Posted on 02/21/2015 6:05:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
To the Editor:
Yet another climate denier letter displaying a scientific illiteracy that is a sad indictment of our educational system: "Humans didn't cause global warming" in the Feb 11 edition of The Sanford Herald. All you have to do is Google "Scientific American global warming" to find out that global warming is an undisputed scientific fact.
Climate scientists know all about previous periods of climate change, that's basic high school science class stuff. They were all caused by something. Scientists call that something a "forcing." They have established that this time the forcing is not any of the previous causes of climate change. It's been proven to be caused by our burning massive amounts of fossil fuels. See the award-winning Skeptical Science website for peer-reviewed climate science data on this.
Why do so many people disbelieve every scientific body in the world and every climate scientist publishing in peer-reviewed science journals (where real scientists show their work and express their ideas)? It's because the fossil fuel industry is fighting for its life and it's fighting dirty, secretly spending millions to spread lies and pseudoscience is right-wing media. (Scientific American, "Dark Money.") They've modeled their denial campaign directly on big tobacco's old denial that smoking causes lung cancer, fake "scientists" and all. (From The De Smog Blog, chosen as one of TIME's 25 best blogs of 2011).
Let's stop listening and (and printing letters from) the misinformed (we see where spreading pseudoscience leads, as measles spreads across our country) and look at solutions to global warming. The main one is to phase out the use of fossil fuels, and that can be very good for our economy, whatever you think of global warming. Most major economists agree, including eight Nobel Prize winners.
Watch "Climate Solutions Citizens Climate Lobby" and "Decarbonization Takes The Fast Lane" on YouTube and see the nonprofit, grassroots Citizens Climate Lobby website for more information.
Pete Kuntz
Northglenn, Colorado
Slavery and evil attitudes towards black people has been a liberal problem, not a conservative problem.
Peter Kuntz: his parents had a cruel sense of humor.
From the alleged author's name, to the statement that 'I googled it and read it on the "Scientific" American website - so it must be true' statement - this just reads like farce.
Peter Kuntz??
That has to be a fake name. Nobody would do that to a child.
That’s as bad as Dick Head.
All that’s been adequately demonstrated concerning “global warming” or “climate change” or any of the other terms used is that humans will fight for or against any idea no matter how preposterous if the price is right...
Offer money in form of grants, status in the form of advancing professional standing and recognition among colleagues, promotions if you’ll back your superiors even when they’re wrong, power to control every activity of the global population, etc. and any “theory” can be advanced...Somebody with a PhD will step up and say “I can do that for you!” And the far too credulous public too easily accepts the pronouncements of the credentialed simply because they’re credentialed...A PhD in economics or sociology does not qualify one as an expert on climate science...Yet many of the so-called “scientists” who’ve scrambled to sign on to the various letters warning of the dire consequences for life on Earth if we don’t all go dark have no grounding in any hard science at all!
Since the beginning of “science”, there have been sloppy practicioners (GIGO) willing to adopt a theory and work backwards to find the “proof” they need, and charlatans willing to advance any “theory” to please their master or patrons...Today, too many in science have set aside the search for the truth in favor of advancing a political position and/or direct personal gain as above...
For the last 4.5 billion years the Earth has been bathed in the radiant energy of the closest variable star, and Earth with it’s tilted axis, eccentric orbit, precession of seasons, plate tectonics, land masses that rise and fall, shifting ocean currents, etc. has alternated from ice ball to steaming tropical climate worldwide for no reason?
But now it’s the burning of fossil fuels, that’s causing the current “change”?
I’m looking out my window here in Denver at the blizzrd that’s burying my driveway wishing for a bit of “global warming”...I think I’ll probably have to wait for May...
No Smoking Hot Spot (The Australian)
Those two articles take Greenhouse Theory at face value and by the criterion set up in the theory itself finds no evidence of warming on the basis of greenhouse effect.
Sky-high hole blown in AGW theory?
"Forbes reports on a peer-reviewed study that uses NASA data to show that the effects of carbon-based warming have been significantly exaggerated. In fact, much of the heat goes out into space rather than stay trapped in the atmosphere, an outcome that started long before AGW alarmists predicted:"
That article explains why no Hot Spot has been found.
The Hidden Flaw in Greenhouse Theory
Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics
Harvard astrophysicist dismisses AGW theory, challenges peers to 'take back climate science'
It Is Impossible For A 100 ppm Increase In Atmospheric CO2 Concentration To Cause Global Warming
Simple Chemistry and the Real Greenhouse Effect.
Those five articles each show that Greenhouse Theory has no basis in reality due to a direct conflict with the known laws of physics. No wonder the smoking gun "hotspot" can't be found.
Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud
That article kills any thought of planetary warming from any cause. Think about it. If there is absolutely no sign of an acceleration of sea level rise how could the planet be warming? The rise in sea level in the last 100 years is far less than the average over the last 18,000 years caused by the inter-glacial period we are in.
Anyone who dare question Lyshenkoism is a racist!!! All soviet scientist, including soviet leadership, agreed that lyshenkoism was 100% fact. Anyone who says otherwise is no longer a person.
Maybe they would have more credibility if:
They hadn’t been wrong about EVERY environmental crisis they have screamed about since the 70’s.
They hadn’t politicized science to promote leftist causes and attack capitalism and free enterprise. Notice how every environmental problem is coincidentally caused by things the left opposes.
They stopped hysterically overhyping the bad while never mentioning potential benefits. Do you really expect us to believe that CO2 will end life on earth in 50 years but you are still against nuclear power?
Long gone are the days when you actually had to know something about science to read Scientific American. Since the 1980s it’s just been another rag.
Well, if your thesis is true that the twaddle dumbs people down, surely reasoned critique will smarten them up again.
Don’t worry about this loser. Think of those who are about to swallow his lies.
Well you seem to be cheering for the dark side.
Indeed.
.... Question ...... If all of this global coldness is a BIG symptom of “Global Warming” ....... Then what would the Symptoms of “Global Cooling” be?
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