Posted on 12/26/2006 10:36:26 AM PST by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The general warming of global temperatures in recent decades appears to mostly be the result of a regular, sunspot induced climate cycle that has been occurring roughly every 1500 years for at least the past one million years. Climate physicist S. Fred Singer and Dennis Avery, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, discussed the substantial evidence for their new book "Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years," at a Hudson Institute book forum in Washington, D.C. last month.
The book is said to make a very powerful case that the current climate trends we are currently seeing are in fact part of a product of a solar-linked cycle that creates harmless naturally warmer conditions approximately every 1500 years.
Dennis Avery, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, an agricultural economist and former senior analyst in the Department of State, began the discussion noting that the Romans grew wine grapes in Britain in the first century and records indicate grapes were being grown there again in the 11th century, both situations indicating that today's temperatures are not unprecedented.
Additionally, scientific analysis of ice cores from Greenland and the Antarctic found that there is a clear record of a moderate, abrupt 1500-year climate change cycle running all the way through all the major warmings and all the ice ages. Cores taken from the seabed of six oceans, including the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Arabian Sea have also revealed the same unmistakable 1500-year cycle.
The authors relate that one seabed core from near Iceland that goes back a million years revealed that the 1500-year cycle runs through the whole million years.
Avery and Singer, a professor emeritus of environmental research at the University of Virginia and the former first director of the U.S. National Weather Satellite Service, have concluded that the alarmist predictions about how much the earth will warm in the near future are based on a radical overestimate of how much carbon dioxide changes the earth's temperatures.
The massive and natural release of carbon dioxide by the oceans; the fact that "three-fourths of our modern warming occurred before 1940, which was before much human-emitted CO2"; demonstrably false claims of a scientific consensus on global warning; and the fact that it isn't even as warm today as "it was during the medieval warming when the Vikings were able to grow crops in Greenland" - bolster the authors' politically incorrect claims on this dominating issue.
Avery and Singer do not deny the greenhouse effect but state that it is small. They state, "What we're suggesting is that both history and the recent pattern of things, particularly the warming before 1940, would indicate that the CO2 impact is a good deal smaller than the climate models which are telling us to be frightened."
Avery concludes, "it looks to me as though 75 to 80 percent of the warming I see can be credited to the natural cycle". Even then, the authors emphasize, the degree of overall warming that can be expected will be relatively harmless and does not warrant the alarmism and extreme economic and political measures being proposed.
The highly influential scientific magazines, Science and Nature, are also called to account by the two climate experts for their serious omissions and misrepresentations on the entire global warming issue.
To read the full fascinating transcript of this book forum see:
http://www.hudson.org/files/publications/UnstoppableGlobalWa...
The left wants us to be frightened so that they can destroy capitalism and freedom.
BTTT
Great find!
Avery and Singer are obviously right wing traitors in collaboration with evil corporations against our mother earth!!!!!!!
And promote the dictatorships of the elite.
It shows how crucial Kyoto is....
:-P
I'm sure Al Gore and his ilk will sweep this under the rug.
Somebody needs to slap Al Gore up side the head. Tell chicken little that the sky is not falling.
Good. Now that it's settled will someone kindly tell Al Gore to STFU!!!!
The belief in man-caused global warming is a religious belief.
To ridicule it is to ridicule your neighbor's religion.
"Additionally, scientific analysis of ice cores from Greenland and the Antarctic found that there is a clear record of a moderate, abrupt 1500-year climate change cycle running all the way through all the major warmings and all the ice ages. Cores taken from the seabed of six oceans, including the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Arabian Sea have also revealed the same unmistakable 1500-year cycle."
Evolutionist and extreme liberal scientist Bill Nye the Science Guy had this on one of his programs, but made sure the kids knew it was going to be horribly worse this time because of their parent's cars.
Paging Doctor Al Gore! Paging Doctor Al Gore!
CLIMATE CHANGE DENIERS!!!
"The belief in man-caused global warming is a religious belief."
Correct. As is the whole "carbon neutral" thing.
The article doesn't even mention the work of Svensmark that provides experimental confirmation of the mechanism: it's not a cycle in the amount of heat the sun produces, but in solar magnetism, which shields the earth from cosmic rays. Cosmic rays, as confirmed by Svensmark's experiments, are a key component in cloud formation, a cooling process. His calculations show that 85% of global warming observed in the past 70 years can be attributed to this effect. I'm not sure whether that's directly, or including the amplification by the release of CO_2 from the oceans as they warm. If it's the direct effect only, between that an agricultural methane, surely we've got the whole thing explained w/o any appeal to industrual emissions.
ping
They will be getting letters from Senators soon telling them to stop disputing what is already accepted scientific fact on the environment. Dissenting views will not be tolerated.
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