects is the campaign to convince everyone that the Earth is warming up rapidly, that human activity is to blame, that a disaster is imminent, and that only the U.S. government can solve the problem by controlling every aspect of industry and transportation. So it's not about protecting the environment as much as it is about strengthening the grip of the federal government and alarming the public into greater dependence on both the news media and the federal government. More than that, it's about taxation. The government can go through the motions of "regulating" carbon dioxide emissions, but in reality it's just another tax. Hollywood "celebrities" occasionally make rash pronouncements about global warming and other environmental issues, but actors are not scientists, and their opinions should carry no more weight than anyone else's. If you spend ten minutes researching on the internet and another five minutes with a calculator (as I did), you'll discover that the energy received by the earth from the sun every day is 10,982 times greater than all the energy produced by man. The heat we generate is just a drop in a very large bucket. (Really? Yes.) The amount of solar energy received by the earth is 174 Petawatts, or 174 x 10^15 watts. There are 31,557,600 seconds in the average year (365.25 days x 86,400 seconds per day). Therefore the earth receives 5,491 x 10^21 joules per year from the sun. In 2005, total worldwide energy consumption was 5 x 10^20 Joules). That's a ratio of 10,982-to-1. Even if the dire predictions of one degree of warming per century are accurate, the most aggressive and costly proposals for limiting industrial carbon dioxide emissions would only have a negligible effect on the global climate. At the same time, they would collapse our economy and bring industrial activity to a halt. Temperatures rise and fall constantly, and all we can do is adapt. Spinoff pages and subcategories: Overviews of the Global Warming issue Global Cooling: Reports of record snowfall, unusual icing and brutally cold weather. Global Warming has halted, at least temporarily. Carbon offsets, carbon credits, and emissions trading, also known as cap-and-trade. Global Warming is Blamed for Everything. One degree per century is not enough warming to cause any of the many crises that are being blamed on global warming. Conversely, everything causes global warming ... or so the news media would have you believe. Greenhouse Gases: Carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, and more. Silencing the Skeptics in the Global Warming Debate If someone make a statement and then declares "the debate is over", then it wasn't a debate. Solar Activity and Other Natural Causes of Global Warming ... including a section about simultaneous warming on Mars, ... and Cows and termites. Are 100-year forecasts possible when five-day forecasts are not? Many global warming alarmists are the same people who once predicted an ice age. Some people have to spread panic any way they can, hoping you will forget when they turn out to be wrong. One or two degrees of global warming would benefit everyone. More people die from the effects of cold weather than hot weather. Environmental Propaganda Movie Reviews — Happy Feet, Hoot, The 11th Hour, The Day After Tomorrow, and especially An Inconvenient Truth. Make no mistake about it -- these are propaganda films. The Political Opportunism and Irrational Zeal of global warming alarmists. The Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act There is plenty of reasonable doubt about global warming. The general public is becoming more skeptical Czech President Vaclav Klaus is a notable dissenter. What consensus? Inaccurate measurements NASA has been cookin' the books! Flawed computer models Global Warming Subtopics and Sidetracks: Polar Bears Polar Ice The Catlin Expedition Rising Sea Levels Hurricane numbers and intensity The coral reef scare Al Gore, Al Gore's Nobel Prize, Al Gore's testimony before Congress, Al Gore's Big Speech on July 17, 2008, Proposed solutions that are sure to be worse than the problem Other Global Warming Discussions that include the words hoax, fraud, swindle, scam, lies, scare tactic, myth, hype, and hysteria. Environmentalists Oppose Every Practical Source of Energy The United Nations IPCC Report on Global Warming The Kyoto Climate Control Protocol The Effects of Burning Hydrocarbon Fuels over the last 100 years: This is a guest editorial by Dennis Barr, who asserts that the burning of hydrocarbon fuels — not global warming — is the reason for the one-foot increase in the mean sea level over the last century. Dennis ran the numbers and calculated that the combustion of one gallon of octane produces one gallon of water — and it is water that did not previously exist. But wait -- there's more! Leftover Topics — Scraps, clutter and noise left over from this page, including a section about the hypocrisy of eco-celebrities.
- Genesis 8:22
Overviews of the Global Warming issue This is a pretty good overview of the debate. Global Warming: First, nonscientists generally do not want to bother with understanding the science. Claims of consensus relieve policy types, environmental advocates, and politicians of any need to do so. … Secondly, given that the question of human attribution largely cannot be resolved, its use in promoting visions of disaster constitutes nothing so much as a bait-and-switch scam. That is an inauspicious beginning to what Mr. Gore claims is not a political issue but a "moral" crusade. Lastly, there is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition. After Global Warming: Make no mistake: the big bad wolf of truth is about to blow the straw house of global warming to bits. This is why there was a sudden shift, in the last nine months, from the use of "man made global warming" to "climate change" by the proponents of the theory. The scientific tug of war over whether or not the planet is heating or cooling has been going on for over 100 years. The difference between the past and our current situation is that governments around the world are passing (or attempting to pass) draconian laws and enforcing (or attempting to enforce) authoritarian treaties in order to "regulate" the planet's temperature. A Global Warming Primer. Numerous charts and graphs. Well worth reading. Excellent: Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts? Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn't exist. And I am not the only one trying to make people open up their eyes and see the truth. But few listen, despite the fact that I was the first Canadian Ph.D. in Climatology and I have an extensive background in climatology. … Believe it or not, Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide (CO2). This in fact is the greatest deception in the history of science. We are wasting time, energy and trillions of dollars while creating unnecessary fear and consternation over an issue with no scientific justification. 'Global warming' isn't about global warming. 'Global warming' has nothing to do with climate change; at least not as practiced by politicians, would be entrepreneurs and the global elite. Environmentalism is now the home of socialists, ex-communists and anti-Americans. ... [The trillion-dollar financial] "crisis" should serve as a good primer for the worst scam perpetrated on the world in history — the "global warming" crisis and the need to save the planet from ourselves. Global Warming, Global Myth. During the 20th century, the earth warmed 0.6° Celsius (1° Fahrenheit), but that warming has been wiped out in a single year with a drop of 0.63°C. (1.13°F.) in 2007. A single year does not constitute a trend reversal, but the magnitude of that temperature drop — equal to 100 years of warming — is noteworthy. Of course, it can also be argued that a mere 0.6° warming in a century is so tiny it should never have been considered a cause for alarm in the first place. But then how could the idea of global warming be sold to the public? In any case, global cooling has been evident for more than a single year. Global temperature has declined since 1998. Meanwhile, atmospheric carbon dioxide has gone in the other direction, increasing 15-20%. We are not about to fry. The professional purveyors of panic in the Global Warming Industry continue to scare impressionable children and politicians with tall tales. Their most gruesome story is that earth is about to reach a tipping point, causing runaway warming, after which we all fry. There is no evidence to support such scare mongering. Lovely Organic Oil. I was speaking with an acquaintance recently and was struck by the number of people she knew that called themselves "environmentalists", and as such were wedded to the prevailing global warming rhetoric. It is hard to come to terms with the pervasive laziness of such people who are probably otherwise very nice upstanding citizens. Is man-made global warming real? After the Narnian winter we've just had, a reasonable person could easily agree with controversial Friends of Science spokesman Dr. Tim Ball on this much: Global warming is just another unfulfilled government promise. So, why are we still preparing to spend money on it? The Cuban Diet. The global warming scare isn't about the environment as much as it is about smothering capitalism and forcing Americans to change their lifestyles. A report out of Great Britain confirms this. This sums it up pretty well... Baby, Baby It's a Cold World. Global warming has nothing to do with climate or science. What it is all about is the great, historic class struggle between working people and the ruling classes. Global warming is a great excuse for a massive expansion of government power. That, not science, is why the overlords, from the New York Times to the United Nations to Al Gore, so heartily embrace it. The U.N. thinks global warming is a perfect reason for the U.N. to be transformed into a world government. Top 10 dud predictions: Global warming preachers have had a shocking 2008. So many of their predictions this year went splat. Here's their problem: they've been scaring us for so long that it's now possible to check if things are turning out as hot as they warned. The Nonsense of Global Warming: The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels — the essence of the Greens' theory of global warming — has about as much basis in science as Marxism and Freudianism. Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules. Those who buy in to global warming wish to drastically curb human economic and industrial activities, regardless of the consequences for people, especially the poor. Five Reasons the EPA Should Not Attempt to Deal with Global Warming. On April 17, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an endangerment finding, saying that global warming poses a serious threat to public health and safety. Thus, almost anything that emits carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases could be regulated under the Clean Air Act. This is the first official action taken by the federal government to regulate carbon dioxide. The endangerment finding is the initial step in a long regulatory process that could lead to the EPA requiring regulations for almost anything that emits carbon dioxide. Automobiles would likely be the first target, but subsequent regulations could extend to a million or more buildings and small businesses, including hospitals, schools, restaurants, churches, farms, and apartments. Global warming jihadists. Some of my friends on the left who are in the science/medical area, have been demanding more reliance on science in making government policy and less on religion. In particular, anger was directed at the Bush Administration and its policy on embryonic stem cell research ... . In my view, the attachment by many on the left and in the environmental movement to the entirely speculative theory of global warming falls into the category of religion, and not science. And it is a fundamentalist religion — unwilling to consider other explanations, or criticism, and closed off to the possibility that the theory is false. 12 Facts about Global Climate Change That You Won't Read in the Popular Press. [1] Temperatures have been cooling since 2002, even as carbon dioxide has continued to rise. [2] Carbon dioxide is a trace gas and by itself will produce little warming. Also, as CO2 increases, the incremental warming is less, as the effect is logarithmic so the more CO2, the less warming it produces. [3] CO2 has been totally uncorrelated with temperature over the last decade, and significantly negative since 2002. [4] CO2 is not a pollutant, but a naturally occurring gas. Together with chlorophyll and sunlight, it is an essential ingredient in photosynthesis and is, accordingly, plant food. Global warming word games. Fact is, we have no "natural" climate against which climate "change" or, more accurately, "anthropogenic climate change" can be measured. The only climate we have is the one we influence, and yet the climate would keep changing even if all of us disappeared tomorrow, or if mankind had never existed at all. An open letter to Senator John McCain about Climate Science and Policy. I begin with a geological and historical perspective on global mean surface temperature that your advisors seem to have withheld from you. For most of the past 600 million years, the mode of temperature — the temperature that most often prevailed globally — is thought to have been 12.5 °F higher than today's temperature: for today's temperature, in the perspective of the long recent history of our planet, is unusually low. During each of the last four interglacial periods over the past half-million years, temperature was 5 to 8 °F warmer than the present (Petit et al., 1999). Cooling Down. During economic boom times, developed and developing nations have the luxury to indulge in meaningless gestures, such as the trendy campaign to beat global warming. But when the economy slows and energy costs increase, the people in those nations become a bit more focused and find that environmental issues might not be as important as they thought. The High Cost of Saving ANWR: The Hadley Center for Climate Prediction charts the global temperature falling 0.4 degrees from 1988 to 1992, then rising 0.8 degrees from 1992 to peak in 1998, then falling 0.7 degrees by January 2008. The climate has been changing as long as there has been a climate. It's not our fault, and we can't stop it. Man-Made Global Warming: 10 Questions. The subject of man-made global warming is almost impossible to discuss without a descent into virulent name-calling (especially on the Internet, where anonymity breeds a special kind of vicious reaction to almost any social or political question), but I'll try anyway. I consider myself to be relatively well-read on the matter, and I've still come down on the skeptical side, because there are aspects of the issue that don't make a lot of sense to me.  This graph shows the temperature changes of the lower troposphere from the surface up to about 8 km as determined from the average of two analyses of satellite data. The best fit line from January 2002 to June 2008 indicates a decline of 0.27° Celsius/decade. The Sun's activity, which was increasing through most of the 20th century, has recently become quiet, causing a change of trend. The green line shows the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, as measured at Mauna Loa, Hawaii. The 23 Smoking Guns of Global Warming: Before you read this essay, I ask you to forget everything you have learned about global warming. Imagine that you are a science teacher and a student just handed you a research project. Your job is to review the study with unbiased eyes, and grade the project based upon how sound the science is supporting the conclusion. Global Warming's Inconvenient Truths — an Interview with Fred Singer. In the great, never-cooling debate over the causes and consequences of global warming, it's always clear whose side Fred Singer is on: not Al Gore's. Singer, who was born in Vienna in 1924, was a pioneer in the development of rocket and satellite technology and holds a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton. Now president of the Science and Environmental Policy Project research group, his latest book (with Dennis Avery) is "Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1,500 Years." Global Warming Myths vs Facts: Myth 1: Global temperatures are rising at a rapid, unprecedented rate. Fact: Accurate satellite, balloon and mountain top observations made over the last three decades have not shown any significant change in the long term rate of increase in global temperatures. Average ground station readings do show a mild warming of 0.6° to 0.8°C over the last 100 years, which is well within the natural variations recorded in the last millennium.  A Reminder: There is no mechanism that has been proven, or even credibly identified, for increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere to "change the climate" or cause extreme weather without first causing warming. ... I feel the need to say this, because alarmists (including Gore) have adopted the tactic of saying that climate change is accelerating, or that they see the signs of accelerating climate change everywhere. But for the last 10 years, we have not seen any warming. Frequently Asked Questions About Global Warming. Is global warming catastrophic? Far from it. Given that the current upward trend in temperatures is not unprecedented, it stands to reason that minor warming will not lead to unprecedented catastrophes, and scientific evidence confirms this. According to recent research, the planet and its inhabitants are much more resilient to temperature variability than had been previously assumed. "Global Warming" at a glance: The world's temperature is a difficult metric to capture. After all, there is no convenient 'magical site' to sample that will give us the answer we seek and, by the time we have sampled and collated sufficient data points to try to work it out, that isn't the temperature any more. We can, of course, sample enough sites to garner an indication, as does our near real-time global thermometer. What is a "Normal" Temperature? Normal temperatures, which are calculated by the National Climatic Data Center for locations across the country, are quality-controlled, smoothed 30-yr-average temperatures. They are used in many facets of media, industry, and meteorology, and a given day's normal maximum and minimum temperatures are often used synonymously with what the observed temperature extremes "should be." EPA Tilt on Global Warming: The best available data, from weather satellites and weather balloons, do not detect any appreciable atmospheric warming. Nor did the 20th century show unusually high temperatures. [Also,] carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. On the contrary, it makes crops and forests grow faster. Economic analysis has demonstrated that more CO2 and a warmer climate will raise GNP and therefore average income. A Looming Policy Disaster. As with all policy decisions, the choice between combating climate change or continuing the current greenhouse gas emissions trend is a choice between different sets of risks, costs and benefits. Yet, the debate offers little discussion of the benefits of warming or the costs of trying to slow climate change. Perspective on Temperature Increase: If Global Warming were a stock, and you bought it in 1979 at zero (par) and decided to sell it this month to buy a house, 29 years later you aren't very happy with your investment. At it's peak in 1998, the temperature only went to a 0.8° increase, and in April it dipped to very nearly unchanged. What We Know about Global Warming: Is the climate really warming? Weather satellites measuring atmospheric temperatures day in and day out from pole to pole report only a minute rise that extrapolates to about half a degree Centigrade by 2100. Is this rise caused by human activities, like the burning of coal, oil, and gas? That's difficult to tell — climate varies naturally both up and down, so it could be partly non-human. Is the observed warming significant? That's a matter of judgment, but half a degree is barely detectable and not likely to have an impact. Warming Up to the Truth: The Real Story About Climate Change. The United States is a leader in studying the subject [of global warming]. The U.S. has invested some $45 billion in research funding on this question over the past 10 years. Ten Things To Know About the Climate and Weather. Facts About Global Warming: Fact #1: Most scientists do not believe human activities threaten to disrupt the Earth's climate. Fact #2: The Most Reliable Temperature Data Show No Global Warming Trend. Fact #3: Global computer models are too crude to predict future climate changes. Fact #4: The IPCC did not prove that human activities are causing global warming. Fact #5: A modest amount of global warming, should it occur, would be beneficial to the natural world and to human civilization. Fact #6: Quickly reducing our greenhouse gas emissions would be costly and would not stop global warming. Fact #7: The best strategy to pursue is one of "no regrets." Are 100-year forecasts possible when five-day forecasts are not? Long-range weather forecasting is impossible. There is no reason to believe that global weather trends can be predicted years or decades in advance when regional and local weather cannot be accurately forecast more than two or three days in advance. Television meteorologists brazenly predict the local high and low temperatures as much as a week into the future, but their estimates are notoriously inaccurate. Weather develops at random in complex patterns, and it cannot be predicted even with the most powerful computers in the world. Next time you see a weather "expert" predicting the path of a hurricane, you'll see what I mean. Hurricanes are the most intensely studied and carefully measured storms on Earth; but beyond the 72 hour forecast, a hurricane's path is anyone's guess. Err Temperatures. Rain or shine, you can bet that five-day forecast is usually wrong. A [New York] Post survey of the four leading local networks found their 11 p.m. newscast meteorologists were off an average of 5 degrees in both high and low predictions for extended forecasts. EPA and global warming. If the self-styled climate experts cannot develop a model for such an observable, measurable, short lived event such as a hurricane, how can we believe they can forecast decades in advance an event (global warming) that as such a myriad of detectable and undetectable causes? I say they can't and this entire exercise is a fraud with some ulterior motive yet to be determined. Study of Gravity Exposes Weakness of Alarmist Global Warming Theories. The amazing history of our understanding of gravity, which still remains quite incomplete, cannot help but make one recognize the total absurdity of the flawed mathematical models claiming to understand all-but-unknowable relationships between various complex physical aspects of our planet and, at the same time, predict global temperatures decades away when we have not mastered local temperatures a week away. Take dire global warning outlooks with a grain of salt. Regarding all this hoo ha over "global warming" that we're hearing this week, there's just one question: Why should we believe all these dire predictions when they can't even get the five-day forecast right? Can Scientists Really Predict a Global Climate Catastrophe? Seasonal predictions are also challenging for scientists, which might help explain why we have been consulting a groundhog for so long. I live in Buffalo, and when scientists try to forecast our summer or winter weather, they are rarely accurate. Although scientists have sophisticated maps and models and cutting-edge technology, my own predictions based on intuition and conjecture would probably be just as accurate — if not more so. Even the next day's weather forecasts are a formidable task for scientists. Hurricane seasonal warnings almost useless, experts say. Each April, weather wizard William Gray emerges from his burrow deep near the Rocky Mountains to offer his forecast for the six-month hurricane season that starts June 1. And the news media are there, breathlessly awaiting his every word. It's a lot like Groundhog Day -- and the results are worth just about as much. U.S. All but Spared by Hurricanes in 2007. Despite alarming predictions, the U.S. came through a second straight hurricane season virtually unscathed, raising fears among emergency planners that they will be fighting public apathy and overconfidence when they warn people to prepare for next year. Hurricane predictions miss the mark. Two years ago, way under. Last year, way over. This year, still not right. It's been a stormy few years for William Gray, Philip Klotzbach and other scientists who predict total hurricane activity before each season begins, which raises fundamental questions as the 2007 season draws to an end on Friday: Why do they bother? And given the errors — which can undermine faith in the entire hurricane warning system — are these full-season forecasts doing more harm than good? What Hurricane Season? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's prediction for the 2006 hurricane season was about as wrong as wrong can be. NOAA predicted only a 5 percent chance of a below-normal hurricane season — but a below-normal season is precisely what happened. If NOAA's experts can be so wrong about an imminent hurricane season, why have any confidence in far more complex predictions of climate change 100 years into the future? Hurricane Scientists Flubbed Forecasts for Two Years. Hurricane researchers, who forecast seven more storms this season, have flubbed the past two annual estimates because of unusual El Niño and La Niña weather phenomena in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Report: Some damage from climate change irreversible. Many damaging effects of climate change are already basically irreversible, according to a new study led by Susan Solomon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Solomon, a researcher with NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory, and her co-authors warn that even humans manage to completely stop emitting carbon, temperatures around the globe will remain high until at least the year 3000. The study appears in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Editor says... This is some kind of record: A forecast for the next 991 years, brought to you by the people who can't accurately forecast next week's weather. Weather Malarkey. I have never been able to figure out why people who know that the forecast for the local weather is likely to be wrong by the afternoon of the same day or within 48 hours still believe that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can accurately predict what it will be ten, twenty or fifty years from now. Many global warming alarmists are the same people who once predicted an ice age. Climate of Fear: From Nuclear Winter to Global Warming. Before there was Global Warming Theory to scare the public into rash action, there was Nuclear Winter Theory. The two theories are contradictory, but both were peddled by the political left, and both used some similar rhetorical and political tactics. Fire and Ice. The media have warned about impending climate doom four different times in the last 100 years. Only they can't decide if mankind will die from warming or cooling. As the noise from the controversy has increased, it has drowned out any debate. Journalists have taken advocacy positions, often ignoring climate change skeptics entirely. One CBS reporter even compared skeptics of manmade global warming to Holocaust deniers. Climate of Fear: Over the years, the alarmists have veered from an obsession with lethal global cooling around the turn of the 20th century to lethal global warming a generation later, back to cooling in the 1970s and now to warming once again. You don't have to be a scientist to realize that all these competing narratives of doom can't be true. Or to wonder whether any of them are. Perhaps that is why most Americans discount the climate-change fear-mongering that is so fashionable among journalists and politicians. They've got that global warming thing down cold. Yes, back in the days of disco, the news media echoed with predictions of the world's imminent demise from ice rather than fire. Newsweek warned that temperatures had already dropped "a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average." By 1985, Life declared, "air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching the earth by one half." When the Inmates are in Charge: The really neat thing about making catastrophic predictions is that they always take place way into a future. In 1986, [John] Holdren was predicting that global warming would cause the deaths of one billion people by 2020. This is eight years beyond 2012 when devotees of the ancient Mayan calendar predict the end of the world will occur. Neither are likely to occur. In 1998 Holdren warned that we just can't go on using energy fuels like oil, natural gas, and coal that represent nearly one hundred percent of everything we and everyone else use now and will into the future. Senate floor speech delivered Monday September 25, 2006, by Senator James Inhofe Hot & Cold Media Spin: A Challenge To Journalists Who Cover Global Warming. I am going to speak today about the most media-hyped environmental issue of all time, global warming. I have spoken more about global warming than any other politician in Washington today. My speech will be a bit different from the previous seven floor speeches, as I focus not only on the science, but on the media's coverage of climate change. … Since 1895, the media has alternated between global cooling and warming scares during four separate and sometimes overlapping time periods. From 1895 until the 1930's the media peddled a coming ice age. Note: If you have any trouble downloading the full report, click here. [PDF, 2.31 Megabytes.] Reaction to the item above Cooling Down The Climate Scare. While Al Gore drifts into deeper darkness on the other side of the moon, propelled by such revelations as cigarette smoking is a "significant contributor to global warming," Sen. James Inhofe is becoming a one-man myth-wrecking crew. Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma, took to the Senate floor two days last week to expose the media's role in the global warming hype. This is a man who more than three years ago called the global warming scare "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people" and has made a habit of tweaking the left-leaning environmental lobby. 
Climate Variance No Crisis, Says Senate Committee Chair. Alarmism over climate variance is unsupported by the weight of scientific evidence, and proposals by environmental activists to impose a drastic climate variance prevention program are unwarranted, said Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, speaking on the Senate floor September 26. Inhofe Speech Ignites a Media Firestorm. U.S. Sen. James Inhofe attracted media criticism, especially from a CNN reporter, for his September 26 remarks on climate science. Inhofe stood his ground, saying, "this issue is too important … to allow distortions and media propaganda to derail the economic health of our nation." One or two degrees of global warming would benefit everyone. Truth is Conveniently Missing from Global Warming Debate. [Al] Gore and other global warming alarmists insist increased global temperatures are bad. On the contrary, a warmer earth would be a net benefit to us all. Uninhabitable and inarable land could become suitable for living and farming. More carbon dioxide in the air means healthier plants and trees. Better agriculture raises living standards and reduces poverty. Warmer temperatures reduce energy bills, as savings on heating costs are estimated to exceed added cooling costs. Additionally, cold causes twice as many deaths as heat, worldwide; seven times as many in Europe. Warming is positive and shouldn't be feared. Climate-change alarmism runs into a reality check. A moderately warmer and wetter world, natural or man-made, coupled with the carbon dioxide fertilization effect on plants and agriculture, has distinct benefits, not just costs. As a climate specialist at the U.S. Department of Interior has calculated, a 600-fold increase in carbon dioxide emissions in the last two centuries has accompanied an eight-fold increase in population, a 75-fold rise in manufacturing and a 60-fold increase in global economic output. Testimony on the Health Effects of Global Warming. I assert that people suffer more from cold than from hot around the globe and in the United States and the evidence is unequivocal. Daily change in temperature in any location on the planet is more than even the most exaggerated warming projection changes of the IPCC: Any discussion of human health effect should start first with the concept that the human species has a wonderful ability to adapt to temperature change. In a year the adaptation in temperate climes is 100°F. or more. Will Global Warming Save Lives? A study done for the British government says that global warming will kill thousands. It also says lives will be saved due to warmer winters. OK, which is it? Or is it neither? Will Global Warming Harm Human Health? This week committees in both the Senate and House of Representatives will be holding hearings on whether global warming will cause future harm to human health. As they examine this question, the Competitive Enterprise Institute urges them to consult the extensive statistical evidence that warmer temperatures and climates are overwhelmingly safer and healthier. Carbon copies: The smart money is now riding on about 3°.F of warming this century. It's worth noting that the 20th century saw about half of that warming, along with a doubling of life expectancy in the industrialized world, and an approximately ten-fold increase in real personal wealth. Warming warnings get overheated. The bottom line is that benefits from global warming right now outweigh the costs (the benefit is about 0.25% of global GDP). Global warming will continue to be a net benefit until about 2070, when the damages will begin to outweigh the benefits, reaching a total damage cost equivalent to about 3.5% of GDP by 2300. This is simply not the end of humanity. If anything, global warming is a net benefit now; and even in three centuries, it will not be a challenge to our civilisation. Global Warming: a Natural Cycle. In 2006, Al Gore warned the world about a global warming disaster. He failed to mention that until 1850, the world felt the effects of the Little Ice Age and so did the Vikings. Vikings, habitants of Greenland, thrived in the country's moderate climate in 1100 A.D. A few hundred years later, their animals froze to death; then the Vikings starved or left their homeland, according to Rie Oldenberg, curator at Narsaq Museum in Greenland. The Real News About Mann-Made Global Warming. What the media didn't notice … is that the 1,000 year figure that was central to the whole hockey stick debate had now been replaced in the report by a figure of 400 years. Since most of the last 400 years was dominated by the "Little Ice Age," the warming during the 20th century should be welcomed by humanity. Health Effects of Temperature – Hot vs. Cold – in South America. Climate alarmists claim that global warming will lead to an increase in human death rates. But cold weather is much more deadly than hot weather, as has been demonstrated by numerous scientific studies. Analysis: Recent Global Warmth Is Natural and Benefits Humans. Regarding natural climate variability, it should be noted that the nineteenth century was the end of a well-documented, centuries-long cold period in many areas of the world. Hence, the period of unusual cold at the start of the instrumental record may bias the casual observer to believe the second half of the nineteenth century displayed "normal" temperature, and the twentieth century is "abnormal" in warmth. Global Warming: Not an Immediate Problem. A layer of atmospheric gases (primarily water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane) encircles the earth and serves as a protective blanket or insulator retaining warmth from the sun; hence the term "greenhouse effect." Without this natural process, large areas of our planet would be so cold as to be uninhabitable. Global Warming Would Be Beneficial To Human Civilization. Warmer winters would mean longer growing seasons and less stress on most plants and wildlife, producing a substantial benefit for the global ecosystem. Global Warming a Boon for Greenland's Farmers. Known for its massive ice sheets, Greenland is feeling the effects of global warming as rising temperatures have expanded the island's growing season and crops are flourishing. For the first time in hundreds of years, it has become possible to raise cattle and start dairy farms. The Greening of Alaska: Global warming phobics continue their handwringing about the plight of Alaskans, but what they ignore (or don't know) is that the primary reason for the higher temperatures isn't an enhanced greenhouse effect, for the most part, but the Great Pacific Climate Shift in 1976. We, on the other hand, note the positive effects of those higher temperatures. Study Claims Global Warming Helped US Avert Deeper Recession: Climatologist Stanley Changnon, a professor of geography at the University of Illinois, was commissioned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to look at the economic impact resulting from the fourth warmest winter on record. War Over The Climate Heats Up Even As Climate Itself Cools Down. [Scroll down] Global warming, whether natural or human-induced, may be good for you. Economists tell us that a modest warming would improve agriculture and forestry and increase GNP. And historical evidence backs their studies. In any case, the climate has been mildly cooling for the past decade and may continue to cool for another decade or more — even while CO2 levels keep rising — causing much suffering around the world. Global warming will save millions of lives. Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heatwave: 25,000 to 50,000 people each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across Europe, there are six times more cold-related deaths than heat-related deaths. We know this from the world's biggest cross-national, peer-reviewed studies under the aegis of Professor William Keatinge of the University of London. Lovely Organic Oil. You see, 18,000 years ago the spot where I am seated was covered with a thick layer of ice; but over time that ice has receded and what has followed is beautiful landscapes, copious amounts of fresh water and abundant resources. Thanks to global warming, North America is a very prosperous and pleasant place to live. Hold on you say, the glaciers are disappearing at an alarming rate and so on and so forth.... Ok, but why get excited now? Other internet resources: The Cooler Heads Coalition: formed May 6, 1997 to dispel the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, and risk analysis. Excellent! Global Warming Information Center. A huge collection of information about global warming. Derica Lorraine. Global Warming Hoax. Trailer for an upcoming movie: Not Evil, Just Wrong. Still Waiting for Greenhouse: A Lukewarm View of Global Warming, from Tasmania. Junk Science dot com. "The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants." Back to the Environmental Issues Page Jump to the Kyoto Protocol Jump to the Greenhouse Gases Section Back to the Home page |
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