The Truth about Global Warming

An excellent letter was printed in our newpaper today in the Letters and I think that some of its points would be good to mention here. Thus, it is partially quoted:

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"Global warming...puzzles scientist." To hear politicians, environmentalists and major media, there is no puzzle here. Greenhouse gases, internal combustion engines, freon from air conditioners or any source of man-caused CO2 is the culprit.

But wait a minute! The missing words in the above quote are "on Pluto."...Real scientists to date have found global warming on Jupiter, Saturn, and its moon Enceledas, Venus, Mars, and on Neptune's moon Triton, as well as Pluto.

Have you heard Al Gore or other doom and gloomers mention these inconvenient truths?...Gore tells us there is "a consensus" that greenhouse gases, especially CO2 is [sic] the cause. ... About 40 years ago there was "a consensus" we had global cooling.

Real scientists tell us the strongest greenhouse gas is H2O and, in the scheme of things, the effects of CO2 are negligible.

...The environmentalists should agree that if neighboring planets are warming, it is not caused by the flatulence of cows, Humvees or hair spray.

Here's a thought, could it be caused by the sun?"

 

Whether or not this is part of a cyclical pattern, no one really knows right now. The fact is that the sun has been measured as warming, or putting out a higher ultra violet light content (the peak part of its spectrum) for at least fifty years, if not more. The ultra violet reflection back from Uranus is what is measured in terms of accuracy of the sun's increase there. There are also instruments in space which measure other parts of the sun's spectrum. The peak in radiation that occurs with the sunspot cycle has been getting progressively higher in the last century.

So yes, there is global warming -- for quite a few globes!

Man has nothing to do with it and can do nothing about it.

But perhaps that is the crux of the issue. Man wants to feel he has some control over this, and the easiest way to try to feel he can do something about it is to blame some cause here on earth that can be modified, if not fully corrected.

So while there may be ulterior motives for some, perhaps just the fact that there is a strong desire to somehow stop what might be happening could be one of the causes for wishing to blame men themselves. If we did it, then we could stop doing it.

But we didn't, and we can't.

That would be far more frightening to many, and it would, as you mentioned, also play into the hands of others who are looking for multinational control.

 

I read your post to Barry, Bill, and he remarked, seriously, "That's interesting!" What he has told me is that yes, the sun has been measured as warming and that this will, in turn, heat the waters at the equator more, since they get more constant, steady sunlight at all times of year. This will, in turn (especially with melting of the ice flows) cause a greater differential between the cold in the north and south and the heat at the equator in the waters of both and this will indeed disturb currents and bring about fiercer storms.

Cold will be colder and hot will be hotter as the differential in the air currents causes them to fight it out. Thus the horrid storms in the midwest and east now and the terrible drought in Australia at the same time. Watch for hotter than average summers in the east and midwest as well now. The 'average' yearly temperatures will not vary much, but the extremes will be more extreme. (the average of 5 and 7 is 6, but so is the average of 11 and 1!).