And to be perfectly honest, we were tired of Al Gore, Barack Obama and other global warming advocates yelling at global warming doubters like myself, calling us racists, homophobes, flat earth believers, etc. In order to have a mature, adult conversation about global warming, we felt it was necessary to treat those with a different opinion with respect not derision and that to get to an adult solution, all of the science should be included in the debate.
Over the years, however, we have put together a very strong case that man made global warming and its rebranded marketing theme, climate change, were indeed mostly a false position, a travesty of science. Those who believed in global warming ignored or failed to consider scientific findings and research that was contrary to their views.
They were found to have suppressed or changed raw data and findings that did not support their global warming positions. In short, they were the ones that had shortchanged the scientific method, not the doubters.
To review our past reviews of the global warming fallacy, type in the phrase, “I am a global warming doubter” in the search box above. Over the next few days we will continue to look at the latest climate data and realities and again prove that being a global warming doubter is a position that is strongly supported by science and not Al Gore hysterics.
This is our third and final update to the global warming doubter series this month. The first post this month can be accessed at:
http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2014/12/december-2014-part-1-i-am-global.html
http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2014/12/december-2014-part-1-i-am-global.html
Let’ see what science, data, and reality we can find today to reinforce our position that it is scientifically possible to be a global warming doubter.
1) In a recent interview for NewsMax TV, John Casey, a former White House space program advisor and current president of the Space and Science Research Corporation, asserted that about $30 billion dollars spent the past 30 years to make a “weak scientific theory,” the theory of man-made global warming or climate change, into something valid is “the greatest scientific fraud in history.”
He also pointed out, as we have many times, that the United Nations’ climate forecasting models have been a “miserable failure’ at accurately predicting future temperature levels. Casey, who is the author of “Dark Winter: How the Sun is Causing a 30 Year Cold Spell,” believes that significant changes in temperature was caused by changes in the activity of the sun, not by mankind‘s use of carbon based energy sources. He claims that the forecasting models he uses, which are based on solar cycles, are over 90% accurate.
The interview can be accessed at:
Seems like Mr. Casey might be able to provide some valuable insight to an adult, mature, and science-based conversation about whether or not man made global warming and climate change is a reality or a myth.
2) President Obama seems hell bent on killing off the American coal industry in a vain and futile attempt to make a dent in mankind’s use of carbon based fuels. We say futile because many, many different sources, both inside and outside of government, have shown that any carbon reduction in this country will be overwhelmed by increased use of carbon energy sources in China, India, and elsewhere.
If he is successful, then American consumers will see a spike in energy costs and the economy will suffer some serious job losses, all for no purpose. But what is especially infuriating, as reported by Associated Press reporter Dina Cappiello on December 8, 2014, is that as Obama tries to shut down the domestic coal industry, he is allowing the U.S. to export massive amount of carbon based energy resources to be used in other countries.
According to the article, the U.S. is exporting record levels of dirty fuels, even as it reduces the pollution supposedly responsible for global warming domestically. An Associated Press analysis of government data found that U.S. exports of gasoline and diesel resulted in the release of about roughly 1 billion tons of carbon pollution into the atmosphere elsewhere in the world from 2008 through 2013. During the same period, the U.S. reduced its carbon pollution by less than half a billion tons.
The U.S. reduction in carbon pollution is “a false image," said Onel Masardule of the Indigenous People's Biocultural Climate Change Assessment Initiative, a Peru-based environmental group that recently studied the Guna and climate change. "In reality, the U.S. is still contaminating."
As we have always proven, any reduction in carbon footprint in this country will be overwhelmed by carbon increases around the world. And even worse, according to Associated Press reporting and analysis, we are prime culprits in the increasing use of carbon based fuels around the world.
3) We have often talked about the reality that no matter how many coal plants Obama shuts down in the U.S., coal usage in other countries, often using U.S. exported coal, will easily wipe out any carbon reduction that closing a few U.S. coal plants attain. This point was driven home by a November 25, 2014 article written by Sean Hackbarth for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce website.
The article focused on the reality that coal usage in India is likely to continue its upward surge in the near future, adding more and more carbon to the air as the U.S. reduces its carbon footprint even less. Specifically, the article repeats a quote from Piyush Goyal, India’s power minister, that ran in the new York Times: “India’s development imperatives cannot be sacrificed at the altar of potential climate changes many years in the future. The West will have to recognize we have the needs of the poor.”
In other words, India has no plans to give up coal as a major provider of energy in the country anytime soon.
In fact, Mr. Goyal has promised to double India’s use of coal, going from 565 million tons last year to more than a billion tons by 2019. To feed this increase, and he is issuing coal mining licenses as quickly as possible. This increase, if it happens, would come on the heels of India increasing its coal plant energy generation by 73% in just the past five years.
This is how quickly India’s use of coal has grown over the years:
The article also points out that on a per person basis, the average Indian citizen uses about 7% of what an average American uses. As the Indian economy grows and matures, that usage level is sure to increase, making it near impossible to economically replace energy generation from coal with any kind of other renewable sources.
So as we have always said, even if there is man made global warming and climate change going on, shutting down a few American coal plants, causing a spike in both domestic electricity rates and unemployment, will be like spitting into a hurricane when countries like India and China have no intentions of curtailing their coal usage anytime soon. Given the low regard that our current President is held in capitals around the world, it is unlikely that he will be able to force, cajole, or negotiate climate pacts that actually reduce the overall world consumption of fossil fuels, especially coal.
That will do it for this month’s update on global warming doubting and how that position is more and more being supported by science, realities, and data. To continue to call us doubters by the names and slurs that Al Gore and other political types insist on using vs. the real science we have cited in the many posts in this blog is not being productive in any sense. And not being productive is what today’s politicians do best.
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