The political bent of this poster is unmistakable. That aside, much of what he says is similar to what I posted in previous threads.
- Bill
- Is Earth near its 'tipping points' from global warming?sinderso wrote: 43d ago
Your article in yesterday’s edition touting man-made global warming is about as ill-informed a puff piece for the climate-change alarmists that I have seen. It obviously assumes that climate-change science is complete and that man-made CO2 is the cause of global warming. This is simply not true; the science is not complete and there are compelling reasons to say that other, natural forces are the dominant cause of global warming. Your article cited new studies predicting dire consequences, but nowhere could I find any dissenting opinions, which abound in the current literature. One piece of apparent nonsense that you cite stated that the oceans are going to become more acidic if the CO2 level keeps going up. That would be true if warming waters could absorb more CO2, but that defies the gas laws that say warm water holds less gas than cold water. I submit that if the earth is warming for any reason, then the ocean will also warm and in so doing will release CO2 and become less acidic. In fact, there is abundant evidence, ignored by the IGCC that shows that over hundreds of thousands of years the peaks in CO2 have lagged the peaks in temperature by hundreds of years, clearly showing that CO2 in the atmosphere is the result of warming, not the other way around.
You have ignored the most recent research by Henrik Svensmark, presented in “The Chilling Stars, A New Theory of Climate Change”by Swensmark and Calder, that shows how cosmic rays are the trigger for the formation of low-level clouds that are a major controlling factor in the earth’s temperature. Even the climate-change modelers, the alarmists, admit that they don’t do a good job of modeling the clouds. Their models, for instance, predict that both north and south poles should be warming, when in fact the south pole is cooling. The Svensmark cloud-effect explains this paradox. Two other references are of major importance: “Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years”, by physicist Fred Singer and economist Dennis Avery presents a massive amount of real data that show that the sun is the likely cause for a mild warming and cooling cycle that has been occurring about every 1500 years for at least a million years. This reference proposes that low-level clouds controlled by cosmic rays that are in turn controlled by the sun are the real cause of global warming. Swensmark proves the mechanism by which the clouds are formed. Together these two books make a compelling case that at the very least, it is way too early to make drastic changes in our economy in the vain attempt to control CO2. As an early researcher said, “a poor climate prediction is worse than none at all”. Much of this is brought together in a Channel 4 documentary from England “The Great Global Warming Swindle”, which was online on YouTube, but now not available there.
The current climate models that the IGCC uses as support for its alarmists claims are unverified, for they don’t even predict the recent well-measured earth temperatures correctly, without denying the well-documented world-wide medieval warming, and have several other major inconsistencies. Garbage in; garbage out, as they say. The “science” of man-made climate change has become a political, even a religious, movement bent on bringing down capitalism, which the most radical left think is the cause of all evil in the world. We know it has become political because anyone who speaks against the man-made climate change theory, any skeptic, is ostracized, even threatened by the politically correct. This attitude is shown well in Svensmark’s book, where his difficulty in getting a hearing and research funds for his theory is documented. Science is not served well by closed minds, whether it is scientists or ill informed writers.
There is a very important unintended consequence of the drastic action that the alarmists would have us do. Controlling CO2 in the extreme will weaken our economy and that of most of the western world (China and India are not likely to stop their development.) to such a degree that we will be severely limited in our ability to defeat the Islamo fascists that threaten our very way of life, indeed our very life as a nation. Many, especially the left, have their head in the sand when it comes to this threat, apparently believing despite al Qaeda’s declaration, that there is no war at all, 9/11 really didn’t happen. I believe it is real and serious. We are in a war that is going to last generations and cost lots of money if we are going to retain our freedom. Stopping our economic development could doom us to life under an Islamic despot.
