Global Warming? An Open Letter to John McCain

Family Security Matters ^ | April 28, 2008 | Raymond S. Kraft

[Delacon]

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[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

The facts detailed in this letter are concise and inarguable ones.

Tragically, however: it is a deeply ingrained personal habit of McCain never, ever to listen to anyone whose last name isn't "Kerry," "Kennedy" or "Clinton."

[devere]

McCain is too stupid and too stubborn to listen to reason.

[kingattax]

[lesser_satan]

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[cherokee1]

I have a treefarm. Got several thousand pine trees getting a really good start. Those trees need a lot of CO2 to do well. If the numbnutz in Washington figure out a way to cut back on CO2 I’ll have to start burning tires to save my trees. It’s beyond dissapointing to hear Bush and Newt buying into this “cut emissions” Krap.

[TADSLOS]

This isn’t about facts. It’s about adding more government largesse and pushing wealth re-distribution. Bush has signed on to outmaneuver libs for the power it brings. McCain is reaching for the power play that goes with it as a POTUS candidate and Gingrich has a new book to sell. None of them give a damn about the fact that global warming is a scam. In fact, they are more than happy to take full advantage of it while the low hanging fruit is there to pick.

[muir_redwoods]

Human caused global warming is the phrenology of the 21st century

[PA-RIVER]

McCain is difficult to read on this. My instinct tells me he may be dumb enough to believe all the “GW” crap, but he is also a two faced sum bucket. He may be using this to get the moron vote. Either way he makes me sick.

Open comment to Juan McCain: Go F yourself.

[Eye On The Left]

If you look at the chart below, you will see that sunspot activity (during solar maxes--the individual peaks) has been relatively high since about 1900 and almost non-existent for the period between about 1625 and 1750. This period is known as the Maunder (sunspot) Minimum or "Little Ice Age".

From BBC News [yr: 2004]:
A new [2004] analysis shows that the Sun is more active now than it has been at anytime in the previous 1,000 years. Scientists based at the Institute for Astronomy in Zurich used ice cores from Greenland to construct a picture of our star's activity in the past. They say that over the last century the number of sunspots rose at the same time that the Earth's climate became steadily warmer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3869753.stm

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It's really hard to imagine how this little ball of fire could have any impact on our climate at all.

But the main arguments being made for a solar-climate connection is not so much to do with the heat of the Sun but rather with its magnetic cycles. When the Sun is more magnetically active (typically around the peak of the 11 year sunspot cycle --we are a few yrs away at the moment), the Sun's magnetic field is better able to deflect away incoming galactic cosmic rays (highly energetic charged particles coming from outside the solar system). The GCRs are thought to help in the formation of low-level cumulus clouds -the type of clouds that BLOCK sunlight and help cool the Earth. So when the Sun's MF is acting up (not like now), less GCRs reach the Earth's atmosphere, less low level sunlight-blocking clouds form, and more sunlight gets through to warm the Earth's surface...naturally. Clouds are basically made up of tiny water droplets. When dust particles in the atmosphere become ionized by incoming GCRs they become very 'attractive' to water molecules, in a purely 'chemical' sense of the word.-Eye On The Left

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2008: "The Center for Sun-Climate Research at the DNSC investigates the connection between variations in the intensity of cosmic rays and climatic changes on Earth. This field of research has been given the name 'cosmoclimatology'"..."Cosmic ray intensities – and therefore cloudiness – keep changing because the Sun's magnetic field varies in its ability to repel cosmic rays coming from the Galaxy, before they can reach the Earth." :
http://www.spacecenter.dk/research/sun-climate

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It's not like ice ages have never happened before. Or that we aren't due for a new one any century now.

Ice ages typically occur about every 100,000 years, a result of 3 periodic earth orbital deviations occurring roughly at the same time. These are: slight periodic changes in the tilt angle of Earth's axis, slight periodic changes in the 'shape' of Earth's orbit (degree of its ellipse) and a slight wobble of the axis itself (this is different than angle change).

Also, if you look very carefully at the graph you posted, you'll see that temperature increases (the blue line) actually PRECEEDED CO2 increases (red line) throughout this entire interval spanning the past 400,000 years. In fact, on average, they precede them by a whopping 800 years! In other words, it looks like temperature increases *caused* the CO2 increases, not vice versa. The lefties are well aware of this problem and have offered up many lame brain explanations for it. Actually, one idea does make sense: as global temperature increased (naturally) and the oceans warmed, they were less able to contain dissolved CO2 and so it was eventually released into the air (like a warm bottle of soda). The CO2/temp figures used in this graph are based on ice core data from Antarctica.

...oh, speaking of lame brains, I don't think Al Gore mentions this difficulty at all in his blockbuster movie. Also, the most important greenhouse gas of all (by a long shot) is water vapor. It actually accounts for between 75-95% of the GH effect --yet another inconvenient truth Gore leaves out of his film.-Eye On The Left

[xcamel]

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[stockpirate]

Boy you guys are McCain bashers. Better watch out. The McCain anti-free-speech thugs (pro McCain/Feingold) here on FR will be here shortly to make all sorts of wild claims about you two.

But I think they dislike my tagline.

[stockpirate]

“McCain is too stupid”

I think that part of what you wrote is all that is needed.

[stockpirate]

Is this a global warming ping list or an anti-McCain ping list, whichever doesn’t matter, sign me up.

[Delacon]

Make no mistake. I am voting for McCain in November. He wasn’t my first, second or third choice for the republican nominee but I see the democratic field as so dangerous that I will go vote for him. This doesn’t mean that I won’t fight him on policies he has/will have with which I disagree. 8 years of President Bush has me used to fighting republican presidents with which I profoundly disagree.

[stockpirate]

I agree with you 100% and the parts I agree with him on great, but on the others I am going to fight him tooth and nail.

[devere]

“Boy you guys are McCain bashers.”

I’d be delighted if John McCain reversed his stand on the Gore global warming hoax and forced me to eat my words. But I’m not holding my breath waiting for that to happen. Maybe Fred can knock some sense into John. Fred gets it.

[imintrouble]

Hate to get nitpicky with Raymond S. Kraft - author of your post - but he lost my attention when he addressed Senator McCain as “Mr.”

Senator McCain has earned his official elected title whether you like him or hate him.

[JoJo Gunn]

McCain is too stupid and too stubborn to listen to reason.

That goes for his droids as well.