September, 2014 I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science, Part 1: The Arctic Ice Cap Is Growing and Other Climate Change Realities

On a semi-regular basis we have taken an in-depth look at ALL pertinent and relevant global warming/climate change data, statistics, trends, and science under the theme, “I am a global warming doubter and a believer in science.” It was our feeling and position that the people who believed and supported the theory that humanity’s actions was causing global warming and climate change were not being completely honest in their discussion. 

It seemed that they were cherry picking information to prove their point rather than looking at all of the information available to reach a scientifically sound basis. To make matters worse, their attitudes to towards those of us that were believers in science but were skeptical about the whole global warming thesis to be honest with you just ticked us off. People like Al Gore go about bashing folks like ourselves, calling them ignorant of science, racists, homophobes, and other derogatory names just because we want to look at the entire picture, just not a slanted, narrow and quite possibly incorrect view of reality.

Past discussions under this theme in this blog can be accessed by entering “I am a global warming doubter” in the search box above. By reviewing those discussions and posts with an open mind, you will find that the science on man made global warming/climate change is far from settled, contrary to the views of global warming advocates. That conclusion is further verified by the latest research and realities that will be discussed below in today’s post and probably over the next few days.

1) One of the things that drive us doubters crazy is the denial of reality by the people like Al Gore that refuse to look at real life data and realities that are contrary to their views. Even when reality smacks them in the face, even when their forecasted events never take place, they still cling to their narrow view of science and data to prove they were never wrong about global warming.

About seven years ago, Al Gore predicted that things were getting so bad that global warming could lead to the Arctic ice cap being “completely gone” by the year 2014. 

Well, since it is now 2014 and the ice cap is still with us, this is another global warming prediction that proved to be false. In fact, according to scientific sources and data cited in a recent article in the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper, the Arctic ice cap is actually expanding rapidly, not shrinking rapidly:

• According to the article, the Arctic ice cap has expanded by 41% over the past two years.
• If this is indeed true, the ice cap has made up all of the ice mass which it lost between 2009 and 2012.
• The article claims that satellite images show that the summer Arctic ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7 million square kilometers more than just two years ago. 
• This area is twice the size of Alaska.
• The satellite images taken from University of Illinois's Cryosphere project, using daily satellite readings issued by the US National Snow and Ice Data Center, verify this finding.
• The latest readings of the ice cap size were highest levels recorded since 2006. 
• The article goes on to cite other sources including the Danish Meteorological Institute whose analysis and data indicate that the growth has been even more dramatic. 
• Using a different measurement, the Danish Meteorological Institute that the ice cap has grown by 63% in size and is thicker than in the recent past, making it less susceptible to future melting.

Now, some global warming advocates might shoot the messenger here, the Daily Mail, since it is not a part of the “mainstream” U.S. press. But given the sourced data and information, shouldn’t a true believer in science investigate the claims to be sure that critical data and realities are not excluded from the discussion? 

But if people like Al Gore did indeed look at ALL data and all science, then they might prove that their views were wrong and that usually is a truth a global warming advocate usually cannot handle.

The entire Daily Mail article can be accessed at:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2014/08/30/arctic-ice-cap-expands-41-percent-two-years-al-gore-thought-it-might-be-?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Marketing&utm_term=Facebook&utm_campaign=Gore-Ice#sthash.356nXuiz.dpuf

2) A Senate minority report on global warming/climate change was recently published by the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on September 4, 2014: “Critical Thinking on Climate Change - Empirical Evidence to Consider Before Taking
Regulatory Action and Implementing Economic Policies.” The report is a comprehensive review of the latest science and realities as it applies to the global warming/climate change debate in Washington.

The document is well sourced, easy to read despite a lot of the science referenced and is the type of information that should be used to formulate scientifically based legislation. The entire publication can be accessed at:

http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=3f33b3c9-a28b-4f6c-a663-50c7d02fda24

Rather than try to explain all ninety or so pages of the research, I will give you the highlights below and allow you to dive deeper in to the publications' findings, research, and conclusions on your own.

Top line conclusions on our changing climate dispute the assertions of people like Al Gore:

• Rising sea levels due to climate change? Nope, sea levels are stable. 
• Increased frequency of wildfires due to climate change? Nope, the incidence rate of wildfires is down. 
• More severe weather due to climate change? Nope, sever weather frequency is normal. 
• Increased frequency and intensity of hurricanes due to climate change? Nope, frequency and intensity of hurricanes are down. 
• Dwindling number of polar bears due to climate change? Nope, no discernible drop in populations of polar bears,
• Increased accuracy of climate change computer forecasting models? Nope, models get worse and worse as time goes by in their predictive accuracy.

The publication also takes a look at what is happening in other countries relative to climate change:

1. Australia repealed their carbon tax after the severe and negative economic consequences of such regulation was recognized.

2. Australia is now investigating serious concerns with corruption of the temperature records to falsely and artificially produce a warming trend that did not exist. The publication points out that it is important to note that similar charges and concerns have been raised with in other countries and with other scientists who were caught and/or accused of changing real life data to better fit their non-real life models and hypotheses.

3. The economic impacts in European Union countries that adopted climate regulations, including Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom have been disastrous. Serious concerns are now being raised over the economic viability of their manufacturing sectors as well as budget and energy poverty concerns.

4. The poor and elderly are suffering the worst consequences from 

these policies.

5. India has since identified Greenpeace as an economic threat,

with Greenpeace long having a record of making significant, scientifically implausible claims. 

6. China and India, the two countries whose economic growth is resulting in the bigger and bigger use of coal for power, have indicated that they will not attend the UN summit conference in New York City this year.

7. Only 11 of the 144 original parties to the Kyoto Protocol have thus far signed an extension.

Thus, two overall conclusions drop out of this effort, conclusions that are not at all different than the conclusions we have already come to a number of times in previous posts based on different scientific data and realities:

1. All of the dire predictions of people like Al Gore, relative to man made activities and the negative effects on the earth’s health, have not come true.
2. Even if the U.S. was to embark on a sever climate change/carbon footprint reduction effort, any savings in the world’s overall carbon footprint in this country would be substantially offset by the increased carbon footprint of other countries who are increasing their use of carbon intensive coal (e.g. China and India), not signing up for the Kyoto protocol extension, and who are backing off other carbon reduction activities because of economic hardships

Thus, the U.S. would be severely crimping our economy well being for a problem that might not even exist in the face of other countries who do not care.

That will do it for today. More realities relative to the Arctic ice cap and a well sourced, well written review of today’s global warming/climate change reality prove once again that it is perfectly logical and sane to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, despite what Al Gore thinks and what slurs he might cast. 

And the best news for doubters: we are not done with this update. We will need at least one more day to further prove that doubters are realists that look at all science and all realities.

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Wishing Al Gore Would Shut Up, Why I Am A Global Warming Doubter But Still A Believer In Science - Part 1

Between the upcoming elections, the ever increasing political class insanity, and the dire economic strait’s the political class has imposed on us, we have not had a lot of time to discuss global warming. However, Al Gore has brought the topic back to the forefront with his typical shallow, and in this case uncaring comments, regarding the tenuous and inane connection between Hurricane Sandy and global warming.

I say uncaring because as I write this, several days after Gore tried to make the connection of Sandy to global warming, thousands and thousands of people were without a combination of power, shelter, food, and hope. This was not a time to stoke you own ego and views, it is a time to help those Americans that need help.

If man made global warming is a reality, it will not be cured in the next few weeks. Mr. Gore should have just shut up for a while, there will be plenty of time to continue the debate without distracting the news networks, the country, and America from starting the hurricane support and recovery efforts. But having a politician put himself in the background is always a little too much to expect.

But egomaniacs need to be in the news, maybe Mr. Gore should have considered some weather history as it relates to the northeast. Let’s start with the Hurricane of 1938, 74 years ago and way before the theory of global warming was formed. Research on the impact of that long ago storm uncovers the following details:

• In September of 1938, the hurricane grew to become a huge Category 5 hurricane on the before making landfall as a Category 3 hurricane, obviously a huge storm, larger in ferocity than Hurricane Sandy’s Cateogry 2 status.
• The hurricane glanced by NYC and hit land on Long Island on September 21.
• The hurricane was estimated to have killed between 682 and 800 people, more than Hurricane Sandy is expected ot have killed despite higher population density than Long Island in 1938.
• The 1938 storm damaged or destroyed over 57,000 homes and caused property losses estimated at $306 million ($4.7 billion in 2012).
• As late as 1951, damaged trees and buildings were still seen in the affected areas.
• According to Wikipedia, this 1938 storm “remains the most powerful, costliest and deadliest hurricane in recent New England history, eclipsed in landfall intensity perhaps only by the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635, 377 years before Hurricane Sandy.

Thus, Hurricane Sandy is not this once in history event, it was more than equaled a very long time ago. But Wikipedia also does an in depth history of other northeast storms:

• The Great September Gale of 1815 (the term hurricane was not yet common in the American vernacular), which hit New York City directly as a Category 3 hurricane, caused extensive damage and created an inlet that separated the Long Island resort towns of the Rockaways and Long Beach into two separate barrier islands.
• The 1821 Norfolk and Long Island, a Category 4 storm which made four separate landfalls in Virginia, New Jersey, New York, and southern New England, created the highest recorded storm surge in Manhattan of nearly 13 feet and severely impacted the farming regions of Long Island and southern New England.
• The 1869 Saxby Gale affected areas in Northern New England, decimating the Maine coastline and the Canadian Outer Banks. It was the last major hurricane to affect New England until the 1938 storm.
• The 1893 New York hurricane, a Category 2 storm, directly hit the city itself, causing a great storm surge that pummeled the coastline, completely removing the Long Island resort town of Hog Island.

Thus, to think that one storm proves man made global warming is ludicrous. Stronger storms over the past few centuries, before global warming could have even been considered, have come and gone with the resultant damage and loss of life.

This continual preaching and whining by Gore and others like himself get really tiring over time. To accuse folks like myself, global warming doubters, is an insult to our beliefs and trust in science. We believe that unbiased scientific research and sane and rational approach to a problem is the correct way to go, not the pop science and sensationalism that Gore and others scream from the roof tops without looking at ALL of the research.

We have covered this garbage science in two previous posts:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2012/10/i-am-global-warming-doubter-and.html

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2012/02/i-am-global-warming-doubter-and.html

These two posts went into great detail to show why we are global warming doubters, based on research and science, not Al Gore.

However, since we did those two post, additional research and science on man made global warming has come to the surface. The United Kingdom’s Daily Mail newspaper reported in an October 13, 2012 article on the latest worldwide temperature readings and research:

• The world stopped getting warmer almost 16 years ago, according to new data released in early October.
• The temperature readings and findings come from over 3,000 measuring points, on land and sea, around the world.
• The latest measurements reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012, there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures.
• This means that the ‘plateau’ or ‘pause’ in global warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996.
• Before that, world temperatures had been stable or declining for about 40 years.
• Since 1880, the first time reliable temperature statistics have been kept, the average world temperatures are up only .75 degree Celsius.

As always, scientists had differing views of what the data means:

• Professor Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, dismissed the significance of the plateau, saying that 15 or 16 years is too short a period from which to draw conclusions. The professor did not provide any insight on what the proper period would be.
• Judith Curry, who is the head of the climate science department at Georgia Tech university, said it was clear that the computer models used to predict future warming were ‘deeply flawed’.

Who to believe? Whatever the case, there is substantial SCIENTIFIC proof out there in the world that man made global warming is not a reality. Unfortunately, our media industry has deteriorated so far away from integrity that we seldom hear about contrary evidence against global warming, instead having to sit through the non-scientific rantings of people like Al Gore.

But what if man made global warming is a reality? Well, rather than continuing to yell at each other, we proposed a solution to this potential problem in the following post:

http://www.loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2012/02/united-states-of-purple-presidency_09.html

This solution would solve many real problems and address the potential problem of man made global warming in such a way that was market driven, was fair, kept any additional wealth out of the hands of our politicians, and did not need a huge government bureaucracy that would likely be inefficient and ineffective, like every other government bureaucracy.

On Monday we will examine a logical way to approach the problem that is much more coherent and sane than Al Gore ranting about a single weather event that has not happened in the last 74 years. I contend that my approach is a more realistic than his. And my way does not distract the world from the suffering that Hurricane Sandy vicitms are still living through.

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