Co-Founder of Greenpeace explains why he is a climate skeptic

americanthinker.com ^ | 3/21/2015 | Rick Moran

[USS Alaska]

.04% of 5280 feet is 2 feet 11inches not 211 feet, I think your calculator slipped a little.

Opps, my calulator slipped a little, that's not 2 feet 11 inches it's 2 feet 1 2/3 inch... damn convertor got stuck in my toe.

[Skepolitic]

You guys need to stop you blind climate change denialism, and listen to reason. The settled science of climate change is really simple. You, too, can understand and believe if you will simply read the following three paragraphs, which I think is the most elegant, succinct, profound explanation of theory:

So we know [manmade climate change] is happening, and we know it with virtually the same certainty that we understand that if we reach out and touch that hot stove, we’re going to get burned. In fact, this is not really a complicated equation. I know sometimes I can remember from when I was in high school and college, some aspects of science or physics can be tough – chemistry. But this is not tough. This is simple. Kids at the earliest age can understand this.

Try and picture a very thin layer of gases – a quarter-inch, half an inch, somewhere in that vicinity – that’s how thick it is. It’s in our atmosphere. It’s way up there at the edge of the atmosphere. And for millions of years – literally millions of years – we know that layer has acted like a thermal blanket for the planet – trapping the sun’s heat and warming the surface of the Earth to the ideal, life-sustaining temperature. Average temperature of the Earth has been about 57 degrees Fahrenheit, which keeps life going. Life itself on Earth exists because of the so-called greenhouse effect. But in modern times, as human beings have emitted gases into the air that come from all the things we do, that blanket has grown thicker and it traps more and more heat beneath it, raising the temperature of the planet. It’s called the greenhouse effect because it works exactly like a greenhouse in which you grow a lot of the fruit that you eat here.

This is what’s causing climate change. It’s a huge irony that the very same layer of gases that has made life possible on Earth from the beginning now makes possible the greatest threat that the planet has ever seen.

-- John Kerry

US Secretary of State at Jakarta UNFCCC Conference, Jakarta, Indonesia, February 16, 2014

http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2014/02/221704.htm

[Skepolitic]

I don’t know about the optimum temperature, but I know with metaphysical certainty that the precise optimum CO concentration is less than 1 ppm.

Chronic exposure to CO kills just about everything at levels much higher than that.

CO = carbon monoxide

[Repeal The 17th]

“Settled Science” from 45 years ago:
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The battle to feed humanity is over.
In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines.
Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death
in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.
Population control is the only answer.
- Paul Ehrlich - The Population Bomb (1968)

I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.
- Paul Ehrlich in (1969)

In ten years all the important animal life in the sea will be extinct.
Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.
- Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970)

If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder
for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000.
This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age.
- Kenneth E. F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling, Earth Day (1970)

The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord
with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization,
mechanization, urbanization, and exploding population.
- Reid Bryson, “Global Ecology; Readings towards a rational strategy for Man” (1971)

There are ominous signs that the earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically
and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production
with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth.
The drop in food production could begin quite soon.
The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate
so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it.
- Newsweek, April 28, (1975)

This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people.
If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine,
world chaos, and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000.
- Lowell Ponte “The Cooling” (1976)

Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity,
in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion.
- Paul Ehrlich in (1976)

This cooling trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century.
- Peter Gwynne, Newsweek (1976)

[AFreeBird]

Are you missing your sarcasm tag?

[Kenny Bunk]

An environmentalist is a person who already has a nice house in the woods and is none too keen on you having one.

[rktman]

Uh, weren’t those called “dachas”?

[MeshugeMikey]

ahaha THERE we have it!

I remember being schooled on the environmental protectionist “racket back in the 1970’s by a guy who lived in Presidio Hieights In San Francisco..not a ratty neighborhood by any means. if the Housing Supply is Static the Prices... go UP....

That was all I needed to now about their plans at the time...

[Skepolitic]

Just wanted to highlight how moronic SoS Kerry is.

I know he got D’s in his only college science classes.

Evidently, he should have flunked eighth grade earth science as well.