The Little Ice Age:
How Climate Made History 1300-1850
by Brian M. Fagan
Paperback
Posted on 01/08/2009 11:57:18 AM PST by pjd
For reference ... .-)
“Fact: Since the beginning of the industrial age,
1. human activity has produced large amounts of CO2
2. atmospheric levels of CO2 have been increasing.
3. global temperatures (on average) have been rising.”
Thus, the following must be true also.
1. Human activity produces babies.
2. Since the beginning of the industrial age, the number of children born to unwed mothers has been increasing.
3 Global temperatures have been increasing during that same time.
Therefore, unwed mothers cause global warming.
I meant to reply to Le Grande. Sorry.
Nice article. We have to just keep punching on this issue daily.
That gas prices dropped so much is really good news. I told a dear friend of mine today who is a pretty connected democrat that his party has two choices:
(1) Pass something purely symbolic on global warming to satisfy the nut jobs; or
(2) Put gas prices to $4.00 and triple folks heating bills with the bill the nut roots want.
In the case of option 2, I told him his party should be prepared for a Republican President and Congress in the first election after gas prices hit $4.00 a gallon during another record, cold winter. They will not be able to blame Bush for the high gas prices. And they can’t control what the weather will do.
I told him I thought his party would choose option one because they want to keep power more than they want to save the Earth.
There was a long silence.
“Volcanoes Cool The Tropics, But Global Warming May Have Helped Override Some Recent Eruptions”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090105175356.htm
Wonder if this might have an effect on the discrepancy noted by the author between modeled upper atmosphere temps in the tropics and actual observed temps?
No it doesn't. In fact, it suggests just the opposite.
Greenhouse gas theory predicts that the tropical troposphere temperatures should increase at a rate 2 or 3 times faster than the tropical surface temperatures. If volcanoes are truly cooling the tropics, that would make it easier for the troposphere temps to stay ahead of surface temps.
Hence, the alleged fact that volcanoes are cooling the tropics, yet the troposphere temperature rates still remain behind the surface rates suggests that the greenhouse gas theory is even more wrong than previously thought.
“Is global warming caused by human activity?”
Is the pope protestant?
One of the sessions included a presentation by a climate change "expert" who suggested that one of the impacts of "climate change" that would need to be addressed by government agencies, civil engineers, etc. is the increased frequency and intensity of storms. He made the unfortunate* mistake of using the legendary 1992 nor'easter in the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions as an example of the kind of storms in major population centers that would occur more frequently -- and with more intensity -- in the future.
He pointed out that the 1992 storm was a 50-year event -- i.e., that storms of that intensity and with that kind of destructive capacity typically occur every 50 years in the Northeastern U.S. He then said that a storm of this magnitude would likely occur more frequently as greenhouse gases build up in the atmosphere and climate change continues.
* I use the term "unfortunate" here because he happened to select -- through sheer coincidence -- a storm that I was very familiar with. During the question/answer session I pointed out to him that the 1992 storm was an event of historic proportions in coastal areas for a number of reasons:
1. The conditions associated with what would otherwise have been a "normal" major storm in the Northeast were worsened by the fact that the peak storm surge occurred during high tide.
2. The storm occurred during a period of the month when tides were unusually high -- because the moon was in its full phase just as the storm hit.
3. The high tides in the second week of December 1992 were extraordinarily high even for "full moon" high tides -- because there was a total lunar eclipse during the full moon phase in December 1992 (i.e., the gravitational forces on the earth that cause tides were at their peak because the sun and moon were exactly opposite each other relative to the earth).
I gently suggested to this "expert" that he might want to extend his research into other areas that he hadn't previously considered -- unless he wanted to be on the record as suggesting that "climate change" is also going to cause high tides to occur at more frequent intervals, the changes in lunar cycles to accelerate, and total eclipses of the moon to occur more frequently.
The Little Ice Age:
How Climate Made History 1300-1850
by Brian M. Fagan
Paperback
This film is a very important and significant work. One of the most important issues facing mankind is the question about man made global warming from CO2 emissions. Many governments are about to enact carbon cap and trade limits on CO2 which will act as another layer of taxation on our economies. While energy independence, the development of alternative and renewable energy, and finding cleaner energies are all vital to mankind, if CO2 is not the cause of climate change, controlling CO2 will do nothing to impact the climate and will only damage our fragile economies (as well as give total economic control to the government in the name of saving the earth).The authors of the film have put together a compelling documentary about the real driver of the climate, the sun. Anyone who has interest in the subject of climate change and CO2 must see this film. It is probably the best single source of information on it, and certainly the most informative hour and fifteen minutes on the very complex issue.
available for purchase on Amazon.com: here
No.
I have been employed by management for whom "No" is too complicated to understand.
I think the AGW "hook, line, and sinker" believers are that type of person.
His work ought to be looked at in every General Science classroom, but apparently it is too complicated for graduates of Teachers' Colleges to comprehend. Axial Tilt ... Precessionary Wobble ... elliptical orbits .... too heavy, dude.
How I prayed that our presently recumbent President GW would have prepared a little talk on the Milankovitch Cycle, complete with visual aids. This alone would have been enough to knock Global Warming and the religiously fanatic Warmons into a cocked hat.
Instead, the world makes public policy based upon tragically faulty "science." The Left has pulled a masterful coup, encouraging the gullible public to confuse pollution and and "Global Warming." Pollution is bad. However it does at least exist. Global Warming doesn't.
Republicans have failed to use common sense, never mind science, to show Americans that Global Warming is bullshiite.
bttt
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