Mysteries

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CLIMATE IS CONTINUALLY CHANGING

2009-05-19T00:32:00.001-07:00

The assertion that current global warming is "historically unprecedented" is also false.

The earth's climate is continually changing, and there were periods in the past when it was much, much warmer than it is today.

Cycles that drive climate change include the Earth's 100,000-year elliptical orbit around the sun, its 41,000-year axial tilt cycle, and a 1,500-year solar cycle. In the most elliptical phase of the Earth's orbit, the sun's rays must travel 3 percent farther to reach the planet. The Earth's axial tilt ranges from 22.1 to 24.5 degrees and is currently at 23 degrees.

Climate on earth naturally and radically changes over time. For example, during one warm period about 50 million years ago, the Arctic had a semi-tropical climate, similar to Florida today. The Arctic Ocean was free of ice year-round, and was populated by alligators and turtles. We know that fact because fossil remains of seeds, plants and animals have been found buried deep in the Arctic.

The bottom line: Don't worry about global warming. It is not caused by human beings or by our CO2 emissions. The amount of warming that is occurring is normal and modest, and does not threaten the earth or human life. The estimated one degree increase in the next 100 years isn't going to melt the ice caps or put London and New York ten feet under water.

Since the modest global warming we have been recently experiencing is in reality caused by a 50,000-year solar cycle interacting with the primary greenhouse gas (water vapor produced from the oceans and seas), there is nothing we can do about it even if we wanted to.

Our sun – which is millions of times larger than the earth – emits more energy in a minute than all human industrial activity in history, and there is nothing we can do to change solar activity.

Further, the moderate global warming we have been experiencing actually benefits human, animal and plant life by making winters more moderate, decreasing deaths from the cold, decreasing the need for heating, and increasing the global food supply.

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THEY'RE LYING TO YOU ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING

2009-05-19T00:31:00.000-07:00

Because telling the truth about global warming wouldn't further militant environmentalists' global warming crusade, which will give them enormous power over our lives, they often resort to distortions, misrepresentations and outright lies.

For example, while the UN's 1995 "Global Temperature Chart" clearly demonstrates that the earth was much warmer than today during the Medieval Warm Period, more recent UN temperature charts have eliminated the Warm Period altogether.

Instead of accurate long-term temperature information – which shows the earth periodically warming and cooling, militant environmentalists like Al Gore offer us a "hockey stick" graph fallaciously showing a steady rise in the earth's temperature for 1,000 years.

These "continuous warming" graphs contradict thoroughly-documented periods when the earth was getting cooler, including the "little Ice Age" from 1450 to 1850, and a period of record cold from 1940-1970.

In fact, the 1940-1970 cooling period resulted in a frenzy in which the media claimed that human industrial activity (particularly our old friend, CO2 emissions) was about to cause by 1995 a new ice age which would threaten all life on earth. Popular magazines, like Popular Science, even featured terrifying pictures on their covers of major U.S. cities covered by ice.

Obviously, the environmental alarmists were completely wrong then about the impending "global cooling crisis," just as they are wrong today about the "global warming crisis."

In addition to omitting periods when the earth was cooling from their charts, global warming alarmists also omit other data which contradicts their disaster claims, including such information as . . .

The southern hemisphere of the earth has been generally cooling for the past fifty years,
Hundreds of years of data show that temperature rises precede increase in CO2 levels, rather than following them,
Ice cover at the north and south pole is growing, which results in more glaciers breaking away
Throughout the 20th Century, temperatures have been rising on other planets in our solar system – including Mars, Jupiter, Pluto, and Triton, Neptune's largest moon – where few people drive SUVs. This clearly points to increased solar activity as the cause of global warming on the Earth, rather than any human activity.

GLOBAL WARMING MILITANTS ARE WRONG ON JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING

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As the graph below shows, the earth indeed has been warming . . . since about 1650 AD – centuries before factories belching CO2 and other greenhouse gases even existed.

Global Temperature Since 900 AD
Source: UN Panel on Climate Change, 1995

Even more important, the earth is not "the warmest it has ever been." In fact, the earth was much warmer during the Medieval Warm Period when human agriculture flourished!

As this graph shows, our climate is in fact continually changing, and the cause is not and could not be CO2. CO2 accounts for less than 3% of all greenhouse gases, and only 6% of atmospheric CO2 is produced by human activity.

That means that less than 2/1,000 of all CO2 is produced by human activity. So even if we wiped out every car, power plant, jet liner, and human being from the face of the earth, there would be no noticeable effect on global CO2 levels.

The most important greenhouse gas by far is water vapor, which evaporates from oceans, lakes and rivers. Water vapor accounts for up to 90% of the earth's greenhouse effect. Atmospheric water vapor levels – like natural CO2 emissions from volcanoes and animals – rises and falls with changes in solar activity.

To put it another way, the amout of CO2 in our atmosphere is the result of changes in solar activity, not the cause of it.

Climate change is natural, continuous, and caused by changes in solar emissions. Over hundreds of thousands of years, the earth's average surface temperature has varied within a narrow 4-degree temperature range. That variation causes both "warm periods," like we are now living in, and "cold periods" accompanied by ice ages, which periodically destroy most life on earth.

More CO2 actually has a beneficent effect on the environment. As the March 2007 issue of Civil Defense Perspectives explains, "Largely because of increased CO2, the U.S. had nearly 200 billion cubic feet more standing timber in 1990 than in 1950."

While the earth's current, natural warming will have some negative effects on some groups (such as island dwellers), it will also have lots of positive effects on many more groups, including the expansion of the growing season. Besides, there is nothing we can do to control the solar cycle which causes global warming. Remember: Our sun gives off more radiation in one second than all human activity produces in 1,000 years!

Further, even earth-bound natural forces are overwhelmingly more important in determining atmospheric greenhouse gas levels than human activity. For example, the explosion of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines on June 15, 1991, put more greenhouse gases (including water vapor) into the atmosphere than all human industrial activity in the preceding 78 years.

Yes, the world has real environmental problems caused by man, including pollution of the seas and destruction of rain forests. But the "global warming crisis" is largely a myth.

GLOBAL WARMING PROPONENTS ARE DEMANDING TOTAL CONTROL OF OUR LIVES

2009-05-19T00:30:00.003-07:00

To combat global warming, militants say we must all accept drastic reductions in our standard of living starting now, steadily increasing year-after-year, until much of industrial society is swept away. Only thus can the earth, and perhaps mankind, be saved.

To achieve this radical restructuring of human society, global warming proponents demand that we give virtually unlimited power to government to control what we eat, how we travel, and how our industries operate, with no dissent or resistance permitted.

Cars, jet travel for the public, air conditioning, refrigeration, and indeed many if not most of the conveniences of modern life will simply have to be abolished, as quickly as politically feasible. As one environmental activist puts it, "Everything modern has to go!"

While intoning these demands, often in the language of fanatical true believers, what global warming militants seldom discuss is the real cost of their proposals – both in terms of dollars and in terms of human lives.

Just radically curtailing use of refrigeration would result in millions of human deaths from food spoilage and contamination. Restrictions on use of cars, airplanes and other means of transportation would wipe out much of the progress of the last 100 years. And drastically curtailing industrial activity would result in global depression, disease and death.

Like it or not, industrial society has made possible long lives and prosperity for billions of people who otherwise would have died at a young age from poverty, disease, and starvation.

Fortunately for those of us who like regular meals, central heating, cars, and freedom, virtually every claim of the global warming lobby is dead wrong, except for the fact that the earth is warming.

But why is the earth warming and by how much?

GLOBAL WARMING PROPONENTS ARE DEMANDING TOTAL CONTROL OF OUR LIVES

2009-05-19T00:30:00.001-07:00

Like it or not, industrial society has made possible long lives and prosperity for billions of people who otherwise would have died at a young age from poverty, disease, and starvation.

Fortunately for those of us who like regular meals, central heating, cars, and freedom, virtually every claim of the global warming lobby is dead wrong, except for the fact that the earth is warming.

But why is the earth warming and by how much?

Global Warming: Myths and Reality

2009-05-19T00:29:00.000-07:00

Don't worry fella, a one degree rise in temperature is not going to melt the ice caps

According to militant proponents of global warming theory, Planet Earth is on the verge of a runaway greenhouse effect that could destroy the human race and indeed most life on this little planet.

The primary culprit, they claim, is human emissions of greenhouse gases – particularly carbon dioxide (CO2), belching out of everything from our cars, to our factories, to our barbecue grills. We even emit CO2 when we breathe!

According to this theory, increasingly presented as absolute fact, only radical reductions in CO2 emissions starting now, can possibly save us.

According to global warming proponents, "the time for debate is over," and skeptics should be "treated like Islamic terrorists."

Global warming true believers also insist that an international "consensus" of scientists agrees with this position . . . "the time for debate is over" . . . and global warming skeptics are either industry shills, incredibly misguided, or simply evil and should be silenced.

Thus British foreign secretary Jack Straw has said that "skeptics should be treated like advocates of Islamic terror and denied access to the media."

Grist magazine has called for Nuremberg-style "war crime" trials for those who deny that human beings are causing a global climate disaster. (Read it yourself here, here, and here.

George Monbiot (author of the best selling book The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order) wrote in Guardian magazine that "Every time someone drowns as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned."

Women's cricket

2009-05-19T00:18:00.000-07:00

High stakes, high expectations

It has been quite an up-and-down year for the team as well as for me personally but now we need to regroup and look ahead to the World Cup in Australia. I believe our performance in Australia, despite the...