Global Warming is Blamed for Everything!

Global Warming is Blamed

for Everything!

Everything is Caused by Global Warming. Dr. John Brignell, a British engineering professor, runs a website called numberwatch. He has compiled what has to be the most complete collection of links to media stories ascribing the cause of everything under the sun to global warming. He has already posted more than six-hundred links.

A complete list of things caused by global warming. [I don't know if there are six hundred, as stated above, but there are numerous links. —Editor]

Global Warming Did It! Well, Maybe Not. Somewhere along the line, global warming became the explanation for everything. Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event — a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a blizzard, a tornado, a lightning strike, an unfamiliar breeze, a strange tingling on the neck — without immediately invoking the climate crisis. It causes earthquakes, plagues and backyard gardening disappointments. Weird fungus on your tomato plants? Classic sign of global warming.

Global warming skeptic is simply man of reason. Unfortunately, life is more about circles and cycles than straight lines. Global warming is taking on the aspect of a religious belief rather than science. No matter what happens — hot or cold, wet or dry — it's blamed on global warming.

My own Inconvenient Truth: It's no wonder the political left is all over the global warming phenomenon, as it falls into line with the rest of their causes that require no logical argument, only a bumper sticker, protest sign, or T-shirt. No matter what the weather happens to be doing — whether its snowing or scorching hot — these people will simply point to the nearest window and mumble, "Yeah man, global warming."

Alarmists use weather to promote global warming hoax. Claims that recent severe weather and flooding in the US are proof of human CO2 impacts on global climate are scientific nonsense. … Governments and large segments of society accepted the theory. Most bullied by use of fear but also their lack of knowledge and understanding was also exploited. Now a combination of events are driving them to raise the threat level and make increasingly false claims, forcing a coverup.

Chilled By The Heat: If the zealots are right, global warming is the cause of just about any earthly ill or phenomenon. Hotter weather? It's caused by global warming. Colder weather? Global warming again. More rain? Global warming. Drought? Global warming. Even an increase in vampire moths, insects that consume human blood, has been blamed on global warming. In a tribute to rational thinking, and a welcome repudiation of silliness, John Brignell, a British engineering professor, has compiled "a complete list of things caused by global warming."

A little warming, a lot of hysteria. The debate was supposed to be over by now, but it's not. … Al [Gore] and proponents of global warming argue that whatever bad happens, happens because of the greed of man, and mostly Americans at that. Icebergs floating too far south? Man did it. Torrential rains in Monument Valley? Blame it on global warming. A drought in Tacoma-Seattle? Fog in Phoenix? Man set fire to the globe. Keep it scary, and keep it coming.

Climate of Fear: Everything from the heat wave in Paris to heavy snows in Buffalo has been blamed on people burning gasoline to fuel their cars, and coal and natural gas to heat, cool and electrify their homes.

Global Warming Led to 'Black Hawk Down,' Congressman Says. A top Democrat told high school students gathered at the U.S. Capitol Thursday that climate change caused Hurricane Katrina and the conflict in Darfur, which led to the "black hawk down" battle between U.S. troops and Somali rebels. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House (Select) Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee, also equated the drive for global warming legislation with the drive for women's suffrage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Global Warming May Lead to More Kidney Stones, Researchers Say. More Americans may develop kidney stones as global warming raises the risk of dehydration, according to a study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Warmer temperatures predicted by climate scientists may lead to a 30 percent increase in kidney stone cases in some U.S. regions, researchers at the University of Texas wrote in the study published today [7/15/2008].

Gore getting desperate proof public cooling on GW hoax. Comments and reports about global warming are getting silly and even ridiculous. Al Gore says we have ten years left. We're told cooling is due to warming. More rain and flooding and less rain and drought are both due to warming. More hurricanes are predicted while fewer occur. Global temperatures declined as much in the first few months of 2008 as they increased in the previous 100 plus years due to warming.

EPA experts detail warming's health risks. Government scientists detailed a rising death toll from heat waves, wildfires, disease and smog caused by global warming in an analysis the White House buried so it could avoid regulating greenhouse gases.

Global Warming and Risks of Severe Acne: Increased temperature, damaged ozone layer and agriculture changes are all economical factors that profoundly impacts human life. Human skin is the most sensitive and most affected organ by these factors. Various skin disorders such as acne, scars are the result of global warming and climate change.

Warming health report: Poor, elderly to hurt most. Global warming will affect the health and welfare of every American, but the poor, elderly, and children will suffer the most, according to a new White House science report released Thursday [7/17/2008]. The 284-page report, mostly written by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said every region of the country will be hit by worse health from heat waves and drought.

Climate Change Brings Jellyfish Plague to Europe's Beaches. Jellyfish are taking over Europe's favorite swimming spots in increasing numbers. Scientists blame climate change and overfishing for the proliferation of the stinging nuisance.

Climate change to increase rainfall. Add heavy rainfall to the litany of expected bad news due to climate change. Along with the likelihood of more intense heat waves, wildfires, and hurricanes, a new study released today reports that extreme precipitation events are already increasing as the globe warms.

Iowa-Like Floods to Increase With Global Warming. The chances for extreme weather in the U.S. such as the record rainfall and flooding in Iowa this month are increasing as worldwide temperatures rise, a government agency that researches climate change said. North America may get more abnormally hot days and nights, heavier downpours and deadlier storms from global warming, today's report from the Bush administration's U.S. Climate Change Science Program said.

The Editor says...
Notice that the article above does not blame the midwest flooding on global warming, since there has been no warming in several years, but that connection is clearly implied. On the other hand, the writer of the article below does blame the Iowa flood on global warming. This item serves as a prime example of propaganda disguised as journalism. The article is replete with unmitigated political bias and obvious half-truths about global warming.

Flooding is global warming at work. [Synopsis omitted].

An excuse I hadn't thought of: [There is an utterly bullet-proof excuse the IPCC can use if its doomsday predictions don't come true.] There is no possible observation that can negate it. Whatever happens is a win for its believer. If the temperature goes up, the believer can say, "Our theories predicted this." If the temperature goes down, the believer can say, "There was no way to know the future."

Walruses die; global warming blamed. In what some scientists see as another alarming consequence of global warming, thousands of Pacific walruses above the Arctic Circle were killed in stampedes earlier this year after the disappearance of sea ice caused them to crowd onto the shoreline in extraordinary numbers.

A Matter of Degrees. Politicized science cannot exist unless both sides have some inkling of what it is they are trying to politicize. The polarization of environmental rhetoric, from apoplectic denial to Apocalyptic environmentalism, demonstrates instead that most American politicians are scientifically clueless. The last few apocalyptic boom-bust cycles based on the misunderstanding of science, from "the energy crisis" to "nuclear winter" teach that while publishers reward alarmism, disinterested readers of the scientific literature behind these Jeremiads emerge with a heightened sense of humility rather than a flatly polemic view of the world. Climate can't be understood by leaps of faith from one worst-case scenario to another.

Ex-Clinton Official Ties Minneapolis Bridge Collapse to Global Warming. A former member of the Clinton administration, and current Senior Fellow at the virtual Clinton think tank the Center for American Progress, claimed Monday that global warming might have played a factor in the collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis.

In 2008, a 100 Percent Chance of Alarm. I'd like to wish you a happy New Year, but I'm afraid I have a different sort of prediction. You're in for very bad weather. In 2008, your television will bring you image after frightening image of natural havoc linked to global warming.

Sen. Kerry Blames Tornados on Global Warming. Politicians using tragedy to advance an agenda has been a tried-and-true strategy. Paint the idea green and a natural catastrophe became political fodder for former Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry (Mass.). Kerry appeared on MSNBC on February 6 to discuss storms that have killed at least 50 people throughout the Southeastern United States. So, of course, Kerry used the platform to advance global warming alarmism.

This article reeks with bias:
Report: Climate change threatens security. Global warming is likely to increase illegal immigration, create humanitarian disasters and destabilize precarious governments and could add to terrorism, all of which could threaten U.S. national security, according to an assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies.

Global warming could increase terrorism, official says. Global warming could destabilize "struggling and poor" countries around the world, prompting mass migrations and creating breeding grounds for terrorists, the chairman of the National Intelligence Council told Congress on Wednesday [6/25/2008].

The Editor says...
Global warming is still being used as a political catch-all, regardless of the evidence that global warming has stopped (even though CO2 emissions haven't) and that the rate of global warming is extremely slow.

Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism. Interviewed Tuesday for Charlie Rose's PBS show, CNN founder Ted Turner argued that inaction on global warming "will be catastrophic" and those who don't die "will be cannibals."

PBS And The 'Remarkable' Ted Turner: True to form, [Ted] Turner walked off a cliff of rhetorical excess on "The Charlie Rose Show," charging that global warming was going to grow so severe that in a few decades, most of humanity would be extinct. "We'll be eight degrees hotter in 10 — not 10, but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died, and the rest of us will be cannibals." … PBS is a natural habitat for this kind of wild-eyed lunacy.

Climate change will impact beer production: scientist. Jim Salinger, a climate scientist at New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, said climate change likely will cause a decline in the production of malting barley in parts of New Zealand and Australia. Malting barley is a key ingredient of beer. "It will mean either there will be pubs without beer or the cost of beer will go up," Salinger told the Institute of Brewing and Distilling convention.

House Majority Whip: Climate Change Hurts Blacks More. Climate change is no longer just an environmental issue. It's now an issue of race, according to global warming activists and policy makers. "It is critical our community be an integral and active part of the debate because African-Americans are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change economically, socially and through our health and well-being," House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., said July 29.

Scientific consensus on climate change? Recently, patients alarmed by the tone of media reports and political speeches on climate change have been voicing severe distress, for fear of the imagined consequences of anthropogenic "global warming". In my clinical practice patients with benign and malignant disorders are concerned that their disease may be caused by "climate change" and that they might have remained healthy without it. In discussions, they are often specifically distressed that inefficiency or carelessness of policy makers could thus be the origin of their individual suffering.

Feeling under the weather? Australians are getting so anxious about climate change that they are seeing their doctors for help. In a speech tonight to mark World Health Day, Dr Grant Blashki says climate change is already having direct and indirect effects on Australia's health, and the problems are set to get worse.

Climate change risk to health. Doctors have warned of disastrous health outcomes over the next 10 years, particularly among children and the elderly, unless greater action is taken on climate change. Improved strategies are required to reduce the impact of climate change on health, including a growing incidence heat-related illness and infectious diseases, a report by Doctors for Environment Australia says.

The Editor says...
It's only one degree per century. If you're sick, a long-term climate change is not the reason.

Doomed to a fatal delusion over climate change. "A 17-year-old man was referred to the inpatient psychiatric unit at Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne with an eight-month history of depressed mood … He also … had visions of apocalyptic events." … "The patient had also developed the belief that, due to climate change, his own water consumption could lead within days to the deaths of millions of people through exhaustion of water supplies." But never mind the poor boy, who became too terrified even to drink. What's scarier is that people in charge of our Government seem to suffer from this "climate change delusion", too.

Climate change leads to psychiatric illness: WHO. Establishing a link between climate change and mental health, the World Health Organisation has said extreme weather conditions like floods, droughts and natural calamities can lead to psychiatric illnesses. "Psychosocial illnesses are a part of the various health issues associated with climate change," Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Deputy Regional Director, WHO, said.

Melting glacier empties lake in southern Chile; global warming blamed. Melting ice in southern Chile caused a glacial lake to swell and then empty suddenly, sending a "tsunami" rolling through a river, a scientist said Thursday [4/10/2008]. No one was injured in the remote region. Glacier scientist Gino Casassa said the melting of the Colonia glacier, which he blamed on rising world temperatures, filled the Cachet Lake and increased pressure on the ice sheet.

Dire warnings on global warming are just hot air. Global warming has a way of prompting metaphors so bad they destroy a claim to seriousness. This week's prize goes to Klaus Toepfer, head of the Kenya-based United Nations Environment Program. Climate change could lead to Earth "spinning out of control", he warned, neglecting to describe the time when the planet's climate, or rotation, have been under control.

Surge in fatal shark attacks blamed on global warming. Three decades have passed since the movie Jaws sent terrified bathers scrambling out of the ocean. But as any beach lifeguard knows, there's still nothing like a gory shark attack to stoke public hysteria and paranoia. Two deaths in the waters off California and Mexico last week and a spate of shark-inflicted injuries to surfers off Florida's Atlantic coast have left beachgoers seeking an explanation for a sudden surge in the number of strikes.

Koalas threatened by climate change. Lab tests have revealed that global warming is stripping the goodness from eucalypt leaves, and the University of Sydney researchers behind the study say the koalas that rely on them don't have enough time to adapt to the change.

[One degree per century is just not that fast.]

Gore: Deadly Cyclone a 'Consequence' of Global Warming. It was bound to happen eventually — someone from the global warming movement tying the recent Myanmar cyclone to the so-called climate change phenomenon. Former Vice President Al Gore in an interview on NPR's May 6 "Fresh Air" broadcast did just that.

Goreacle's complicated truth: Well, here's a surprise. Al Gore last week linked the deadly cyclone in Myanmar to global warming. "We're seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming," he told National Public Radio in reference to the tragedy.

Al Gore Feeds on Myanmar's Tragedy. With the potential death toll in Myanmar from Cyclone Nargis rising into the hundreds of thousands, last week's attempt by Al Gore to use the tragedy to promote his "climate crisis" agenda becomes all the more reprehensible.

Gore Celebrates Israel's 60th With Whoppers. After delivering a scientifically inept global warming lecture in Tel Aviv on Tuesday [5/20/2008], greenhouse gasbag Al Gore presented Israel with a 60th birthday gift of custom tailored, regionally-targeted Globaloney. As adaptable to his surroundings as any desert snake, the shameless Nobel laureate told conference attendees that plunging water levels in their lakes and rivers were the result of -- guess what?

Overheated Rhetoric. Sen. Harry Reid blames global warming. Sen. Barbara Boxer says they're President Bush's fault. Rather than participate in a civilized discussion, the Democrats' first impulse is to play politics. While homes burned and hundreds of thousands were fleeing in the state next door, Senate Majority Leader Reid of Nevada moaned to the media on Tuesday [10/23/2007] that "One reason why we have the fires in California is global warming."

Blame Bush first; then warming. Believe it or not, some environmental groups, celebrities and politicians are blaming climate change for the severe wildfires that are ravaging Southern California. That's right: If only the human race could manage the atmosphere's chemistry by reducing carbon emissions, we would also reduce the likelihood of fierce fires in the future. Does that make sense? Or does that seem like an extremely roundabout way of addressing wildfires.

New geological age caused by humans. Humans are causing such unprecedented climatic change and mass extinctions it is creating a new geological age, according to a leading environmental scientist. … "The facts speak for themselves," Prof Steffen will tell the Second International Salinity Forum in Adelaide today. … "10-30 percent of birds, mammals and amphibians are currently threatened with extinction."

The Editor says...
The professor is right about only one thing: The facts speak for themselves. A change of one degree per century is imperceptible if not negligible. It is not enough to wipe out 10 percent of the animals. Show me the list of animals that have been driven to extinction by a one-degree climate change.

Sick Argument: Global Warming and the Spread of Tropical Diseases. Even if a warmer climate is in the offing, there is no reason for alarm, since the prime factor controlling communicable diseases is not global temperature, but relative wealth and the ecological and medical interventions people use to control diseases and their hosts.

Environmentalists Link West Nile Virus to Global Warming: Environmental groups, preparing for the Earth Summit in South Africa, say global warming is to blame for the spread of the West Nile Virus, which has killed nine people in the United States.

Fear and fear mongering. Most environmentalists, to their credit, are not trying to capitalize on the Asian catastrophe. But a few cannot resist.

Environmental Activists Claim Wildfires Sparked by Global Warming: Hundreds of thousands of acres of forests have gone up in smoke in America's western states, with developers blaming conservation policies they say produced thicker forests that are more vulnerable to fires and environmentalist activists blaming the phenomenon known as global warming.

Climate change 'could wipe out whales'. Climate change could help do to whale populations what commercial whaling has not — wipe out an entire species. Humpback, southern right and minke whale populations could be damaged by a lack of food caused by a change in sea temperatures, according to researchers from the [Australian] Federal Environment Department.

Media Malpractice: Now I am not a scientist, but the idea that a few alleged degrees of warming — with none apparently in the last decade — could cause an increase in earthquakes seemed pure quackery to me. So, I decided to perform Google and Yahoo searches of the "scientist" who had issued the finding, one Thomas Chalko, MSc, Ph.D. In less than five minutes I found that Chalko was perhaps the last person who should be quoted on the purported impact of allegedly man-caused global warming.

CBS Pulls Unvetted Story Blaming Earthquakes on Global Warming. CBS News and the Associated Press were quick to regurgitate claims that global warming has increased the intensity of earthquakes fivefold in the past 20 years. But had either taken the time to investigate, they would have discovered that both the source's facts and credentials were, if you'll pardon the expression, on very tremorous ground.

The Editor says...
I am amazed that a story like this got on the CBS web site, and may have aired on CBS stations. Anyone with a milligram of critical thinking skills should be able to conclude that a one-half degree temperature change is not enough to cause an earthquake, without having someone else point it out.

The coral reef scare:

Great Barrier Reef doomed within a generation, say scientists. It is probably too late to save the Great Barrier Reef and other coral reefs from global warming. Even if governments implement far-reaching measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions, they will not prevent the annihilation of coral reefs around the world. These are the conclusions of analysis by leading marine scientists to be published today in the prestigious journal Science.

The Editor says...
Clip and save the article above, so that in a few years -- when the dire predictions turn out to be false -- you'll have a record of the false alarm. Coral reefs have been around for a long time, and they can adapt to minor changes in the climate like every other living thing. If the ocean gets six inches deeper or one degree warmer, the coral won't notice.

$cience Mag Jumps on Global Moneywagon. Scientists like money. … The trouble is that money means politics, and politics means shading the truth. As a result, we get politicized science, which corrupts real science. Any kind of Politically Incorrect science therefore becomes very hard to publish. So the cult of PC has nvaded the pristine halls of science. The past week's Science magazine is a study in the way science can be ruined. The scare cover shouts Reef TROUBLE, to support the idea that our coral reefs are dying. It's like the National Enquirer.

Is the Great Barrier Reef threatened by global warming? Does anyone seriously think the GBR could be "threatened by global warming", when the Willis island data shows no trend since WWII? How do such fairy stories pass as fact and become part of national mass belief?

Coral flourishing at Bikini Atoll atomic test site. Coral is again flourishing in the crater left by the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated by the United States, 54 years after the blast on Bikini Atoll, marine scientists reported Tuesday [4/15/2008]. A team of research divers visited Bravo crater — ground zero for the test of a thermonuclear weapon in the remote Marshall Islands on March 1, 1954 — and found large numbers of fish and coral growing, although some species appeared locally extinct.

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The article goes on to say that even though the coral rebounded after a 99,000-degree blast from an H-bomb, they could still be wiped out by "climate change" amounting to one or two degrees. Nonsense! And what does "locally extinct" mean, anyway?

Bikini Atoll's Nuked Coral Reef Bounces Back to Life. Half a century after the atomic blasts that devastated Bikini Atoll, vast expanses of corals in the area seem to be flourishing once again, much to the surprise of scientists. American government scientists detonated a hydrogen bomb on the tiny island (a part of the Marshall Islands in the western Pacific) on March 1, 1954, and about 20 other nuclear tests were carried out on the atoll between 1946 and 1958. [Emphasis added.]

Barrier Reef 'can adapt' to warmer climate. The Great Barrier Reef may be much better suited to surviving climate change and warmer conditions than previously thought. Researchers in north Queensland have found many corals contain microscopic algae that protect them from temperature fluctuations.

This appears to be an Environmental False Alarm.

Conversely, everything causes global warming
... or so the news media would have you believe.

The news media would like to have us believe that all sorts of chemicals (fertilizers and pesticides) and activities contribute to global warming. This is what's called "straining at a gnat, but swallowing a camel." The overwhelming majority of the greenhouse effect is due to water vapor, about which we can do nothing, because it comes from lakes and oceans. But somehow that's never mentioned by the alarmists in the press. Nor do the "journalists" mention the most obvious source of warmth: the Sun.

Articles of this sort are too numerous to list, but here are a few representative samples:

Some Blame Autumn Leaves for Global Warming: Those colorful autumn leaves that decorate skylines and blanket landscapes may play a role in global warming, according to some environmentalists. While most scientists agree that "trees pollute," they disagree on whether human activity makes that natural pollution even worse and whether any of it causes global warming.

Birds, fleas — even elevated trees add to global warming. Human activity isn't the largest direct contributor to increased carbon dioxide levels of the Earth's atmosphere. It seems that humans attract more prolific rodents and insects, such as fleas, hence the animals of the Earth are producing a lot more CO2 than humans themselves do, according to information suggested during a discussion Thursday night [11/15/2007] sponsored by the American Chemical Society's San Gorgonio section.

Doctors: Third babies are the same as patio heaters. A pair of doctors have said that British parents should have fewer children, because kids cause carbon emissions and climate change. The two medics suggest that choosing to have a third child is the same as buying a patio heater or driving a gas-guzzling car, and that GPs should advise their patients against it.

Cleaner skies means more global warming. For past three decades, Europe has been following the trend of saying goodbye to air pollution and smoky chimneys but a new study has shown that cleaning up the skies has allowed more of the sun's rays to pierce the atmosphere, contributing to at least half the global warming that has occurred.

The Editor says...
Well, if that's true, then we need to turn on the smoke again. Anyone with the most basic critical thinking skills can see that if this hypothesis is correct (and it isn't), then the world would have been much warmer 200 years ago.

NASA: Smog chemical tied to Arctic warming. Ground-level ozone, the same pollutant that makes smog, is responsible for a surprisingly large part of the spring and summer warming that's been detected in the Arctic, NASA researchers said in a new study. "Instead of being this tiny player, (ozone) can be more like 30 or 40 or even 50 percent of the cause of warming that we're seeing in the Arctic now," said lead author Drew Shindell, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. "It's very dramatic."

[Yes, it's the drama that really matters, after all.]

Meat's bad for the planet say protesters. Environmentalists today scaled Smithfield meat market to highlight the alleged links between climate change and eating animals. Six members of Climate Camp climbed onto the roof of the Victorian buildings in the City of London and unfurled a banner that read, "Fight Climate Change — Go Vegan". The group wants more people to choose a vegan diet, which excludes all animal products including meat, eggs and dairy, because they say it can reduce climate-altering emissions.

Flat-screen TV gases may be added to climate fight. New greenhouse gases emitted in making flat-screen televisions or some refrigerants might be capped under a planned U.N. treaty to combat global warming, delegates at U.N. talks in Ghana said on Friday. Emissions of the recently developed industrial gases, including nitrogen trifluoride and fluorinated ethers, are estimated at just 0.3 percent of emissions of conventional greenhouse gases by rich nations. But the emissions are surging.

Plasma, LCDs blamed for accelerating global warming. A gas used in the making of flat screen televisions, nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), is being blamed for damaging the atmosphere and accelerating global warming.

TV boom may boost greenhouse effect. An industrial chemical being used in ever larger quantities to make flat-screen TVs may be making global warming worse. ... The gas was first introduced as a measure to cut greenhouse gas emissions, but a prominent atmospheric chemist this week warned it could now be having the opposite effect.

That sounds like one of those supposedly good ideas that may not be good at all.