Posted on 04/01/2016 9:58:29 AM PDT by pabianice
Here are some disturbing things we have learned since December, when the nations of the world reached a landmark agreement in Paris to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
In January, scientists reported that 2015 was by far the hottest year on record, and another record could be set this year.
In February, a Princeton-based research organization said the tidal flooding that has already made life miserable for people in coastal cities like Miami and Charleston is getting steadily worse.
In mid-March, a group of experts, including James Hansen, the retired scientist who first brought the perils of climate change to Congress’s attention in 1988, warned that shifts in climate could be sudden and abrupt, giving humanity little time to prepare for flooding, severe droughts and other upheavals.
Now comes another scary prediction: If carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels continue unabated, the vast West Antarctic ice sheet could begin to disintegrate, causing the sea to rise by five to six feet by the end of the century, destroying coastal cities and low-lying island nations and creating environmental devastation within the lifetimes of children born today.
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Are they seriously just repeating these “facts” in the hope that they just become accepted?
Huh? What scientists??
It’s not necessary to consult a compass to see that the sun is rising in the east, but other phenomena of the natural world don’t fit as easily into the realm of “settled science.” That includes the nature of the earth’s changing climate, despite President Obama’s insistence that is does. New evidence about the impact of greenhouse gases on the earth’s temperatures indicates that the president and his Environmental Protection Agency have some explaining to do. His account should spell out exactly what he expects to accomplish by spending a large fortune on climate control.
Harvard researchers published a paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters last month indicating that U.S. levels of atmospheric methane, a greenhouse gas, increased more than 30 percent between 2002 and 2014. The scientists compiled satellite and surface readings of methane to arrive at their finding, one that directly contradicts the EPA’s estimate that methane during that period had not risen at all, owing to the agency’s efforts to hold it down with air-quality regulations.
The implication of the research is unsettling. It challenges the central premise of the president’s climate change policy — an undeniable link between increasing greenhouse gases like methane and rising temperatures — and that the government must step in with strict regulations to save the planet. In defiance of computer-model forecasts, there has been an 18-year “pause” in the warming trend even as heat-trapping gas was supposed to have billowed across the landscape. The contradiction between prediction and measurement has the look of a well-cooked hypothesis.
Stubborn environmentalists reached a different conclusion from the new study. In an upcoming cover story in The Nation magazine titled “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Chemistry,” Bill McKibben, a “climate activist,” accuses the EPA of failing to block hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a natural gas drilling technique in which methane sometimes escapes into the air. “We need to stop the fracking industry in its tracks, here and abroad,” he argues.
This is a convenient argument for opposing fossil fuels in any form, an argument drawn from fantasy, not facts. “The global burden of atmospheric methane has been increasing over the past decade, but the causes are not well understood,” say the Harvard researchers. “The U.S. has seen a 20 percent increase in oil and gas production and a ninefold increase in shale gas production from 2002 to 2014 … but the spatial pattern of the methane increase seen by [the satellite] does not clearly point to these sources.” Just as methane doesn’t track with states where fracking is concentrated, the measurements don’t track with higher temperatures. “Facts are stubborn things,” John Adams observed.
I hate when continents run away. You never know what they will bump into.
I thought the pole would hold it in place.
The ones operating on government grants, of course...
“Global Warming’s Terrifying New Chemistry,” Bill McKibben, a “climate activist,” accuses the EPA of failing to block hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a natural gas drilling technique in which methane sometimes escapes into the air.
I wonder if this idiot realizes “fracking” has been going on since 1947??????
Or if he realizes methane has been entering the atmosphere since the begining of time.
The only thing “new” about “fracking” is the word “fracking”...The technology has been in use for almost 70 years....
Eco freaks who knew nothing about the technique took the word and panicked...as they usually do....
Yes. Something to ponder the next time you fart.
Pay attention!! Anyone who support the global warming mantra is a “scientist”. Anyone who opposes is a “denier”. That, apparently, in the MSM writing style guide.
Wonder when he will suggest “fart bags” on the rear ends of cattle????
Fact: 90% of the world’s ice is in Antarctica.
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Fact: The part of Antarctica which is warming and losing ice is the Western Peninsula, which comprises 2% of the continent.
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Fact: The rest of Antarctica is cooling and gaining ice.
The Medieval Warm Period was warmer.
The Roman Warm Period was warmer.
The Minoan Warm Period was warmer.
And that's just three warmer periods since the last Ice Age.
You're just being a denier! Don't forget...England and Ireland were under water then. Right? That's why there's no record of those countries during the Medieval period. All islands were under water in fact. Scary stuff! /s
They should start publishing their climate hoax articles exclusively on April 1st, so that they can find a way to save face once the scientific field has been de-politicized.
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