Sorting out the truth on global warming

St Petersburg Times ^ | April 23, 2007 | BILL ADAIR

[Waco]

Shut up, hold still, and let us pick your pocket.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

No kidding.

[Son House]

Democrats won’t stop buying gasoline,
their doing it at an increasingly alarming rate.

[Thrownatbirth]

Shut up, hold still, and let us pick your pocket.

Please don't take my toilet paper square!

[Fresh Wind]

Scientists involved with IPCC study acknowledge there were minor problems with supplementary information in the original 1998 study that became known as the hockey stick report.

The computer model responsible for the hockey stick produced that same result regardless of what information was fed into it. That's a "minor problem"?

[Zon]

Newsweek published a story in 1975 headlined "The Cooling World."

"There are ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production - with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth," the article warned, citing a "sudden, large increase" in snow cover and a drop in the amount of sunshine reaching the continental United States. 

Less sunlight reaching Earth causes global cooling. More sunlight reaching Earth causes global warming.

If Earth had no atmosphere it would be as cold as the moon. But Earth does have an atmosphere. So where does the heat come from? Like a thermos that you can put hot chocolate in to keep warm, the thermos retains heat that  slowly dissipates. When the Sun reduces the amount of heat sent to Earth the heat dissipates faster and cools Earth and the atmosphere.. When the Sun sends more heat to Earth the heat accumulates and warms Earth and the atmosphere.

As expected, it has been found that Sun cycles correlate with the rise and fall of temperature on Earth.  For all intents and purposes the Sun is the cause of global warming and global cooling.

"With all due respect to your noble profession," Schmidt said in an interview, "I would have to caution people not to believe everything they read in Newsweek or Time."

The scare tactics have flip-flopped four times over the last eighty-some years.

 

 

[Zon]

The following graphs show that Earth is in a brief period of global warming called an interglacial. The longer time spans, the deep troughs are glacial periods. The line that runs across the graphs is the temperature in 1950 and listed as "0" on the left axis.

As can be seen in Figure 1-5, Earth appears ready to move toward another ice age in the cycle.

I'm more concerned with sustaining global warming to offset global cooling and the next ice age. 

Ice Ages & Astronomical Causes
Brief Introduction to the History of Climate
by Richard A. Muller

Origin of the 100 kyr Glacial Cycle

This first graph looks bad, doesn't it -- steeper upward temperature trend. Horizontal red line is temperature at 1950.

Figure 1-1 Global warming

The second graph shows today's temperature isn't out of the norm. Horizontal blue line is temperature at 1950.

Figure 1-2 Climate of the last 2400 years

The next graph shows a downtrend in temperatures from 8,000 years ago to today. The down trend is steeper in the recent 2,000 years. From left to right the upper spikes have lower highs while the lower spikes have lower lows. (The same effect can be seen in Figure 1-2, above.) 

Figure 1-3 Climate of the last 12,000 years

This graph shows that agriculture and  stationary societies emerged 8,000 years ago during a time frame when global temperature was much higher than normal, or average.

Figure 1-4 Climate of the last 100,000 years

The next graph shows that the recent 8,000 years was one of five brief hot spikes when glaciers were at minimums. With much longer troughs when glacials (ice ages) were the norm most of the time.

Figure 1-5 Climate for the last 420 kyr, from Vostok ice

The graph below is reversed. That is, the left side is present day and the right side is 3 million years ago. It shows a 3 million year down trend toward widening extremes in the temperature cycle.

Figure 1-6 Climate for the last 3 million years

The final graph shows CO2 lagging temperature change -- not leading it.

Figure 1-7 CO2 and temperature for the last 450 kyr

When man can cause meaningful global warming yesterday would be a good time to begin thwarting the next ice age.

Great documentary: The Great Global Warming Swindle

[thedilg]

Several times the author avers to a dramatic and fast rise in earths temperature but never tells us what it is. It seems that the orbiting satellite that monitors world temperature has if anything dropped an insignificant amount over the last 8 years. Where is the dramatic and recent increase?

Godspeed, The Dilg

[David Isaac]

Google says the video is not available.

[Zon]

Google has deleted the URL. Same thing happened on You Tube. Here's a new link to watch it on You Tube:  The Great Global Warming Swindle  Here's a new link to the video on Google: The Great Global Warming Swindle.

If the above links don't work use the respective search function at each Website. Type: The Great Global Warming Swindle.

[Zon]

See post 11.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

You really need to take computer modeling with a grain of salt.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thanks for the post and information.

[Nextrush]

The only “Global Warming” I believe in is the heat of my anger at this fraud perpetrated by government, business, media, education and the left-wing nuts that are mixed into all these institutions.

The fear campaign about “climate change” permeates education.

They are all talking about “sustainability” and other crap like “carbon credits” and such.

This issue is a propaganda campaign for a political agenda of more government and less freedom.

[newfreep]

It's available via google...at least for awhile.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2332531355859226455

[BufordP]

ping.

[Always Right]

Sorting out the truth on global warming

This is not the truth, this is propaganda of the IPCC. It is on1y the truth if you take what the g1oba1 a1armists as gospe1.

[xcamel]

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Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown
Dr. John Ray's
GREENIE WATCH

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[GBA]

Great post! The graphs confirm several things for me, the first being that people with an agenda can tell a very believable lie with the truth.