Can We Start Questioning Global Warming? [Reader Post]

The idea of global warming never really scared me. Actually, living in the northeast, I was looking forward to it. But global cooling, especially sudden global cooling via an asteroid or large volcano, has always concerned me. We will immediately need every ounce of fossil fuel we can get our hands on. We will need every foot of tillable land for food and not fuel. Solar panels will be useless and who knows what the wind will do.

We were told that the bad hurricane season in 2005 (Katrina, Rita) was proof of the global warming alarmist prediction that stronger and more violent storms would be the norm. This was followed by some of the weakest hurricane seasons in decades. Yet, when we pointed this out we are told that you can’t use the results from just a few years to disprove the global warming theory (apparently you can use one year’s result to prove the theory).

See my quick takes post below. In it I link to the article RFK Jr. wrote about the lack of snow in Washington, DC and how that was proof of global warming. Now, with the largest snow fall on record, the Warmists are trying to spin THAT as proof of global warming.

The Warmers always come back and say that we can’t look at one or two years as proof one way or the other (despite the fact that they do).

So, let’s look at the temperature predicitons of NASA’s James Hansen from 20 year ago and the actual results over that longer time frame:

Yes, it is laughable that when it’s cold instead of hot that the Warmers try and tell us that it fights in with their theory.

“Can WE start questioning…” SURE!! We who are not leftist loons or dedicated to the destruction of the free enterprise system have MORE than questioned global warming for quite some time. Unfortunately, even the supposedly “conservative” FOX news has not done a proper job of exposing the global warming fraud.

AGW must not only be questioned, it must be defeated. The socialist frauds that inhabit the MSM, academia and government have lost all credibility on the subject. To defeat this political fraud we must defeat the socialist democrats who funded the AGW gravy train and boot their non american commie rear ends all the way to cuba in the next elections. IPCC should be defunded. Any employees making government policy decisions based on faulty IPCC data should be investigated fully and held responsible. That includes making EPA release full disclosure has to how they arrived at their decision to classify CO2 as a dangerous pollutant.

If the earth is actually in a warming period, and we know that that does happen, it will have effects on us. Similarily, if it is in a cooling period it will have effects. My point was that we don’t know, we lost all our data thanks to CRU et al. So it’s worse than just the AGW carbon trade scam (let’s be specific about the real hoax): we know nothing, we have years of work to recheck every bit of data we do have, and that data only goes back about 160 years with real thermometers. Worse, the reaction to knowing carbon trade is a rip-off will be to ignore more serious and possibly correct science. This is what burns the scientific community up. Not that a theory would be shot down, because they are all the time, but that this theory was so pervasive it casts a shadow on everyone.

It would be good to predict the climate future. It may not be actually possible, but I wouldn’t say we should totally ignore climate science. After all, it’s only about 25 years old. what can one expect from such a youngster? especially when its parents were so misguided. Time for foster care.

question? no, I don’t question. I laugh uproariously at the utter nonsense when people tell me colder weather is a sign of a warming climate. How much cold weather = climate? They know not climate, they know tax and control. Sorry, it’s snowing here today, in South Louisiana, again. Warming? hahahhhaha, all the way to the fireplace.

One good thing has come from the whole controversy.
The research done on ice cores has provided us with a solid basis for temperature variations for the last tens of millions of years, along with carbon dioxide concentrations during that time period.
We have had hot (all of those forests which became coal beds). And we have had cold (all those ice sheets). We have evidence of a tropical climate near Paris. We have evidence of ice sheets a mile thick in North Americal.
We have evidence of long-term variability of the Earth’s orbit around the sun, and suspected periodic variations of the inclination of the Earth’s axis.
We are beginning to suspect that the Sun is more variable than previously thought. There was a huge diminution in sunspot activity from 1650 to 1730, leading many to question Galileo’s observation. There was a contemporaneous period of intense cold, at least in Europe. the cold didn’t help the new colonists in the Americas, either. And this was after the Viking settlements in Greenland were frozen out.
There just are not the tools to generalize from local records to global averages.
It would cost tens of billions of dollars to set up and maintain actual measuring sites, at different altitudes, at enough points on a grid of the Earth, to even know what the current situation is, let alone make accurate predictions.
Do the math.

I wrote on this topic a few years back. Here were my thoughts, as well as some of my readers:

http://caryscolumn.blogspot.com/2005/02/energy-and-environment.html

hi CARY i was cut of on the comment at your site i wanted to say it was very informative and i enjoyed the humor to a serious subject as wheather bye

@Brother Bob: Thanks for your input. I get your point, but I’m not sure why I’d type something here when I’ve already taken the time to do so and can simply provide a link. I wasn’t aware of any etiquette that would say I should do otherwise. Not sure how you view this as “self promotion” because I sure didn’t.

I think the thrust of your argument was that turning down your thermos and avoiding plastic bags will save the world.

Nope, I didn’t say that. I suggested that taking personal responsibility for our own part could provide personal benefits, if not universal ones.

@Mike’s America: You are correct, I haven’t written in a while. Time and computer issues have slowed things down for me. But thanks for your input, I don’t think these were factors at the time I wrote that, but I believe that what I wrote still has relevance.

PHILLY nj wow that is straight from your hearth and soul and so intelligently put in order i love it ,bye

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