Posted on 06/14/2007 7:14:40 PM PDT by Reform Canada
VIEWPOINT: GLOBAL WARMING NATURAL, MAY END WITHIN 20 YEARS http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/nowarm.htm
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Global warming is a natural geological process that could begin to reverse itself within 10 to 20 years, predicts an Ohio State University researcher.
The researcher suggests that atmospheric carbon dioxide -- often thought of as a key "greenhouse gas" -- is not the cause of global warming. The opposite is most likely to be true, according to Robert Essenhigh, E.G. Bailey Professor of Energy Conservation in Ohio State's Department of Mechanical Engineering. It is the rising global temperatures that are naturally increasing the levels of carbon dioxide, not the other way around, he says.
Essenhigh explains his position in a "viewpoint" article in the current issue of the journal Chemical Innovation, published by the American Chemical Society.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "According to Essenhigh's estimations, Earth may reach a peak in the current temperature profile within the next 10 to 20 years, and then it could begin to cool into a new ice age." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Many people blame global warming on carbon dioxide sent into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels in man-made devices such as automobiles and power plants. Essenhigh believes these people fail to account for the much greater amount of carbon dioxide that enters -- and leaves -- the atmosphere as part of the natural cycle of water exchange from, and back into, the sea and vegetation.
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Paging Al Gore... Mr. Al Gore... An Inconvenient Study is on line 1!
No worries. The enviro commies already anticipated that and renamed it “climate change”
The researcher suggests that atmospheric carbon dioxide -- often thought of as a key "greenhouse gas" -- is not the cause of global warming. The opposite is most likely to be true, according to Robert Essenhigh, E.G. Bailey Professor of Energy Conservation in Ohio State's Department of Mechanical Engineering. It is the rising global temperatures that are naturally increasing the levels of carbon dioxide, not the other way around, he says.Where's ndt - he can explain this stuff better than anyone else I knowtm.
He/she has a novel approach to explaining this to a layman ...
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“Enviro commies” That’s an good, accurate term.
GW fits their mindset. They hate capitalism & this is a good way to hobble it.
This why the Greens are so hysterical about getting all these new laws passed so they can take credit for the natural cooling to come starting in 10 years. They cant wait to tell us how they saved the earth from burning up.
I’ve seen estimates this will happen in five years. Why not demand “sunset” on any legislation that deals with Global Planning (its real name) ?
What say you? Thought you might be interested in this (and if it sounds familiar, it has come up before on this forum).
By the time the global warming reverses itself, the liberals will claim that it’s the results of their deed!
There goes his tenure.
I’m afraid you’re right. They’ll never admit that they were wrong — even to themselves. Instead, they’ll claim they saved the planet — and we’ll be stuck with draconian regulations, bans on anything fun, and all sorts of new taxes.
As usual, the lefties are getting away with framing the terms of the debate and making up definitions of words as they go along.
So many on our side are fools for allowing them to do this. This is no different than letting them get away with calling "illegal aliens" "undocumented immigrants".
The left defines the parameters and terms of the debate = Truth loses
So many have even bought into to the idea that its true at all. Including Newt, Rudy, McCain, etc.
My data clearly reveals a roughly twenty-year cycle in the rise and fall of baseball offense -- driven chiefly by the home run rate (by definition, balls hit in the air).
The cycle is evident not only in the major leagues, but in the minor leagues -- so it is a national pattern, not a local one.
The cycle closely corresponds to the 22-yr sunspot cycle. The peak in these offensive cycles generally corresponds to widespread drought in the Midwest (i.e., the 30's, 50's, currently).
Over time, the data is also affected by different park configurations, improvement in equipment and, perhaps (but only perhaps), PEDs (performance enhancing drugs).
However, these are clearly secondary effects -- the waves and swells of the baseball ocean, so to speak. The twenty (or so) year cycle I'm referring to is analogous to the ocean tides -- a much longer period and a greater amplitude.
The travel of a batted ball -- and, even more important, the movement of a pitched ball) -- is primarily subject to air density. Air density, in turn, is a function of a.) temperature b. altitude, and c.) storm fronts. And, yes, if you ever see a game interrupted by a thunderstorm, you will note that there is usually more offensive activity before the front passes through than after.
There are, no doubt, much longer climate cycles. But there is demonstrably a twenty-year (or so) cycle that is seemingly driven by the sun and sunspot activity -- producing generally higher temperatures worldwide.
Which is to say, I've got more convincing evidence that "man-made global warming" is a sham than its proponents have that it is real.
Well at least the professor is open to scientific debate.
Al Gore told me the "discussion is over"
This is a viewpoint? As a Geologist and one whom earns his living studying climate change, I can assure you, it is a fact...Global temperatures have changed by plus or minus 10 degrees in the last 75 million years....(several times)
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