the Right Angler
Of course, to me, the theory of global warming has always been a ridiculous one. It doesn’t take a scientist to figure this out either. All it takes is a little common sense. First of all, let me ask you this: what is the temperature of the earth right now? I’ll help you out. There is no one temperature of the earth. To suggest that there is is laughable. I don’t care how many temperature gauges they put on the planet, it is simply not enough to come up with one reliable temperature reading that can be compared annually with any precision within any sound margin of error. Second, our reliable temperature records only go back at best 100 years or so and even these are from just a few areas on the globe. How can we seriously say that global temperatures are catastrophically rising when we only have a few temperatures records from 100 years ago? How do we know that temperatures aren’t falling from 150, 200 or 1000 years ago? We don’t. Like I said, the very notion is ridiculous.
Anyway, that is the common sense approach. Those of us who have been trying to expose this sinister hoax from the beginning, however, know that common sense has nothing to do with it. So, let’s stick with the raw facts.
Lee Gerhard is a Senior Scientist Emeritus from the University of Kansas and an IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Reviewer. He presents the following scientific facts about our climate. You may be surprised to learn the following:
• The most effective greenhouse gas is water vapor, comprising approximately 95 percent of the total greenhouse effect.
• Carbon dioxide concentration has been continually rising for nearly 100 years. It continues to rise, but carbon dioxide concentrations at present are near the lowest in geologic history.
• Temperature change correlation with carbon dioxide levels is not statistically significant.
• There are no data that definitively relate carbon dioxide levels to temperature changes.
• The greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide logarithmically declines with increasing concentration. At present levels, any additional carbon dioxide can have very little effect.
We also know a lot about Earth temperature changes:
• Global temperature changes naturally all of the time, in both directions and at many scales of intensity.
• The warmest year in the U.S. in the last century was 1934, not 1998. The U.S. has the best and most extensive temperature records in the world.
• Global temperature peaked in 1998 on the current 60-80 year cycle, and has been episodically declining ever since. This cooling absolutely falsifies claims that human carbon dioxide emissions are a controlling factor in Earth temperature.
• Voluminous historic records demonstrate the Medieval Climate Optimum (MCO) was real and that the “hockey stick” graphic that attempted to deny that fact was at best bad science. The MCO was considerably warmer than the end of the 20th century.
• During the last 100 years, temperature has both risen and fallen, including the present cooling. All the changes in temperature of the last 100 years are in normal historic ranges, both in absolute value and, most importantly, rate of change.
Contrary to many public statements:
• Effects of temperature change are absolutely independent of the cause of the temperature change.
• Global hurricane, cyclonic and major storm activity is near 30-year lows. Any increase in cost of damages by storms is a product of increasing population density in vulnerable areas such as along the shores and property value inflation, not due to any increase in frequency or severity of storms.
• Polar bears have survived and thrived over periods of extreme cold and extreme warmth over hundreds of thousands of years - extremes far in excess of modern temperature changes.
• The 2009 minimum Arctic ice extent was significantly larger than the previous two years. The 2009 Antarctic maximum ice extent was significantly above the 30-year average. There are only 30 years of records.
• Rate and magnitude of sea level changes observed during the last 100 years are within normal historical ranges. Current sea level rise is tiny and, at most, justifies a prediction of perhaps ten centimeters rise in this century.
Now you have the facts. A bit different from what you’ve been told, aren’t they? From here, we can now go into some of the sordid details of the complex and elaborate hoax that is man-caused global warming.
Gerhard ends his report with this statement: “I have been a reviewer of the last two IPCC reports, one of the several thousand scientists who purportedly are supporters of the IPCC view that humans control global temperature. Nothing could be further from the truth. Many of us try to bring better and more current science to the IPCC, but we usually fail. Recently we found out why. The whistleblower release of e-mails and files from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University has demonstrated scientific malfeasance and a sickening violation of scientific ethics.”
I am going to tell you more about these e-mails from the corrupt leaders of the global warming mafia next week. When you consider just how much the theory of global warming has impacted all of us over the past few years, you can see just how big this story is. Stay tuned…
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