Those of us that have expressed our doubts about global warming have been the target of childish and brutal slurs by those that believe in the global warming process. Al Gore, the most ardent global warming supporter, has been the most vocal and disgusting taunter of those that have their doubts. We will review his latest slurs in a few days but constantly yelling at someone who does have quite a bit of science on their side in an effort to convince them of your point of view is stupid and fruitless.
Today and tomorrow we will review some summary findings from previous posts that we have done in this blog under the theme, “I am a global warming doubter but a believer in science.” See, those that doubt the many global warming theories are often accused of being blind to reality and not believing in the “science” of global warming.
We must be ignorant dunces not to believe what Al Gore states. These previous posts debunk that fallacy by reviewing a slew of scientific findings and research from credible scientific sources that cast many a doubt on global warming, now climate change, hysteria.
The detailed original posts from “I am a global warming doubter but believer in science” can be accessed at:
The following is a summary of the detailed findings that can be read at these links, a summary which we will complete tomorrow. After these two days of summary, we will look at the latest scientific findings and research that further support our position that you can be a believer and devotee of science but still have serious doubts of anything Al Gore states.
1) A climate study published in the journal, Nature, in the summer of 2012 seemed to debunk previous claims that earth’s temperatures in recent decades are in any way historic. The research study was done by Professor Dr. Jan Esper at the Institute of Geography at Johannes Gutenberg University.
He used tree-ring density measurements from ancient pine trees native to Finnish Lapland to produce a climate reconstruction reaching back to 138 BC. He found that the earth’s climate was much hotter on this planet during Roman times than previously believed, long before man was driving cars around and throwing carbon into the atmosphere.
According to the article, his researchers were able to precisely demonstrate that the long-term trend over the past two millennia has been towards climatic cooling. According to Dr. Esper: "We found that previous estimates of historical temperatures during the Roman era and the Middle Ages were too low. Such findings are also significant with regard to climate policy, as they will influence the way today's climate changes are seen in context of historical warm periods."
A novel scientific approach, based on scientific data and measurement that casts some serious doubt on the assertion that we are in a unique period of man made global warming.
2) The data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), as reported in several sources including the website Real Science:
indicate that the Antarctic ice cap has never been larger. If global warming is occurring, and the Antarctic ice cap is many times larger than the Arctic ice cap, why is the southern hemisphere ice cap bigger than ever? I have no idea, I am not an expert on these things, but it seems a reasonable question to ask and try to answer in light of what the global warming alarmists are trying to tell us.
In fact, as we will review in a couple of days when we review the latest global warming findings, the Artic ice cap grew tremendously in the past year, making it larger and more expansive than it is been in quite a while. Is global warming, climate change causing more ice to form in the Arctic?
3) On March 28, 2012, a joint letter signed by 49 former NASA engineers, astronauts, and scientists was sent to upper management personnel at NASA, accusing NASA of short circuiting the scientific process by presupposing certain facts and theories that support the man made global warming theory without a sound basis for doing so.
The attached signatures of the 49 people included their years of NASA service and included veterans with over thirty and forty years of service. Now, none of these 49 appeared to be experts in climate studies. However, most of them appear to be experts in scientific methods, methods that they felt were not being properly used or not being used at all to support the man made global warming theory. They are like myself, believers in science but perhaps doubters of the man made global warming theory.
4) According to a recent article in Slate.com written by Bjorn Lomborg:
- In 2012, United States’ carbon emissions, the assumed culprit in man made global warming, dropped to their lowest level in 20 years.
- The emissions are down 14% from their peak in 2007. The main reason for the drop is not due to government intervention in the marketplace with massive legislation, taxes, and bureaucracy but the simple fact that the growth in natural gas development, mostly via fracking, which has resulted in low cost natural gas availability.
- High gas availability has led to lower prices and costs for natural gas which has led utilities to increase the use of cleaner burning gas vs. dirtier burning coal, which is about twice as carbon intensive than gas.
- In total, the U.S. carbon emissions dropped by a whopping 500 megatons a year, about twice the total impact of the infamous Kyoto Protocol on emissions throughout the rest of the world, without any cap and trade laws being passed.
5) Several years ago the Environment Protection Agency suppressed a report from one of its own employees that called into question and raised doubts about the validity of the global warming theory. The author, Alan Carlin, an EPA employee, was told not to release his findings and was also told to discontinue working on climate change issues entirely.
Carlin and his co-authors accused the EPA and other government agencies of ignoring scientific analysis that is casting doubt on global warming and for relying too much on the work of outside organizations that "have tended to accept the findings reached by outside groups, particularly the IPCC and the CCSP, as being correct without a careful and critical examination of their conclusions and documentation." Their report also went into some degree of detail which contests the global warming claims of these organizations.
I have no idea if Carlin's accusations and report are accurate and valid. But as someone who believes in the scientific process, the report should have been released and rebutted on a factual, peer reviewed, scientific basis. Instead, he was told by his boss at the EPA, Al McGartland, "Please do not have any direct communications with anyone outside of (our group) on endangerment. There should be no meetings, e-mails, written statements, phone calls, etc." Not very scientific, and very suspicious, when you suppress data, research, and analyses just because it conflicts with your view. That is not science, that is politics.
6) An article in the December 9, 2012 issue of The Week magazine reviewed how a recently released set of illegally hacked emails, taken from the leading global warming science establishments, one in England and one in New Zealand, cast doubt on whether those scientists who believe man made activities are causing global warming are actually being unbiased in their work.
According to the article, the emails reveal that the people working in these establishments state that their global warming forecasts models are not correctly predicting reality, that they needed to ensure that “inconvenient data are ‘well hidden’ though various tricks.” According to Christopher Caldwell, writing in the Financial Times, after reviewing at least some of the emails, the scientists "openly discuss how to make the threat of climate change seem as urgent as possible and how best to wage a political and PR campaign against their perceived enemies."
It gets very scary, and very suspicious, when scientists admit that their models do not work, their science and data are being manipulated, and they are just as involved in PR campaigns and politics as they are in research. Hardly a scientific approach or mindset.
7) According to an article in the Boston Globe, Ivar Giaever, a Nobel laureate, quit as a fellow of the American Physical Society over the Society's unequivocal position that man made global warming is "incontrovertible" and his personal position that no "scientific assertion is so sacred that it cannot be contested."
As a Nobel laureate, I am assuming that Mr. Giaever is well aware of unbiased scientific research protocols and procedures in order to find the truth. I am also assuming that that the accusations he puts forth against the American Physical Society are based on data, reports, or actions he witnessed and were not made up. If they were, I am also assuming that a reputable paper like the Boston Globe would not have published them.
8) The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is comprised of some of the top physics scientists in the world. CERN is the organization that is primarily responsible for the development of the World Wide Web and it built the multi billion dollar Large Hadron Collider in Europe. It is affiliated with 8,000 scientists at more than 600 universities in 60 countries. I do not think there is any doubt that CERN is the epitome of quality, unbiased scientific research.
In the summer of 2011, CERN scientists conducted global warming experiments where they actually modeled global warming conditions in a lab environment. To do so, they "built a pristinely clean stainless steel chamber that precisely recreated the earth's atmosphere." (Source: European Union Times, September 3, 2011). The experiments they conducted were carried out by 17 European and American institutes and 63 CERN scientists. Their findings were then written up and published in the highly acclaimed scientific publication/journal, Nature.
Their findings and conclusions: the sun's changing cosmic rays and their role in cloud formation, rather than man made carbon emissions, are responsible for the earth's warming temperatures. Wow, real scientists working at a prestigious research facility using scientific means concludes that global warming is not caused by anything man is doing.
All of those people who believe that science is a great way to learn, even if it upsets their belief that man is causing global warming, should have been hungry to learn about this new, scientifically derived knowledge. However, I could not find mention of these findings in any main stream media. Al Gore has not embraced this new scientific information. The EPA has not announced it is reconsidering its position its position on global warming, given this new scientific information and data.
In fact, the follow up controversy to these findings is the belief of some of the scientists involved that the Director General of CERN, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, was trying to suppress the findings, wanting "the results to be presented clearly, but not to interpret them."
But isn't that what trained scientists do, develop experiments and interpret results? Is this another case of suppressing information and findings that are not coherent with man made global warming side? If so, isn't this a misuse of science, scientific principles, and scientific integrity?
CERN proves there is great validity to the fact that man made global warming is potentially a myth. Global warming advocates misuse scientific principles and fail to admit when their models are wrong. The U.S. Federal government represses the scientific principle of peer review when it suppresses taxpayer funded work from its own employees.
This completes the first half of our reviewing previous scientific work that proves you can be a global warming doubter and still be a firm believer in science. We will finish up the second half of that review tomorrow and then follow with new evidence that proves global warming doubters are not as evil as Al Gore would have you believe.
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