Anyone.....anyone.....who
believed the hoax is suspect in reasoning.
Be wary of anyone!!!
A letter published in the New London Day, November 21, 2009
I am a meteorologist, but I don't play one on
TV.
Readers who want the truth about climate change should do a Web search on the Vostok
and EPICA ice cores. These show eight major global climate shifts over the past 740,000 years, with large fluctuations of
CO2, methane and temperature.
Truth be told, without the steady increase of all three for
the last 18,000 years, no one would be living on the Connecticut coast.
The pre-global-warming
coastline was 50 miles south of Long Island, and Connecticut was under 1,300 to 3,300 feet of ice.
I received the pin "Dump Dodd." Thanks. My sentiments
exactly. I won't have any problem wearing it. I did take a look at your web site, and it looks good.
I would be glad to look over the web page on Global Warming periodically to make sure that your science facts are correct.
You also may use my name and title as a technical advisor, if you wish. I'm not sure that I mentioned this in previous
e-mails, but I'm one of the original 31000 signers of the "petition project", a group of scientists around the
world (5000 of which having Ph.D.'s) who contend that there isn't any scientific evidence consistent with the scientific
method that suggests that atmospheric chemistry is responsible for global climate change. So when people say there is
a consensus of scientists who support the idea that greenhouse gases cause global warming, don't believe it. Have
a happy holiday season.
Among the many reasons President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly jamming
a cap-and-trade system through Congress is because the global warming tide is again shifting. It turns out Al Gore and the
United Nations (with an assist from the media), did a little too vociferous a job smearing anyone who disagreed with them
as "deniers." The backlash has brought the scientific debate roaring back to life in Australia, Europe, Japan and
even, if less reported, the U.S.
But this summer has been conspicuously different in New York City. Not a single
day that the temperature even approached 90. For just the second time in 140 years
of record keeping, the temperature failed to reach 90 in either June or July.
(From the Waterbury
Republican-American July 8, 2009)
Climate will put global warming
on ice
BY JAMES R. BARRANTE
“The relationship (between atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperature “is very
complicated. But there is one relationship that is far more powerful than all the others, and it is this: When there is more
carbon dioxide, the temperature gets warmer.”
This
statement by former Vice President Al Gore in “An Inconvenient Truth” is perhaps one of the most far-reaching
statements of recent times, one that will have a profound effect on the world’s economy in the future.
As a physical scientist and college professor, I am compelled to correct his statement slightly. I believe he meant
to say, “There is one relationship that is far more powerful than all the others, and it is this: When the temperature
gets warmer, there is more CO2.” This statement is consistent with the graphs Mr. Gore presented in his documentary,
graphs that were based on hundreds of thousands of years of ice-core data.
Mr. Gore is absolutely correct when
he points out atmospheric CO2 has been increasing and decreasing along with global temperature for at least the last 400,000
years; the atmosphere once was about 90 percent CO2. However, he intentionally and mistakenly implies CO2 causes global
temperature to increase and decrease, and that is inconsistent with any known scientific data.
If you
examine the graphs described by Mr. Gore, you will see the level of CO2 varies in a controlled
way. So what is controlling CO2?
Certainly, Mr. Gore doesn’t believe human activities have been controlling
CO2 for the last 400,000 years. It’s curious he did not mention this in his documentary.
It is true
Mr. Gore is not a trained scientist, but any person with half a brain can understand the behavior of CO2. I am surprised Mr.
Gore didn’t look into that more carefully before he published his theory. Perhaps he had other motives.
Any
good scientist would find that while CO2 is indeed a greenhouse gas (and, by the way, not a very important one at only 0.04
percent of the atmosphere), its real claim to fame is it is very soluble in water, much more so than most other gases.
In fact, it is so soluble, it can make water fizz. He seemed to have overlooked this point.
That the earth’s
surface is about 70 percent water should have something to do with the comings and goings of CO2. All the research upon which
his graphs were based clearly shows the temperature of the globe changesbefore the CO2 changes.
So Mr. Gore’s statement has the tail wagging the dog. As the temperature
of the oceans increases, dissolved CO2 is less soluble and is released to the atmosphere. As the temperature of the oceans
decreases, CO2 redissolves.
For the last 200 years or so, our oceans have been warming rapidly. Atmospheric
CO2 has rapidly increased accordingly. As long as we have oceans, it is impossible to raise the
level of CO2 in the atmosphere significantly.
The excess CO2 eventually will dissolve in the oceans, as it has
been doing since water liquefied on this planet. This rapid increase in ocean temperature just happened to coincide with
our Industrial Revolution, but that’s not significant because over 200 years, some things are bound to coincide.
Does burning fossil fuels and breathing contribute to the CO2 in the atmosphere? Absolutely. But the amount is insignificant
compared with the amount released by our oceans when the temperature of the oceans increases. Consequently, CO2 is an
uncontrollable, benign gas that increases and decreases as the temperature of the oceans increases and decreases.
So if the temperature of our oceans controls the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere, why are we spending all this
time and money trying to limit CO2 emissions? Need I answer that?
The progressive movement has been creating one
crisis after another since the 1920s to gain control and power.
The “global-warming crisis” is beautiful
because it most likely will be the one that finally destroys the country.
And our citizens stupidly keep voting
into office those people who admit, “Let’s not let a good crisis go to waste.” Maybe it’s time to
“unvote” them before they really do serious, irreversible damage to the environment.
Al Gore keeps
telling us the earth is abnormally warm, but I can’t seem to find anyone who actually knows what the normal temperature
should be.
Well, here’s something you can take to the bank: I have been studying
global temperature cycles for years, and my research indicates in the very near future we will be wishing for global
warming. Don’t run out and buy extra overcoats yet. Contrary to common belief, climate change takes place over
thousands of years. But here’s the bad news (or maybe good news, if you are a polar bear).
First, it is moronic
to try to predict what will happen to climate by looking at a 200-year period. It’s too short a span, and the error
is greater than the 200-year period Mr. Gore cites in his documentary. However, within the next 1,000 years, inhabitants of
this planet will begin to experience a real temperature drop of at least 2 C. Within the next 5,000 years, most of North
America will be under a mile or so of glacier ice. Growing food will be a challenge. And within the next 10,000 years, average
global temperature will have dropped 8 to 10 C. By then, the ocean between Alaska and Siberia will have frozen, and polar
bears will be celebrating.
The earth has spent about 300,000 of the past 400,000 years at temperatures we refer
to as “ice age.” On a global time scale, the periods of “warmth,” where we are now, are short, usually
about 20,000 years. My guess is what we refer to as “ice age” is the “normal” temperature of the globe,
and she’s just itching to get back there.
James R. Barrante of Cheshire is
a professor of physical chemistry for Southern Connecticut State University.
There are no Federal Funds available to universities and research organizations for contrary
views. That is why the Global Warming issue seems so one sided.
..............The environmental agency is under order from the Supreme Court to make a determination whether carbon dioxide is a pollutant that endangers public health and welfare, an order
that the Bush administration essentially ignored despite near-unanimous belief among agency experts that research points inexorably
to such a finding.....................
Of course, Jupiter's climate change is due to natural phenomena, while we are reminded daily Earth's
climate change is our fault. (It's the sun stupid!!)
Dr. Willie Soon is a solar and climate scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
This is his personal opinion based upon 18 years of scientific research. He co-authored the book,
"White stuff fell across much of the Houston area Wednesday evening, as temperatures hovered just
above freezing, tying a record for the city's earliest ever snowfall.
Since 1895, according
to data collected by Houston's Weather Research Center, snow has fallen this early just once — on Dec. 10, 1944
— during the last 113 years."
And now..SNOW... in New Orleans.........on December 11 !!
For the first time in 12 years, the Netherlands' canals froze this
month, bringing the Dutch, who like their tulips in neat rows, a heady mix of pandemonium and euphoria.
Hundreds
of thousands of skaters, their cheeks as red as apples in the freezing temperatures, took to the ice, and hospital wards were
filled with dozens of people with fractured arms, sprained ankles and broken legs.
Climate Change: Great news for global warm-ongers: New data shows the world is on target to meet
the Kyoto targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The bad news: It took a major economic collapse to get it done.
".......As a geologist, I love Earth observations. But, it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a "consensus" that humans
are causing global warming
it when human experience, geologic data and history, and current cooling can argue otherwise. "Consensus",
as many have said, merely represents the absence of definitive science. You know as well as I, the "global warming scare"
is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has
no place in the Society's activities."
Al Gore, the Vice President from 1993 to 2001 during the Clinton scandals, was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace
Prize in 2007 for a power point presentation based upon "facts" that were proven pure fiction. He founded the Alliance
for Climate Protection, based upon the hoax of climate change, as a businessman, invests in alternative energy companies that
lost millions in a carbon credit scheme on Wall Street.
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama's choice of John P. Holdren as his
science adviser sends a strong signal that Obama sees global warming as an urgent problem and wants bold suggestions for action.
The
Harvard University environmental policy professor has argued that the world already is experiencing dangerous climate change
as a result of fossil fuel combustion. He's said there's still time to avert catastrophe,
but only with a strong and rapid global effort.
This time of year, wind turbine blades ice up, biodiesel congeals in tanks and solar panels produce less power
because there is not as much sun. And perhaps most irritating to the people who own them, the panels become covered with snow,
rendering them useless even in bright winter sunshine.
RECORD EVENT
REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 642 AM MST MON DEC 15 2008
...NEW RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES IN
DENVER FOR DECEMBER 14TH AND 15TH...
THE LOW TEMPERATURE AT DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ON DECEMBER 14TH DROPPED
TO -18 AT 635 PM AND NEVER DROPPED BELOW -18 PRIOR TO MIDNIGHT. SO THAT ESTABLISHES A NEW RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE FOR
DECEMBER 14TH BREAKING THE OLD RECORD OF -14 DEGREES SET IN 1901.
THEN ON DECEMBER 15TH...THE TEMPERATURE
BOTTOMED OUT AT -19 DEGREES AT 231 AM. THIS IS A NEW RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE FOR DECEMBER 15TH BREAKING THE
OLD RECORD OF -6 SET IN 1951.
Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen
who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama's first administration, he added.
A new record was set Wednesday when Chicago had its ninth consecutive day of measurable snowfall, according
to the National Weather Service.
The previous record was eight consecutive days set from Dec. 13 to 20,
1973.
Snowfall records in Chicago date back to 1884.
GLOBAL WARMING Embellishing exaggerations “A recent study in the journal
Science has now confirmed that the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet is warming. Scientists have told us that if it were to
collapse and slide into the sea, we would experience global sea level rise of another 20 feet worldwide. Each meter of sea
level increase leads to 100 million climate refugees.” — Al Gore, congressional
testimony, April 24, 2009. Before you paddle off for higher
ground, remember Mr. Gore, a Democrat whose education and training are in government, politics and the law, not
science, has been known to embellish from time to time and leave out important facts. He does this to raise the volume
of his alarmism to attract “journalists” forever on the lookout for fodder for apocalyptic reporting. This
symbiosis is most closely replicated in nature by farm animals and dung beetles. In this instance, Mr. Gore’s
“20 feet” is really 16, and that number was spit out by computer programmed to generate dire data. Still, the
16 feet wouldn’t be achieved for500 years. That works
out to a quarter inch a year, which also happens to match the rate of the last 10,000 years. For the past three, seas have
not risen at all, a compelling indication that ice melt and growth are at equilibrium. Finally, only 250 million
live within 20 feet of sea level, so even if Mr. Gore’s turns out to be the Kreskin of Climatology, the
world would not have more than 600 million “climate refugees,” but 250 million. And they’d have
500 years to skedaddle. But even the global warmists packing the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
say the chances of the West Antarctic ice sheet melting completely are indistinguishable from nil. Global temperatures
would have to spike 5 F and stay there for thousands of years before half the sheet would disappear. However, the earth’s
temperature has fallen more than 1 F since 1998, erasing the entire increase of the 20th century, and shows no signs of rising
anytime soon. Further truths Mr. Gore conveniently fails to bring up. Now Science has published an article showing
the studies on which Mr. Gore based his most recent embellishments were exaggerated. Researchers in England now say the
worst-case scenario has West Antarctic ice melt raising levels less than 10 feet over many centuries. That disclosure was
accompanied by a rare admission: “Volume changes in the Antarctic Ice Sheet are poorly understood.”
Another truth Mr. Gore doesn’t let get in the way of his rants.
Editorial from the Waterbury Republican American May 23, 2009