The Global Warming Alarmists and the Damage They Are Causing

Is man made carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning a threat to the environment? Water vapor accounts for about 95-98% of the earth's greenhouse effect. There was some increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in the last century, but this might be insignificant. Much of the hysteria appears to be from speculation from far left environmentalists. The effects of increased levels of carbon dioxide are debatable, but many of the catastrophists insist that the case is closed and insist on immediate changes world-wide. Global warming paranoia might have the potential to become one of the greatest wealth destroying forces in recent history. Conventional oil production is declining in many areas of the world. Use of proven alternatives such as heavy oil, oil sands, coal to liquids technology and even coal fired power plants are being impeded by the global warming hysteria. Some politicians who have been influenced by this hysteria are trying to implement cap and trade systems and other legislation in various countries throughout the world which will result in increased energy costs which will be passed along to the already overburdened consumer of energy. Alternatives to fossil fuels include such things as nuclear power, wind, solar, geothermal energy, hydroelectric, tidal and various other sources. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. Nuclear energy is expensive and has its own opponents. Wind can only supply about 15 to 20% of US electricity needs. Geothermal, hydroelectric and tidal power are also limited. Some consider corn based ethanol a boondoggle, but the technology may improve over time. Most vehicles run off of liquid fuels (mostly from petroleum), some run off of natural gas. Affordable and reliable battery powered cars are proving difficult to produce, but work continues on this technology. Hybrids combine a gasoline or diesel engine with an electric regenerative braking system. We need a diverse supply of energy sources including fossil fuels to supply our needs well into the future.

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Below are links critisizing this hysteria and the science behind it.

Don't Believe the Hype by Richard S. Lindzen (Wall Street Journal article)

Global Warming: The Origin and Nature of the Alleged Scientific Consensus by Richard S. Lindzen

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Lars Kamel believes that rising temperatures cause increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. Global warming alarmists believe the cause and effect relationship is the other way around, ie. increased levels of CO2 cause a rise in the earth's temperature due to a greenhouse effect. CO2 becomes less soluble in water as the water temperature rises and may be released from the oceans as the earth's temperature rises.

Here's a quote from Lars Kamel's page noworry.htm

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One argument which the alarmists use to back their claims, is that data from boreholes in the Antarctic ice show that temperature and CO2 correlate very well. What they don't tell the public, however, is that correlation does not prove causation. And, in fact, the cause is precisely the opposite of what the alarmist would like you to believe. In the past couple of years, new and better analysis of the Antarctic ice data, giving a better time resolution, have shown that first temperature rises, and then carbon dioxide levels increase. It is the temperature increase which causes the increase in carbon dioxide and not the other way around. The extra CO2 could at most add a little extra warming to what is going on, but not even that is certain.

Why we don't have to worry about about CO2 by Lars Kamel

Is climate research pseudo science? by Lars Kamel

The rise and fall of a hockey stick by Lars Kamel

Lars Kamel's website http://www.astro.uu.se/~l/ ... mirror

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Water Vapor Rules the Greenhouse System

Just how much of the "Greenhouse Effect" is caused by human activity?
It is about 0.28%, if water vapor is taken into account-- about 5.53%, if not.
This point is so crucial to the debate over global warming that how water vapor is or isn't factored into an analysis of Earth's greenhouse gases makes the difference between describing a significant human contribution to the greenhouse effect, or a negligible one.
Water vapor constitutes Earth's most significant greenhouse gas, accounting for about 95% of Earth's greenhouse effect (4). Interestingly, many "facts and figures' regarding global warming completely ignore the powerful effects of water vapor in the greenhouse system, carelessly (perhaps, deliberately) overstating human impacts as much as 20-fold.
Water vapor is 99.999% of natural origin. Other atmospheric greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and miscellaneous other gases (CFC's, etc.), are also mostly of natural origin (except for the latter, which is mostly anthropogenic).
Human activites contribute slightly to greenhouse gas concentrations through farming, manufacturing, power generation, and transportation. However, these emissions are so dwarfed in comparison to emissions from natural sources we can do nothing about, that even the most costly efforts to limit human emissions would have a very small-- perhaps undetectable-- effect on global climate.

Global Warming: A closer look at the numbers
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Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says
Kate Ravilious for National Geographic News
February 28, 2007

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Senator James Inhofe's web blog has numerous articles debunking man made global warming

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What we find now is the fleecing of the American public's pocketbooks by the environmental movement for their political gain. We also find exhausting litigation, instigation of false claims, misleading science, and scare tactics to fool Americans into believing disastrous environmental scenarios that are untrue. Especially in this election year, the American voter should see these groups and their many affiliate organizations as they are: the newest insidious conspiracy of political action committees and perhaps the newest multi-million dollar manipulation of federal election laws.

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Testimony of Roy W. Spencer before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on 22 July 2008 (pdf format)

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"during the Clinton-Gore Administration I was told what I could and could not say during congressional testimony. Since it was well known that I am skeptical of the view that mankind’s greenhouse gas emissions are mostly responsible for global warming, I assumed that this advice was to help protect Vice President Gore’s agenda on the subject."
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This article explains the incompetence of the UN and IPCC, as well as the plans of some of the evironmentalists to try to 'save' the world by causing industrial civilization to collapse and create a deliberate quest for poverty.
CO2: The Greatest Scientific Scandal Of Our Time by Zbigniew Jaworowski
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles%202007/20_1-2_CO2_Scandal.pdf

IPCC Caught Producing False Data To Push Global Warming
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"The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself." - Club of Rome, premier environmental think-tank consultants to the United Nations

http://green-agenda.com/index.html
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Study: Part of Global-Warming Model May Be Wrong
Fox News (Dec. 13, 2007)

New Study Increases Concerns About Climate Model Reliability
ScienceDaily (Dec. 12, 2007)

A comparison of tropical temperature trends with model predictions Douglass et. al.
Int. J. Climatol. (2007) (in pdf format)

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Global Warming Petition Project

31,072 American scientists have signed this petition, including 9,021 with PhDs

We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.

There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many benficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.

http://www.petitionproject.org/
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Books at amazon.com

Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor
(Hardcover) by Roy Spencer

The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud**And those who are too fearful to do so
(Hardcover) by Lawrence Solomon

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more links

http://www.mightyrighty.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=27

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/11/brrr-global-warming-predictions.html

http://www.globalwarmingisafarce.com/

http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/a-note-from-richard-lindzen-on-statistically-significant-warming/

http://motls.blogspot.com/2008/03/lindzen-vs-rahmstorf-exchange.html

The Significance of the Hockey Stick By Steve McIntyre

http://junkscience.com/

http://junkscience.com/blog_js/

http://www.globalwarminghoax.com/news.php

http://eteam.ncpa.org/issues/?c=impacts-and-responses

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/06/10/dirty-us-media-secret-rest-world-rebels-against-climate-taxes

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Oil shale links and articles about oil shale
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The Damage The Alarmists Are Causing

Conventional oil production is dropping world-wide

Oil Exporters Are Unable To Keep Up With Demand By NEIL KING JR. and SPENCER SWARTZ
Wall Street Journal

The Democratic Party has opposed ANWR exploration, coal-to-liquids technology, oil shale exploration, outer continental shelf (OCS) exploration and increasing refinery capacity
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/06/020696.php

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Opposition to alternative fossil fuels (alternatives to conventional oil)

Kansan Stokes Energy Squabble With Coal Ruling Official Cites Warming In Blocking Two Plants; 'Ground Zero' in Fight By STEPHEN POWER
Wall Street Journal March 19, 2008; Page A6

Please buy our dirty oil
From The Economist print edition Mar 13th 2008
A new American law could limit oil-sands production in Alberta

Greens Thwart Gasoline Production by Steven Milloy
foxnews.com Thursday, 12 June 2008
(refinery expansions stopped in part because of higher CO2 emissions from heavy oil)

Oil Shale Moratorium
Fortune Magazine June 6, 2008

Money being made from warming scare
Larry Thornberry
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/02/money-being-made-from-warming-scare/

President-elect Barack Obama proposes economic suicide for US
By Christopher Booker
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/11/30/do3010.xml

There's a list of articles about coal here, many of them discussing the global warming paranoia
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Journalists_covering_coal

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Dead links can usually be found here http://www.archive.org

under construction -- more to come

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