Falling temperatures are giving climate alarmists chills:
“Global warming is
nowhere to be found. The mean global temperature has not risen in 17 years and
has been slowly falling for approximately the past 10 years. In 2013, there
were more record-low temperatures than record-high temperatures in the United
States. These extremes were not singular, but exemplary of conditions
throughout much of the continent. As frigid conditions settled over the nation,
global-warming alarmists went into full denial mode. We were emphatically
lectured that singular weather events are not necessarily indicative of
long-term climate trends. True enough, but haven’t we been repeatedly told that
weather events such as hurricanes Sandy and Katrina are unequivocal proof of
global warming? If we’re really in the middle of a “climate crisis,” is it not
remarkable that low-temperature records from the 19th century were shattered? Weather
extremes also seem to bring out the lunatic fringe. Of course, when we’re
discussing global warming, it’s difficult to tell where the mainstream stops
and the fringe begins. We were subjected to the oxymoronic explanation that
frigid weather was, in fact, caused by global warming. According to Time
magazine, cold temperatures in the United States were a result of global
warming forcing the polar vortex southward. But in 1974, the same Time informed
us that descent of the polar vortex into temperate zones was a harbinger of a
new Ice Age. Despite all the
claims that the poles are melting and polar bears drowning, the global extent
of sea ice remains stubbornly and significantly above the long-term mean.
Apparently, the buildup of heat from global warming is producing more ice, not
less, in defiance of both the laws of physics and common sense.”
Government Data Show U.S. in Decade-Long Cooling:
6/25/2014:
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s
most accurate, up-to-date temperature data confirm the United States has been
cooling for at least the past decade.
CO2 - The Key To Life On Earth!!!
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 7/8/2008
Climate Change: A study on the impact of rising CO2 levels finds
a future world of thriving agriculture and lush vegetation. Carbon dioxide, the
gas some see as a threat, is indeed the key to life on Earth. Rresearchers at the
Theunen Institute in Germany find the rise in carbon dioxide levels may in fact
be a boon to plant life on Earth.
The Theunen Institute, which has been monitoring the phenomenon since 1999, trained CO2 jets on plants, raising CO2 concentrations in the air around them to 550 parts per million (ppm), significantly higher than today's levels. The researchers announced on Tuesday that such increased exposure to carbon dioxide appears to boost crop yields. 'Output increased by about 10%. 'Higher CO2 enables plants to grow faster and larger and to live in drier climates. 'Plants provide food for animals, which are thereby also enhanced. The extent and diversity of plant and animal life have both increased substantially during the past half-century.
The Theunen Institute, which has been monitoring the phenomenon since 1999, trained CO2 jets on plants, raising CO2 concentrations in the air around them to 550 parts per million (ppm), significantly higher than today's levels. The researchers announced on Tuesday that such increased exposure to carbon dioxide appears to boost crop yields. 'Output increased by about 10%. 'Higher CO2 enables plants to grow faster and larger and to live in drier climates. 'Plants provide food for animals, which are thereby also enhanced. The extent and diversity of plant and animal life have both increased substantially during the past half-century.
Carbon dioxide is in fact not a pollutant. Rather, it is the
basis of all plant, and therefore all animal, life on Earth. Dr. Robert
Balling, director of the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University,
notes that 'carbon dioxide concentrations were much higher in the past,
millions of years ago, when plants evolved around the world.' 'When carbon
dioxide levels increase, plants grow faster, bigger, more resistant to any
number of stresses, and far more efficient in their use of water.'
As atmospheric CO2 levels consistently have been increasing, global mean temperatures have not kept pace. Warming has not been constant. In fact, it has been interrupted periodically by — global cooling, and seems to have stopped entirely in 1998. These are not the kind of temperature fluctuations you'd expect in the face of steadily increasing CO2 emissions, if CO2 was the main culprit.
Richard Lindzen, of the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT, notes that global mean temperatures have risen about 1 degree Fahrenheit over the past century, rising significantly between 1919 and 1940, declining between 1940 and the early 1970s, rising again, and now back to cooling.
As Solomon notes, CO2 levels were five to 10 times higher when dinosaurs roamed the Earth on a fertile planet where lush vegetation sustained those immense beasts. The Earth is cooler now than then, and cooler than it was during the Medieval Warming Period. In that era, the climate was so warm that Vikings settled Greenland and grew crops there for centuries. When Eric the Red brought settlers to Greenland in 986, the climate supported the Viking way of life based upon cattle, hay, grain and herring for the next 300 years. Was it man-made pollution that allowed 300 years of Nordic settlement in Greenland? We don't think so.
As atmospheric CO2 levels consistently have been increasing, global mean temperatures have not kept pace. Warming has not been constant. In fact, it has been interrupted periodically by — global cooling, and seems to have stopped entirely in 1998. These are not the kind of temperature fluctuations you'd expect in the face of steadily increasing CO2 emissions, if CO2 was the main culprit.
Richard Lindzen, of the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT, notes that global mean temperatures have risen about 1 degree Fahrenheit over the past century, rising significantly between 1919 and 1940, declining between 1940 and the early 1970s, rising again, and now back to cooling.
As Solomon notes, CO2 levels were five to 10 times higher when dinosaurs roamed the Earth on a fertile planet where lush vegetation sustained those immense beasts. The Earth is cooler now than then, and cooler than it was during the Medieval Warming Period. In that era, the climate was so warm that Vikings settled Greenland and grew crops there for centuries. When Eric the Red brought settlers to Greenland in 986, the climate supported the Viking way of life based upon cattle, hay, grain and herring for the next 300 years. Was it man-made pollution that allowed 300 years of Nordic settlement in Greenland? We don't think so.
During medieval times the whole of the planet heated up. It then
cooled down naturally and there was even a 'mini ice age'.
CO2 is not causing global warming. Alarmists Motivated
by Politics and Research Funding:
"We cannot stop carbon emissions because most of them come
from volcanoes. It is a normal element cycled around in the earth. We have had
a planet that has been a green, warm wet planet 80 per cent of the time. We
have had huge climate change in the past and to think the very slight
variations we measure today are the result of our life - we really have to put
ice blocks in our drinks. The world has experienced three periods of cooling
since 1850 and furthermore carbon dioxide was increasing during many of those
cooler periods.
The scientists "frightening people witless by following the party line" are motivated by politics and research funding. They are taking advantage of the current situation. That is understandable. In previous times people got wonderful research grants in a war against cancer and they achieved a lot of money for that. Now we have a war on climate change and we have a huge number of people out there who have their career staked on it and are beneficiaries of this process.
The scientists "frightening people witless by following the party line" are motivated by politics and research funding. They are taking advantage of the current situation. That is understandable. In previous times people got wonderful research grants in a war against cancer and they achieved a lot of money for that. Now we have a war on climate change and we have a huge number of people out there who have their career staked on it and are beneficiaries of this process.
Solar activity linked to cooler temperatures:
The sun is at a low point of a deep solar minimum in which there
are little to no sunspots on its surface. Records for consecutive spotless days
are at highs not seen since the early 1900’s. A sunspot, is a location on the
sun's surface that is cooler than the surrounding area. A solar minimum is when
the amount of spots on the sun is at a low and the reverse is true for a solar
maximum. The complete solar cycle is about an 11-year process.
"There's a fair chance it will be a cooler winter than last year," (Ahem…Exactly what we’ve been seeing!!!)
Perry said there is a feeling from some in the scientific community the Earth may be entering into a grand minimum, which is an extended period with low numbers of sunspots that creates cooler temperatures. The year without a summer, which was 1816, was during a grand minimum in 1800 to 1830 when Europe became cooler. Another grand minimum was in 1903 to 1913.
There is anecdotal evidence the Earth's temperature may be slightly decreasing, but local weather patterns are much more affected by the jet stream than solar activity.
Perry is a proponent of the cosmic ray and clouds theory as opposed to the CO2 global warming theory to explain recent global warming trends. The cosmic ray and clouds theory is simply that solar activity can alter the amount of clouds in the atmosphere, which affects the temperature of the Earth. More clouds mean a cooler Earth because more of the sun's heat is being reflected. Fewer clouds equal a warmer Earth.
Data indicates global temperature fluctuations correlate to a statistically significant degree with the length of the sunspot cycle. Longer cycles are associated with cooler temperatures.
"There's a fair chance it will be a cooler winter than last year," (Ahem…Exactly what we’ve been seeing!!!)
Perry said there is a feeling from some in the scientific community the Earth may be entering into a grand minimum, which is an extended period with low numbers of sunspots that creates cooler temperatures. The year without a summer, which was 1816, was during a grand minimum in 1800 to 1830 when Europe became cooler. Another grand minimum was in 1903 to 1913.
There is anecdotal evidence the Earth's temperature may be slightly decreasing, but local weather patterns are much more affected by the jet stream than solar activity.
Perry is a proponent of the cosmic ray and clouds theory as opposed to the CO2 global warming theory to explain recent global warming trends. The cosmic ray and clouds theory is simply that solar activity can alter the amount of clouds in the atmosphere, which affects the temperature of the Earth. More clouds mean a cooler Earth because more of the sun's heat is being reflected. Fewer clouds equal a warmer Earth.
Data indicates global temperature fluctuations correlate to a statistically significant degree with the length of the sunspot cycle. Longer cycles are associated with cooler temperatures.
Global Warming Caused By Solar NOT Human Causes. Neptune and
Mars heating at same rate/time.
Report from http://Newsmax.com
Changes on Neptune Link Sun and Global Warming
Research links solar output with the planet Neptune’s brightness and temperatures on Earth. Measurements indicate that Neptune has been getting brighter since around 1980. And infrared measurements of the planet since 1980 show that Neptune has been warming steadily as well.
The researchers plotted on a graph the changes in visible light from Neptune over the past half-century, changes in temperatures on Earth during that period, and changes in total solar irradiance. The results: The correlation between solar irradiance and Neptune’s brightness was nearly perfect; so was the correlation between changes on Earth and solar output.
When the sun is more energetic and putting out more energy, the Earth tends to warm up, and when the sun cools down, so does the Earth. The same is true out at Neptune — when the sun’s energy increases, Neptune seems to warm up and get brighter. How is it possible that the Earth’s temperature is so highly correlated with brightness variations from Neptune? The news from Neptune comes to us just weeks after an article was published showing that Mars has warmed recently as well.
If nothing else, we have certainly learned recently that planets undergo changes in their mean temperature, and while we can easily blame human activity here on the Earth, blaming humans for the recent warming on Mars and Neptune would be an astronomical stretch, to say the least.
Changes on Neptune Link Sun and Global Warming
Research links solar output with the planet Neptune’s brightness and temperatures on Earth. Measurements indicate that Neptune has been getting brighter since around 1980. And infrared measurements of the planet since 1980 show that Neptune has been warming steadily as well.
The researchers plotted on a graph the changes in visible light from Neptune over the past half-century, changes in temperatures on Earth during that period, and changes in total solar irradiance. The results: The correlation between solar irradiance and Neptune’s brightness was nearly perfect; so was the correlation between changes on Earth and solar output.
When the sun is more energetic and putting out more energy, the Earth tends to warm up, and when the sun cools down, so does the Earth. The same is true out at Neptune — when the sun’s energy increases, Neptune seems to warm up and get brighter. How is it possible that the Earth’s temperature is so highly correlated with brightness variations from Neptune? The news from Neptune comes to us just weeks after an article was published showing that Mars has warmed recently as well.
If nothing else, we have certainly learned recently that planets undergo changes in their mean temperature, and while we can easily blame human activity here on the Earth, blaming humans for the recent warming on Mars and Neptune would be an astronomical stretch, to say the least.
MIT scientists baffled by
global warming theory, contradicts scientific data. Methane root cause.
Scientists at MIT have recorded a nearly simultaneous world-wide
increase in methane levels. This is the first increase in ten years, and what
baffles science is that this data contradicts theories stating man is the
primary source of increase for this greenhouse gas. It takes about one full
year for gases generated in the highly industrial northern hemisphere to cycle
through and reach the southern hemisphere. However, since all worldwide levels
rose simultaneously throughout the same year, it is now believed this may be
part of a natural cycle in mother nature - and not the direct result of man's
contributions.
Methane - powerful greenhouse gas
Methane accounts for roughly one-fifth of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, though its effect is 25x greater than that of carbon dioxide. Its impact on global warming comes from the reflection of the sun's light back to the Earth (like a greenhouse). Methane is typically broken down in the atmosphere by the free radical hydroxyl (OH), a naturally occuring process. This atmospheric cleanser has been shown to adjust itself up and down periodically, and is believed to account for the lack of increases in methane levels in Earth's atmosphere over the past ten years despite notable simultaneous increases by man.
Methane - powerful greenhouse gas
Methane accounts for roughly one-fifth of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, though its effect is 25x greater than that of carbon dioxide. Its impact on global warming comes from the reflection of the sun's light back to the Earth (like a greenhouse). Methane is typically broken down in the atmosphere by the free radical hydroxyl (OH), a naturally occuring process. This atmospheric cleanser has been shown to adjust itself up and down periodically, and is believed to account for the lack of increases in methane levels in Earth's atmosphere over the past ten years despite notable simultaneous increases by man.
We may simply be going through another natural cycle of warmer
and colder times - one that's been observed through a scientific analysis of
the Earth to be naturally occuring for hundreds of thousands of years.
Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap
is thicker and covers 1.7million square kilometres MORE than 2 years
ago...despite Al Gore's prediction it would be ICE-FREE by now:
The Arctic ice cap has expanded for the
second year in succession – with a surge, depending on how you measure it, of
between 43 and 63 per cent since 2012.
UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over
Man-Made Global Warming Claims:
Cow Flatulence to Blame for Global Warming:
The EPA has recognized the contribution cow farts are making
to Earth’s greenhouse gases, stating
earlier that globally, livestock are the “largest source of methane from
human-related activities”. A 1995 study
of methane emissions from cattle found that cows typically lose about 6 percent
of their ingested energy as methane, partly a result of their slow digestive
process. A single cow can produce between 250 and 500 liters, or about 66 to
132 gallons, of methane a day (the average U.S. vehicle gas tank can hold about
16 gallons of gas).
Greenpeace co-founder: No
scientific evidence of man-made global warming:
NASA’s Global Warming Stance Blasted by 49 Astronauts Who
Worked at NASA:
