"more BLASPHEMY !!!"
Posted on 05/18/2007 7:22:05 AM PDT by GMMAC
Sun of a gun
By Licia Corbella
Calgary Sun
Friday, May 18, 2007
A few weeks ago in a column I wrote about David Suzuki's rudeness and hypocrisy I admitted that similar to that green guru, I too love this planet and try to have as small a negative environmental impact as possible but unlike him, I don't believe that human-made CO2 is the main driver of global warming.
I received hundreds of e-mails -- most recounting often hilarious stories of run-ins people had with Suzuki, finding out for themselves that his TV persona is a lot friendlier than his off-camera one.
But it was an e-mail from a fella named Gerald in the Niagara region, that indicates just how good a job the man-made global warming believers have been at selling their message.
"If humans are not the cause of global warming ... who is?" Gerald wrote.
My response was: "Gee, Gerald. Can you really not think of anything? Nothing at all?"
Then I suggested he find the nearest child and ask them what makes the earth warm.
The next day I got a reply. "Do you mean the sun?" he queried, in all sincerity.
"Yes, Gerald. That big, burning yellow ball up in the sky is, not surprisingly, the main driver of global warming."
Yesterday, world renowned paleoclimatologist and geology professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Dr. Tim Patterson, was in Calgary to pass that basic message on. Though his message was rather technical. He brought reams of proof, scientific studies, graphs and the like to back up his claims.
Indeed, one of the more interesting, if not alarming statements Patterson made before the Friends of Science luncheon is satellite data shows that by about the year 2020 the next solar cycle is going to be solar cycle 25 -- the weakest one since the Little Ice Age (that started in the 13th century and ended around 1860) a time when people living in London, England, used to walk on a frozen Thames River and food was scarcer.
"This should be a great strategic concern in Canada because nobody is farming north of us." In other words, Canada -- the great bread basket of the world -- just might not be able to grow grains in much of the prairies.
After the Little Ice Age, "things warmed up precipitously with no help from carbon dioxide," pointed out Patterson, in a telephone interview.
Indeed, the world warmed up until about 1940 and then the temperatures started to fall until the late 1970s when scientists started predicting another ice age.
"Post World War II, as the world started cooling, CO2 was going up like crazy. All the evidence shows that warming periods were all solar driven and that there is no correlation between CO2 and temperature."
But solar flaring on its own, says Patterson, does not account for most of the warming -- which is an increase of 0.8C since the end of the Little Ice Age. It's only when its coupled with evidence about galactic cosmic rays, do all the historic warming (and cooling) pieces fit together.
Cosmic rays -- caused by the explosion of supernovas -- constantly bombard the Earth.
The more cosmic rays, the more cloud cover and the cooler the earth. However, when the sun is flaring -- as it is now -- it essentially blows away the cosmic rays and the earth warms.
That, however, is expected to come to an end in 2020.
As the saying goes, by then all of the billions of dollars wasted battling CO2 emissions, rather than pollutants, for instance, will be money pumped down the CO2 sink hole.
In 2020 hindsight on the great global warming scare will be 20/20. It won't be a pretty picture.
"more BLASPHEMY !!!"
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“In 2020 hindsight on the great global warming scare will be 20/20. It won’t be a pretty picture.
“As the saying goes, by then all of the billions of dollars wasted battling CO2 emissions, rather than pollutants, for instance, will be money pumped down the CO2 sink hole.”
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Yup. I truly believe these massive programs the libidiots are foisting on us now will prove to be the first half 21st century’s “war on poverty”... Untold trillions spent with undeniable lack of results.
20/20 hindsight is probably exactly right because that’s when most of the dolts now so hot to have their money spent will finally figure it out.
if we were to see the sun in time-lapse photography over the last million years or so I bet it bubbles and twinkles brighter all the time
“Yup. I truly believe these massive programs the libidiots are foisting on us now will prove to be the first half 21st century’s “war on poverty”... Untold trillions spent with undeniable lack of results.”
I disagree, when the planet starts cooling on it’s own accord that will be the “results” used to justify all of this nonesense.
I can hear it now...
“See if we hadn’t gotten a handle on Co2 we’d still be getting warmer”
That is the true beauty of the GW scam. It takes advantage of naturally occuring cycles that are far enough apart that most of humanity won’t remember when it comes around again.
I think maintaining that stance is going to be very difficult when temperatures are level or falling and meanwhile CO2 continues to rise... as is very likely to be the case given the projections (almost certainly accurate) of coal/oil use and projections (we’ll see) of solar irradiance.
Great link... for some reason I hadn’t bookmarked it, but I’ve been to that site... they’ve added a couple I had not yet seen. Thanks.
Short memories are a common failing of sheeple. The actual facts will simply get buried in statistics and technobabble.
What if they’re wrong? What is that going to do the credibility of the scientists who are supporting this nonsense? They won’t allow their reputations to become soiled so they will hide the facts until the sheeple move on to the next alarmist enviro-issue.
Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown
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