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The Carbon Debate is not Over! [Al Gore's Climate Change Fraud Based on "Adjusted" UN Climate Data]

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

I’ve summarized below some red flags about Global Warming that you will not find in any politicized “scientific” discussion, especially the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“IPCC”) 2001 Study widely quoted in the press and the basis for Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth.  Environmental extremists no longer refer to “global warming” but increasingly to “climate change” – I suspect because the whole global warming argument does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.  The earth’s climate has always been changing and will continue to do so.  The cause of these changes however has never been proven to be “anthropogenic” – caused by humans.

The 2001 IPCC Study ignored two well-documented scientific climate periods:

• The Medieval Warm Period when earth’s temperatures were well above todays and when only farm animals were emitting CO_2. In 1991 it was included in IPCC’s published reports as accepted scientific fact, but eliminated in their 2001 report without explanation!  The 2001 report demonstrated a hockey stick warming graph since 1900 through today to support their desired global warming crusade.
• The Little Ice Age from 1400-1800…another well-documented and scientifically accepted fact.  Since 1900, the earth has been warming up – a normal climatic fluctuation that is not caused by man’s industrialization of the planet.  The planet has warmed 1^oF over the last century, but most of that occurred prior to 1940, while 82% of anthropogenic CO₂ entered the atmosphere after that date.

Despite the documented fact that the earth has actually cooled at a rate of 3.5 ^oF / century over the last seven years, the IPCC models forecast a 3.9 ^oF / century warming to 2100.  The recent global cooling is confirmed by satellite data and is not disputed by any credible scientific body – but despite that, the IPCC computer models ignore the recent and long term historical data to conclude the earth is about to undergo an unprecedented warming period!

There are a number of other instances of inconsistencies, data manipulation, and outright fabrications included in the IPCC 2001 Study.  A complete analysis was presented to the US Congress by Lord Monckton, the former Science Advisor to the UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher (http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org).  This is the same individual who Al Gore refuses to debate, and the Democratic Energy and Commerce Committee Members refused to allow to testify opposite Gore in March 2009.  What does Lord Monckton know that Al Gore and our Democratic representatives not want the American public to know?

The effects of CO₂on the earth’s climate are vastly exaggerated.

• The concentration of CO₂in the atmosphere is 0.035% and it is a very weak greenhouse gas.  Water vapor is the most important greenhouse gas, accounting for 97-98% of the greenhouse gas effect.  (Bet you didn’t know that – since governments can’t control water vapor, it is a fact you’re not likely to read in the press!)  Water vapor (clouds) is principally ruled by the sun, which may be one reason why NASA has recently declared that the sun is most directly responsible for global warming (go figure!).
• In the Paleozoic Era of prehistoric times, CO₂levels were 12 times higher than present.  For those of you who don’t comprehend geologic-speak, you know this era as the Ice Age.  So much for CO₂‘s catastrophic warming effect on the earth!
• Scientific evidence from ice cores in the Antarctic demonstrate over the millennium that increases in CO₂concentrations follow temperature increase – not the other way around.

Anthropogenic CO2 is an insignificant contributor to the earth’s climate.

• Combining water vapor and nature’s production of CO₂, 99.9% of greenhouse gas effect has nothing to do with human activity.   Anthropogenic emissions of CO₂account for only 1% of the atmospheric reservoir of CO_2. How can altering man’s miniscule 1% contribution to atmospheric CO₂levels over the last century have any discernible impact on the global processes of nature that have influenced earth’s climate for millions of years?
• Termites, farm animals, volcanoes, and dissolved CO₂ in the oceans emit much larger amounts of CO₂ than mankind.  In well-documented warming periods in 1860-1880 and 1910-1940, which occurred before any possible effect from mankind  - is proof that there is absolutely no correlation between human activity, CO₂emissions, and global temperature.

There are a number of other fallacies propagandized by environmental extremists:

• Melting Glaciers – a number of well-documented glacier records indicate glaciers have been receding since 1750 and accelerated after 1820 (almost 100 years before the Model T).  This is a natural phenomenon not related to human activity.  Glaciers are still much larger than they were in the Medieval Warm Period.
• Polar Ice Melting – The West Antarctic Ice Sheet lost two-thirds of its ice mass since the last ice age but is now growing at more than 26 billion tons a year.  How do you explain those well-publicized pictures of huge ice chunks breaking off and falling into the ocean?  The natural process as the ice thickens inland, it pushes ice to the perimeter to the lower elevation where it breaks off.  According to British meteorological stations in Antarctica , the continent is getting colder, not warmer.  The Greenland ice mass has thickened by seven feet since it was first measured by laser altimetry in 1980, and continues to grow.
• Rising Sea Levels – Ocean levels have risen 400 feet over the last 18,000 years, a natural process that will continue without any influence from mankind.  Current documented sea rise is 8-12 inches / century, much less than the mean centennial rise of 4 feet.  The IPCC estimates 17-24  inch rise to 2100, slightly less than the 20 foot rise Al Gore prophesized in his film.
• Polar Bear Extinction – (related to polar ice) There are four times as many polar bears now than there were in the 1940’s….enough said.
• Increasing Hurricanes and Typhoons – According to the Accumulated Cyclone Energy Index published by Florida State University, the Index is at it’s lowest in 33 years.   While Hurricane Katrina was a major tragedy for New Orleans , the destruction from that Category 3 storm was principally due to the failure of man-made levees.

Why is there so much emphasis on CO₂when the human contribution of it is trivial and water vapor is so much more important in greenhouse effect?  The simple answer is that governments can control only people, not nature.  For millions of years, the sun and the clouds have been principally responsible for climate change.  There is no indisputable scientific evidence anything mankind does can influence climate change.  Governments cannot control the sun or the clouds, so they must find a cause that can be blamed on people.  If people have no impact on climate change, there is no justification for all of the scientific grants and studies to validate government intervention.  The environmental extremists will go to any lengths to prove mankind’s relevance on climate change, otherwise they have no seat at government’s trough.

There is no need for government to regulate and tax CO₂emissions, and to invade every aspect of American lives.  The environmental extremists have manufactured a climate change crisis, based on fraudulent and manipulated scientific data, that has empowered liberal congressmen with a huge, new source of potential tax revenue they can redistribute to fund their liberal agenda.  It’s not about climate change, it’s about tax revenue.

The US Weather Service cannot accurately predict weather more than about a week in advance…why would we dramatically change our entire economy and our way of life based on climate models forecasting 40, 50, or 100 years in the future?

If this message concerns you and you want to make your concerns known to your congressmen, please click on the link below to express your opinion prior to their votes being cast.    https://www.bipac.net/issue_alert.asp?g=IPAA&issue=climate_change&parent=IPAA

and email John@faulkforcongress.org Congressional Candidate for TX 18 CD (Sheila Jackson Lee is the incumbent)

Appreciation due Parks Paton Hoepfl & Brown for their summary presentation of Lord Monckton’s work and the details around the March 2009 Congressional testimony.   Credit due Utah Valley University for a copy of Keith Rattie’s, CEO of Questar. graduation address dated April 2, 2009.

Tim Murray

Managing Director

Guggenheim Partners, LLC

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