Interesting comment from poster on another site....
The Earth environment as we know it exists because of the energy it receives from the Sun. Radiant energy from the Sun powers the atmospheric and oceanic circulations that profoundly influence the state of the biosphere. Without solar radiation, photosynthesis would cease. Solar radiation and high energy particles impinge continually on the envelope of gases and plasma that surrounds and protects the narrow habitable layer of the Earth’s surface. Changes in the amount of solar energy input to the total Earth system are caused by three main mechanisms: i) geometric factors related to the Earth’s inclination and orbit around the Sun (which alter the distribution of radiation incident on the Earth), ii) processes in the Earth system itself (which regulate the amount of energy received by the Earth), and iii) variations in the activity of the Sun (which modulate the energy emitted by the Sun).
Based on this, there is nothing that can be done to a natural effect of the sun and the earth’s rotation that has been going on for eternity. I think the most serious potential problem facing humanity is the one looming due to the combined effect of the radical environmentalist movement and the global governance conspiracy.
An unholy trinity of radicals, media, and politicians has been successful in disseminating the deception of anthropogenic global warming on a worldwide scale. This myth declares that “manmade” carbon dioxide is the principle greenhouse gas and primary culprit in the current manifestation of global warming.
Water vapor, however, is the major component at 95 % of the greenhouse gases that, thank God, keep us from freezing to death when the sun goes down. Carbon dioxide comprises 3.6 % of the remaining 5 % of greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide resulting from human activity is only 3.2 % of that or 0.12 % of all greenhouse gases in total.
Considerable evidence now suggests that higher carbon dioxide levels are generated by global warming rather than being its cause. The oceans that cover 75% of the planet remind one of a crock of fermenting beer. Put a lighted match into the space above the beer and the carbon dioxide extinguishes the flame. The beer needs to be warm enough for the yeast enzymes to work. If too cold, they become dormant and the fermentation ceases. Therefore, the carbon dioxide comes after the warming, is dependent on it, and the oceans are the principle source of carbon dioxide.
I do believe that the world has been warming but that it is almost entirely natural and much politicized. The world is not as warm as it was during the Roman or Medieval Warming periods when grapes from Italy thrived in Britain and when the Norse established farms in Greenland.
The Roman and Medieval Warming periods were times when the living was easy. Food production increased, population increased, productivity increased, trade flourished, empire expanded, cities were founded, cathedrals were built and universities were established.
The cold periods that followed the Roman and Medieval Warming were, on the other hand, catastrophic. Snow fell during the summer in southern Europe. During the winter of 800 – 801 A.D., the Black Sea froze over. The year 829 A.D. saw the River Nile edged in ice. Throughout the cold Dark Ages, chaos, desperation, and continual warfare destroyed all but the remnant and recollection of Classical Civilization sequestered and nurtured in the monasteries of the Church. Growing seasons shortened, crops failed, people starved and disease decimated populations.
The current warm period began about 1850 and who can argue but that the human race has prospered and increased and multiplied as never before? Modern times are warm, comfortable and blessed with health and longevity to an unprecedented degree. We are on the verge of seeing this prosperity spreading even to the struggling populations of the less developed portions of the world. Optimism should be our byword.
Yet, on the left, the nattering nabobs of negativism are pessimistic. They see the prosperity and seek to sap it. They see the human population increase, multiply and strive for a share of the good life and seek to suppress it. This is exactly what the “carbon footprint” nonsense means. Call it “Cap and Trade” or whatever you wish but it will ultimately become a global tax on carbon, the physical basis of all living organisms, and the very stuff of life.
If we could eliminate all human by-production of carbon dioxide, we would reduce the population of the world to a miniscule remnant left to eke out a bare survival in the tropical regions of the planet. Their only carbon footprint would be a faint one made by the occasional roasting of a fish or other small creature over a campfire. Their only satisfaction would be the dubious notion that the world might be less warm by one twelfth of a degree Celsius. Untold millions would starve.
“Behold a black horse, and he who was sitting on it had a balance in his hand. And I heard as it were a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “A measure of wheat for a denarius, and three measures of barley for a denarius and do not harm the wine and the oil”. ~The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle.
Thank you, and the money quote in all that:
“The oceans that cover 75% of the planet remind one of a crock of fermenting beer. Put a lighted match into the space above the beer and the carbon dioxide extinguishes the flame. The beer needs to be warm enough for the yeast enzymes to work. If too cold, they become dormant and the fermentation ceases. Therefore, the carbon dioxide comes after the warming, is dependent on it, and the oceans are the principle source of carbon dioxide.”
Thanks for posting that caww.
Whoever the author was that is an excellent piece of work. Thanks for posting it.