The Realists Take on Climate Change

In DigitalJournal by Mr Garibaldi we have a very good news blog that includes historic facts concerning the Earth's Global Temperatures.

To hear the media and any number of politicians and climatologists who have come on board with the concept, the world is facing a crisis because of the onset of global warming. Not so fast, say paleontologists, who are coming out to show otherwise.

Back in May I did a piece regarding the changing of weather and temperature patterns around the globe and the back and forth teeter-tottering that climatologists have been putting the world through since the 1970's, as well as other agenda driven science. Before that there was my article showing how 400 scientists around the world disagreed with the man-made global warming concept, and of course there is the report by Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, entitled 35 Inconvenient Truths, The Errors in Al Gore's Movie.

No doubt we will see more of this report in the next few weeks, if its not melting ice caps it's melting glaciers in Peru, this article from the Guardian by Guy Edwards paints a very grim picture concerning the long term effects of "Man Made Climate Change".

Glaciers in Peru are melting so quickly that by 2015 almost all of them may have disappeared. This is not just a problem for Peru but for the whole Andean Community of Nations, including Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador. These countries generate around 73% of their electricity from hydro energy. Ironically, this renewable source of energy risks disappearing because of melting glaciers caused by climate change.

The report, Climate change knows no borders, provides a chilling reminder of the catastrophic impacts of climate change on the Andean region. The evidence predicting the rapid loss of glaciers and a fiercer, more frequent El Niño effect, where ocean temperatures rise along the coasts of Ecuador and Peru, causing droughts and floods, reveals an uncertain and potentially destructive future for the region. The El Niño of 1997/8 had a devastating impact, leaving thousands dead or homeless, crops ruined, roads and bridges left smashed. The bill ran into billions of dollars.

In a rare appearance we have the GreenConsumerGuide with a report that a Minister for Northern Ireland has upset Environmentalists concerning an outrageous suggestion that the IPCC have removed evidence of human activities as they had little or no impact, what a terrible thing to suggest!

Recent remarks by Northern Ireland’s Minister of the Environment on a leading scientific climate change report have sparked controversy among scientists and green groups, with the claims being branded as ‘ludicrous’.

Environment Minister Sammy Wilson raised the suggestion that the IPCC’s latest report was adapted to remove evidence that human activities had little or no impact on global warming. Wilson had previously gained a reputation as something of an enviro-sceptic due to his opposition to the creation of a dedicated independent environmental protection agency in the region.

In ClimateScience we have a personal account of Climate Change by Atmospheric scientist Dr. Hendrik Tennekes, a scientific pioneer in the development of numerical weather prediction and former director of research at The Netherlands' Royal National Meteorological Institute. He is an internationally recognized expert in atmospheric boundary layer processes.

My Position on Climate Change by Hendrik Tennekes July 14 2008

“Fortunately, the time rate of climate change is slow compared to the rapid evolution of our institutions and societies. There is sufficient time for adaptation. We should monitor the situation both globally and locally, but up to now global climate change does not cause severe problems requiring immediate emission reductions. Successive IPCC reports have presented no scientific basis for dire warnings concerning climate collapse. Local and regional problems with shorter time scales deserve priority. They can be managed professionally, just as the Dutch seem to do.”

The so-called scientific basis of the climate problem is within my professional competence as a meteorologist. It is my professional opinion that there is no evidence at all for catastrophic global warming. It is likely that global temperatures will rise a little, much as IPCC predicts, but there is a growing body of evidence that the errant behavior of the Sun may cause some cooling in the foreseeable future.

Video: Morano on CNN debates alleged 'censorship' of global warming science (Video & Transcript) - Aired Sunday July 13, 2008 at 10:20 PM ET

Watch CNN Video here: videosearch

Key Quote: MORANO: “Al Gore himself called Ted Koppel in 1994 and told him to go after scientists skeptical. This was a sitting vice president with an agenda on global warming telling Ted Koppel to go after scientists. Now, how come there was no outrage from the AP, from the League of Conservation Voters, from the media there? The real story here the media is missing is skeptical scientists are being suppressed across the board. The U.N. recently came out and said it's ‘criminally irresponsible’ for someone to deny global warming fears.”

Fax Transmission:

To: All U.S. Senators From: Bob Ashworth
& Representatives Date: July 14, 2008
Time: 9:34 AM

Gentlemen/Ladies:

The Great CO2 Global Warming Hoax

The claim by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that carbon dioxide is causing global warming is bogus science based on models developed around 2000 (the old garbage in-garbage out scenario). See the graph developed from actual data by meteorologist Joseph D'Aleo; even a non-scientist can see there is absolutely no correlation between the concentration of atmospheric CO2 and the earth's temperature.

CO2 is not a pollutant, it is part of the animal-plant life cycle, without it, plant life would not exist on earth. Further, increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases plant growth, which is a very good thing. Further, the amount of anthropogenic carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that was emitted by man is around 3% of the total. In 2008, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere was 385 ppmv (parts per million by volume).

Therefore, man's total anthropogenic contribution is only 12 ppmv, a miniscule amount and if man produced no CO2 at all, the amount in the atmosphere would only drop back to the level we had in 2002-2003.

TO: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, inquiries@un.org 14th of July, 2008

Copied to the G8 leaders

Dear Secretary General Ban Ki-moon,

The UN Climate Change Panel must be called to account and cease its deceptive practices - Policies based on false science must be ended

We, an independent group of experts in various aspects of science and the environment, ask you to redress the lack of scientific integrity of the UN’s Climate Change Panel (IPCC) and to stop them making reactionary and futile ‘Climate Change’ recommendations that hold back the developing world.

As you read this, policies that you endorse are already causing misery and starvation for the world's poor.

On the 14th of April this year some of us wrote to the Chair of the IPCC, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, copied below and available on the UN CAPSA site (ref E), asking him to present clear and graphic evidence of the theory that carbon dioxide (CO2) drives global temperature. We pointed out that no such evidence exists and offered charts and references that refute the man-made global warming theory.

From AFP we have the report and conclusion to a recent article Protesters to blockade coal trains...This is what we call Climate Change Mass Hysteria!

SYDNEY (AFP) — Thirty-seven people were arrested at a climate change protest in Australia on Sunday when they blocked a railway line delivering coal, police said.

Organisers said as many as 1,000 people attended the protest march from Newcastle to the nearby Carrington coal terminal, where some demonstrators broke through a fence and chained themselves to a stationary coal train.

Police said 37 people had been arrested for a number of offences including trespassing.

We think that a peep at what is being said on the other side of the fence helps us understand that little bit more as to what we are up against. In the InlandValleyDailyBulletin by Frank Schiavone, we can feel his anxiety concerning the so called Human-induced, global-warming crisis, commonly known as "Man Made Climate Change"

It's worth remembering that this is a very real situation for Frank, you can read from this article that his belief system (Cognitive Dissonance) has made sense of world events and the news that he reads, and the pictures of "human induced" weather stories that he looks at on the TV are real to him. The fact is, there are more Franks out there then us, and we should try and help people like him to understand that the problem is not from Man but the Sun.

A gathering storm (in the words of Winston Churchill) is on the horizon and it spells real trouble for mankind. The planet is warming and we are the dominant cause.

There, I said it. I know this statement will send many into convulsive spasms. Climate change, the politically correct label for it, never fails to generate detractors. There are no shortage of deniers, contrarians, and ideologues who will argue that 1) the planet is not warming; 2) it's warming but so what; 3) it's a problem but not worth the effort and money that is required to mitigate it or; 4) global warming is caused by "natural variability" and we're helpless to do anything about it so why try.

Christopher Booker from the Telegraph had a short summary to the weeks news in his article Metric martyrs singled out for 'harassment'. It included....

A chilling tale from the North

There is nothing that true believers in global warming like to use more to sustain their faith than a fear that Arctic ice may soon vanish.

Google News last week showed 492 articles promoting this scare, after Arctic sea-ice had last September shrunk to its lowest level since satellite records began in 1979.

What the articles didn't tell us (although it can be seen from the Cryosphere Today website) is that ice-cover last winter rose back at a record rate.

Although it is again in summer retreat, there are now 700,000 square kilometres more ice than at this time last year. As global temperatures decline, the warmists may have to wait rather longer for that ice finally to melt away.