We had a warm summer here in the United States, and that
brought some of the climate change alarmists out again. Looks like it’s
time for another rebuttal!
John Coleman, the founder of The Weather Channel, and
various other critics have called the theory that human use of
carbon based fossil fuels will lead to catastrophic global warming or
climate change a “hoax.” It is, but it’s more than that, it’s criminal.
Here are some of the scientific questions at the core of this issue:
Is the climate changing? Of course. The climate always has changed and always will.
Is the earth getting warmer? We should hope so for at least two
reasons: First, the world emerged from the Little Ice Age in the 19th
century, so it would be worrisome if it weren’t getting warmer. Second,
all the history indicates that humans thrive more during warmer periods
than colder ones. It is likely, though, that earth has warmed less than
many official temperature records indicate for a variety of reasons,
including: few long-term records from either the southern hemisphere or
the 71 percent of the planet that is covered by water; distortions from
the urban heat-island effect and other faulty siting (e.g., temperature
sensors next to asphalt parking lots, etc.; the decline in weather
station reports from Siberia after the fall of the Soviet government;
the arbitrarily ceasing to include measurements from northern latitudes
and high elevations, etc.) The most accurate measures of temperature
come from satellites. Since the start of these measurements in 1979,
they show minor fluctuations and an insignificant net change in global
temperature.
Is the earth getting dangerously warm? Probably not, since the earth
was warmer than it is now in 7000 of the last 10,000 years. By the way,
does anybody know what the “right” amount of global heat is?
Are we humans causing the warming by our carbon emissions? Actually,
most of the “greenhouse effect” is due to water vapor, which makes one
wonder why the EPA hasn’t designated H2O a harmful pollutant that they
must regulate. Meteorologist Brian Sussman’s calculations in his book “Climategate” show humanity’s share of the greenhouse effect as .9 of 1 percent.
It’s even possible that CO2 may not affect global warming at all.
During many stretches of planetary history, there has been no
correlation between the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere and
global temperature. In other long stretches, the variations of the two
factors followed a significant sequence: increases in CO2 followed
increases in warmth by several centuries. You don’t need to have a
degree in climate science to know that, in a temporal universe, cause
does not follow its effect.
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