November, 2014: I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science

Every month or so we have a series of discussions around the theme of “I am a global warming doubter and a believer in science.” This thread started a number of years ago when I felt that those on the global warming bandwagon were not looking at all of the available science and were just cherry picking science and research that favored their position, ignoring other findings, realities, and science that disputed the concept of global warming.

What really pushed us down the road as we delved deeper and deeper into the possibility that global warming, and its rebranded theme of climate change, was the hysterics of people like Al Gore. Mr. Gore would go into rages when anyone dared question the concept of global warming, at various times calling doubters like us racists, homophobes, and a slew of other slurs and insults.

Our view that calling people names for having a different opinion is no way to have an adult conversation and reach a consensus plan of attack against the problem, assuming there was one. And that is a big assumption since after presenting dozens of posts with hundreds of counter examples to both man made global warming and man made climate change, it has become pretty clear that those who doubt the concept of global warming and still believe in science are probably on much more solid scientific ground than those that rant and rave like Al Gore.

To prove our point and look at the accumulated realities, data, and science we have previously put together, just enter: “I am a global warming doubter” in the search box above. For the latest news and realities, continue reading below with our latest update on how it is okay and rational to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science.

1) For some reason, Secretary of State John Kerry seems to think that global warming and climate change are so real that they are more dangerous to us than ISIS rampaging across the Middle East, Russian’s Putin exerting his arrogance and strength over eastern Europe, the rise of China’s economy and military, the potential of Ebola and a whole host of other international threats. But how does his concerns match up with the rest of America’s concerns? 

A recent Gallup poll shows that relative to the rest of America from a priority perspective, Kerry is not of this reality:

• Only 40% of respondents identified climate change as either “very important” or “extremely important” to their votes in the Gallup poll.
• The top concern of Americans in the poll are the economy (88%), followed by the availability of good jobs (86%), the way the federal government is working or not working (81%), and Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria, i.e. ISIS, (78%).
• All of these were close to or more than twice as important to Americans than Kerry’s climate change concerns.
• Also having more importance and being of more concern than climate change were equal pay for women (75%), the federal budget deficit (73%), foreign affairs (69%) and taxes (69%).
• Getting closer to climate change but still way ahead of it were immigration (65%), Obamacare (64%), income and wealth distribution in the U.S. (64%), abortion and access to contraception (50%), followed finally by climate change (40%).

Despite these findings and the poor showing of climate change in the poll, Kerry still insists that climate change is “the most serious challenge we face on the planet.” Maybe on the planet where he lives but certainly not on this planet or in this country. 

Even if he is right, and the odds of that being a reality continue to shrink as we look at ALL of the available science and realities. Until he can convince India, China, and others to follow his concern, anything the U.S. does relative to climate will be wiped out by the growth of fossil fuel use such as coal in these other countries. Until he can be a real Secretary of State and convince others to follow his lead, he needs to get out of our way to fix the other, more pressing problems that Gallup identified.

2) Earlier this month, Kerry issued the following statement: “The bottom line is that our planet is warming,” Secretary of State John Kerry said that the same day he attended a cold and snowy football stadium to watch the New England Patriots play football in his home state of Massachusetts. The reason why issuing that statement was such poor timing is that the snow storm that day up in Massachusetts was the strongest early-November snowstorm in over a century. 

Talk about bad timing, wrongly insisting that the earth was currently warming while looking at a once in a century snow storm. We have shown scientific data many times in this blog which shows that the earth stopped warming about 18 years ago:

As he was saying, “The bottom line is that our planet is warming due to human actions, the damage is already visible, and the challenge requires ambitious, decisive and immediate action," Massachusetts was trying to get through a storm that brought “the most snow recorded on any November 2 in 120 years,” according to the Boston Globe.

Bad priorities, insanely bad timing, not the characteristic anyone wants in its top diplomat.

3) While weather is not climate, they are related. That is why one would think that someone like John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, would know something about both. That it is why noting how he went off in a recent CNN interview when he corrected the CNN talking head and insisted that he was a climate skeptic: “I’m a skeptic about climate change, not a denier. CNN has taken a very strong position on global warming that it is a consensus. Well there is no consensus in science. Science isn’t a vote. Science is about facts. …It has been become a big political point of the Democratic Party and part of their platform, but the science is on my side.”

I wonder if Al Gore would have the guts and arrogance to call John Coleman a racist or homophobe to his face? Mr. Coleman takes the same approach that we have taken through all of this series: look at ALL of the science before reaching a definitive conclusion. His performance on CNN can be viewed at: 

http://conservativevideos.com/founder-weather-channel-destroys-cnn-hello-everybody-theres-global-warming/

4) I think that one of the things that ticks off global warming doubters the most, besides the insulting approach of Al Gore and his kind, is when ignorant news people try to tie everything to man made global warming and climate change. Wildfires out west? Must be global warming. A flood in Rhode Island? Must be global warming. Cold weather at a football game in Massachusetts? Must be global warming.

But one of the most inane attempts to try and tie something to global warming comes from a recent Huffington Post article, "Trick of Treat? The Frightening Climate Costs Of Halloween Candy," which tried to tie the use of Halloween candy to man made global warming and climate change. 

How does one get from giving out Halloween at your front door for a few hours a year lead to “frightening climate costs?“ According to the article: “Many Halloween candies contain palm oil, the large-scale, monoculture production of which is driving deforestation, extinction, human rights abuses, and climate change!”

Let’s put a few pieces of candy in perspective:

• China is implementing enormous energy infrastructure programs in the western part of the country to substantially expand its use of its western coal reserves to generate electricity to be shipped all over the country.
• India continues to built coal powered power plants throughout its country.
• Neither China or India attended the most recent UN meetings on climate change, basically telling the rest of the world it will do what it wants from a fossil fuel perspective.
• Many European countries are reverting back to using dirty brown coal in their power plants as Russia starts to restrict the amount of natural gas it sends to western Europe from a political stalemate perspective.

There are a few more realities in this world relative to climate change that are more important than Halloween candy. To think other wise, to think that Halloween candy has frightening consequences for the climate relative to China, India, and Europe, is foolish, shoddy journalism, and makes the whole Al Gore crowd look even more desperate and out of touch with reality.

5) One more piece of global warming insanity for today. Rhode Island Senator, Sheldon Whitehouse falsely believes that global warming exists and that it will cause the oceans to rise so much that parts of his home state of Rhode Island will eventually be submerged under water on a permanent basis. As a result, he has fully supported the Obama and EPA drive to shut down as much use of coal in this country as possible, even if:

•  It will cause the cost of U.S. electricity to skyrocket.
• No matter what Obama and the EPA do, it will little effect in the face of overwhelming increases in the use of coal by other countries.

Additionally, a recent paper by Tom Harris, the Executive Director of the Ottawa, Canada-based International Climate Science Coalition and Bob Carter, a former professor and head of the School of Earth Sciences at James Cook University in Australia disputes all of Whitehouse’s claims and fears:

• According to these scientists, the September 2013 report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change states: “Sea-level rise is not accelerating. The global average sea-level continues to increase at its long-term rate of 1–2 mm/year [0.04-0.08 inches/year] globally” – or four to eight inches over the next century.
• In reality, no global (atmospheric) warming has occurred for the last 18 years, even though CO2 levels have risen 9% during this time.
• There has not been significant ocean warming since at least 2003.
• As a result, the ocean is not expanding and cannot be causing extra sea-level rise. 
• According to the conclusions of Harris and Carter, the global rate of sea-level rise has actually decreased over the past ten years.
• Both the Greenland and Antarctic ice fields have been expanding in recent years which significantly lessens the chances of Rhode island going under.

A more detailed analysis of their work can be found at:

http://joeforamerica.com/2014/10/ri-flooding-wvs-fault/

That will do it for this update to global warming doubting, a quick hitter of the latest doubting information. We have a Secretary of State who is now dabbling in science for no good reason while the rest of the world goes to pot, a weatherman tearing up a CNN host for his ignorance of global warming, and two scientists reviewing the realities of the Earth’s climate while tearing up the ignorance of a U.S. Senator. It is still perfectly logical and rationale to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science.

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