Global climate change from a realistic, non-political point of view.

 -Morgan Wright

This blog was retired in 2015. It's all still accurate, though.


CHAPTER 1. SEA LEVEL RISE

Figure 1. Sea level rise at San Francisco for the past century and a half. It is linear, which means rising in a straight line, with no acceleration of rise. The rate is a constant 189 mm (about 8 inches) per century. Data are from NOAA (the US government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).

 

 

Figure 1b. Sea level rise for New York City's battery (southern tip of Manhattan). You will see a constant linear rate of 283 mm or 11 inches per century.

 

The rate is different in New York from San Francisco because of rising and falling of continental shorelines over time. We chose SF and NYC because the data go back to the 1850's, but at all locations the sea level data reveal linear trends. Other locations don't have such long histories, but can be browsed by the reader by clicking the link below. They show different rates, depending on what part of North America the measurements were taken. In Alaska, the sea levels are falling due to rebound from the previous ice age. Honolulu shows interesting data as well, since Hawaii is not part of any continental plate. It is a slower rise, 1.41 mm/year, but is linear, as usual.

Click for Honolulu (click around the site for many other locations): https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?id=1612340

Or click here for another site: https://psmsl.org/data/obtaining/

 Please notice that the rate of rise has not increased in recent decades, in spite of the great increase in CO2 during that time due to human activity. If such activity played an appreciable part in increasing sea levels, the graph would show an upward curve (acceleration) starting in the mid 20th century when anthropogenic CO2 rise began in earnest. But the rise is a straight line without such a curve, or "hockey stick." The general trend of 7 to 12 inches per century is due to a global warming period that started over 200 years ago (see figure 3b. below). The warming ocean is expanding like a thermometer bulb, and melting ice from the poles is added to it. Both these factors make the sea level rise.

Some people believe this sea level rise is due to the CO2 we have added to the atmosphere, but  the CO2 level only started to change in the middle of the 20th century (see figure 1g.). Publications supporting the global warming crisis only show charts starting in the middle of the 20th century, hiding the earlier rise. This is deceptive on their parts. If global warming were caused by CO2 changes, which began in the mid-20th century, there would be a lower rise, or no rise, in sea level before then. But the rise was just as strong as it is now, which these charts clearly demonstrate. Some people, however, continue to claim it is accelerating, but are unable to show it scientifically. Some show it fraudulently, as we will see.


Tide-gauge sea level measurements are flawed because they don't adjust for rising and falling of the continents, which is rapid enough at most locations to make a difference. But satellite data have been available since 1992 to measure the oceans globally, independent of continents. Figure 1d. shows this, and gives a more unbiased account of the rise of the ocean level, that is, the global sea level, since 1992. This information comes from satellite altimeters, which measure sea levels using coordinates similar to GPS data. We can see from the graph that the rise is still linear, without any acceleration. The rise follows almost perfectly along a straight line with a slope of 320 mm. (13 inches) per century.

Figure 1d. Satellite data 1992-present.


Study the graph below, which appeared in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic. Notice that the above (figure 1d.) satellite data, from 1992 onward, is used, but it is grafted onto tide gauge data. Note how it is asserted that this shows "clear acceleration." This is an obvious deception. We have seen that tide gauges show a linear rise, and that satellite data also show a linear rise but somewhat faster. But here they connect data from different sets onto the same graph and state that it shows acceleration! That's clearly an example of scientific fraud. It's not a hockey stick, it's a cue stick that was broken and glued back together! Unfortunately, this sort of data fudging is very typical of the way data are presented to us by people trying to prove that global warming is caused by man. The data from the satellite shows a faster rise, and they graft it onto tide gauge data, asserting that it shows acceleration, even though the tide gauge data after 1992 doesn't show any acceleration at all (see NY and SF data after 1992, on figures 1b. and 1c. or any other NOAA tide station ).

 

Figure 1e.

 

 

 

Below is a close-up showing the broken cue stick. Note how the slope suddenly changes in 1992 at the zero line where they shift from tide gauge data to satellite data:

Figure 1f. Close-up of above.

 

See also how they state that sea levels were not rising appreciably before the mid-1800's, but suddenly started to rise at that time "as the earth started to warm." But if the earth started to warm in the 19th century, and CO2 levels didn't rise until the 20th century, the CO2 rise obviously didn't cause the temperature rise. Because of this obvious fact, some people try to fabricate a more recent acceleration in the linear rise. The above cue stick trick is just one example of data fudging. We don't mean to pick on National Geographic for this fraudulent graph, it's part of the great "consensus" that use this exact same trick to claim sea level acceleration by grafting the satellite date onto tide gauge data as if this were acceptable science. But the scientific method says that all variables have to be kept equal, and combining different sets of data is anything but keeping variables equal. This goes against everything that the scientific method holds sacred. This is tantamount to an accountant using two sets of books, which would get him or her thrown in jail.

A peer reviewed paper by Holgate in 2006 found there was no acceleration of sea level rise in the 20th century.

The above data make it clear that sea level rise has been linear for over 150 years. Any statement that sea level rise is accelerating recently is wrong. But what's even worse, look at how sea levels suddenly rise in Figure 1e. starting in 2013 like a hockey stick in their future "predictions." This is obviously fraudulent and an attempt to sell more magazines using alarmism. Other deceivers have different motivations, but it seems that the common thread is that some people feel that fraudulent data can be used capriciously on what they consider to be a credulous public.

Figure 1g. (below) shows that humans didn't start producing much CO2 until the middle of the 20th century. How can this account for the linear rise in sea level which started 100 years earlier, and why does this recent enormous rise in CO2 not cause a synchronous acceleration of rise in sea levels in the 20th century? It's because CO2 has had little if anything to do with sea level rise over the past 150 years.

From Michael B. McElroy "The Atmospheric Environment" page 142. Princeton University Press c. 2002.

 

The arguments in this chapter show that the sea level rise during the past 2 centuries has been linear and not caused by anthropogenic rise in CO2, which only came in the last 60 years. If the sea level rise was caused by warming at all, it started because of a natural warming that began in the late 18th century or earlier.


 

 

CHAPTER 2. CO2 RISE

 

Figure 2a. CO2 is now over 400 ppm, up from 280 in the 19th century. This increase is due to our burning of coal and oil, and clearing land.

 

Figure 2b. Carbon dioxide level during the last 550 million years. One can see from the chart that the current CO2 level is very low. Not long before humans arrived, it was the lowest in the history of the planet. If CO2 levels drop too low, life on earth cannot survive. Plant life depends on CO2, and animal life depends on plant life.

Copied from "Earth System History" by Steven M. Stanley (Johns Hopkins U.), W. H. Freeman & Co., New York, copyright 2009

Humans started burning coal in earnest in the late 19th century and petroleum in the early 20th. (see 1g. above). We have increased CO2 levels by 40% over pre-industrial levels, but still it is very low when compared to the time when mammals developed (the Cretaceous, 3 times today's level) and when dinosaurs lived (the Jurassic and Triassic, 5 times higher).

Some people contend that the CO2 level is higher than it's been in 800,000 years, (the red arrow in 2a.), and that we might soon reach a tipping point, without showing earlier levels that were much higher without a tipping point. Therefore, they only show charts starting in the last 800,000 years, hiding the earlier levels. This is deceptive on their parts.

Figure 2b. part 2


For the past 250 million years, CO2 has been decreasing linearly (roughly), such that it would hit the zero point in about 50 million years. Zero, all taken up by limestone deposits on the ocean floor. If humans had not arrived and started burning fossil fuels, life on earth would have been doomed. Currently, when calcium carbonate settles on the ocean floor at depths lower than the lysocline and CCD, it is dissolved. The high CO2 content on the ocean floor at great depth dissolves CaCO3, and releases CO2 back into the atmosphere. When atmospheric CO2 gets lower, the depth of the CCD decreases, and when it gets low enough, the CCD reaches the bottom of the ocean, and limestone would start collecting there. When the lysocline reaches the bottom of ocean, CO2 levels there would be too low to dissolve calcium carbonate at all, and limestone would collect there in large amounts. This would cause more CO2 to be taken out of the air, and the jig is up for CO2 in the atmosphere. Sooner or later, around 50 million years from now, CO2 drops to zero and all life ends. The CO2 has been decreasing for 250 million years, but once the lysocline is gone, the rate at which it decreases would rise quickly until it reaches zero, and all life on earth would end forever. The best thing humans have ever done is put CO2 back in the air where it belongs.


CHAPTER 2B. THE ROLE OF CO2 IN THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT

In May, 2013, the CO2 level went over 400 ppm for the first time. Water vapor in the tropics can be up to 4% of the atmosphere by volume, which is 40,000 ppm. This means that water vapor in the tropics under these conditions is 100 times more abundant than CO2. And since each water molecule is 40% better at absorbing infrared than a CO2 molecule, because of the hydroxyl bond, that means water vapor is 140 times more important in this example as a greenhouse gas than CO2 in the tropics. But the tropics is where earth gets most of its sunlight for two reasons. First, the sunlight is stronger there, and secondly, the earth is much bigger at the equator and the tropics covers a much greater area. This demonstrates that CO2 is a trivial greenhouse gas.

The above is water in its vapor form only, and doesn't include clouds which are liquid droplets which can convert to vapor at a moment's notice and add to the greenhouse effect. CO2 can't do this.

Obviously, 4% is an extreme case, but 2% or 1%, which are typical clear-weather levels in the tropics and normal summertime levels in temperate zones, show that H2O is so overwhelmingly more important than CO2 as a greenhouse gas that the latter is negligible as such. Only in the winter in temperate zones, or all year in polar zones, is the CO2 level in the same league as water vapor and even worthy of mention as a greenhouse gas. However, the amount of sunlight under those conditions is not a significant percentage of the total amount of sunlight the earth receives annually, which mostly occurs in the tropics, subtropics, or in the summertime in temperate zones. The only other place where CO2 levels are in the same realm as H2O levels is the upper atmosphere, where it doesn't matter. There is very little H
2O in the stratosphere, mesosphere, or thermosphere, but the CO2 level up there is always .04%. The greenhouse effect, as significant in warming earth's surface, however, occurs only in the troposphere, where almost all of earth's H2O vapor is found.

Figure 2c below, from an important study done in 1967 by Manabe and Wetherald, demonstrates the above point: that adding CO2 to the atmosphere only slightly increases the temperature in the lower atmosphere where water vapor rules. It also shows the changes in temperature in the drier upper atmosphere; with CO2 levels of 174, 348, and 696 parts per million, increasing CO2 can be seen to make the upper atmosphere cooler. This is as expected, since it kept some heat down lower and radiates it to space.

The scientific consensus is that pre-industrial levels of CO2 were 280 ppm, and that we have raised it by 120 ppm. to 400, and it is commonly held among scientists that in doing so, we have raised the temperature of the earth by 0.8°C. The general understanding among most non-scientific proponents of AGW is that the more CO2 you add, the more greenhouse effect you will get, as if there were a linear relationship between the two. This is not the case. The relationship is logarithmic, which means that the more CO2 you add, the less it changes the temperature. Most of the CO2-mediated greenhouse effect was caused by the first very small amounts of CO2, and increases in CO2 do little because the atmosphere is almost saturated (not an accurate term but often used) with CO2 as it applies to the greenhouse effect.

Figure 2d. below, shows how most of the greenhouse effect that was caused by CO2 was caused by the first 20 ppm. By the time we get up to 100 or 200 ppm., that accounts for almost all of the greenhouse effect that is caused by CO2, and the amount of CO2 added by man so far, which brings it up to 400 ppm, has done very little, as you can clearly see from the graph. After 400 ppm., adding CO2 to the air has almost no effect at all, because of saturation. Even if we double current 2014 levels to 800 ppm, which might take centuries to do, the earth gets warmer by less than 0.4 C. (Look at the difference between 20 and 40 ppm, one doubling, to see how much one doubling is). Most importantly, we can clearly see there is no "tipping point," because the more CO2 we add, the less it does. The IPCC and other global warming activists say the rate is 3 degrees per doubling, but that's impossible as we will see.

From http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/03/08/the-logarithmic-effect-of-carbon-dioxide/

The numbers don't work if the climate sensitivity of CO2 (the increase in temperature per doubling) is 3 degrees per doubling. If it were, when it doubled from 200 to 400 ppm we would have gotten 3 degrees, from 100 to 200, 3 more degrees, from 50 to 100, 3 more, from 25 to 50, 12 to 25, 6 to 12, and 3 to 6, that's 7 doublings that all happened when CO2 was logarithmic, so from the past 7 doublings the earth would now be 21 C warmer thanks to CO2. But let's do a reality check. How much of earth's greenhouse effect is really due to CO2? The answer is 3 degrees, not 21. The total greenhouse effect is around 40° C and 90% of it is due to water vapor. Only 7% is due to CO2. And 7% of 40 is around 3, not 21. So climate sensitivity is really 0.4° C per doubling to get 3 degrees out of 7 doublings. That's why this chart is accurate, and the IPCC charts are totally wrong. Look at the chart, and find the bar at 40 ppm. The bar is around 0.375 degrees of warming. That's the increase in temperature from one doubling, from 20 to 40 pp. You can see that all the other doublings add up to the same amount. The climate sensitivity has to be this low to account for past logarithmic doublings.

From the above chart, we see that increasing CO2 to 800 ppm would only increase the temperature by .375 degrees. If we double it again to 1600 ppm, we increase it by another .375 degrees, but all that CO2 in the upper atmosphere would have a large cooling effect, since the top of the atmosphere (TOA) radiates IR to space. Since there is almost no water vapor at the top of the atmosphere, the only major IR active species up there are CO2 and ozone, so increasing CO2 cools the earth much more than it warms it. That is why the whole theory of catastrophic global warming by increasing CO2 is without merit. When we account for TOA cooling, increasing CO2 to such high levels wont even warm the earth at all, but cool it.

Figure 2e. shows what is meant by saturation. It shows how adding CO2 to the atmosphere decreases Earth's irradiance into space by blocking infrared. A decrease in irradiance at the top of Earth's atmosphere (the TOA), is evidence that the atmosphere is blocking those wavelengths from escaping into space, thereby heating Earth.

From Thermal Physics by Stephen and Katherine Blundell, 2010, Oxford University Press, p. 454

The TOA radiates mainly between 7 and 50 microns, which is the part of the spectrum associated with Earth's radiant temperature, but CO2 only absorbs in a band around 15 microns (675 waves per cm.). Because the atmosphere is already almost opaque in that band, adding more CO2 has little effect, and the figure shows exactly how much that effect is. In that 14-18 micron band, increasing CO2 from 375 to 750 ppm. increases the opacity by the amount shown by dotted lines. The dip in the curve caused by the first 375 ppm. is the solid line. The dotted line, which corresponds with the second 375 ppm. is minuscule by comparison. The first 375 ppm. causes a dip the size of Grand Canyon, and the second 375 ppm. is like somebody chipping along the sides of the canyon with a small pick. Outside that band, adding CO2 to the atmosphere does nothing at all. But it gets even worse...

One can see from the graph that at around 14 microns, and again at 16-18 microns, doubling of CO2 increases the blocking of radiation very slightly, causing warming, but if you look at around 15 microns, radiation of heat into space increases, which causes cooling. So, as trivial as the increased blocking of radiation along the sides of the CO2 band is by adding CO2 to the atmosphere, it is offset by a slight increase in radiation in the central part of that band. The temperature associated with 15 microns is much colder than the surface anywhere on Earth, so it corresponds with the TOA temperatures, which means this radiation is going into space. Any of this radiation aimed downward would be blocked by CO2 high up, and never reach the ground. In summary, some of the effect of doubling CO2 causes warming, and some causes cooling, but in either case the amount is trivial because the atmosphere is already almost opaque to infrared at the CO2 band.

This represents the increase in greenhouse effect if we raised the level to 750 ppm, which would take centuries to do and would only result if we burned every trace of fossil fuel reserves on the planet. So, as trivial as this increase in the greenhouse effect would be by raising CO2 to 750 ppm., it will probably never even happen.

According to climate physicist Murray L. Salby, in his "Physics of the Atmosphere and Climate," p. 248-9, the greenhouse effect over the past 2 centuries has been increased by 1.5 Wm-2 due to anthropogenic CO2. He continues that this "is about 0.5% of the 327 Wm-2 of overall downwelling LW radiation that warms the Earth's surface. The vast majority of that warming is contributed by water vapor. Together with cloud, it accounts for 98% of the greenhouse effect."

Figure 2f. makes the argument more clear. MODTRAN data (from the US air force) is plotted. You can see the effect of CO2 becomes negligible after 200 ppm. We are now around 400 ppm.

 

But it gets much worse. Figure 2g. below shows what happens when we calculate the water vapor and CO2 together. It turns out that CO2 becomes negligible when water vapor goes above an extremely low amount. Let's take a look:

Fig. 2g.

https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/ed-caryl-modtran-shows-co2-doubling-will-have-almost-no-effect-on-temperature/comment-page-1/. Chart by Ed Caryl

The chart shows downward infrared radiation from the atmosphere at CO2 levels of zero to 1000 ppm, and humidity levels from 0% to 90%, at the standard temperature of 0° C. We can see that CO2 has an appreciable greenhouse effect so long as the humidity is 0%, but even then, it diminishes logarithmically and increases become minor after a CO2 level of less than 100 ppm. But if the humidity jumps to 1% (at 0° C this is extremely dry air), the greenhouse effect is already dominated by water vapor. If you increase the humidity to 5%, still an extremely low amount, the greenhouse effect due to additional CO2 becomes totally negligible. At water vapor levels of 10% and above, CO2 does absolutely nothing. But 10% humidity at 0° C is still lower than almost anywhere on earth, even the driest desert during the worst drought is not this low...the only place on earth where the humidity is this low is the poles, which is why scientists always say that global warming should start at the poles. But the South Pole, which has the driest air on the planet, has not warmed at all in 100 years, in spite of all the increase in CO2.

The arguments presented in this chapter make it clear that the greenhouse effect on earth is mediated almost entirely by water vapor. The arguments make it clear that the contribution of CO2 to the greenhouse effect is mainly due to pre-industrial levels of 280 ppm CO2, and that if the CO2 is increased by man to 400 ppm or any higher amount, the argument that such greenhouse effect will be increased by more than a negligible amount, is without merit.




 

Chapter 3. Global warming

 

Figure 3.

temperature gif

The above temperature charts were produced by NASA's GISS division, headed by Jim Hansen for many years, and now by Gavin Schmidt, both of whom have altered the data so often it's hard to discern what the true pattern is, but the gist of it is, between 1880 and 1942, global temperatures went up sharply and substantially, from 1942 to 1978 global temperatures decreased and rebounded, back where they were in 1942, they rose again sharply during the period 1978 to 2000 or so when they leveled off.

The rise from 1880 to 1942 could not have been caused by CO2,which levels were still mostly unchanged from pre-industrial levels.

The animated gif was produced by Tony Heller, a computer system architect who did contract work for the National Climate Data Center. We see the results of ongoing repeated data tampering by GISS, who on numerous occasions have adjusted the historical data downward for years before 1963, and upward for years after. They did this deliberately, to exaggerate the warming trend, and to hide the cooling trend between 1942 and 1978, obviously for political purposes. It's one of the most glaring examples of government-mandated science fraud since Nazi Germany.


The Poles

What about the melting poles? They always show us pictures of polar bears and melting sea ice at the north pole. It turns out, the Arctic was warming for a while but has rebounded to earlier levels, and Antarctic sea ice is increasing. The following graph shows total global sea ice since 1979.

Figure 3a. Global sea ice has not changed in 26 years. Look at the red trend line at the bottom.

   Courtesy University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, see web address in screen grab.

There was a decrease in global sea ice from around 2004 to 2012, but it has now recovered to 1980 values. Every year the amount of sea ice reaches a maximum in December when the Antarctic sea ice melt exceeds Arctic freezing, and a minimum in February when the Antarctic sea ice is almost all melted and the Arctic is still freezing.

Figure 3b shows us another of the deceptions of the propagandists. When they want to convince us that Arctic ice is vanishing, they usually show the years from 1980 to now, and cut out the equally warm 1930's, but this chart shows Arctic temperatures since 1900. A cherry picker may say "The rate of warming in the last 20 years is 8-times greater than the rate of warming over the past 100 years." (Note the green and red lines in the above graph). One look at the graph, though, shows that this statement is misleading, since the last 20 years is merely a return to 1938 levels. The warming in the last admittedly cherry-picked 65 years is zero!

Above graph from: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ArcticIce/arctic_ice3.php

The AGW theory requires that global warming starts at the poles, because the poles are the only places in the troposphere where water vapor content is low enough that CO2 becomes a relevant greenhouse gas, and since the poles are not warming, if both poles are taken together, that means the theory is a null hypothesis. But that won't stop alarmists from showing starving polar bears, instead of fat penguins. By the way, the polar bears are also fat.


Modern Warming

What about the hockey stick, the recent rise in global temperatures? Well yes, the earth's temperature is rising, but it started around 1780. Let's look at some data derived from ice cores taken in central Greenland, on the summit of an ice sheet 2 miles high (because the ice is 2 miles thick), in the study done by NOAA called GISP2 (Greenland Ice Sheet Project #2).

Water is made of hydrogen and oxygen, and we can measure the H and O isotopes in the ice at varying depths to tell us what the temperatures were in the past. The data are used as a "proxy," which means an event which can be used in place of thermometers. Many things are used as proxies, such as tree rings, pollen, dust, and sediment cores, but polar ice cores are the best because they are taken in places where there is no biological influence, and no changes from geology because it's 2 miles above solid ground), and it's far away from any human influence. Oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in the ice are analyzed to determine hemispheric temperatures. 1H is the symbol of normal hydrogen and 2H is its heavy isotope deuterium, which we will call D, and HDO is water with one deuterium atom. Oxygen, normally 16, also has a heavy isotope, 18. Because heavy water, HDO, as well as heavy oxygen water, (H218O instead of H216O), have higher boiling points than regular water, more heavy water gets into the atmosphere when global or hemispheric temperatures are high. The warmer the earth, or hemisphere, the more heavy isotopes wind up in the ice. This has little to do with the temperature of the ice, it has to do with the temperatures at the evaporation sites. This is because snow does not form from condensation, but by a process called deposition, which means going directly from vapor to ice. This is the opposite of sublimation--water vapor freezes directly into snow and bypasses the liquid phase, so there is no condensation, and therefore no fractionation from condensation. Any fractionation during snow formation is that at the freezing point, which is far less than the fractionation at the evaporation/condensation point, because the difference in freezing points between 18O water and 16O water is very small. (The difference in freezing points between H2O and HDO is fairly large, but oxygen isotopes are mainly used).

Some argue that the Greenland proxy is local, as if the moisture that freezes in Greenland arose in Greenland, and so all the ice cores show us is polar temperatures, and some argue that the fractionation of the isotopes in the ice cores arose during precipitation, so all they show us is the temperatures on Greenland's summit itself, but both of these points are wrong. Werner et. al., 2001 found that only 15% of Greenland Summit moisture comes from the Arctic Ocean. The rest comes from the following: 28% from the northern Atlantic, 15% from North America, 14% from the tropical Atlantic, 10% from the tropical Indopacific, 8% from the northern Pacific, 6% from Eurasia, and because this only adds up to 96%, so the remaining 4% must come from the southern hemisphere. But the Arctic Ocean doesn't count here, because it is full of ice and is therefore always the same temperature (in the same way that ice water in your glass is always 32°F) and therefore, water vapor that arises from the Arctic Ocean would not be differentially fractioned in terms of isotopes and would have nothing to do with the isotopes found in the ice core. The reason the stratification is due to differential evaporation at the moisture source, not fractioning during precipitation, is found in Werner et. al., in the same paper, which states that a polar ice core "seems to be a surface temperature proxy" which means the surface temperature at the evaporative source, because "The strength of the deuterium excess signal is in general related to kinetic fractionation effects during evaporation, and can therefore be used as an indicator of changes in temperature and/or humidity at the evaporation site (Vimeux et. al. 1999, Johnson et. al., 1989)." Another reason the Greenland proxy is not local is, during an ice age the Arctic Ocean is completely frozen over, yet ice cores from Greenland from 30,000 years ago, during the depth of an ice age, show similar isotope stratification as during the Holocene when the Arctic Ocean has liquid surface water. Polar ice core proxies are, therefore, hemispheric. The Greenland ice core data, which is a proxy for the northern hemisphere, instead of Antarctic which is a proxy for southern, will be used for this analysis because most humans live up here. High resolution Antarctic ice core results showing Holocene temperatures in the Southern Hemisphere are seen in figure 3g.

The Greenland ice core data are from NOAA: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/metadata/noaa-icecore-2475.html and gives us the following graphs:

 

Figure 3c. The y axis gives temperatures in Greenland and the x axis goes back to around 2,700 BC. Around 1,400 BC it was much warmer than even the medieval warm period, or the modern hockey stick. Our modern temperatures, even with global warming, are colder than some of these peaks, which happened when the CO2 level was very low and nobody was burning anything but sticks.

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Figure 3d. goes back to 11,000 BC and and includes the entire Holocene. Look at some of the giant hockey sticks here, many of which are much bigger AND steeper than the global warming of today. All of this happened, however, when the CO2 level was much lower than today. We are getting into the last ice age. Look how cold it got back then, around 10,000 BC, and look how insignificant our little hockey stick is. It looks like the hockey stick, if it went a little higher, would bring us up to normal interglacial average Holocene temperatures. None of this has anything to do with man-made CO2.

 

 

 

Figure 3e. This is when it starts to get scary. Remember how cold it got at 10,000 BC? It was like that for thousands of years before then. Canada and the northern US and Europe were buried under a mile of ice. Look how lucky we are today and how nice that hockey stick looks, warming us up a little. Feels nice, doesn't it?

 

 

Figure 3f. is when is gets really scary. These data are from Vostok, Antarctica because Greenland ice doesn't go back this far in time. It shows the past several ice ages. It was warm 120,000 years ago, 230,000 years ago, 330,000 years ago, and 420,000 years ago. All the rest of the time it was ice ages. You can't see the hockey stick anymore but it's in the warm part on the right. The warm parts usually last only a few thousand years, and we are past the end of ours and living on borrowed time. Long live the hockey stick!

 

 

 

 

Figure 3g. Ice core results from the Southern Hemisphere proxy at Vostok, Antarctica, showing only the past 12,000 years. Compare to figure 3d., which shows the same time period using the Northern Hemisphere proxy at Greenland Summit. Note that there is very little correlation between the two hemispheres, showing that they operate somewhat independently. The only clear correlation is that the Holocene started around 12,000 years ago in both hemispheres. What is very clear from both hemispheres is that many times during the past 12,000 years, it has been warmer than our current temperatures, without any help from fossil fuel combustion.


From "Global Warming, Alarmists, Skeptics, and Deniers" by Robinson and Robinson, 2012, Moonshine Cove Publishing, Abbeville, SC.

 

The ice cores only go back so far, down to the bottom of the ice shields. Is there a way to find global temperatures before then? Yes, and it's similar to the method used by the ice cores in that it takes advantage of oxygen isotopes, only backwards. When global temperatures are high, more water with the 18O isotope evaporates and forms our ice caps, fills our lakes, and soaks in as ground water, which means less of it remains in the oceans. During these times, the sediment that falls to the bottom of the ocean has less 18O in it. So, ice cores have more 18O in them when it's warm, and benthic sediment cores have less of it. Geologists have studied sediment cores for many years, and have given us graphs showing global temperatures going back millions of years.

Figures 3h. and 3i. show global temperatures for the past 3 million and 65 million years, respectively. They show us that, since the days of dinosaurs, global temperatures have always been warmer than they are now, except during ice ages.

 

 

 

 


Below is a photo of Vice President Gore disproving anthropogenic global warming, but he is too stupid to know it.

He is showing how CO2 correlates with temperature over the past several ice ages. The red line is CO2 and the blue is temperature, for the past 650,000 years. Al Gore is trying to show that CO2 causes warming. We already know, however, that the changes in blue precede the red. In other words, the changes in temperature cause CO2 to rise. (Warming of the earth causes CO2 to come out of the oceans.) VP Gore's antics of raising himself on a 20 foot high lift to show astronomically high CO2 levels, without a concomitant rise in temperature, only proves that he has no idea what he's talking about.

Let's get a better look at the chart he used, and see how CO2 lags behind warming.

 

Below is NASA's energy budget diagram.

It says earth radiates to the atmosphere 398 watts per square meter and receives from the atmosphere 340 of radiation which is a net of 58 Watts IR radiated to and retained by the atmosphere. In addition, on the diagram there is 18 Watts by conduction and convection, and 86 Watts by latent heat. So out of a total of 162 watts, only 58 are radiation absorbed and retained by greenhouse gases. That’s 38%. Conduction, convection, and latent heat amount to 62%, but they have nothing to do with greenhouse gases and CO2 has no effect on them. So, only 38% of the heat emitted into the atmosphere by earth’s surface is IR radiation absorbed and retained by greenhouse gases. The other 62% has nothing to do with greenhouse gases. Of the 38% that is absorbed by greenhouse gases, 90% is absorbed by water vapor and 10% by CO2. So, that means only 10% of 38%, which is 3.8%, can be blamed on CO2.

Once again, that’s 3.8%. This is why nobody should give a shit about CO2.

 


CHAPTER 4. THE SUN

Let me just show you some charts. First, from "The Neglected Sun" by F. Vahrenholt and S. Lüning:

The next one shows increase and decrease of solar activity, from carbon 14 evidence. From Wikipedia. See there, or google it.

 

The next one shows solar irradiance since 1611. On the chart, the zig-zags are the 11-year solar cycles, but the long-term pattern shows that the sun's irradiance has increased by 3.3 W/m2 in the past 400 years, which is more than twice as much as the forcing due to anthropogenic CO2 as calculated by Salby above. 
From "Global Warming, Alarmists, Skeptics, and Deniers" by Robinson and Robinson, 2012, Moonshine Cove Publishing, Abbeville, SC.


 

And here is an updated version of the same thing, showing the years after 2001, and the reason for "the pause":

 

One of the most common claims made by the global warming activists is that the warming from 1908 to 1942 was caused by the sun, but that the warming from 1978 to 2000 was caused by anthropogenic carbon dioxide, but one look at the above graph shows that their claim is without merit. The solar constant is 3.5 W/m2 higher than it was in the Little Ice Age, so the sun is obviously the cause of all warming for the past 300 years.

A new finding is that solar cycles have a greater variability than previously thought, especially their effect on UV production, and there are centuries long cycles in UV production as well. One such study is http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/5/3/034008/pdf/1748-9326_5_3_034008.pdf. Since UV contains more energy than visible light, and longer wavelengths of UV are not absorbed by ozone but do reach the ground, it stands to reason that UV cycles have more to do with warming than previously thought.

And then there is this by Judith Curry: https://judithcurry.com/2024/04/18/how-we-know-that-the-sun-changes-the-climate-part-i-the-past/#more-31168

 

 I think the story is told, so it's time to end this paper. Let's end it with a pretty picture:



Here we have steam clouds coming from a cement factory. Last I checked, steam doesn't hurt the environment. But they are telling us that it's carbon. Not carbon dioxide, which is an invisible gas, but CARBON because carbon is black and sooty and dirty. 
They are nothing but fucking liars.

 


 

 





APPENDIX. Stupid things global warming alarmists say

1."The villagers depend on the glacier melt water, and when the glacier is gone they will all die."

Why it's stupid:

Water doesn't come from glaciers. It comes from precipitation. If there was enough precipitation up there to make a glacier, there will be enough precipitation up there to keep the river running. Billions of people live where the only water to drink comes from creeks and rivers where there are no melting glaciers upstream, stupid.

 

2. "The CO2 level will reach a tipping point where a runaway feedback will make Earth like Venus."

Why it's stupid:

Earth has .04% CO2. Venus has 96% CO2. And Venus' atmosphere is 94 times denser than ours. And Venus is closer to the sun than we are. Comparing Earth to Venus is like comparing a candle to a blast furnace, stupid.

Another reason why it's stupid:

Mars also has an atmosphere that is over 90% CO2, yet nobody compares Earth to Mars.

 

3. "You work for ExxonMobil and watch Fox News, and you are funded by the Koch brothers."

Why it's stupid:

I don't work for ExxonMobil, and I don't watch Fox News, stupid. And who the hell are the Koch brothers?

 

4. "The rate of CO2 rise is unprecedented. It's true that it used to be higher than it is now, but it's the rate of change that has never been higher, and life cannot evolve fast enough to adapt to such a rapid rise in CO2."

Why it's stupid:

CO2 has gone from 280 ppm to 400 ppm in 80 years. That’s 1.5 ppm / year. Unprecedented? Life cannot evolve to adapt to it?

When a greenhouse worker gets to work in the morning, he or she raises the CO2 level from 400 ppm to 2000 ppm in 10 minutes. That’s (1600 ppm / 10 minutes) x (60 min / hour) x (24 hours / day) x (365 days / year) = 84,096,000 ppm / year. No, not unprecedented, and the plants love it and don't have to evolve, and the greenhouse keeper doesn't notice a thing.

 

5. "97% of the scientists are in consensus so it's true."

Why it's stupid:

Like any other political party, the global warming party only allows like-minded people to join. That party is currently in charge of the media, the schools, the presidency, and the IPCC. People who disagree with them get defunded, fired, and blacklisted. Saying that 97% of a political group's own members agree with each other means nothing, stupid.

 

6a. "The reason sea ice near Antarctica is increasing every winter is because water is melting off the land and hitting the ocean, where it freezes."

Why it's stupid:

The ocean water off the coast of Antarctica is colder than Antarctica? How is it possible for anybody to be this stupid?

Another reason why it's stupid:

Climate experts say 83 gigatons of ice is melting every year from the ice shelves around the edges of Antarctica, which freshens the ocean water and allows it to freeze. But high school math tells us that if there are 21 million square kilometers of sea ice a meter thick around Antarctica in the winter, that's 21,000,000 x 0.001 = 21,000 cubic kilometers, or 20,000 gigatonnes. But the sea ice is probably more like 2 or 3 meters thick on average, so you can adjust it upwards to 40,000 or 60,000 gigatons. If you think you can get thousands of gigatons of sea ice in the winter from 83 gigatons of land ice that melts in the summer, you have to be unbelievably stupid.

A third reason why it's stupid:

Sea ice forms a donut around Antarctica. Any melt water coming off the continent would not be able to get to the north side of the donut. A 6 year old child would be able to figure this out, but climate exerts are telling us that in the winter in Antarctica, where it's -60 all the time, ice melts off the glaciers and into the sea, travels 500 miles to the other side of the donut, and freezes. There are no words to describe the depths of this profound stupidity.

 

6b. "The reason sea ice near Antarctica is increasing every winter is because of thermohaline stratification of the Southern Ocean due to global warming. Zinlun Zhang, 2006, says 'an increase in surface air temperature and downward longwave radiation results in an increase in the upper-ocean temperature and a decrease in sea ice growth, leading to a decrease in salt rejection from ice, in the upper-ocean salinity, and in the upper-ocean density. The reduced salt rejection and upper-ocean density and the enhanced thermohaline stratification tend to suppress convective overturning, leading to a decrease in the upward ocean heat transport and the ocean heat flux available to melt sea ice. The ice melting from ocean heat flux decreases faster than the ice growth does in the weakly stratified Southern Ocean, leading to an increase in the net ice production and hence an increase in sea ice mass.'"

Why it's stupid:

A decrease in sea ice leads to an increase in sea ice?

 

6c. "The reason sea ice near Antarctica is increasing every winter is because global warming is increasing rainfall in the Southern Ocean, and rain is fresh water so it freezes."

Why it's stupid:

The sea ice is 5 or 10 feet thick. To make 10 feet of ice, you need 10 feet of rain, which is impossible, stupid.

 

6d. "The reason sea ice near Antarctica is increasing every winter is because of the hole in the ozone layer, making the Antarctic colder because ozone is a greenhouse gas."

Why it's stupid:

Lack of ozone makes it colder, but these other explanations assume it's warmer. You can't make it colder and warmer.

6d. Try again. "No, the lack of ozone makes it warmer by blocking, no, I mean it traps, uh, no wait....

Why it's stupid: Shut up, you imbecile.

 

6e. "The reason sea ice near Antarctica is increasing every winter is because of the wind. The polar easterlies from the continent are getting stronger, because of global warming."

Why it's stupid:

Polar easterlies are caused by the rotation of Earth and the difference in temperature between the pole and lower latitudes. Earth's rotation has not increased in recent decades because of CO2 (</sarc>) and the temperature at the pole has not changed either, but according to warmists, the pole is warming, which would DECREASE polar winds, not increase them. Besides, in 5a. we learned that the land was warmer than the sea. Now we find out that the wind coming off the land is colder than the sea, so we have increasing cold winds from the warmer land make more sea ice, when all the while, the winds are not increasing. I wonder why all that cold polar wind doesn't cool the land and stop land ice from melting in the winter when it's -80 F. Wow, you're dumber than a very large box of really dumb rocks.

 

6f. "The reason sea ice near Antarctica is increasing every winter is because of the wind. I didn't mean the polar easterlies (winds from the continent) are getting stronger, uh, um, it's.....uh, it's the mid-latitude westerlies. Uuhh, yeah. That's right. The westerlies from 40 to 60 degrees latitude blow from the southwest and push the ice northward, making it grow. That's the ticket."

Why it's stupid:

The westerlies around 40 to 60 S latitude come from the northwest and blow to the southeast. They are warming winds that would melt the ice. Look at this, http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-180,-90 , you fucking imbecile.

 

6g. "The reason sea ice near Antarctica is increasing every winter is because blah blah yadda yadda yadda......"

Why it's stupid:

If you need to make up this many reasons for something, you are lying.

 

Here is the real reason sea ice near Antarctica is increasing every year, stupid:

 

 

7. "Water vapor doesn't count as a greenhouse gas because it's a liquid and it doesn't stay in the atmosphere long before precipitating out. CO2 is by far the most important greenhouse gas because it's a gas and not a liquid."

Why it's stupid:

Nobody cares about the liquid or the precipitation, all we care about is the water vapor in the air. The alarmists know that water vapor is so much more important as a greenhouse gas that they have to hide it or downplay it, because it blows their whole theory away.

The real reason
CO2 is an important greenhouse gas is because of the 7 doublings between 3 and 400 ppm and the amount up to 3 ppm. The one doubling from 400 to 800 ppm, which wont happen for a century or two, is not important.

 

8. "Every year over 3000 weather stations in America break their all-time heat records!"

Why it's stupid:

You can't makes statistical statements like this without something to compare it to. How many all-time cold records are broken each year? How many weather stations are there? 3000 out of 5000 would be a lot, but 3000 out of 3 million isn't. How many all-time heat records would be broken if there were no climate change? How many all-time heat records would be broken if the climate were cooling? Statements like this are not science, they are propaganda, stupid.

 

9. "CO2 levels are higher than they've been in 800,000 years!!," says Al Gore.

Why it's stupid:

Al Gore was hoping you'd think 800,000 was a big number. He's forgetting that most people passed the 4th grade, and know that 4.6 billion is a much bigger number. CO2 has been higher than it is now for the other 99.98% of Earth's 4.6 billion year history, and most of that time it has been much higher. See chart 2a. above.

 

10. "The global cooling scare of the 1970s never happened, it's just a myth that deniers made up."

Why it's stupid:

Because people can read. Every piano bench and hat box in America's attics is full of old magazines and newspapers. We've all read them, stupid.

 

 

11. "The ice melting in the Arctic decreases the albedo. Ice reflects sunlight, and melted ice exposes open water and causes the Arctic sunlight to be absorbed, warming the globe."

Why it's stupid:

Sunlight in the Arctic? What sunlight in the Arctic?

The area within the Arctic Circle is 8 million square miles, or around 4% of Earth's 200,000,000 square mile surface. Who cares about such a small area? But even worse, the amount of sunlight that hits within the Arctic Circle every year turns out to be around 1% of the total solar flux that hits the Earth. In other words, talking about the sunlight hitting the poles is stupid, stupid. The tropics are a different story. The area between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn covers 80 million square miles (40% of Earth's surface) and the sunlight that hits the tropics is straight overhead most of the time. This is where the Earth is heated, not the poles, you drooling moron.

The pic below shows incoming solar radiation at the top of the atmosphere minus the amount reflected back by clouds. Do you see any sunlight at the poles? Neither do I. To be fair, this picture was taken in February when there is no sunlight at the north pole, but look at the south pole which is experiencing summer, and you will see it gets only 46.2 to 88.4 W/m2 in the purple band. That's how much the north pole gets in August. The equator is getting 300 to 400 W/m2. This shows that the sunlight that hits the Arctic Ocean in the summer doesn't amount to a hill of shizzle, stupid.

 

 

12. "You cherry-pick your data."

Why it's stupid:

Alarmists fudge, falsify, hide, and lie about their data, AND cherry pick. Showing the northern hemisphere only is cherry picking. Showing the north pole and not the south pole is cherry picking. Talking about 4 drowned polar bears is cherry picking. Hiding the sea level rise of the 1800s is cherry picking. Ignoring global warming before WWII, especially the large amount between 1908 and 1942, is cherry picking. The list goes on and on.

 

13. "You deniers are like the tobacco companies who denied that cigarettes cause cancer."

Why it's stupid:

 Because tobacco causes cancer. CO2 is totally harmless to humans and Earth.

 

14. "Hurricane Sandy was caused by climate change."

Why it's stupid:

Sandy hit the coast at high tide. The daily tides in New Jersey and New York are around 5 feet and the storm surge of Sandy was 13 feet, which adds up to 18 feet. The sea level has risen by around 9 inches over the past 100 years on the east coast. The damage was caused by the 18 feet in a few hours, not the 9 inches in 100 years, stupid.

 

15. "Hurricane Katrina was caused by climate change."

Why it's stupid:

Katrina was so destructive because it hit a major city. Hurricanes cause more damage when they hit major cities, than when they miss major cities.

 

16. Below is a graph that Al Gore has in his movie that proves global warming is not anthropogenic, but he doesn't know it.

 

Why it's stupid:

The graph is made up horse manure and bears no resemblance to any data or study ever done, anywhere. It was produced by Al Gore's art department, probably by a child with a crayon. It's just more disgusting propaganda by a science dunce and bullshit artist liar who makes millions of dollars from climate alarmism, and burns more fossil fuels in a day than you and I burn all year.

 

17. "The science is settled. I don't argue with deniers because it's settled."

Why it's stupid:

Politicians are not qualified to argue the science, so they hire scientists who agree with them, pay those scientists to write papers with the results they want, and defund and fire those who don't. Once all the scientists who disagree with them are on the black list, the science is settled.

 

18. "Humans spew 8 gigatons of carbon into the atmosphere every year."

Why it's stupid:

Giga is billion and billion is a big number, and big enough to alarm. And what alarmists want to do is alarm. But is this a large number when talking about the atmosphere? No, it's a small one. The amount of water vapor in the atmosphere is measured in teratons, and the total atmosphere is measured in petatons. One gigaton is nothing, stupid.

Another reason why it's stupid:

Did you ever notice that global warming alarmists always say "carbon" instead of carbon dioxide? The reason they do this is calculated. It's because people know that carbon is soot, and therefore dirty, as opposed to carbon dioxide which is an odorless invisible gas. It's public relations and propaganda. Carbon dioxide is perfectly harmless and belongs in the atmosphere, you moron.

 

19. "You are anti-science."

Why it's stupid:

Climate science is a branch of environmental science, which is a branch of political science, which is a branch of social science, which is a branch of liberal arts, which is a branch of bullshit artists. We are not anti-science, we are anti-artists. Get it right.

 

20. "The sun doesn't vary in its output by more than 0.2%, which isn't enough to explain global warming."

Why it's stupid:

If we take the 0.2% figure, (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/552889/solar-constant) knowing that the sun heats the earth by about 300K, and do basic arithmetic, we find that 0.2% of 300 is 0.6 °C, which explains global warming, stupid.

 

21. "Greenland ice cores are only a local proxy of temperature."

Why it's stupid:

Isotope concentrations in ice cores are a proxy of the temperatures at the evaporation site. There is no evaporation on the Greenland Summit because it is always frozen. Any evaporation (sublimation) on the Summit would ruin the annual layers found in the ice. Basically, none of the moisture that freezes at the Greenland Summit comes from the Greenland Summit. It's the opposite of a local proxy. It's an "everywhere but local" proxy, stupid.

 

22. "Carbon dioxide is the main greenhouse gas."

Why it's stupid:

According to Murray L. Salby's "Physics of the Atmosphere and Climate," p. 248-9, the greenhouse effect over the past 2 centuries has been increased by 1.5 Wm-2 due to CO2. He continues that this "is about 0.5% of the 327 Wm-2 of overall downwelling LW radiation that warms the Earth's surface. The vast majority of that warming is contributed by water vapor. Together with cloud, it accounts for 98% of the greenhouse effect." Kind of makes you feel stupid, doesn't it?

 

23. "Glaciers are melting all over the world due to human carbon emissions."

Why it's stupid:

Glaciers have been melting for 250 years, when Earth came out of the Little Ice Age. Human carbon emissions didn't start building up until the 20th century. Here's a map by the USGS of Glacier Bay, Alaska. Note that in 1760, Glacier Bay had no bay, just a glacier. Humans had nothing to do with melting these glaciers, stupid.

......stupid.



24. "Global warming will cause crops to fail, farm production will decrease by (insert bogus number here) percent per year."

Why it's stupid:

Longer growing seasons, fewer killing frosts at night, and added CO2, is good for plants. This point is utterly without merit, stupid.

 

25. "You say global warming started over 200 years ago. Yeah, the Industrial Revolution began in the 1700's!"

Why it's stupid:

The Industrial Revolution in the 1700's didn't do anything to CO2 levels, which didn't start changing until the middle of the 1900's. Take another look at figure 1g., stupid.

 

26. "The Little Ice Age" (LIA) was local to Greenland only. The myth that grapes didn't ripen in England in the 1600's is a lie that deniers made up, they had plenty of vineyards in medieval England."

Why it's stupid:

From Vinetum Britannicum, written in 1676, in England:

:

 

.......stupid.

 

Another reason why it's stupid:

Perhaps another chart is in order, showing all the places in the world where evidence has been found of the Medieval Warm Period and the LIA. Please click picture to enlarge:


 

27. "Conspiracy theory, talking points, 97%, etc, etc."

Why it's stupid:

These phrases are part of a new vocabulary invented by AGW alarmists, a sort of shibboleth that has developed. A handful of propagandists have set the standard, and they follow blindly. A sure sign of brainwashing is when the people with washed brains use slogans, phrases that are not part of the normal vocabulary. There is no such thing as a conspiracy theory. A theory? How is that a theory? Somebody in the AGW camp invented that phrase and the parrots repeat it. Talking points? What's that? One thing for sure, they are all full of shibboleth.

 

28. "Warming didn't stop, 14 of the record 12 warmest years have all been in the past decade."

Why it's stupid:

I'm 60 years old. All 40 of my tallest years have been in the past 40 years. That means I'm still growing?

 

29. "CO2 is not good for plants. It causes weeds to grow faster which chokes out the crops. All the good plants, such as trees and flowers, will not grow any faster because of CO2, but all the bad plants, such as ragweed and poison ivy, will. Besides, global warming will cause drought all over the world and harm all the plants. That is, all the plants other than the bad plants."

Why it's stupid:

There is no need to explain how stupid this is. For a good laugh, google global warming poison ivy. These morons expect us to believe that carbon dioxide has caused poison ivy to mutate into a more potent strain. They think we are stupid, but that's what propaganda is all about, isn't it?

 

30. "All this CO2 is increasing asthma and heart disease."

Why it's stupid:

The CO2 is currently 400 ppm outdoors. Indoor levels with windows closed are typically 1000 or 2000 ppm,  in a crowded area such as a nightclub or bagel shop, it can be 5000 ppm. People don't usually feel as if the air is stuffy until around 10,000 ppm, when it may trigger an asthma attack for people subject to them, so it has nothing to do with the 400 ppm outdoors, stupid.

 

31. "You are anti-science,"  part 2.

Why it's stupid:

This implies that climate activists are scientists. Most climatologists have no science aptitude and have never taken hard-core science courses such as basic physics, chemistry, or geology, but instead have liberal arts degrees with majors in such studies as humanities or political science. Many went on to get masters or PhD's in climatology, which is to science what homeopathy is to medicine. It's pure quackery. Real scientists are much too busy building things, inventing things, and creating things to write propaganda for environmental groups. There are no real scientists in the global warming movement, but many who pretend to be. Climate activists can't tell the difference.

They aren't even scientists at all. Real scientists have titles like chemists, physicists, biologists, geologists, MD's, etc. But global warming experts use the word "scientist" because it's an effective term in propaganda, the way it is in advertising, because of the assumption that people are stupid and in awe of "scientists." Kind of like using percentages to sound scientific. "97% of scientists say..." but most percentages are made up BS, just like they are in TV commercials that say 80% of dentists recommend. They never asked any dentists. It's just a commercial.

 

32. "Warming oceans are killing off all the coral, it's bleaching and dying in Hawaii."

Why it's stupid:

Coral thrives in sea water from 39 F to 95 F and above, and has done so for 500 million years, through ice ages and warm ages. The ocean in Hawaii is 72 F and if there has been any warming at all, it's maybe half a degree. Why would coral die at 72.5 degrees when it thrives at 95 degrees?

Another reason why it's stupid:

Wasn't all that coral bleaching supposed to be due to ocean acidification? Now it's the temperature? I guess it doesn't matter, either way it alarms people for the cause.

 

33. "The big oil companies make billions of dollars from selling fossil fuels and use this profit to control science with paid shills to lie about global warming."

Why it's stupid:

The oil companies make about 4% profit from gasoline sales, roughly 14 cents a gallon, while the government adds a large tax on each gallon and makes more money than the oil companies do. It's the government who uses fossil fuel revenue to pay the scientists to lie about the climate. They have zero interest in decreasing the use of fossil fuels, and zero interest in the climate, except to lie about it.

 

34. "Greenland loses 200 gigatons of ice every year when the glaciers at the edge melt or calve into the sea."

Why it's stupid:

Greenland loses 500 gigatons of ice every summer and gains it back every winter, as seen in this graph:

http://beta.dmi.dk/en/groenland/maalinger/greenland-ice-sheet-surface-mass-budget/

In the bottom graph we see Greenland gains 500 gigatons every winter and loses 300 every summer through melting and evaporation/sublimation, making up the mass balance in the ice sheet. The extra 200 gigatons is calved. Climate morons talk about the ice that's calved and never mention the ice that is gained, because they are trying to fool you.

 

35. "Antarctica loses 100 gigatons of ice every year when the glaciers at the edge melt or calve into the sea."

Why it's stupid:

Antarctica has 29,000,000 gigatons of ice. If you think scientists can measure the ice to an accuracy of 100 gigatons out of 29,000,000, you are dumber than a jug of bugs. 

 

36. "Ocean acidification will kill all the coral. Sea shells are made of carbonate which is eaten by acid."

Why it's stupid:

   The pH of fresh water lakes and rivers is usually between 6 and 7.5. There are lots of fresh water coral and shellfish with no problem. The ocean is usually 8.1 pH and never below 7.9, because it is highly buffered, and can't become as acid as fresh water usually is. This one is REALLY stupid.

"Geological studies have demonstrated thousands of times that trillions of tons of coralline and other biogenic limestone were built in the past beneath oceans that were wrapped up by atmospheres containing anywhere from twice to a hundredfold more CO2 than the present. And this happened for more than a billion years at all latitudes around the globe." -Juan Carlos Mirre, geologist and author.

 

37. "The great extinction of 251 million years ago was caused by volcanoes in Siberia which spewed huge amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, killing 96% of life on Earth."

Why it's stupid:

Scientists have known for decades that this extinction was caused by volcanic ash and sulfur compounds from the Siberian Traps (volcanoes). Never in the history of science has anybody been idiotic enough to even suggest that CO2 caused this extinction or any other.....until now. Climate experts are now claiming the CO2 killed off the plants, even though everybody knows that plants do much better the more CO2 you give them. They love the stuff and there is no upper limit. The climatologists of today are among the stupidest people who ever walked the face of the Earth.

 

38. "Big oil forces us to live in fossil fuel heated houses, powered by fossil fuel electricity, take fossil fuel powered showers, eat fossil fuel powered meals, use fossil fuel powered phones and computers over the fossil fuel powered internet, just so the greedy corporate CEO's can play golf."

Why it's stupid:

Nobody used fossil fuels for anything before the 19th century. So, get a horse, some whale oil lamps or tallow candles, heat your house with peat or cow dung, cook with wood stoves, get rid of your iPhone and use the pony express to mail letters, get rid of your iPod and hire live musicians, but mostly, SHUT THE FUCK UP!

 

39.  Maybe CO2 levels were high millions of years ago, it's true. But it's the RATE at which they are changing that matters. Never before have the CO2 levels changed so quickly. Life cannot adapt to such a big change in CO2 levels.

Why it's stupid:

They double and triple the CO2 levels in greenhouses every day. Each morning the CO2 level in a greenhouse is 400 ppm, then when the keeper arrives to work at 8 AM he jacks the CO2 up to 1000 or 2000 pm and holds it there. It takes maybe one hour to raise the CO2 from 400 to 2000 and guess what? That's a much faster rate than you are talking about, and plants love it. And the animals don't care because the CO2 level in their breath is already 40,000 ppm when they exhale so it makes no difference to them.  

 

40.  The pause or hiatus in global warming isn't true, the heat is going into the oceans.

Why it's stupid:

The greenhouse effect works by warming the atmosphere. If something other than the atmosphere is warming, and the atmosphere isn't, then it's not the greenhouse effect, stupid.

 

41. "The California drought proves global warming."

Why it's stupid:

California is not the globe, and weather is not climate (drought is weather, desert is climate). The 3-year drought since 2012 is far from the worst. Take a look at this chart, from January 2015, which shows no downward trend, and realize that they are lying to us by including 2014 as if it's the worst year ever, and they even put it in red. Why is it a lie? Because "water year" 2014 goes from October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015, so all the rain between January and September hadn't happened yet when the chart was made. They publish this crap all the time and call it science.

42. "Even if humans stop making CO2 now, the temperatures will continue to climb because the equilibrium temperature will take a hundred or more years to be reached."

Why it's stupid:

  The radiative response time of Earth's atmosphere to equilibrium is about one month. Atmospheric Radiation, James Coakley and Ping Yang. c. Wiley, page 2.

 

 

 

 

 

GLOBAL WARMING IS WRONG

Most climate activists agree that it will be Scenario A...extreme warming, if we keep using fossil fuels the way we do, Scenario B, moderate warming, if we cut them drastically, and Scenario C if we suddenly stop using them entirely and stop making CO2 completely. It turns out, the 3% of scientists were correct. We got Scenario D.....no warming whatsoever while making more CO2 than we ever dreamed of. This means they are wrong.


The chart below shows that modern warming started around 1810, long before humans did anything to the CO2.


 

Esper, J.; Cook, E.R., Schweingruber, F. H. Low frequency signals in long tree-ring
chronologies for reconstructing past temperature variability. Science 2002, 295, 2250-2253

 

 

This next chart shows 6 different temperature proxies or reconstructions along with the instrument record. All 6 of them show that modern warming started in the 1800's. Four of them show a sudden rise that started around 1810 or 1820 and the other 2 don't disagree with them either. One of these reconstructions was even done by Michael Mann of hockey stick fame. The fact that global warming started over 100 years before humans did anything to CO2 shows unequivocally that humans did not cause it, and that the people who say we did are spreading a myth, a legend, a fraud, a hoax, and communist party politics as usual.

The next one shows that there have been many periods of global warming during the past 3500 years. The steepness of rise during many of theses warm periods was faster than modern warming, and some of them were much bigger. Actually, it shows that the Little Ice Age was the problem, not modern warming, and that all that is happening now is temperatures are coming back to where they belong.

GISP2 data in °C with 0 = -31.22
GRIP data in °C adjusted so 1855 is the same as GISP2 on the y axis 



Speaking of Michael Mann, here is one final illustration. This one shows how tree rings have nothing to do with temperature. See how the tree almost stopped growing in the 1970's and then suddenly started again in the mid-80's? But Mike the Pilt claims that tree rings can be used as a proxy of global temperatures. He thinks nothing affects the rate of tree growth except global temperatures. He's a moron.

Find out the truth about this tree and and why its growth rate changed. It ain't about global warming.




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