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"Captain Compassion" |
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25 Jun 2007 09:12:38 PM |
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Global warming skeptics score a few points |
Sun, June 24, 2007
Global warming skeptics score a few points
By TED BYFIELD
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Byfield_Ted/2007/06/24/4285924-sun.html
In the rising hysteria over the global warming issue, a kind of race
against time appears to be developing. The question is: What will
happen first?
Will the "global warmists" be able to stop the oilsands projects,
wrecking the economy of Alberta and much of Canada in the process?
Or will the growing chorus of skeptics about global warming be able to
command enough attention to put the brakes on the warmists before they
do the wrecking job?
In the last week, the skeptics scored two goals.
The first was scored by a Canadian. Timothy Patterson, director of the
Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre at Carleton University in Ottawa,
published an article conclusively demonstrating climate change is a
permanent condition, that the Earth's climate has never been stable.
Many times in the past the Earth's climate has been far higher than it
is today and, occasionally, temperatures were colder. As recently as
6,000 years ago, it averaged two degrees warmer than it does now.
Ten thousand years ago, mean temperatures rose as much as four degrees
in a decade. That's 100 times faster than the warming over the past
century, which has so alarmed scientists who triggered the current
hysteria.
What the sun does, rather than what man does with his carbon dioxide
emissions, is what chiefly causes climate change, said Patterson.
He thereby ratified the theory of Russian scientists that global
cooling and another ice age is a far greater threat than global
warming.
Since carbon dioxide inhibits the escape of heat from the Earth, maybe
the most environmentally friendly thing you could do would be to start
each day by driving your SUV around the block four or five times to
bolster carbon dioxide emissions and thus retard the Earth's heat
loss.
The second goal was far more devastating. It came with a book just
published by Henrik Svensmark, director of the Centre for Sun Climate
Research at the National Space Centre in Copenhagen. He calls it The
Chilling Stars: A New Theory on Climate Change.
Like Patterson and the Russians, Svensmark contends the sun is a major
factor in climate change, but he has been working for eight years to
back this up with experimental proof.
He has established a laboratory in which the sun's rays and Earth's
atmosphere have been set up in model, and the cosmic effects on the
Earth thereby observed.
The results, detailed in the current issue of Discovery, the highly
respected magazine of science, are startling. They show solar activity
affects cloud formations on Earth, which in turn determine the Earth's
climate. Paradoxically, it seems meteorological conditions do not
determine the cloud formations; rather, cloud formations determine
meteorological conditions.
Since this gravely challenges the significance to the climate of
man-made carbon dioxide, Svensmark found himself being assailed and
deplored by his fellow-scientists, who accused him of being financed
by "oil money."
Almost all his funding, Sevnsmark retorted, comes from Denmark's
Carlsberg Foundation, which is funded by Carlsberg brewery, which
sells beer, not oil.
If anything, Carlsberg would surely have a vested interest in global
warming. It's on the hot days that we drink the most beer.
The chairman of the UN's Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change,
irate because Svensmark was upsetting the established scientific
orthodoxy, condemned his book as "extremely naive and irresponsible."
But the IPCC was itself under attack by then, for not being
sufficiently hysterical in depicting the hideous consequences of
global warming.
It seems Greenpeace released a study by a German academic who said
there will be 200 million climate refugees by 2040.
The IPCC had merely said: "Unless drastic action is taken, millions of
poor people will suffer from hunger, thirst, floods and disease."
"And when everybody drowns," scoffed the skeptical Washington Times
humorist Wesley Pruden, "it is of course women, minorities and the
poor who suffer most."
One thing puzzles me.
If the skeptics should happen to win this race, what will Steve Harper
do?
Having already turned one somersault converting his government from
near-total skepticism on global warming to passionate belief in it,
how will he perform the reverse somersault?
Will he bring Rona Ambrose back to the environment ministry and fire
John Baird?
--
There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
Celibacy in healthy human beings is a form of
insanity. -- Captain Compassion
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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| User: "Baldin Lee Pramer" |
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| Title: Re: Global warming skeptics score a few points |
26 Jun 2007 10:47:50 AM |
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On Jun 25, 8:12 pm, Captain Compassion <dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net>
wrote:
Sun, June 24, 2007
Global warming skeptics score a few points
By TED BYFIELDhttp://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Byfield_Ted/2007/06/24/4285924...
In the rising hysteria over the global warming issue, a kind of race
against time appears to be developing. The question is: What will
happen first?
Will the "global warmists" be able to stop the oilsands projects,
wrecking the economy of Alberta and much of Canada in the process?
Or will the growing chorus of skeptics about global warming be able to
command enough attention to put the brakes on the warmists before they
do the wrecking job?
In the last week, the skeptics scored two goals.
The first was scored by a Canadian. Timothy Patterson, director of the
Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre at Carleton University in Ottawa,
published an article conclusively demonstrating climate change is a
permanent condition, that the Earth's climate has never been stable.
This is nothing new at all. Climate has always varied, and
climatologists have known this since the science began.
Blinky
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| User: "the_blogologist" |
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| Title: Re: Global warming skeptics score a few points |
26 Jun 2007 10:08:38 AM |
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We had global cooling in the 70s and scientists were predicting a new
ice age.
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