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UPDATE 12 OCTOBER 2009: The BBC admits, no warming in 11 years!
This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.
But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.
And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.
So what on Earth is going on?
Climate change sceptics, who passionately and consistently argue that man’s influence on our climate is overstated, say they saw it coming.
And so does the Telegraph UK:
Consider the simple fact, drawn from the official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase (there was actually a slight decrease, though not at a rate that differs significantly from zero).
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UPDATE 25 JULY 2009: A peer reviewed study by three climate researchers in the Journal of Geophysical Research concludes that none of the late 20th century global warming and cooling can be attributed to human activity!
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UPDATE 9 JULY 2009: Temperatures have dropped 0.74 degrees Fahrenheit (0.41 degrees Celcius) since Al Gore released An Inconvenient Truth!
(Source: Via Minnesotans for Global Warming which has links)
And this is while CO2 levels have steadily increased! (Source: BBC)
So let me make this absolutely clear to everyone reading this:
1) Global warming theory predicts that more CO2 means hotter temperatures.
2) The data shows that CO2 levels are up, but temperature is down.
3) We must therefore conclude that global warming theory is WRONG.
Can you argue with this logic? See also the first entry under CARBON DIOXIDE where once again the fundamental claim of global warming theory (more CO2 leads to higher temperatures) is proven wrong!
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WHAT IS ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING?
Anthropogenic global warming theory is the idea that human activities that release carbon dioxide are causing the Earth’s temperature to rise drastically.
Anthropogenic global warming theory has the following assumptions:
1) Carbon dioxide is the main cause of rising global temperatures
2) The main source of this carbon dioxide is from human activities
3) The temperature rise will be quick and large
4) The temperature rise will cause massive devastation and disaster
5) We must act now to stop the release of carbon dioxide
But that is only one side of the story. Have you ever heard, seen or read the other side?
The following collection of facts all come with citations and links. They are but the tip of the not-melting iceberg of data that refutes global warming junk-science.
Read on and ask yourself:
What do the following FACTS mean for purported human-caused global warming?
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WORLDWIDE WEATHER
- Meanwhile, on planet Earth, the oceans have been cooling since 2003. (Source: NASA)
- Sea ice is growing at the fastest rate ever recorded. (Source: Arctic Research Center)
- Arctic ice is back to 1979 levels, meaning no net melting has occurred in 30 years. The graph below is resized smaller, but see the jagged lines? That’s the levels of ice – fluctuating a bit, but always around the same amount over 30 years. (Source and full size graph: Daily Tech)
UPDATE: Arctic ice in 2009 is above 2005 levels! What is that slacker global warming doing? (Source: IARC-JAXA Information System (IJIS))
- Perhaps the recent fears that the Arctic was melting is due to the fact that scientists undermeasured the amount of ice by 500,000 square kilometers (the size of California!) because of a satellite sensor glitch. So much for careful and accurate science! What else have they miscalculated thus far? (Hint: See the SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS section later on) (Source: Bloomberg)
- Antarctic ice is at highest levels ever recorded and still expanding. The purple shaded area shows the record ice cap growth this year in Antarctica. (Source: The Australian, Heartland Institute)
- The ice melting during summer in 2008-2009 was also the lowest ever recorded. (Source: Geophysical Research Letters)
- Here’s some visuals of just how much more ice and snow there is in Antarctica over 20 years. The structures below were on ground level in the mid-1960s; by the time the photos were taken in the late 1980s, they are already almost completely buried by the additional snow! And Antarctic ice is at record high levels today, 30 years onwards. (See the very purple picture on this page.) (Source: The Next Ice Age – Now!)
The electrical transmission towers above are 115 feet tall. Of that, 85 feet of height has been buried.
The above construction crane was used to build those tall towers!
- The year 2008 saw colder temperatures across the United States. (Source: National Climatic Data Center)
- It snowed in Saudi Arabia during their coldest winter in 30 years. Yes, you read that right – it snowed in the DESERT KINGDOM! (Source: Arabian Business.com, photo from Watts Up With That? collection)
- It snowed in Iraq for the first time in 100 years. (Source: Agence France-Presse)
- In 2009, it snowed in the United Arab Emirates for the second time in history. When was the first time? In 2004! (Source: Associated Free Press and Terra Daily)
- China had its coldest winter in 100 years. (Source: Reuters)
- Pakistan had its coldest temperatures in 70 years. (Source: The Indian Express)
- Australia had its coldest summer in 50 years. (Source: Bloomberg)
- Mumbai, India had its coldest winter in 40 years. (Source: India News)
- Takijistan, formerly part of the Soviet Union, had its coldest winter in more than 25 years. (Source: npr)
- Record cold in Vietnam. (Source: Earth Times)
- Rare snowfall occurred in Jerusalem, Israel. (Source: BBC)
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CARBON DIOXIDE
It is claimed that the more carbon dioxide is put into the atmosphere, the hotter the planet gets. But is this what the data shows?
- Historical data shows that temperature always rises first, followed 800 years LATER by carbon dioxide levels. This is the REVERSE of what global warming theory claims. (Source: Six respected climate and environment scientists and this environmental hero)
Above: Analysis of ice core data from Antarctica by Indermühle et al. (GRL, vol. 27, p. 735, 2000), who find that CO2 lags behind the temperature by 1200±700 years. (Source here)
- Carbon dioxide, for all the hype and panic, forms only 0.0383% of the entire atmosphere. That is to say, in every 2611 buckets of air you collect, you will only collect 1 bucket of carbon dioxide. (Source: Wikipedia on carbon dioxide concentration)
- Meanwhile, how much carbon dioxide is released in a year? The amount of CO2 being released by humans is only 3.4% of all CO2 emissions!
According to the National Center for Policy Analysis, only 1~2% of the atmosphere is made up of greenhouse gases. Of that amount of greenhouse gases, only 3.62 percent of it is carbon dioxide. Of that amount of carbon dioxide, only 3.4% is emitted by human activity.
So humans contribute only 0.28% of the greenhouse effect. What does this tiny little number actually mean? To put it another way, in every 40,624 buckets of atmosphere, human activities will only add 1 single bucket of carbon dioxide every year.
And we are supposed to ’save the planet from global warming’ by halting this 3.4% of 3.62% of 2% of the atmosphere of human carbon dioxide emissions? Even if all human activities were immediately stopped tomorrow, 96.6% of the carbon dioxide would be totally unaffected! (Source: National Center for Policy Analysis, pages 5-8)
- How does this tiny amount of carbon dioxide claimed to cause global warming? Supporters of global warming scaremongering say that carbon dioxide absorbs a particular wavelength of radiation from the surface of the Earth, which would otherwise escape off into space. Thus, carbon dioxide traps this radiation and heats up the planet.
However, the wavelength of radiation carbon dioxide has been shown to absorb is actually so narrow, it is already mostly absorbed by other gases such as water vapor! (Source: Page 13 of this PDF or first graph here)
What is more, once carbon dioxide and other gases absorb this radiation, then adding more carbon dioxide does not have any effect – the radiation is already being absorbed in full. (To visualize this, imagine a flashlight beam being blocked by pieces of black paper. Once there is are enough pieces of black paper to block the beam totally, adding more pieces does nothing. All the light is already being absorbed.)
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SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS
The IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) claims that a ‘consensus’ of scientists agree that global warming is a real and urgent danger. They are basically saying that ‘all’ serious scientists believe in global warming.
But what does the science actually show?
- 500 peer-reviewed papers skeptical of anthropogenic global warming. (Source and links to each paper: Popular Technology.net)
- A paper by German physicists Dr. Gerhard Gerlich and Dr. Ralf Tscheuschner with 115 pages, 144 equations, 13 data tables, 32 figures or graphs, and 205 references proves that global warming theory violates both the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics, and even if CO2 concentrations double (a prospect even global warming advocates admit is decades away), the thermal conductivity of air would not change more than 0.03%. (Source: International Journal of Modern Physics, March 2009)
- 100 + 400 + 650 + 31000 prominent scientists DENY global warming claims. (Sources: Science and Public Policy Institute, Senate Minority Report, Telegraph Newspaper UK)
- To date, 31,478 American scientists including 9,029 with PhDs have signed the Global Warming Petition Project that opposes belief in anthropogenic global warming. The PhDs alone are 15 times more numerous than the entire roster of scientists working on the UN’s IPCC:
- The American Physical Society offers mathematical proof that the IPCC’s calculations on global warming are WRONG. (Source: Christopher Monckton, former advisor to Margaret Thatcher)
- They also have 230 signatories for a petition to revise their Society’s stand on global warming, of which 77 are fellows of major scientific societies, 14 members of the National Academies, one is a Nobel laureate, and a large number of authors of major scientific books and recipients of prizes and awards for scientific research. (Source: CBS News)
- How is temperature measured, anyway? NASA uses ground-based measuring instruments. However, many of them are placed in REALLY STUPID LOCATIONS where they are exposed to a lot of temporary heat. Examples: Hot car parking lot, air-conditioner hot air vent, barbeque grill! Don’t you think this affects the temperature measurements? (Source and more photos: here, here and here)
- Climactic Research Unit scientists have been exposed as intentionally skewing data to show global warming instead of the actual reality of cooling! (Source: Watts Up With That)
I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps
to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from
1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline. Mike’s series got the annual
land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land
N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999
for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90.Reply: I’m not too comfortable with this, and would rather not sign — at least not without some real time to think it through and debate the issue. It is unprecedented and political, and that worries me.
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AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH AND PUBLIC OPINION
Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth has been a major influence in getting people to believe that global warming is destroying our world.
- But did you know that this film has been found to have at least 35 major scientific errors? (Source: Science and Public Policy Institute)
- This caused the British High Court to officially rule that the film was unscientific, and may only be shown to schoolchildren if the film’s one-sided political slant is clearly stated to them. (Source: Investors Business Daily)
- An Inconvenient Truth portrays the Antarctic as warming up, with the Larsen Ice Shelf melting away. However, it does not deem to mention that this part is only 2% of the Antarctic, while the rest is COOLING. (Source: Wall Street Journal)
- What about the ‘poor, drowning polar bears that are going extinct’ that Al Gore and others love to bring up in order to pull at our heart-strings? The truth is, there are 5 times more polar bears today than 70 years ago (25,000 today versus 5,000 in 1940). And the polar bears featured in the photo below? Not in any fear, suffering or danger of drowning! Basically, Al Gore either lied or was ignorant. (Source and citations: This article, and polar bear numbers from Polar Bears International)
- In fact, more and more people began thinking that global warming is OVER-EXAGGERATED since around the time An Inconvenient Truth was released! (Source: Gallup poll)
- With an entire two thirds of those polled not believing it is caused by humans! (Source: Rasmussen Reports)
- While global warming is currently the UTTER LOWEST AND LEAST IMPORTANT concern on people’s minds! (Source: Pew Research Center)
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AL GORE
Maybe global warming panic is losing momentum because Al Gore – the foremost outspoken champion of stopping global warming – has proven to be a huge hypocrite when it comes to not releasing carbon dioxide.
- His home uses 20 times the energy as a standard American home, even while he tells us to conserve energy for the sake of the planet. (Source: Tenessee Center for Policy Research)
- Sorry! That information is outdated. His home now uses 22 times the energy as a standard American home! (Source: Tenessee Center for Policy Research)
But don’t worry! Al Gore tells us to slow the advance of global warming by reducing our carbon output, but if we cannot do so personally, we can still buy carbon offsets – pay money to plant trees, support solar power, etc. So he too buys carbon offsets to make up for his polluting lifestyle.
- Guess who owns a carbon offsets company? Al Gore himself. He is the founding partner and chairman of Generation Investment Management LLP. (Wikipedia entry here)
- And where does he buy his carbon offsets from? From his own company. (Source: WorldNet Daily)
- Thanks to this marvellous scam, Al Gore has earned $35 million in profits at our expense. (Source: Bloomberg)
- Finally, how much do you trust this man on science issues? He got a D grade in Natural Sciences at Harvard, and thinks the Earth’s interior temperature is at several million degrees (FYI, Earth’s core is only 5400 degrees Celsius while our Sun’s temperature at its hottest is 13.6 million degrees Celsius). Maybe the latter is why he claims grossly exaggerated temperature increases from carbon dioxide!
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UPDATE 26 JUNE 2009: The controversial American Clean Energy and Security Act passed by a squeaker margin of 219-212. With it comes the first step towards sweeping and extensive limits on how much carbon dioxide is released by American industry.
So what is in this bill? Why, surely the 219 members of Congress who voted ‘YEA’ must have read through every detail of it… All 1,300 pages of it? (Source: Hot Air.com)
Um… Well then, maybe one of its two authors, Henry Waxman can tell us what’s in it (after all, it is also known as the Waxman-Markey Bill).
How’s about it, Waxman?
Henry Waxman: “You’re asking me???”
Ridiculous!
Okay, so the person who actually authored the bill doesn’t know what’s in it. How about Obama’s Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, Carol Browner, the ‘oordinator for environmental, energy, climate, transport and related matters for the federal government’?
STEVE DOOCY: “[I] know the bill is over 1,000 pages long. Have you have read it?”
CAROL BROWNER: “Oh, I’m very familiar with this bill.”
DOOCY: “Have you have read it?”
BROWNER: “We have obviously been watching this for a very long time. I am very…”
DOOCY: “I’m sure you’ve got an idea of it, but you have read it?”
BROWNER: “I’ve read major portions of it, absolutely.”
DOOCY: “So the answer no you haven’t read it. But you’ve read a big chunk of it.”
BROWNER: “No, no, no that’s not fair. That’s absolutely not fair.”
DOOCY: “No, I’m just asking you if you read the thousand pages.”
BROWNER: “I’ve read vast portions of it.”
DOOCY: “Ok.”
(Source: Hot Air.com)
But here’s what I can predict for this ‘carbon cap and trade’ bill… It will accomplish the same thing that the 1997 Kyoto Protocol’s carbon cap and trade did for Europe in the years since it was implemented there.
23 billion Euros in penalties due to be paid by just three countries for not meeting greenhouse gas emissions limits: Italy (8.8 billion), Japan (8.8 billion) and Spain (5.3 billion). (Source: Bloomberg)
6.2 billion Euros in increased energy costs for Germany alone, in the span of year 2005 alone. (Source: Canada National Post)
A predicted 26% average increase in electricity prices and 41% average increase in natural gas prices to meet Kyoto’s targets by 2010, according to the International Council for Capital Formation. (Source: PRNewswire)
200,000 jobs lost in each of Italy, the UK and Germany and up to 611,000 jobs lost in Spain to meet Kyoto’s targets by 2010, according to the International Council for Capital Formation. (Source: PRNewswire)
Loss in GDP of 2.1% for Italy (27 billion Euros), 3.1% for Spain (26 billion Euros), 1.1% for the UK (22 billion Euros), and 0.8% for Germany (18.5 billion Euros) according to the International Council for Capital Formation. (Source: PRNewswire)
And absolutely NO DECREASE IN CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS, which was the whole point of this ridiculous exercise! (Source: Der Spiegel)
In fact, there has been an INCREASE in CO2 emissions in Europe since Kyoto and its billions in expenses were implemented! (Source: Guardian UK)
Ridiculous!!!
So will it actually do anything to ’stop Gaia from getting a fever’? EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson admits: NO:
So what is all the money going to be wasted for????
Ridiculous!!!
Just like most of the global warming ’science’ they push at us.
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IN CLOSING
And remember: 34 years ago, the world was panicking about GLOBAL COOLING! (Source: Newsweek from 1975)
DO YOU STILL BELIEVE THAT GLOBAL WARMING IS HAPPENING AND THAT HUMAN-RELEASED CARBON DIOXIDE CAUSES IT?
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