Scientists who are part of the 'Science Is Settled' mob are quite adamant that there is no room for discussion, that climate change is caused solely by marginally increased levels of the trace atmospheric gas Carbon Dioxide is proved beyond doubt. Unfortunately their 'proof' exists only in mathematical models, studies based on real world evidence constantly disagree.
The Daily Stirrer has always said that the Global Warming scare is based on evidence obtained solely from computer generated mathematical models of the global climate and differs widely from real world data.
Here's what Xavier Connolly (not his real name) The Daily Stirrer engineering expert wrote on the topic some time ago:
Global Warming - The Real Science by Xavier Connolly
Climate Science is stupid. Stupid is ignoring known facts. Here are some crucial, verifiable
facts - with citations - that people should be aware of concerning human-generated
carbon dioxide and its effect on global warming. (I recommend following
the links in the citations; some of them are very educational.)
The fact is, there has been global warming, but the contribution of
human-generated carbon dioxide is necessarily so minuscule as to be
nearly undetectable. Here's why:
Carbon dioxide, considered the main vector for human-caused global
warming, is some 0.038% of the atmosphere[1]- a trace gas. Water vapor
varies from 0% to 4%[2], and should easily average 1% or more[3] near
the Earth’s surface, where the greenhouse effect would be most
important, and is about three times more effective[4] a greenhouse gas
than carbon dioxide. So water vapor is at least 25 times more prevalent
and three times more effective; that makes it at least 75 times more
important to the greenhouse effect than carbon dioxide[5].
The TOTAL
contribution of carbon dioxide to the greenhouse effect is therefore
0.013 or less. The total human contribution to atmospheric carbon
dioxide since the start of the industrial revolution has been estimated
at about 25%[6]. So humans’ carbon dioxide greenhouse effect is a
quarter of 0.013, works out to about 0.00325. Total warming of the Earth
by the greenhouse effect is widely accepted as about 33 degrees
Centigrade, raising average temperature to 59 degrees Fahrenheit. So the
contribution of anthropogenic carbon dioxide is less than 0.2 degrees
Fahrenheit, or under 0.1 degree Centigrade. Global warming over the last
century is thought by many to be about 0.6 degrees Centigrade.
But that's only the beginning. We've had global warming for more
than 10,000 years, since the end of the last Ice Age, and there is
evidence temperatures were actually somewhat warmer 9,000 years ago and
again 4,500 to 8,000 years ago than they are today[7]. Whatever caused
that, it was not human activity. It was not all those power plants and
factories and SUVs being operated by Stone Age cavemen while chipping
arrowheads out of bits of flint.
Whatever the cause was, it melted the
glaciers that in North America once extended south to Long Island and
parts of New York City[8] into virtually complete disappearance (except
for a few mountain remnants). That's one big greenhouse effect! If we
are still having global warming - and I suppose we could presume we are,
given this 10,000 year history - it seems highly likely that it is
still the overwhelmingly primary cause of continued warming, rather than
our piddling 0.00325 contribution to the greenhouse effect.
Yet even that trend-continuation today needs to be proved. Evidence
is that the Medieval Warm Period centered on the 1200s was somewhat
warmer than we are now[9], and the climate was clearly colder in the
Little Ice Age in the 1600s than it is now[10]. So we are within the
range of normal up-and-down fluctuations without human greenhouse
contributions that could be significant, or even measurable.
The principal scientists arguing for human-caused global warming
have been demonstrably disingenuous[11], and now you can see why. They
have proved they should not be trusted.
The idea that we should be spending hundreds of billions of dollars
and hamstringing the economy of the entire world to reduce carbon
dioxide emissions is beyond ludicrous in light of the facts above; it is
insane.
Furthermore, it sucks attention and resources from seeking the
other sources of warming and from coping with climate change and its
effects in realistic ways. The true motivation underlying the global
warming movement is almost certainly ideological and political in
nature, and I predict that anthropogenic Global
Warming, as currently
presented, will go down as the greatest fraud of all time. It makes
Ponzi and Madoff look like pikers by comparison.
[1] Fundamentals of Physical Geography, 2nd Edition
by Michael Pidwirny Concentration varies slightly with the growing
season in the northern hemisphere.
HYPERLINK
[2] ibid.
[3] HALOE v2.0 Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor Climatology Claudette
Ojo, Hampton University; et al..
HYPERLINK
See p. 4.The 0 - 4% range is widely accepted among most sources. This
source is listed for its good discussion of the phenomena determining
that range. An examination of a globe will show that tropical oceans
(near high end of range) are far more extensive than the sum of the
earth’s arctic and antarctic regions and tropical-zone deserts (all near
the low end). Temperate zone oceans are far more extensive than
temperate-zone desert. This author’s guess of an average of 2% or more
seems plausible. I have used “1% or more” in an effort to err on the
side of understatement.
[4 NIST Chemistry Webbook, Please compare the IR absorption spectra
of water and carbon dioxide. ]
HYPERLINK
[5] Three quarters of the atmosphere and virtually all water vapor
are in the troposphere. Including all the atmosphere would change the
ratios to about 20 times more prevalent and 60 times more effective.
However, the greenhouse effect of high-altitude carbon dioxide on
lower-altitude weather and the earth’s surface seems likely to be small
if not nil.
HYPERLINK
[6] National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
HYPERLINK "
.
The estimated 90ppm increase in carbon dioxide, 30% above the base of
280 ppm, to a recent reading of 370 ppm, equates to just under 25% of
present concentration, the relevant factor in estimating present
contribution to the greenhouse effect.
[7] Oak Ridge National Laboratory
HYPERLINK
[8] New York Nature - The nature and natural history of the New York City region. Betsy McCully
HYPERLINK
[9] Global Warming: A Geological Perspective John P. Bluemle
HYPERLINK also
National Geographic - Tim Profeta.
This article, published by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric
Agency, is drawn from a paper by the author in Environmental
Geosciences, 1999, Volume 6, Number 2, pp. 63-75. Note particularly the
chart on p.4.
[10] Ibid.
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