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The Undoing of Carbon Induced Global Warming

In Buenos Aires it snowed for the first time in 89 years. In Chile, the agriculture minister said the country was in the midst of the worst winter seen in fifty years and that livestock and crop losses would exceed $200 million.

In Australia, they posted the coldest June in history and New Zealand lost a year’s harvest in its vineyards when record lows gripped the island nation.

European cities experienced record cold spells and Johannesburg, South Africa experienced its first significant snowfall in a quarter century.

Closer to home the Canadian government forecasted the coldest winter in 15 years and record snow and cold gripped parts of the United States, destroying crops and bringing record lows as far south as the Florida keys.

And all of this happened three years ago in 2007!

As you know, it happened again in 2008 as well as 2009 and it is happening still in 2010.

Thus far this winter, Vermont has set a record for the most snowfall experienced from a single snowstorm. Iowa has mapped temperatures 30 degrees lower than normal. The national capital has been paralyzed by snowstorms that have shut down airports and forced officials to use prisoners to help clear roadways and sidewalks around the capital. Record cold temperatures destroyed citrus crops and brought temperatures into the low 50-degree mark as far south as Cuba and North Central Mexico.

Seoul, South Korea has experienced its heaviest snowfall in 70 years, Beijing, China is reporting its coldest winter in 40 years and Peru’s mountain people are facing extinction as cold weather forces them to relocate from their mountain villages.

In the Arctic, ice that we were told would disappear from the oceans has not only returned, it has grown far thicker, far faster than scientists ever predicted. In fact, the arctic ice was twice as thick as scientists expected, growing at the fastest rate ever recorded in history.

In the Antarctic, ice is expanding throughout the continent. Findings by the British Antarctic Survey submitted for publication in the journal Geophysical Research Letters confirm that over the past 30 years, sea ice around Antarctica has expanded. Since 1980, this sea ice surrounding the Antarctic has increased by nearly 5 percent.

The Hubbard Glacier in Alaska is growing at a rate of seven feet per day. In fact, all of Alaska’s glaciers are growing again after having been in retreat for at least the past 250 years. Three glaciers in Icy Bay, Alaska are known to have advanced over 1/3 of a mile in a single year (between August 2006 and June 2007) according to scientists at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.

The Greenland icecap has thickened and the island’s previous ice melt has completely stopped. Glaciers in Norway that were in retreat are now growing again as are the glaciers in the western Himalayas. In fact, Himalayan glaciers are expanding Arctic ice cover above its 30-year average.

Canadian glaciers are growing again near Mount Logan in the Yukon as are all seven glaciers on Mount Shasta’s flanks in Northern California. Crater Glacier on Mount St. Helens, Nisqually Glacier on Mount Rainier and every glacier surrounding Mount Shuksan in Washington State are also growing.

The Earth’s global temperature has stopped increasing and is now decreasing. Actually, the Earth’s temperature has been decreasing since 1998 if you accept what British scientists at the Hadley Centre say, or 2005 if you accept what scientists at NASA say. Regardless of whom you wish to believe, everybody’s scientists seem to agree that while over the past century the Earth’s average global temperature has increased by 0.74 degrees Celsius, today and for the past several years, the Earth’s global temperature has been decreasing.

I know this is probably the last thing you want to hear, but a growing number of scientists are warning that we are entering into a new ice age that could, theoretically, cover Scotland, Northern Ireland and England with between 3,000 and 6,000 feet of ice. Most of Canada could also be buried under thousands of feet of ice, as would the northeast and Midwestern United States. If we are lucky, scientists say we may just be entering another “little” ice age like the Earth experienced from 1400 to 1900 AD. Actually, that period really wasn’t an ice age per se, but simply a 500-year stretch of unusually cold weather that followed a 500-year stretch of unusually warm weather.

Although there isn’t a damn thing anyone will be able to do when the next ice age comes, I’m fairly certain a former politician or two and a few rock stars will be out there trying to convince the world the ice age is being caused by too many air conditioners being run or some other nonsense. While others will try to convince the public that they can make the encroaching glaciers go away if everyone just invests in what they are peddling and joins in the madness to silence every voice of reason.

The global warming hysteria that has saturated the media for the past decade is just that – hysteria. And now, just like Y2K, Asian Bird Flu, the terrorist next door and the more recent Swine Flu, it is all starting to come undone. People are actually starting to question and, more importantly, listen to all points of view on this subject and, slowly, a smattering of reason seems to be surfacing within the general public.

If anyone really cared about the truth, they could pick up the United Nations IPCC Scientific Assessment and actually read the 1,000 pages that were compiled by the world’s scientific community. If they did, they would find that in the end, the scientific community could not find one scintilla of scientific evidence that linked human activity to global temperature increase. This is simply a fact.

Nor could these same scientists definitively identify another factor that could account for an increase in global temperature. In the end, the only thing that anyone could rationally take from the 1,000 pages that make up the IPCC Scientific Assessment is:

1. The scientific community could not identify or establish any direct link between human emitted carbon dioxide and climate change.

2. If human emitted carbon dioxide were in fact playing a role in climate change, it would be so small a role as to be insignificant.

Don’t take my word for this. Read the report yourself.

So where did this report go so terribly wrong? Well, it went wrong in the twenty pages that were produced as an Executive Summary of the entire report. In that summary, the authors unilaterally asserted that if scientists could not come up with another reason for an increase in global climate temperatures, then the reason had to be human activity.

Obviously, there is nothing scientific about such an assertion and any layperson can perceive the flagrant error inherent in such a finding. The logic in a statement such as that used in the ICPP summary would be identical to suggesting that if no other suspect can be identified as having committed a crime, then anyone the police happen to arrest must be guilty of the crime.

The craziness of such an assertion is why some scientists who where part of the IPCC to begin with resigned from the committee and why corrupted scientists, politicians and business people began both overt and clandestine efforts to discredit and disenfranchise peers while deceiving the general public. Motivated by billions of dollars in research and green energy money, it was all too easy to pocket weak journalists and uninspired scientists and plenty enough reason to destroy the honest ones who dared to speak out.

Unfortunately, common sense and the truth has never stood in the way of a good news story and a corrupted media embellished on this erroneous summary assertion while special interest groups viscously attacked those scientists who tried to calm the public and reassert the truth. Eventually, the majority of those scientists were cowed into silence.

In 2008, the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta conducted a poll of 51,000 scientists. Only 26% of those polled agree that human activity is responsible for global warming. Sixty-eight percent of those polled said they disagree with the statement that “the debate on the scientific causes of recent climate change is settled”.

Of course, you probably won’t recall hearing or reading about the results of this survey on television or in newspapers.

The vast majority of engineers, scientists and geo-researchers do not believe that human activity plays a significant role in global climate change. This is the truth and it is out there to be discovered. You will however, have to search to discover this truth. Major television networks will not bring it to you, nor will it appear in most newspapers. Most scientists and researchers, fearing ostracism and attack, refuse to speak out in public. They live in a culture of fear.

For those readers who remember scenes from China’s cultural revolution, the parallel between what happened then and there is not lost when reviewing what is happening here and now. Chinese scientists and intellectuals were paraded into the streets, made to wear dunce caps and soundly beaten with sticks. The only real difference between what happened there and here in the west is that the mobs here used the more deadly weapons of money and the media than those used by Chinese mobs.

In the end, I have no doubt that historians will record of these times that the West experienced its own Cultural Revolution as ignorant masses raised up charlatans and imbeciles to exalted positions and turned away from reason - berating intellect.

The climate of the Earth is in a constant state of change. It always has been and it always will be. The Earth is constantly in motion not just upon its axis and in rotation about the Sun, but also in motion through the Galaxy and the Universe. The Earth will experience future times when Ice covers her surface and when heat wipes clean all traces of humankind.

While such events are inevitable, it is not inevitable that we act as if deserving of annihilation. Humans have no idea what lives and lies within the deep oceans. We have managed to put only twelve people on our nearby Moon and only discovered a black hole in our own galaxy in 2004. We know relatively very little about our planet, our galaxy and our universe.

We may be entering into another ice age; humans may be responsible for climate change and our entire galaxy may be swallowed up by a rogue black hole next week. The fact is no one knows for sure - and least of all the political pitchman and entertainers that have filled the public arena with intellectual garbage.

When the public finds out it has been duped – and it will soon enough – there will be a backlash that may stymie the efforts of every operating engineer to conserve energy and promote alternative forms of energy in our buildings. The only way we may avoid this is to be candid and truthful with our tenants and employers. There is a load of very good reasons to conserve energy and make our buildings energy efficient.

And then there are lies.

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