Posted on 04/20/2005 5:27:16 PM PDT by presidio9
We can thank our Creator for providing us with Global Warming. Sunshine provides heat. This is Global Warming. Mankind could not survive without it.
The temperature at the sun's core is 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. There are 93 million miles of cold space between the sun and the Earth. Sunshine is composed of microwaves. Matter on Earth is composed of atoms. When the sun's microwaves contact the Earth's atoms, increased electron activity produces heat. None of the sun's heat reaches the Earth.
The correct name for the disaster warnings triggered by "Global Warming" is the greenhouse effect. The theory is that greenhouse gases prevent heat from escaping and temperatures will rise. As of today, greenhouse gases have had a very minor effect on our temperature. The amount of heat we receive from sunlight is balanced by the amount of heat that escapes after the sun sets.
Air is composed of 78 percent Nitrogen, 21 percent Oxygen, 0.94 percent Argon, 0.3 percent Carbon Dioxide, 0 to 4 percent water vapor and other trace gases.
Greenhouse gases consist of Carbon Dioxide, water vapor, cow gas or Methane, and a trace of Nitrous Oxide and Chloro-fluorocarbon.
We could not survive without greenhouse gases. Plants need Carbon Dioxide in order to grow. Water vapor produces rain and snow. Both are a necessity. The amount of Methane is negligible. However, New Zealand has a flatulence tax on each cow and sheep so that they can study "Global Warming".
These dire warnings consist of melting ice, oceans rising, tremendous storms, land turning to deserts, land turning to jungles, increased rainfall, increased dry periods, loss of many species, loss of many plants and growth of unwanted plants.
The world's oceans cover 196,500,000 square miles. How many gallons of water would it take to raise sea level one inch? The world's rivers pour billions of gallons of water into the oceans each day without raising the ocean level. Eighty percent of the world's ice is on the Antarctica Continent. Reports have been made that Antarctica is warming. This is both true and false. A piece of land that extends north of Antarctica is warming. This is 2 percent of the continent. The other 98 percent is in a cooling trend.
If ocean levels rise, how do you tell if the cause is increased water or sinking land? Mountains have risen. Island have sunk. We pump out oil and water and land may sink.
The Industrial Revolution has been here for many years. Many volcanoes have poured vast amounts of gases into the air. Burning oil wells, as in Kuwait, have poured tremendous amounts of gases into the air. We have experienced cooling trends and warming trends. Vast amounts of Carbon Dioxide are trapped by the oceans. No where is it evident that "Global Warming's" dire forecasts are occurring. Locally we experience hot weather when large amounts of hot Equatorial air moves in. We also experience low temperatures when Arctic air engulfs us.
Patrick Michaels book, "Meltdown", be-lies all of today's theories about the perils we will experience from "Global Warming."
Michael Crichton in his book, "State of Fear", be-lies all "Global Warming" theories. At the end, he explains the many mistakes we have made in trying to manage the worlds ecology. He explains that we do not have the necessary information to properly manage the ecology.
Why has this hoax been fostered on the world's people? One answer is "Follow the money." The many environmental organizations have reaped billions of dollars through their campaigns of fighting "Global Warming." The world's media has printed thousands of articles of "Global Warming" and printed many books. Some have become best sellers. The New York Times printed an article about the Arctic ice melting. Later they had to print a retraction. The media readily prints all articles favoring Global Warming without any verification of the facts.
"Global Warming" appears to be a re-enactment of the Chicken Little fairy tale about "The sky is falling."
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Thomas Crosswhite is a resident of Grass Valley.
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(Posted in yesterday's paper by liberal know-nothing):
The recent column written by Mr. Crosswhite (April 1) "Global warming makes money, not sense," was nothing more than a list of simple facts and a leap, with no connecting reasoning, to a conclusion that global warming is a hoax because ... well, because the writer knows a few things that could have been cribbed from an elementary school science book or general encyclopedia. (I suspect scientists studying global warming know that volcanoes exist and the percentages of elements and molecules in the atmosphere. They may have considered those and the other items on Mr. Crosswhite's list.)
To reduce the mass of extensive research studies on atmospheric degradation and the work of dedicated scientists to a sleazy get-rich scheme is an astonishing example of head-in-the-sand reaction to bad news.
I agree with the suggestion to follow the money. Those who think corporations profiting from oil have no financial stake in a petroleum-based economy - and the technological, political, and financial means to saturate our culture to promote their interest - are so fixated on the oil economy as to be blinded to reality and to the exciting and empowering possibility of extricating ourselves from the biggest mess we have ever gotten into.
John McDonald
Grass Valley
Since our first son was born in December, I've not had many chances to read, but since I'm in the car often, I do listen to a lot of books. Current book: Freakonomics. Last book: Human Accomplishment (Charlie Murray). Next book: Lewis and Clark.
And the problem with "facts" is ?????
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FUnny this should come up while I'm searching for such posts. I just changed the channel and stopped on the Weather Channel. They were showing a scene from a recent legal whale hunt in Alaska. Little did I know that moments later I would find the real purpose of the show - it was all about global warming and the effects on Alaska and the Arctic Circle. They mention that there has been over 600,000 square miles of ice that have disappeared.
Of course - no mention of the fact that such warming periods and ice melting has happened before in history - long before man could be blamed for the climate change.
Don't know Mr. Crosswhite, but I appreciate his article. Amazing what legs a phoney political agenda can have.
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