Though sometimes difficult, one can still cull authoritative information which scientifically contests politically correct viewpoints regarding global warming. And with costly global warming-friendly legislation such as cap-and-trade still threatening us all, we should do our best to stay informed.
In my July 30th post, I reported on the May 2008 submission of a petition to Congress and the President by 31,000 scientists representing the Oregon Institute of Science & Medicine which debunked doomsday global warming scenarios and warned against shortsighted and ill-conceived legislative fixes.
Now these latest tidbits from the scientific community:
1. Canadian climatologist T. Ball warns that “if we are facing a [global climate] crisis at all, it is that we are preparing for warming when we should be preparing for cooling.”
2. Australian scientist Peter Harris asserts that “the Earth is nearing the end of the typical interglacial cycle and is due for a sudden cooling climate change.” He goes on to say that “based upon careful analysis we can say that there is a 94% probability of imminent global cooling and the beginning of the coming ice age.” He notes that climate is currently unstable and that “most of the natural climate processes we are witnessing now are interdependent and occur at the end of each interglacial period, ultimately causing sudden drought.”
3, Noting that over the last 500,000 years there is a 100% [--that's 100%--] correlation between gravitational cycles to the beginning and ending of global warming cycles, in his book, Global Warming-Global Cooling, Natural Causes Found, the culmination of 19 years of research, meteorologist D. Dilley writes that “by 2023 global climate termperatures will become similar to colder temperatures in the 1800’s.”
4. The Russian Academcy of Sciences warns that “Earth is now at the peak of one of its passing warm spells which started in the 17th century when there was no industrial influence on the climate and no such thing as the hothouse effect.” In a companion story, Oleg Sorokhtin of the Academy notes that “carbon dioxide is not to blame for global change,” and goes on to say that “solar activity is many times more powerful than the energy produced by the whole of humankind. Man’s influence on nature is a drop in the ocean.”
5. Victor Herrera, a Mexican geophysicist, reports that global warming prognostications “are incorrect because they are based solely on mathematical models and present results from scenarios that do not include solar activity.” He concludes that “in 2 years or so there will be the beginnings of a little ice age that will last 60-80 years” and that “the immediate consequences [of these changes] will be drought.”
6. UK astrophysicist P. Corbyn asserts that “there is no evidence that CO2 has ever driven or ever will drive world temperatures and climate change. Worrying about CO2 is irrelevant.”
7. A recent U.S. Senate committee report highlighted Russian physicists’ collective projection that “global temperatures will cool–not warm–within the next decade.”
So, despite the politicization of this subject and the beltway’s general acceptance of global warming as an incontrovertible fact of life, what is actually occurring in our global climate is still hotly contested among rank and file scientists. On such a weighty subject, it is well past time for an open and responsible scientific discussion of this subject at the national level. A ”climate change commission” representing all scientific viewpoints and perspectives should be convened and tasked with developing a coherent body of data and recommendations for the consideration of both Congress and the President. Why? Because the current mixing of politics with science is both shortsighted and insane. The damage caused by misguided legislative action could be incalculable.
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