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Clueless in Copenhagen 11-10-09
Myths of Anthropogenic Global Warming
The world is being inundated with a mass of real junk science and a whole lot of politics in the anthropogenic global warming controversy. It is assumed by many anthropogenic theorists that higher CO2 levels are the cause of global warming. That’s not true! NOAA conducted a paleoclimate study and produced a graph showing the history of temperature change/CO2 levels. It showed CO2 changes followed temperature changes. That’s critical! Studies by other scientists, like Professor Lowell Stott of USC, agreed with the NOAA results, with his paper titled, Carbon Dioxide Did Not End the Last Ice Age.
So, what was the cause of this warming change that would increase carbon dioxide levels? The causes are right under our feet and it goes to the center of the earth. Volcanism, plate tectonics, and geomagnetism are keys to climate change. It demonstrates just how egotistical man is to think we can, in any way, be equal to those dynamic forces. These factors have been virtually ignored in papers by anthropogenic theorists!
The earth’s magnetic field has decreased by 10% in the last 150 years, since it was first measured in 1845, with an average predicted rate of a decline of 6% every one hundred years. Why is that significant? One, much less solar radiation (including heat) is being deflected by our magnetosphere. Two, it coincides with the Industrial Revolution etiology of global warming, possibly creating a false argument for anthropogenic theorists. Three, a magnetosphere that is weakened by 10% will exhibit the greatest changes where? It exhibits them where the greatest changes occur, the high latitude sub-polar areas, hence, these area are becoming warmer.
In 1999, Woods Hole Observatory discovered the largest swarm of earthquakes ever recorded under the Arctic Ocean caused by a massive, explosive volcano. Explosive volcanos can occur in shallow waters due to rapidly vaporizing water but not at these depths, due to water pressure. They theorized that 10 times more CO2 trapped in the magma was released than originally thought, causing the explosion. The vents created by this volcano are still active under the Arctic ice cap, superheating the water to 752 degrees Fahrenheit! The melting of the Arctic ice totally coincides with this event. J.K. Hillier and A.B. Watts of Cambridge and Oxford Universities, respectively, have used bathymetry data to discover 201,055 volcanic sea-mounts in just a small portion of the ocean. Ironically, the South Pole is getting colder.
Then we have the Vostok Ice Core Studies. While they have commonly shown a proportional relationship of temperature changes to carbon dioxide levels, they have also shown where the temperature changes have been inversely proportional to carbon dioxide levels. This fact alone challenges some of the importance of carbon dioxide as a major greenhouse gas.
More than that, the anthropogenic theorists have very much touted the changes in the last 150 years as an epistemological proof of man-caused warming. They have said the last 10 years are the warmest in recorded history. It's become a religious mantra! They have used less than 2000 years of proxy studies to theorize a major climate change. That is nothing in geological time! What about the Eocene Epoch which was a real period of global warming? What about the time of snowball earth? The important aspects of geologic time have been virtually ignored by good scientists.
Sadly, good science is now getting in the way of politics. If the price of fossil fuels is raised to “account for their environmental damage” as some propose, it will further impoverish those with the least ability to survive. The people advocating accountability will be responsible for the largest genocide this planet has ever seen. It has become a battle of large urban areas vs. smaller urban and rural areas of the earth. The large urban areas need to be responsible for their own mess and not expect the rest of the earth to pay for their negligence.
Ironically, the USA has cleaned up its backyard, per GDP production. Cap and trade will cause more companies to relocate to parts of the planet not beholding to newer environmental protocol. The end result will be GREATER pollution and the loss of a whole lot of jobs in the United States. China and India make wind generators and solar cells much more cheaply than the United States, resulting in even more lost jobs and more pollution. This is more proof the efforts to curb “global warming” is purely political and economic, as nations like China and India are not approached with the same vigor to curb emissions, as the United States is.
Professor Dan Kammen recently compared the efficacy of wind power, solar power, clean coal technology, and nuclear power. He immediately cast out wind power, simply because it was not cost effective, requires a lot of maintenance, and does not perform to the levels necessary to sustain our energy needs, now and in the future. He cast out nuclear because of waste considerations, even though Professor Mujid Kazimi of MIT in his paper, The Growing Problem of Nuclear Waste, stated, “All of the spent fuel from our 100 plants operating for 50 years can be stored in an area approximately 300 acres. Surely, in the U.S., we can find such pieces of land.” Statistically, clean coal won, hands down, in Kammen’s own study. However, he threw out clean coal and gave the nod to solar, simply because coal used carbon, even if that carbon was scrubbed out! Utter nonsense!
Both Professors Kamman and James Hansen are advocates of locally grown food and punishing people who use carbon. Both had better be prepared for a rather narrow and Spartan diet. They both need to get to a wheat field in Kansas or a corn field in Nebraska to understand the scope of the land necessary to support the numbers of people in the urban areas of the world.
We have zealots who are so quick to blame man caused carbon emissions by pointing out the tons of carbon being emitted to the atmosphere by the various carbon burning vehicles. However, they are NOT willing to share with us the formulas, the criteria they use, and the data developed from the formulas, other than the simple tonnage. I want to see those formulas as I have some serious doubts regarding the methodology of attaining data! They need to be questioned for the veracity of their work.
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In the meantime, these same zealots continue to use all the benefits that a carbon based economy has brought to them and then complain about it. They should give up their computers, their purchased food and clothing, their transportation, and even their homes. They should live in domiciles made only with stone age tools and of stone age products. They should be willing to live without the convenience of electricity because our electrical needs are only expected to double in the next 50 years.
If Congress is so intent on spending the taxpayers dollars, they need to consider the quest for nuclear fusion with the same intensity they saw in the Manhattan Project to develop the nuclear bomb. In the meantime, build those nuclear power plants and clean coal plants as they are the ONLY viable solutions for our present and future needs and not waste our resources on the construction of unreliable and uncontrollable sources of energy, when it is estimated our energy use will double in the next 50 years.
If Congress is so intent on spending taxpayers dollars, they need to find ways to extract the vast quantities of methane ice on our oceans floors before it sublimates into a real greenhouse gas.
The United States cannot afford to let itself become the lap dog of European nations who have bitten into the sham of anthropogenic warming, only to about bankrupt their nations. It is to Europe's benefit if the United States suffers economically. We are headed in that very direction with the reckless spending in Washington, DC today, with the CBO, OMB, and the Federal Reserve stating our spending policy is unsustainable.
All the above data is supported and can easily be researched. Some of the above material is being included in the book, titled,
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