Lorne Gunter: Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof

National Post ^ | October 20, 2008 | Lorne Gunter

[managusta]

In early September, I began noticing a string of news stories about scientists rejecting the orthodoxy on global warming. Actually, it was more like a string of guest columns and long letters to the editor since it is hard for skeptical scientists to get published in the cabal of climate journals now controlled by the Great Sanhedrin of the environmental movement.

"An analytical chemist who works in spectroscopy and atmospheric sensing, Michael J. Myers of Hilton Head, S. C., declared, "Man-made global warming is junk science," explaining that worldwide manmade CO2 emission each year "equals about 0.0168% of the atmosphere's CO2 concentration ... This results in a 0.00064% increase in the absorption of the sun's radiation. This is an insignificantly small number."

[managusta]

The money quote is the final sentence of the report.

"It may be that more global warming doubters are surfacing because there just isn't any global warming."

Therefore I could not beat the response by " osaycanuc"

"Can't you just hear the hot air whooshing out of this balloon? PHSSSSSSSSST! To wit, the lack of comments here, where one might normally expect to see a torrent - nay a geyser! - of piqued opinion as to the relative science around either side.

Checkmate, anti-capitalist, anti-consumerist, anti-carbon buffoons. Your bandwagon is running out gas!"

[scooter2]

Globally, volcanoes put out far more CO2 annually than does industry and motor vehicles. I don't see anyone suggesting we outlaw volcanoes.

[NonValueAdded]

BTTT

[SAJ]

Oh, just give the lefty moonbats a little more time. They'll get around to some sort of scheme to control volcanoes (think really big stack scrubbers). And really big fans imbedded into the mountains East of LA to blow the smog away, too, while they're at it. (Yes, I recall that episode of the Beverly Hillbillies, long ago).

[xcamel]

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[astyanax]

When volcanoes are outlawed, only outlaws will...
never mind.

[Myrddin]

Facts don't matter. It is ideology driving a desire to seize control politically and economically. The lefty policy changes will do far more damage than any imagined "anthropogenic CO2".

[listenhillary]

Your bandwagon is running out gas!

Obama's going to give us a free windmills for our band wagon, so there! Nya!

(/sarcasm off)

Find later self ping.

[fanfan]

Thanks for the ping, Xcamel.

[alwaysconservative]

Thanks for the ping!

[edcoil]

Does not matter, government will implement “green” solutions at any cost for the next few years then take the credit.

[B4Ranch]

I think with the downturn in the economy, frankly we just can’t afford to have a global warming catastrophe, so we won’t.

[varmintman]

The evidence we have is that our planet goes through hotter and colder periods lasting for decades and centuries, e.g. the medieval climate optimum, little ice age and, further back, the late Holocene climate optimum or hypsothermal. The conceptual problem some have despite the evidence involves the received notion that stars are thermonuclear engines. IF that were the case, there would be no reason to expect solar activity to increase or decrease periodically and thus cause planetary weather changes.

Stars are not thermonuclear engines; They are plasma-physics phenomena. They're basically similar to lightning rods i.e. focal points of cosmic discharge. As they pass through regions of space with greater or lesser electrical potential from themselves, they heat up or cool off.

[NVDave]

Oddly enough, that’s exactly what the Europeans are now saying.

Funny how that works, eh?

[Max in Utah]

Stars: As they pass through regions of space with greater or lesser electrical potential from themselves, they heat up or cool off.

First time I've heard of this.

Got any links which discuss this phenomenon?

[rwfromkansas]

While interesting, I seem to remember reading the satellite data can be deceiving and not give an accurate picture compared to actual ground readings.

Still, the point that there is no doubt a cyclic nature to cold and warm periods is true.

There most certainly is a cycle, and we are due for a cold period. Whether all the warm period has been due to that cycle or even most of it, however, could be hard to tell.

[GOPJ]

Gore could be freezing to death and he'd still be yelling about “global warming”.

Could liberals as narrow minded and rigid as they seem?

[Myrddin]

Some of the satellite data is inaccurate due to failure to account for orbital decay.

[varmintman]

>Got any links which discuss this phenomenon?

www.thunderbolts.info

http://www.plasmacosmology.net/

http://www.holoscience.com

www.kronia.com

http://www.plasma-universe.com

www.cosmologystatement.org

Google searches on 'plasma cosmology' will produce more if that isn't enough.

[NorCalGuy]

I notice a subtle shift of concern from Global Warming to Climate Change. This allows Al Gore to sound the alarm no matter what the weather does.