Global Warming - Some Thoughts And Research

Is global warming real? YES. There was from around 1980-1981 until 1998-1999 some slight global warming. That is not the question. The three questions that matter are: Is man causing this, is it serious and will it continue? None of these can be answered "Yes". Global warming fanatics insist that if you are not sure the answer to these three questions is also YES, then you are a denier of YES to the first question. That is not a valid argument.

Has this been a long term trend? NO. For the 40 years before 1980 there was a steady downtrend that led the same radicals who are proclaiming global warming a problem to proclaim the new ice age they were forecasting then was a problem. They were wrong. Why does anyone believe them now? Why is anyone sure "warming" will continue? As an example of contradictory evidence about the seriousness, during the Renaisance world temperatures were warmer than they are now. That was a period of great advances. If global warming is such a catastrophe, why was it a good thing then? Rather than the less than 1 degree change that has provoked all this hysteria, the Renaisance period saw temperatures rise over 3 degrees.

Is this just happening on Earth? NO. There is evidence of reduced polar ice caps on Mars . The chicken little global warming advocates do not bother explaining how man is causing warming on Mars.

Here are a few articles that attempt to introduce some sanity into this discussion. (Thanks to a blogger on Lucianne.com for compiling the list!)


Plus Ça (Climate) Change - The Earth was warming before global warming was cool. --Pete Du Pont, Wall Street Journal, 2/2007
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pdupont/?id=110009693

An experiment that hints we are wrong on climate change --Nigel Calder (former editor of New Scientist), Sunday Times (UK), 11/2007
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1363818.ece

Blame cosmic rays not CO2 for warming up the planet --Lewis Smith, Times (UK), 2/12/2007
timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1368920.ece

The real deal?: Against the grain: Some scientists deny global warming exists --Lawrence Solomon, National Post (Canada), 2/2/2007
canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?

No: It's a fact that their [polar bears] numbers are up fivefold since the 1970s --H. Sterling Burnett, McClatchy-Tribune News Service, 1/2/2007 charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/opinion/16516171.htm

Al Gore Is a Greenhouse Gasbag --Penn professor Bob Giegengack has a few quibbles with the former VP on this whole global warming thing --John Marchese, Philadelphia Magazine, Jan 2007
phillymag.com/articles/

Climate of Fear: Global-warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence. --Richard Lindzen (Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT), Opinion Journal, 4/12/2006
opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008220

There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998 --Bob Carter (geologist in paleoclimate research), Opinion.Telegraph (UK), 4/9/2006 telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?

Open Kyoto to debate: Sixty scientists call on Harper to revisit the science of global warming --National Post [Canada], 4/6/2006 canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?

Aliens Cause Global Warming (lecture) --Michael Crichton, California Institute of Technology, 1/17/2003
crichton-official.com/speeches/speeches_quote04.html

The only serious problem with global warming is the efforts to presuade us to do stupid things to our economy without understanding the duplicitous agenda of the global warming fanatics who are proposing the changes.