| | As for combating global warming one might ask, “What global warming?” According to satellite measurements, temperatures in 2008 were colder than in 1980 and 1981. So in spite of 100’s of millions more cars on the road and thousands of more coal power plants being used than in 1980 the temperature is colder. If co2 causes warming how can it be colder now than 28 years ago?
Here’s a chart for satellite temperature measurements from 1979 to 2008.
University of Alabama professor John Christy who has studied world temperatures via satellite for 30 years stated in Dec 2008: "variations in global temperatures since 1978 ... cannot be attributed to carbon dioxide." Dr. Christy was one of the UN Scientist’s that won the Nobel Prize along with the opportunist Al Gore.
Last winter China recorded its coldest winter in at least 50 years. Here in Chicago, this winter is five degrees below normal, the coldest since 1981 and the 10th coldest ever recorded. Ironically on Oct 28th Great Britain’s Parliament passed a law mandating reduced co2 to combat global warming during the first snowstorm to hit London since 1934. And in the Southern hemisphere Buenos Aires had its first snow since 1919.
Finally, in December the US Senate Environment and Commerce Committee issued a 233 page Minority Report (see here) by 650 international scientists disputing the co2 warming hypothesis. Compare those numbers with the 52 scientists who contributed to the UN’s IPCC Summary Report that claimed 90% of global warming was caused by human activity. If consensus is important then it appears to be on the side of the non-believers.
So if the Obama administration really believes in “transparency” and the end of “politicized science” why did the President meet with Al Gore instead of Professor Christy and some of the 650 scientists that signed onto the Senate report?
The obvious answer is: Global Warming is political ideology not scientific argument.
The argument that placing plant food (co2) into the atmosphere causes dangerous global warming is scientifically unsupportable and hostile to the future of billions of the worlds poor who desperately need the cheap energy provided by fossil fuels. China, India and other poor countries understand this.
The world will be a better place when “progressives” understand it too.
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