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It must be difficult to be an eco-fanatic or if you follow the L Ron Gore cult, an eco-fascist. Difficult to be so myopic and wrong, yet so fascistically arrogant. Most real scientists believe that the earth is getting colder, not hotter. It is also apparent that there is no 'trend' in weather and climate and that most climate is local, not global. Contrary to L Ron Gore fantasies [yet another uninformed politician], there is no static 'mean' temperature for the entire globe. And yes L Ron, ice ages, warming trends, hurricanes, tornadoes, cold winters, hot summers, and gasp, even the occasional out of season rain has come and gone over the past 15.000 years. No wonder that most people are now tending to disbelieve the nonsense of Globaloney-anything, including the all-inclusive 'climate change' mantra and cult. No kidding the climate changes - that is called the four seasons. Maybe the eco-fascists can now present arguments as to why spring turns to summer, or January is so much colder than October - all due to 'man-kind's activities'.
12 Facts about Global Climate Change That You Won’t Read in the Popular Press
1 Temperatures have been cooling since 2002, even as carbon dioxide has continued to rise.
2 Carbon dioxide is a trace gas and by itself will produce little warming. Also, as CO2 increases, the incremental warming is less, as the effect is logarithmic so the more CO2, the less warming it produces.
3 CO2 has been totally uncorrelated with temperature over the last decade, and significantly negative since 2002.
4 CO2 is not a pollutant, but a naturally occurring gas. Together with chlorophyll and sunlight, it is an essential ingredient in photosynthesis and is, accordingly, plant food.
5 Reconstruction of paleoclimatological CO2 concentrations demonstrates that carbon dioxide concentration today is near its lowest level since the Cambrian Era some 550 million years ago, when there was almost 20 times as much CO2 in the atmosphere as there is today without causing a “runaway greenhouse effect.”
6 Temperature changes lead, not lag, CO2 changes on all time scales. The oceans may play a key role, emitting carbon dioxide when they warm as carbonated beverages lose fizz as they warm and absorbing it as they cool.
7 Most of the warming in the climate models comes from the assumption that water vapor and precipitation increase as temperatures warm, a strong positive feedback. Water vapor is a far more important greenhouse gas than CO2. However, that assumption has been shown in observations and peer reviewed research to be wrong, and in fact water vapor and precipitation act as a negative feedback that reduces any small greenhouse warming from carbon dioxide.
8 Indeed, greenhouse models show the warming should be greatest at mid to high atmosphere levels in the tropics. But balloon and satellite observations show cooling there. The greenhouse signature or DNA does not match reality, and the greenhouse models thus must greatly overstate the warming – and in a court of law would have to be acquitted of any role in global warming
9 The sun has both direct and indirect effects on our climate. Solar activity changes on cycles of 11 years and longer. When the sun is more active it is brighter and a little hotter. More important though are the indirect effects. Ultraviolet radiation increases much more than the brightness and causes increased ozone production, which generates heat in the high atmosphere that works its way down, affecting the weather. Also, an active sun diffuses cosmic rays, which play an important role in nucleation of low clouds, resulting in fewer clouds. In all these ways the sun warms the planet more when it is active. An active sun in the 1930s and again near the end of the last century helped produce the observed warming periods. The current solar cycle is the longest in over 100 years, an unmistakable sign of a cooling sun that historical patterns suggest will stay so for decades.
10 The multi-decadal cycles in the ocean correlate extremely well with the solar cycles and global temperatures. These are 60 to 70 year cycles that relate to natural variations in the large scale circulations. Warm oceans correlate with warm global temperatures. The Pacific started cooling in the late 1990s and it accelerated in the last year, and the Atlantic has cooled from its peak in 2004. This supports the observed global land temperature cooling, which is strongly correlated with ocean heat content. Newly deployed N.O.A.A. buoys confirm global ocean cooling.
11 Warmer ocean cycles are periods with diminished Arctic ice cover. When the oceans were warm in the 1930s to the 1950s, Arctic ice diminished and Greenland warmed. The recent ocean warming, especially in the 1980s to the early 2000s, is similar to what took place 70 years ago and the Arctic ice has reacted much the same way, with diminished summer ice extent.
12 Antarctic ice has been increasing and the extent last year was the greatest in the satellite monitoring era. We are running ahead of last year’s record pace.
http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=970
But don't let facts get in the way of hysteria and calls for yet more government to limit a natural gas' emissions, destroy car companies through ridiculous regulation and eco-rules; or tax and spend in the name of saving mother earth. Climate impacts weather and both are largely local and both change without regards to human activity. Climate patterns do not alter due to cult groups sacrificing virgins to mother earth, or praying in black robes in the moonlight before they engage in the mother earth orgy. There are one million or more variables in climate and the human mind, including its computer models, does not understand even a small percentage of them. Destroying your society so L Ron Gore or some other power mongering fanatic can control what we do, say, and how we think, work and act, is to put it mildly - stupid.
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