Archive for the ‘Global Warming’ Category
by Robert E. Meyer
An issue that has garnered much attention lately, in between the media bites about Iraq and the salacious lives of celebrities, is the controversy over global warming. Both the pro and the con side consider their opponents the heretical misfits and purveyors of junk science.
But the debate is not so much about whether the earth is actually warming, but whether the phenomenon is man-made, and must culminate in catastrophe.
While most of us lack any academic credentials to have an informed opinion on the matter, we do possess the logical faculties to philosophically cross-examine the cogency of any theory presented to us.
By Alan Caruba
It’s official. America is now totally insane over the weather.
Even the Weather Channel that used to simply provide reasonably accurate, short-term information about the weather is now telling everyone we’re doomed because global warming is going to destroy the Earth. Why not just rename it the AlGore Channel?
The weather used to be the concern primarily of farmers and ranchers. It determines how well or not crops would grow and herds will thrive. As America became more urbanized, the rest of the population wanted to know whether to bring an umbrella or what to wear. Now it is a source of daily anxiety over the fate of the Earth.
By Alan Caruba
On December 4, then Speaker-Elect Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) issued a statement protesting the lifting of a presidential moratorium protecting Alaska’s Bristol Bay from oil and gas exploration. Rep. Pelosi had to reach back to the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 to find a reason why this energy-rich area should not be opened to exploration.
“Allowing oil drilling to go forward in Bristol Bay,” said Rep. Pelosi, “puts our precious environmental at risk.” We are all in for heavy doses of global warming propaganda and hearing a lot more about “our precious environment.” In recent months, the volume of global warming hysteria has markedly risen and with it came demands from two U.S. Senators that any dissent from this Big Lie be silenced.
Coincidently with Rep. Pelosi’s announcement, The Wall Street Journal published an opinion titled “Global Warming Gag Order” in which it noted that “Washington has no shortage of bullies, but even we can’t quite believe an October 27 letter that Senators Jay Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe sent to Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson. Its message: Start toeing the Senator’s line on climate change, or else.”
If anyone has been following all the talk about global warming in the last few years, it should be evident that the science of global warming is truly junk science. There are no scientific facts pointing to a global warming as the environmental scientists and greens have lead many to believe. Instead they point to unscientifically derived data to support their false theories.
Scientist have been recording the rise in global temperatures, but the data they are using is collected in urban areas. In the article, Debunking Modern Climate Myths, the fallacy of collecting temperature data in urban areas only enhances the urban heat island phenomenon. If satellite data is used and all the surface of the globe is considered there would be no evidence of increased temperatures found. But they might find small drops in the temperature.
Last year the junk scientists have mislead the public that another sign global warming was the record high number of violent hurricanes. Every major liberal news media picked up this false information, and many were lead to believe that the 2005 hurricane season was indeed foretelling global warming.
Again in the 2002 article, Debunking Modern Climate Myths:
Whether it be extremes of heat and cold, droughts, floods, hail, tornadoes or hurricanes, there is absolutely no evidence that these phenomena have increased globally over the twentieth century. In fact, there is much empirical evidence to suggest that more warmth leads to a more stable climate.
But occasionally the liberal media will report the truth, even if it is buried within the a news story reporting. The Hartford Courant, published the article, Hot Debate Over Hurricanes, which presents some truth on the fallacy of global warming but in reality only confuses the issue.
At the close of the catastrophic 2005 season, NOAA's official position was summed up in the headline on a Nov. 29 article posted on the agency's website. "NOAA attributes recent increase in hurricane activity to naturally occurring multi-decadal variability," it read.
The long article identified three prime reasons for the cycle's current activity. First, waters were warmer than average in the tropical Atlantic. Also the West African monsoon (the seasonal pattern of wind and rainfall) was stronger than usual while the Amazon Basin monsoon was weaker. The article stated flatly that the decadal cycle, also called a signal, "is not related to global warming."
[..] At a press conference Aug. 8 updating forecasts for the current hurricane season NOAA's response to questions about global warming was far less definite than it had been. Gerry Bell, NOAA's lead forecaster, said global warming could be adding to the multidecadal signal.
"There's still a lot we don't understand," he said. "Is global warming contributing this much? Is the [Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation] contributing this much? We can't say."
In a subsequent interview, Chris Landsea of the National Hurricane Center said, "there is a rich and robust debate going on in the country about what's going on with hurricanes."
With all this said, the reason the global warming scare is perpetrated is to scare the mis-informed to accept rules and regulations that would reduce the quality of life and freedom that western civilization enjoys today.
The UN treaty, Kyoto Protocol is an international wealth transfer scheme masquerading as an environmental agreement. Fortunately, the Bush administration has declared that it will not agree to any pact that exempts countries such as China and India, while requiring punishing sacrifices from the U.S. is an international wealth transfer scheme masquerading as an environmental agreement.
More evidence continues to show the fallacy of the "Global Warming" myth and that the "global Warming" scare is just a tactic to control our freedom and economics through increasing negative legislation.
WASHINGTON — The past two years have seen a flood of news reports about global warming, largely concentrating on melting ice caps, hurricanes and mass extinctions. A new study by the Cato Institute examines these stories and shows that many of them, including scientific reports, are remarkably flawed.
In the Policy Analysis "Is the Sky Really Falling?: A Review of Recent Global Warming Scare Stories," Patrick J. Michaels, a Cato senior fellow in environmental studies, argues that many stories about hurricanes, the melting of polar ice and extinctions "are riddled with self-inconsistencies, are inconsistent with other findings, and are reported — as much by scientists themselves as by reporters — in extreme or misleading fashions that do not accurately portray the actual research."
Once a commonly-exceeded temperature threshold is reached, there is no relationship between observed hurricane severity and ocean-surface temperatures, writes Michaels. Actually, the frequency of intense and extreme hurricanes in both the Atlantic and the Western Pacific (the most active regions on earth) was the same in the 1940s and 50s as in the mid-1990s.
"Reports of rapid disintegration of Greenland's ice ignore the fact that the region was warmer than it is now for several decades in the early 20th century, before humans could have had much influence on climate," the paper points out. Furthermore, Antarctica is gaining, not losing ice, and that is predicted to continue for at least the next 100 years by all modern models.
Stories about mass species extinction rates as a result of global warming turn out to be demonstrably wrong, as well. According to Michaels, reports about extinctions of butterfly populations in Europe ignore the fact that warming has increased the geographic range of most species, resulting in more, not less, biodiversity.
This collection of half-truths and misstatements about global warming are "a predictable consequence of the way that science is now conducted, where issues compete with each other for public support," Michaels concludes. "Unfortunately, this creates a culture of negativity that is reflected in the recent spate of global warming reports."
Scientists and environmentalist are crying out the danger of global warming as evidence of the large number of hurricanes this season. This is false!
The 1940s decade saw the record number of hurricanes of this century. NOAA reports a total of 24. The average per decade since 1860 is 17.6. No one was crying global warming back then.
A report on the fallacy of global warming was detailed by C.R. de Freitas of the School of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Auckland in New Zealand in 2002. He reports of at least fourteen fallacies with a major lack of true evidence on global warming. For example:
Fallacy 10: Global warming will result in more extreme weather events. Nothing could be further from the truth, as de Freitas demonstrates. Whether it be extremes of heat and cold, droughts, floods, hail, tornadoes or hurricanes, there is absolutely no evidence that these phenomena have increased globally over the twentieth century. In fact, there is much empirical evidence to suggest that more warmth leads to a more stable climate. (From c02science.org Vol 5 No 52)