July, 2017, Part 3, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science: NOAA Says No To More Storms, More Failed Predictions, and Solar Panels Are Bad,

Every month we have enough material to return to a continuing theme in this blog, namely that “I am a global warming doubter AND a believer in science.” This became of interest because of people like Al Gore who fanatically and verbosely claimed that you had to be an idiot to not believe in manmade global warming. It has been my life belief that anyone that is that loud and that obnoxious is hiding something, that rather than argue facts and reality it is better to beat down and insult anyone who disagrees

As we have dove into the whole issue of manmade global warming, or its new rebranded title of climate change, we found that Al Gore and people like him were guilty of a number of things:

• Ignoring science and realities that did not support their opinions and positions.
• Rather than have an adult conversation about climate, these types of advocates like Gore sank to the level of insulting those who dared look at ALL science by calling them a variety of names including racists, homophobes, terrorists, flat earth believers, and other slanderous names.
• Continuing to insist that politicians step up their intrusions into our lives with higher taxes, more regulations, and more control of our freedoms and standards of living based on a shaky theory at best.

To see the past posts and the multitude of evidence that we have compiled that showed it is perfectly okay to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, enter the phrase "global warming doubter” in the search box above or go through the monthly historical posts listed on the right side of this page.

Thus, let’s see the latest facts and science that prove you can be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, regardless of what Al Gore proclaims.

1) Al Gore, Barack Obama, and other global warming advocates like to claim that man made global warming and climate change are causing all kinds of havoc with the environment. But we have shown that actual government data shows that hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, and such are at historical rates or even at lower than historical rates.

And the latest government data from NOAA confirms that this reality still probably holds true:

• Kimberly J. Smith, writing for the Conservative Tribune website on April 5, 2017, discussed the reality that NOAA has officially come out to state that it is premature to link human activity to stronger storms, specifically hurricanes.
• The NOAA report and research concluded: “It is premature to conclude that human activities — and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming — have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane or global tropical cyclone activity,” the NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory report said.
• This finding supports the conclusions back in March, 2017 from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC - the primary United Nations climate change advoate organization) reported “no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century.”

Real data proving again that it is perfectly sane to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science. Especially when science and real data show that global warming should be doubted.

2) A June 29, 2017 article on the CSC Media Group's website by Michael Luckette gave a short but nice summary of some of the failed predictions that global warming advocates are produced over the years:

• Al Gore predicted back in 2006 that within ten years there would be a “true planetary emergency: “Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes,” 
• Eleven years later that “true planetary emergency” is nowhere in sight.
• In 2010, the Guardian newspaper of Britain reported that the United Nations was warning that humanity had as little as 8 years to avoid seeing a dangerous 2 degree Centigrade rise in the Earth’s temperature, a rise that never happened.
• Three years ago and over 1,000 days ago France’s Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, warned everyone that: “we have 500 days to avoid climate chaos.”

At some point a sane person has to realize that when your theory on anything is ALWAYS wrong, maybe your theory is wrong, as illustrated in just the three examples listed above. 

But maybe that day of reckoning is finally dawning on global warming advocates, as illustrated in a research paper from a recent article in Nature Geoscience that admitted there have been: “differences in model and satellite tropospheric warming rates. In the early twenty-first century, satellite-derived tropospheric warming trends were generally smaller than trends estimated from a large multi-model ensemble.”

Maybe just maybe global warming advocates are having reality settle in and now we can have an adult conversation on global warming that looks at ALL of the science and ALL of the research and ALL of the data to try and figure out what is really going on, if anything.

3) One of the great options that is supposed to save humanity and the planet from global warming is solar energy. I am sure that all hard core global warming advocates are also big supporters of solar energy, their view likely being that solar is clean and non-polluting and not a contributor to CO2 levels in the atmosphere that cause global warming. Solar energy has a rep for being clean and safe, not like the use of those nasty fossil fuels.

But is solar energy really the savior of the environment and so pure and wonderful? Julie Kelly, writing for the National Review on June 28 2017, has a somewhat different view on solar energy:

• A new research study by Environmental Progress (EP) warns that toxic waste from discarded solar panels now poses a global environmental threat. 
• The Berkeley, California-based group, a geographic area certainly not famous for its conservative tenets, found that solar panels create 300 times more toxic waste per unit of energy than nuclear power plants. 
• They also concluded that discarded solar panels, panels that contain high levels of dangerous elements such as lead, chromium, and cadmium, are piling up around the world, and that nothing is being done to limit their potential danger to the environment. 
• Michael Shellenberger is the founder of EP: “We talk a lot about the dangers of nuclear waste, but that waste is carefully monitored, regulated, and disposed of. But we had no idea there would be so many panels — an enormous amount — that could cause this much ecological damage.”
• EP researchers Jemin Desai and Mark Nelson found that scavengers in countries like India and China “burn the e-waste in order to salvage the valuable copper wires for resale. Since this process requires burning off plastic, the resulting smoke contains toxic fumes that are carcinogenic and teratogenic (birth defect-causing) when inhaled.” 
• Japan is already scrambling for ways to reuse its mounting inventory of solar-panel waste, which is expected to exceed 10,000 tons by 2020 and grow by 700,000 to 800,000 tons per year by 2040.
• There is a similar problem brewing in this country where we have more than 1.4 million solar energy installations, many of which are nearing the end of their life cycle.

So fixing one perceived environmental hazard might actually be creating another environmental hazard. 

Now, in the interest of balanced discussion, a spokesperson for the Solar Energy Industries Association, Dan Whitten, has come out to dispute EP’s research findings, claiming that solar panels are : “mainly made up of easy-to-recycle materials that can be successfully recovered and reused at the end of their useful life.” 

Mr. Whitten is not only fighting against these findings and pollution estimates about the end of solar panels, he also has to fight some estimates of the pollution caused by the creation of solar panels, as estimated from an Associated press investigation in 2013 that found:

• From 2007 to 2011, solar panel manufacturing just in the state of California created more than 46.5 million pounds of sludge and contaminated water.
• About 97% of this polluted sludge and water was stored in waste storage locations within the state but more than 1.4 million pounds were taken to 9 other states which required additional energy to be burned in the transportation of said sludge and water.
• As the article concludes correctly, “There is nothing environmentally friendly about creating mountains of hazardous waste in an effort to reduce CO2 emissions.”

When analyzing a problem, you must look at the entire problem to fully understand not only the magnitude of the problem but the potential consequences of any solution you propose. Otherwise, you end up with the above situation, where the potential solution of one problem, man made global warming (assuming that is even a reality), creates another, equally bad or worst problem, massive environmental damage.

Three more examples proving that being a global warming doubter and a believer in sciences is a sane, rational person to be.

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