October, 2019, Part 1, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and a Believer In Science: Obama's Hypocrisy, Firing Real Scientists, and More

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 man made 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 man made 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 on 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 post 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) We have often discussed and pointed out examples where global warming advocates either make up data and statistics or misuse them in order to make a point that is often pointless. We know that leading global warming scientists around the world have been caught fudging research numbers to get the answers they want, not what reality is telling them. We are told over and over again that 97% of climate scientists tell us that mankind is causing global warming and just as often we have shown what a bogus number that 97% is.

Unfortunately, a real life scientist using real life data got royally screwed for the simple act of being honest:

• According to an article by Warner Todd Huston on October 21, 2019 reported on the Godfather Politics website how a real scientist got fired because she proved that polar bears are not being killed off by climate change/global warming.
• Susan Crockford, a zoologist by training and profession, proved that polar bears are not dying out because of climate change.
• After teaching at the University of Victoria for 15 years, her contract was not renewed and she has been shown the door at the university without any comment or reason from the university.
• She has been a leading researcher in both the history of dog domestication and an in-demand speaker on her scientific research into polar bears.
• She claims she was fired because her views did not support the theory of man made global warming and climate change.
• According to the Washington Times: “Ms. Crockford accused officials at the Canadian university of bowing to “outside pressure,” the result of her research showing that polar bear populations are stable and even thriving, not plummeting as a result of shrinking Arctic sea ice, defying claims of the climate change movement. Her dismissal, which she announced Wednesday in a post on her Polar Bear Science blog, has spurred alarm over the implications for academic freedom and the rise of the “cancel culture” for professors and scientists who challenge climate catastrophe predictions: “When push came to shove, UVic threw me under the bus rather than stand up for my academic freedom,” said Ms. Crockford, who earned a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies, specifically biology and anthropology, in 2004.”

When you cannot argue facts and logic then just attack the credibility of your opponent. That is what the global warming, climate change cultists have devolved to, not wanting to hear alternative viewpoints, only their own biased myths.

2) It seems that anything that happens in the world today is a result of man made global warming/climate change and must be addressed IMMEDIATELY or we face dire consequences:

• Warner Todd Huston writing for the Godfather Politics website on August 24, 2019 provided an example of this false and incorrect panic.
• Brazil has recently suffered through some horrific wildfires, fires that got so bad that the Brazilian government called out their military to help put out the flames.
• Almost immediately the word got out from the global warming crowd that the fires in the Amazon rain forest in Brazil are endangering 20% of the world’s oxygen.
• Thus, if the fires were not stopped soon we would run out of oxygen.
• As always not to be bothered with facts and realities, Presidential candidate Kamala Harris tweeted out this false statistic about 20% of the world’s oxygen: “Brazil's President Bolsonaro must answer for this devastation. The Amazon creates over 20% of the world's oxygen and is home to one million Indigenous people. Any destruction affects us all.”
• CNN, never missing a chance to misrepresent global warming, got into the 20% act also: “The Amazon, which produces about 20% of earth's oxygen, is often referred to as "the planet's lungs. An inferno in the world's largest rain forest, two-thirds of which is in Brazil, threatens the ecosystem there and also affects the entire globe.”
• Congresswoman Barbara Lee: “The Amazon produces 20% of the oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere. If we fail to combat climate change now, soon we won’t have clean air to breathe. We must take #ClimateActionNow. This is not a drill or a hoax.”
• The article also contains a slew of other less famous people mimicking the same statistics, the Amazon rain forest produces 20% of the world’s oxygen
• And while their concern is admirable, their statistic is way off.
• According to stats and real research cited in the article and research by a Dr. Jonathan Foley, it is physically impossible for the Amazon rain forest to produce 20% of the world’s oxygen, best case it produces 6%, less than one third of the nonsensical number being tweeted about by global warming advocates.

Three things of importance here:

1. The fires are serious and are causing damage to the environment, animals and the economy in Brazil and need to be addressed as quickly as possible.
2. However, I really cannot take a global warming advocate seriously if their emotional response to the fires is off by a factor of three which tells me they are either intentionally lying to get their view across or are too ignorant or too lazy to do a simple look up on a simple statistic.
3. And finally, I would rather believe a real scientist, Dr. Jonathan Foley, than a failing Presidential candidate, a Congresswoman who probably has absolutely NO climate expertise, or a biased news network who usually loses out to the Hallmark Channel or Cupcake wars for viewership ratings.

3) One of the biggest advocates for man made global warming and the myth that 97% of climate scientists believe in man made global warming, was former President Barack Obama. He was supposedly so into global warming that he entered the country into a stupid, idiotic climate agreement that was signed in Paris, an agreement that had no teeth and would have done nothing to curtail so-called global warming while making American considerably less wealthy.

I say supposedly because:

• According to Richard W. Rahn, writing for the Washington Times, Obama recently purchased a home on Martha’s Vineyard:
• Rahn: “If you really thought that the ocean level was rising rapidly, would you buy a house next to the sea? If you really thought that increased carbon dioxide emissions threatened the very existence of mankind, would you be so selfish as to fly around in a private jet, have houses with many times the carbon footprint of the average person, etc. etc.? Former President Obama just bought his family a very large seafront home. Many of the most vocal Hollywood crowd have multiple large homes, including on the beach, private jets, limos, etc. Their actions are more important than their forked-tongue utterances.”
• This Obama mansion costs in excess of $15 million so there seems to be a disconnect: if global warming was going to destroy the world unless the U.S. signed off on the Paris Climate Agreement, as Obama insisted, then why did he risk putting $15 million of his wealth at such a high risk?
• Or did he view the global warming fallacy as a way to gain more control over us, reducing our freedoms, but enlarging his control and greed?

Since Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez predicts that the world will end in about ten years because of man made global warming and climate change, it does not sound like a good investment by Obama.

We are being sarcastic, of course. Obama is not a real estate idiot, buying an island out in the Atlantic that would be one of the first dry land pieces to be submerged by global warming melted glaciers. Nothing illustrates the hypocrisy of the whole global warming fallacy than Obama buying an island in the ocean.

The hypocrisy of Obama, the fallacy of false statistics, and punishing real scientists who tell the truth based on real science. Another three reasons why I am still a global warming doubter and a believer in science.

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December, 2018, Part 2, Why I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science: Reviewing The Horrible Track Record Of Global Warming Forecasting

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 man made 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 on 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 post 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 proclaim.

1) Looks like today we will focus on predictions made by global warming advocates with the end result no unsurprisingly being how very wrong these predictions ALWAYS are. Let’s start off with some research done by Michael Haverluck of the One News Now website:

• On December 13, 2008, Al Gore warned the world in a speech in Germany that the North Pole would be devoid of ice in Five years.
• Specifically, “The entire North ‘polarized’ cap will disappear in five years.” 
• TEN years later, there is still a lot of ice at the North Pole, even in the summer.
• According to Jim Hoft of the Gateway Pundit website, Gore had actually starting making that prediction at least one year before the Germany speech.
• Thus, we should be at least five years into an ice free pole.
• He hedged his bet in 2009 when he added a 75% chance of an ice free North pole within five to seven years: “Some of the models suggest that there is a 75-percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap – during some of the summer months – could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years.” 
• Obviously that did not happen or even come close to happening.
• Back in January 2006, a full twelve years ago, Gore predicted that, “Within the next 10 years, the world will reach a point of no return [and] a true planetary emergency [due to global warming].”
• The article points out that, “However, according to the Danish Meteorological Institute, there has been no trend in Arctic sea ice for the past 12 years.” 

Fortunately, we did pass both his ten years and point of no return and it looks like we will survive, no thanks to his alarmist forecasts that were absolutely pitiful in predicting the future. 

2) The above article points out that Gore was not just pathetically wrong on his North Pole forecasts. According to the same article, Gore was grossly wrong in eight predictions from his global warming alarmist movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” as pointed out by a January, 2016 article on The Blaze website:

1- Gore predicted in the movie that sea levels could rise 20 feet higher due to the melting of the South Pole and Greenland ice sheets. But in reality, the South Pole ice sheets is actually INCREASING in ice volume and there has not been an increase or excessive ice melting from Greenland. As far as the sea level rising, not even close to 20 feet. 0 for 1 on predictions.

2- Gore claimed that CO2 would lead to dramatic rises in the Earth’s overall temperature as did most climate forecasts (which also always wrong.) Satellite data shows that the Earth’s temperatures stabilized about 19 years ago despite untold amounts of CO2 being thrown into the air from mankind’s carbon usage. 0 for 2 on predictions.

3- After Hurricane Katrina, global warming alarmists predicted that the fury of Katrina would be the new norm in hurricane ferocity due to global warming. And then we went over a dozen years with very little hurricane activity, the longest drought in hurricane history. 0 for 3 on predictions.

4- Not only were hurricanes supposed to get more frequent and harsher, the same was predicted on tornadoes. However, the number of devastating tornadoes has actually been declining over the past 60 years, especially the past three years, the exact opposite of what global warming advocates predicted. 0 for 4 on predictions.

5- Global warming was supposed to be killing off the polar bear population since it was robbing them of their cold habitation areas. And yet, according to population counts, there are probably more polar bears alive today then when most of us were born. Natives to the northern realms, the government of Nunavut and Inuit hunters, testify that indeed there are a lot more polar beavers wandering around up north. 0 for 5 on predictions.

6- Polar bears were supposed to be getting rarer and rarer because the Arctic ice was melting. And yet, in 2015 the Arctic ice cap saw the largest refreezing in over ten years. 0 for 6 on predictions.

7- Gore predicted that the Sahel area south of the Sahara Desert was supposed to get drier and drier because of global warming. However, according to satellite images, the Sahel is one of the areas on Earth that has gained the most vegetation growth in the world. The theory is that increased amounts of CO2 in the air, which is vital to plant growth, is responsible for more vegetation growth. a good thing. 0 for 7 on predictions.

8- Al Gore and his types have claimed that CO2 is absolute pollution and poison and needs to be contained and reduced by mankind. However, as the Sahel proves and we have discussed many times before in this blog, increases in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is strongly correlated with higher and higher crop yields and vegetation growth around the world. So much for pollution and poisoning. 0 for 8 on predictions.

As we have said so many times before, and proven again by the eight failed predictions listed above, every major and minor global warming prediction has been miserably wrong at predicting reality. Which is probably why the global warming advocates rebranded their vendetta from “global warming” to “climate change.” They did such a miserable job predicting the effects of global warming, they needed a fresh start of hysteria to promote, the nebulous term “climate change,” which can mean anything they want it to be. 

Too much cold weather? Man made climate change! Too much hot weather? Man made climate change! Too many hurricanes? Man made climate change! Too few hurricanes? Man made climate change! And yet, people like Al Gore still try to convince us that they know best, that they are smarter than us in predicting the future of climate even though their track record is abysmal. 

Which brings us to the latest prediction of climate gloom and doom that the Federal government recently released. Why should we believe that this prediction is any better, given the horrible track record of climate forecasting? That will be the subject of our discussion over the next few posts.

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December, 2016, Part 1, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science: Ice Cap Growing, Polar Bear Populaiton Growing and More

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) Terresa Monroe-Hamilton, writing for the I Have The Truth website on March 29, 2016, reviewed a recent research study that had been completed by a team of Canadian scientists. One of the more passionate arguments that global warming advocates put forth is that global warming is wiping out the polar bear populations since it is shrinking their habitat and leaving them no place to live.

Contrary to Al Gore types, the researchers found that:

• The world’s polar bear population is as big as it has been in the past 40 years. 
• Specifically, the scientists concluded: “We see reason for concern, but find no reliable evidence to support the contention that polar bears are currently experiencing a climate crisis,” Canadian scientists wrote in their study, published in the journal Ecology and Evolution.
• After examining 13 polar populations, they found that “much of the scientific evidence indicating that some polar bear subpopulations are declining due to climate change-mediated sea ice reductions is likely flawed by poor mark–recapture sampling. We suggest that the qualitative projections for dramatic reductions in population numbers and range are overly pessimistic given the response of polar bears, climate, and sea ice to the present.” 

Another global warming myth likely debunked. To access the original research paper, go to:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.2030/full

2) A lot of global warming advocates point to this past hotter than usual summer to reiterate their claim that manmade global warming is real. It is somewhat ironic that they refer back to a global warming position after the abandoned that position and rebranded their effort “climate change” when it turned out that global warming stopped about twenty years ago. Nonetheless, we have already shown that a large El Nino effect was the cause of the hotter than normal summer temperatures.

But if global warming advocates want to play the weather card, consider the following recent USA Today:

• Last week the mountains in Hawaii were expected to get three feet of snow in total. 
• Yes, three FEET, not three inches....in Hawaii.
• Two feet were already on the ground, with another foot forecasted.
• While snow is not a rarity at the top of Hawaiian peaks, three FEET of snow is.

Now, it very well could be that global warming is causing massive snow to fall on Hawaii. However, given that global warming “experts” never forecasted that there would be more snow in a warming trend, their credibility takes another hit in that it really does not look like they know what is going on if they keep putting forth forecasts that are entirely wrong.

One other weather tidbit, as I write this, the Minneapolis area this weekend will like see temperatures dip below zero degrees without taking into account the wind chill factor, cold even for this northern area. Imagine how cold it would be without global warming! [sarcasm]

3) If you are a Wall Street Journal subscriber, which I am not, I would like to refer you to one of their recent articles which is available in its totality only by being subscriber. The October 31, 2016 article by Harrison H. Schmitt and Rodney W. Nichols was entitled, “The Phony War Against CO2 - Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide has helped raise global food production and reduce poverty.” I am assuming they are reiterating a point we have made several times in previous posts, namely that the increased amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has actually helped “green up” the earth and made food more plentiful and less expensive, two great trends to have.

Thus, if having more CO2 in the atmosphere has not increased global warming, given the flatlining of the earth’s temperature increases over the past twenty years but has increased the availability of food for the world’s starving, why are Al Gore and others so keen on dropping temps, making energy more expensive, and reducing our freedoms, all in the name of global warming?

4) James Taylor, writing recently for Forbes, highlighted some of the latest data from NASA regarding polar ice, data that would not make Al Gore smile:

• The latest data from NASA’s satellites show that the Earth’s polar ice caps have not receded to any degree since NASA’s satellites began tracking ice caps since 1979.
• Since the end of 2012, area of polar ice has remained ABOVE the post 1979 average. 
• The NASA satellite data show that from 1979 since about 2005, the ice area stayed about the same.
• But starting in 2005 and for several following years, the polar ice declined by about 10% relative to the 1979 baseline measurements.
• However, by late 2012 the polar ice fields had started to rebound quickly and by May, 2015 the NASA data showed the polar ice fields were about 5% higher than the post 1979 average.

See what happens when you use ALL of the available data, research, and science that is available, you reach a completely different conclusion than what global warming advocates have been claiming, possibly because they only use the data that supports their pre-determined conclusion, a conclusion that may not be an accurate picture of reality as the latest NASA data show.

That will do it for another day where we show that it is perfectly sane to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science. More science and realities tomorrow.

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April, 2016, Part 2, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science: The Science Is NOT Settled and The Polar Bears Ar Doing Fine

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) The first topic today is an oldie but a goodie. It is an oldie in that it was based on an article from Forbes’ writer James Taylor back in 2013. It is a goodie in that it debunks people like Al Gore, Barack Obama, and others that continually screech that “the science is settled” when it comes to global warming. While it is from three years ago, we have provided more up to date information in other blog posts that verifies that the findings discussed in that article are still true today, i.e. from a science and scientists perspective, the science is NOT settled.

Details and facts of the article include the following:

• According to a survey of scientists conducted by the peer reviewed journal, Organization Studies, only 36% of geoscientists and engineers believe that human beings are creating a global warming emergency.
• A majority of the 1,077 respondents are of the opinion that nature is the primary cause of global warming.
• They are also of the opinion that future global warming will not be a serious problem for mankind.
• The article references two other studies that showed that meteorologists have similar doubts about global warming.

This study has a large enough sample size to draw hard conclusions about science and global warming. The difference between those that claim manmade global warming is real and those that doubt that assertion are in an almost two to one ratio, overwhelmingly in favor of global warming doubters. These are only scientists and engineers included in the survey, omitting politicians that have other agendas to enact and use the global warming myth as a tool for those other agendas.

In other words, the science is not settled as measured by this survey and other realities. 

2) Let’s stay with scientists that know that the science is not settled. Atmospheric physicist Richard Lindzen from MIT has grouped people involved in the global warming issue into three categories:

1. Scientists associated with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, i.e. scientists that believe that mankind’s burning of fossil fuels is creating a dangerous situation.
2. Scientists who are global warming and climate change doubters, i.e. scientists, including Lindzen, that believe there are a whole lot of factors involved in climate and that mankind’s activities are not a significant impact on climate change.
3. Non-scientists such as politicians, journalists, and environmental activists.

Lindzen and his type believe the following realities:

• The climate constantly changes.
• Some degree of warming will occur with the emission of carbon dioxide, but without it there would be no life on Earth.
• Carbon dioxide levels have risen since the 19th century.
• The average global temperature has risen by one degree celsius between 1800 and 2000, but man's carbon emissions have played a role since the 1960's.
• A "confident prediction" about the average global temperature cannot be made.
• Fossil fuel use will not result in armageddon.

Lindzen has very little scientific respect for the third group of non-scientists listed above: "Global warming alarmism provides them, more than any other issue, with the things they most want. For politicians, it's money and power. For environmentalists, it's money for their organizations and confirmation of their near-religious devotion to the idea that man is a destructive force acting upon nature. And for the media, it's ideology, money and headlines. Doomsday scenarios sell."

Additionally, "Unfortunately, group three is winning the argument because they have drowned out the serious debate that should be going on. But while politicians, environmentalists and media types can waste a lot of money and scare a lot of people, they won't be able to bury the truth. The climate will have the final word on that."

Just another scientist that believes it is perfectly logical to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science. Who would you rather believe when it comes to global warming, a has been politician Al Gore or a current MIT scientist?

3) One of the deceptive myths that global warming believers have thrown into everyone’s face is that global warming is killing off the polar bear population. The obvious guilt trip they would want to impose on the rest of us is how can we stand idly by and NOT save the polar bears?

But we have shown that previous posts and scientific studies have shown that the exact opposite is going on. The polar bear population is getting larger, not smaller. Recent reporting by the Daily Caller website cited yet another scientific study to prove that the polar bear population is NOT dying off:

• Researchers from Lakehead University in Canada found no evidence that polar bear populations are threatened by global warming or climate change.
• Publishing their results in the journal “Ecology and Evolution,” the Canadians concluded: "We see reason for concern, but find no reliable evidence to support the contention that polar bears are currently experiencing a climate crisis.”
• After studying 13 polar bear subpopulations, the scientists found that: "Much of the scientific evidence indicating that some polar bear subpopulations are declining due to climate change-mediated sea ice reductions is likely flawed by poor mark-recapture sampling," resulting in the inability to gather accurate “demographic parameters.”

So, in the upside down world of global warming hysteria, the polar bear population is growing while Obama and others of his thinking are making the coal miner population to decrease and become endangered for no reason. 

Today, we learned again that the science is NOT settled, if one would only ask real scientists, and the polar bear population is doing just fine. More evidence tomorrow that it is perfectly rational to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science.

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January, 2015, Part 7, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science: Polar Bears Are DoingJust Fine, Obama and Kerry Contradict Themselves, and Maybe 2015 Was NOT the Warmest Year Ever

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 on 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 post 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) A lot of global warming advocates are claiming that 2015 was the hottest year on record, based on recent NASA reports and thus, global warming must be a reality after all. But not so fast. Much like global warming advocates like to truck out their favorite scientists, let’s truck a global warming doubter from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), certainly more than an ordinary university.

Dr. Richard Lindzen of MIT recently told the science blog Climate Depot that a small one year jump in temperatures, assuming that it actually happened given the government’s penchant for “adjusting” original data, is no reason to jump to such definitive conclusions: “Frankly, I feel it is proof of dishonesty to argue about things like small fluctuations in temperature or the sign of a trend. Why lend credibility to this dishonesty?... All that matters is that for almost 40 years, model projections have almost all exceeded observations. Even if all the observed warming were due to greenhouse emissions, it would still point to low sensitivity.”

What global warming advocates seem to forget when hyping higher temps in a single year is that during that same year a strong El Nino had set up in the Pacific Ocean which likely temporarily raised temperatures, as previous El Ninos have done. Once this El Nino dissipates, the earth’s temperatures are likely to revert back to the lower temps that have been the trend for the past twenty years.

Lindzen and other scientists also point out that the increase in temps in 2015 was not really large and measurement error could also have been a factor in the slightly higher readings, not a true upward spike in the actual temps. As an example of measurement error, satellite data from the University of Alabama in Huntsville said 2015 was the third or fourth warmest ever and Remote Sensing Systems ranked 2015 as the fourth warmest year ever. 

So whose scientist do you believe? The guy from MIT or Al Gore? Oh, that’s right, Al Gore is not a scientist. Again, all we are asking for is an adult conversation that includes ALL relative data, ALL relative climate models, ALL relative scientists to come to a reasonable, mature, and comprehensive conclusion.

2) David Kreutzer, recently writing for the Heritage Foundation, also discussed the NASA data that global warming advocates claim prove global warming is real. But Mr. Kreutzer also points out that the El Nino weather pattern might have caused the temperatures in 2015 to be higher than expected but also points out that NASA’s own satellite data supposedly shows that 2015 was not as warm as 2010 or 1998. 

Which also means that years 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,...were also cooler than 1998, seventeen years ago and after many tons of carbon dumped in the atmosphere. So where is the upward trend in global warming if most of the past seventeen years were cooler than 1998, assuming that Mr. Kreutzer is correctly interpreting NASA’s own satellite data?

3) It seems that global warming advocates often use members of the animal world to prove that global warming exists. And these animal references are always ridiculous. Consider a short description from a previous post we did when a global warming advocate actually claimed that squirrels were heavy contributors to global warming:


“The latest culprits in global warming appear to be...wait for it... squirrels. The theory, presented at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union, is that when squirrels dig up the earth in the Arctic permafrost, they release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that has been captured and stored in the ground: “We know wildlife impacts vegetation, and we know vegetation impacts thaw and soil carbon,” said Dr. Sue Natali of Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, according to BBC News . “It certainly has a bigger impact than we’ve considered and it’s something we will be considering more and more going into the future.”

In another post we reviewed how other global warming scientists blamed beavers and their dam building for contributing to global warming despite the reality that beavers have been digging dams for centuries. And what would global warming advocates want to do with beavers, kill them all to prevent them from contributing to global warming? Lunacy.

But the biggest heart tug of using animals to prove global warming is the now disproved claim that global warming was wiping out the polar bear population. The Federalist Papers website recently cited a Daily Caller article that discussed the polar bear demise fallacy:

• In the midst of the global warming frenzy, the polar bear population has actually grown over the past 40 years.
• Author Zac Unger originally intended to write an article on how global warming was wiping out the polar bear population but found out that they were not getting wiped out.
• Unger apparently told NPR in an interview that: “There are far more polar bears alive today than there were 40 years ago.”
• He went on to claim that: “There are about 25,000 polar bears alive today worldwide. In 1973, there was a global hunting ban. So once hunting was dramatically reduced, the population exploded.”
• According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, there are an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears worldwide, living in Canada, Greenland, the northern Russian coast, islands of the Norwegian coast, and the northwest Alaskan coast.

Another global warming myth destroyed by data and reality.

4) At the recent Paris conference on the climate, Obama made the following apology to the world: “I’ve come here personally, as the leader of the world’s largest economy and the second-largest emitter, to say that the United States of America not only recognizes our role in creating this problem; we embrace our responsibility to do something about it.”

A few problems here. First of all, Obama assumes there is a problem, a position that this blog and the many discussions we have had about global warming and climate change have refuted over the years. Second, his guilt ridden words ignore the reality that the U.S. has dramatically reduced the carbon footprint and annual carbon emissions of this country relative to the rest of the world. If anything, the U.S. has done more on an absolute basis and relative basis than any other country in the world.

And even if you do not buy these two points, consider the words of Obama’s own Secretary of State, John Kerry, that were spoken at the same Paris conference: “The fact is that even if every single American citizen biked to work, carpooled to school, used only solar panels to power their homes, if we each planted a dozen trees, if we somehow eliminated all of our greenhouse gas emissions, guess what? That still wouldn’t be enough to offset the carbon pollution coming from the rest of the world. If all of the industrial nations went down to zero emissions, remember what I just said, all of the industrial nations went down to zero emissions it wouldn’t be enough. Not when more than 65 percent of the world’s carbon pollution comes from the developing world.”

So what is the story guys? Are we going to “embrace our responsibility to do something about it” [Obama] or going “down to zero emissions it wouldn’t be enough”[Kerry]? Seems like the two of you folks are not on the same page. You cannot do something about it on one hand and nothing would be enough on the other hand. Abraham Lincoln once said: "No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar." Sounds like a description of the Obama administration when the President says one thing and his Secretary of State says the opposite, someone is lying.

So what did we learn today:

1. Kerry and Obama obviously do not have their global warming shtick together.
2. The polar bear population is alive and well.
3. Maybe 2015 was not the warmest year after all.

More tomorrow.

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July, 2014, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science - Part 5

Today is the final post in our update to a continuing theme in this blog, “I am a global warming doubter and a believer in science.” The justification for this series was the fact that I just got fed up being yelled at and called a whole slew of not nice names by people like Al Gore simply because I choose to look at the entire spectrum of global warming, and its rebranded them of climate change, rather than the rantings and ravings of people like Gore that look only at the science that supports their viewpoint and not at all science, both pro and con.

We could have devoted more than five days to the update, that is how fast and furious rebuttals and new research are coming along to prove that it is entirely possible and rational to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science. We will cover those trends in a future update but it is time to move on. I think we have made our point this week and again today that it is indeed Al Gore who is on the wrong side of science and reality.

Rather than try to have an adult conversation, people like Al Gore have caused us doubters racists, homophobes, science illiterates, etc. We maintain that if you look at ALL of the climate science, you will see the fallacy and emptiness of Gore-like viewpoints and rantings. To do anything else would not be scientific, it would be scientific heresy.

To view the dozens of posts we have done in the past where we quote famous and credible scientists, cite credible and independent reports, and use logic to show that the global warming scare and climate change mania is probably just that, scare tactics and mania, put the following phrase, “I am a global warming doubter” in the search box above to get a complete list of previous related posts. If you are an Al Gore fan, a dare you to read all of the science put forth in these posts before you commence with the name calling again.

Let’s see what new science evidence has come about since our last update to the theme, I am a global warming doubter and a believer in science.”

1) The following research findings were published by the CATO Institute on May 29, 2014 in a piece written by Paul Knappenberger and Patrick Michaels. Another scientific paper has just been published that again finds no correlation between Arctic sea ice loss and extreme cold and wintery conditions across the U.S., something the Obama administration vainly tried to link together last winter during the coldest winter in recent memory in the country.

Colorado State climate researcher Elizabeth Barnes found that natural variability accounted for the polar votex, claiming it was impossible to make the correlation or find any data that linked human-caused global warming and the colder than normal weather. signal even if one were to exist in the vortex data (which there is no proof of). According to the CATO report, shortly after Ms. Barnes‘s findings, a group of prominent climate scientists wrote a letter to a prominent journal stating that drawing the type of connection that the White House was trying to do “was not scientifically advisable.”

In addition, more science and research backed up the conclusion that there was not human affecting behavior relative to the polar vortex. The additional research came from Thomas Ballinger of Kent State University/ His research team found that:

• The magnitude of the 2014 “polar vortex” was really not that unusual from a historical perspective. 
• His team, found that relative to vortex behavior across North America since 1948, that the 2014 polar vortex excursion into the country ranked only 6th in southerly extent and 7th in total area. In other words, other polar vortexes had existed in the 66 years, a half dozen of which were worse than the vortex of 2013-2014.
• The researchers claimed that their work “revealed that the spatial features of the January 2014 [polar vortex over the U.S.] were not extreme relative to certain 1948-2013 Januaries.”
• They also could not find a link between human manmade global warming/climate change, the northern ice cap, and the polar vortex, despite the Obama administration’s implying that a link existed.

More lies from this administration or just bad science from this administration? You choose but understand relative to other, credible scientists, the Obama administration is probably wrong again when it comes to asserting the reality of the climate.

2) Judith Curry is a professor and the chairwoman of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, certainly someone with scientific credentials and credibility when it comes to the climate. She recently was interviewed in Australia by the website, Quadrant Online, to discuss her contrarian view that mankind is not causing global warming or extensive climate change. 

This view has gotten her on the bad side of those that want desperately to make that linkage with Scientific American branding her as “a heretic” who has “turned on her colleagues.” Probably her claim that doing science by consensus is not science has also not endeared her to those that claim global warming and climate change are the direct result of mankind’s activities.

Highlights/quotes of her interview include: 

• I am mystified as to why President Obama and John Kerry are making such strong (and indefensible) statements about climate change. Particularly with regards to extreme weather events, their case is very weak. Especially at this time, given that much of the rest of the world is pulling back against commitments to reduce emissions and combat climate change.
• Regarding the hiatus in warming [i.e. the Earth‘s temperature stopped rising about 19 years ago], I would say that this has not been adequately explained to the public, the IPCC certainly gave the issue short shrift. 
• The hiatus is serving to highlight the importance of natural climate variability. If the hiatus continues a few more years, climate model results will seriously be called into question.
• Basically, none [evidence that the missing heat from the past 19 years has gone deep into the oceans]. Observations below 2 km in the ocean are exceedingly rare, and it is only since 2005 that we have substantial coverage below 700 metres.
• The result of this simplified framing of a wicked problem is that we lack the kinds of information to more broadly understand climate change and societal vulnerability.
• The first place to start is to abandon the consensus-seeking approach to climate science that has been implemented by the IPCC. Scientists do not need to be consensual to be authoritative. Authority rests in the credibility of the arguments, which must include explicit reflection on uncertainties, ambiguities and areas of ignorance and more openness for dissent. The role of scientists should not be to develop political will to act by hiding or simplifying the uncertainties, either explicitly or implicitly, behind a negotiated consensus.
• One of the unfortunate consequences of the focus on anthropogenic forcing of climate is that solar effects on climate have been largely neglected. I think that solar effects, combined with the large scale ocean-circulation regimes, presage continued stagnation in global temperatures for the next two decades.
• The academic community has a lot invested in the case for anthropogenic climate change – substantial government funding, prestige, and political influence.
• The establishment scientists who support the IPCC consensus do not debate sceptics, for two reasons. They do not wish to lend legitimacy to the sceptics and the sceptical positions. Secondly, the few public debates that have been held did not go well for the establishment scientists – formal, oral debate is not a format for which most scientists have experience.

A rational scientists looking at ALL of the data and research, I.e. using the traditional scientific method of research not the global warming consensus method of scientific research.

3) One of the biggest and probably more effective arguments put forward by global warming advocates is that the polar bears are becoming extinct because of the melting of the northern ice cap. Who could not get excited about saving the cute polar bears?

But apparently this is another global warming reality that is only a myth. New reports have reported that the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) has recently admitted to experienced zoologist and polar bear specialist Susan Crockford that the estimate they gace for the dwindling total number of polar bars in the Arctic was “simply a qualified guess given to satisfy public demand.”

Ms. Crockford is involved has been critical of official polar bear population estimates because of her research findings and her claim that the IUCN failed to include five large subpopulations of polar bears. Because of the uncertainty of the populations in these areas, PBSG did not include them in their official, shrinking population estimate, which may account for the shrinking population estimates.

How is this science when you just ignore data and reality and publish findings that are not true? Unfortunately, the false numbers become the perceived reality and that results in government and other actions that may not be necessary and may indeed be dangerous to all involved.

PBSG has for years said that global polar bear populations were between 20,000 and 25,000, but these estimates are likely much lower than how many polar bears are actually living in the world.

“Based on previous PBSG estimates and other research reports, it appears there are probably at least another 6,000 or so bears living in these regions and perhaps as many as 9,000 (or more) that are not included in any PBSG ‘global population estimate,’” Crockford wrote on her blog.

4) If you really want to look at reality, and real science and real data, may we suggest that you visit the following article from the Independent Journal Review:

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/05/139936-25-images-prove-climate-changes-whether-man-anything/

This article has compiled 25 graphs, charts, and other images, from credible government and other sources, that prove you are likely right to be a global warming doubter and believer in science. A sample of these charts include the following:

5) And finally, I could go back and review everything we discussed this week. How the earth’s temperature stopped rising 19 years ago, proving just about every climate forecasting model to be wrong. We could review how politicians have used bogus data, made up data to prove their political point or angle with very little reality or science to back it up. We could remind you that anything the U.S. does to change its carbon habits will be futile unless the rest of the world, especially China, and India do the same.

We could do that summary but probably not as well as it was done by Amy Ridenour, writing for the National Center for public Policy Research blog in June, 2014:  

Top Ten Reasons Washington Should Not Impose New Global Warming Laws or Regulations

Top ten reasons why Washington should not inflict major new laws or regulations to combat global warming:

1. The world isn't warming. Scientists measuring surface temperatures and atmospheric temperatures using satellites - including scientists who believe in the global warming theory -- say the Earth hasn't warmed since the Clinton Administration.

2. Anti-global warming laws hurt people. All the major legislative and regulatory proposals to combat global warming kill jobs and disproportionately hurt lower income people and minorities.

3. The U.S. already leads the world in CO2 reduction and is a great role model. U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions fell 12.6 percent between 2005 and 2012, thanks to technology and conservation. Worldwide, CO2 emissions increased by 17.7 percent during the same period. Those who want the U.S. to set a good example should wake up and realize: we already are!

4. Global warming climate models don't work. Since 1979, over 96 percent of models predicted more future warming than took place. The models, run backward, also fail to predict past temperatures. Our climate system is extremely complex, and even the world's most knowledgeable scientists don't yet understand it.

5. Claims that 97 percent of scientists endorse the global warming theory are propaganda. To get to 97 percent, activists include every scientist who believes the Earth has warmed even a little, and that humans have paid even a small part, but activists use the 97 percent figure as if it represents only scientists who believe warming is catastrophically dangerous and overwhelmingly human-caused. Since even "skeptic" scientists believe the Earth has warmed somewhat since the 1800s, when the Little Ice Age ended, and almost everyone believes humans have played at least a small role in warming by building cities and using energy, that means skeptic scientists are included in the 97 percent figure, which then is used as "evidence" that skeptic scientists are wrong.

6. The IPCC is a political, not scientific, body. The IPCC is a United Nations agency that scientists have quit in protest after governments re-wrote their work to fit an agenda. One Harvard professor recently said the IPCC's "summary for policymakers" should be called the "summary BY policymakers" because the policymakers actually write it for themselves. One IPCC meeting he attended had two scientists and 45-50 government officials at work on the summary document.

7. Global warming believers change their predictions. As their temperature predictions have not come true, activists have desperately started blaming global warming for hurricanes, tornadoes and even cold weather. But climate has natural variations, hurricanes and tornadoes have not increased, and snow and colder winters don't prove global warming. When Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his preaching and movie-making about global warming, he claimed in his acceptance speech that the Arctic would be ice-free by now. It isn't even close.

8. Current sea ice levels prove nothing. While arctic sea ice levels are below average, Antarctic sea ice levels are above average, as are global sea ice levels.

9. Environmental groups give counterproductive advice. While claiming global warming is a crisis, major environmental groups paradoxically oppose the major energy sources that can reduce our CO2 emissions, such as nuclear power, hydropower and fracking, and seek laws to limit them.

10. Politicians are unreliable leaders. After the Clinton-Gore Administration signed the Kyoto global warming treaty, it never presented it to the Senate for ratification. After the Democrat-led House of Representatives passed a "cap-and-trade" bill to fight global warming in 2009, the Senate, led by global warming-believing Democrats, never even voted on it. These politicians claim global warming is a crisis, but they don't act as if they believe it themselves.

Nice summary job, a summary that proves it is entirely possible, rational, and credible to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science. If President Obama did not have such a closed mind on the issue, the country might be able to have an adult, open discussion on the whole issue of climate and reality. However, that is another thing that is doubtful, an open mind from this President.

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