THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume X, Issue # 175, July 19, 2008
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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"CONSENSUS" ON MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING SHATTERING
By Dennis T. Avery
ENVIRONMENTALISM & GLOBAL WARMING THEORY IN SERIOUS TROUBLE: MOUNTING SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE
KNOCKING A MAJOR IDEOLOGICAL PROP OUT FROM UNDER THE ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT -- SHATTERING THE
SOCALLED "CONSENSUS" THAT MODERN GLOBAL WARMING HAS BEEN CAUSED BY INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION &
HUMAN EMITTED CARBON DIOXIDE -- WHAT THE EVIDENCE COLLECTED BY THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS & SPACE
ADMINISTRATION INDICATES: VERY LOW CORRELATION BETWEEN GLOBAL TEMPERATURES & CO2 IN THE
ATMOSPHERE & THE FACT THAT THE EARTH HAS ENTERED A PERIOD OF COOLING
FULL STORY:
The “consensus” on man-made global warming may have received a mortal wound.
Physics & Society, the journal of the 46,000-member American Physical Society, just published “Climate
Sensitivity Revisited,” by Viscount Christopher Monckton. Monckton is an avowed man-made global warming skeptic,
and former Science Advisor to the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. (If you want to see the science, go to
www.APS.org/units/fps/newsletters/200807/monckton.cfm)
Viscount Monckton contends that the climate alarmists have mistakenly pre-programmed their computer models with
equations that overstate the earth’s sensitivity to carbon dioxide by 500 to 2,000 percent, thus creating a senseless First
World panic that itself threatens the future of society.
Physics & Society says:
“There is a considerable presence within the scientific community
of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that
anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be
primarily responsible for the global warming that has occurred
since the Industrial Revolution. Since the correctness or fallacy of
that conclusion has immense implications for public policy and for
the future of the biosphere, we thought it appropriate to present a
debate within the pages of P&S.”
The journal then offers both the Monckton paper and a response by David Hafemeister and Peter Schwartz, of the
California Polytechnic Institute. Physics & Society also issued an open invitation to “further contributions from
the physics community.”
It had to happen. Too much evidence has mounted against CO2 as a cause of the modern warming. Sea ice is expanding
globally, not retreating (especially in the Antarctic). The oceans have stopped rising, and actually started to fall; that
might be because they “stopped warming 4 to 5 years ago,” according to NASA, based on data from the 3,000 new Argo
floats now scattered worldwide. The number and intensity of hurricanes, cyclones, and tornadoes hasn’t increased. Rain
has returned to Australia, reminding us again it is naturally the driest continent on earth.
The crowning blow: After nine years of non-warming, the planet actually began to cool in 2007 and 2008 for the first time
in 30 years. The net warming from 1940 to 1998 had been a miniscule 0.2 degree C; the United Kingdom’s Hadley Centre
says the earth’s temperature has now dropped back down to about the levels of 100 years ago. There has thus been no
net global warming within “living memory”!
The current cooling doesn’t mean another Ice Age is looming. There is massive global evidence of a 1,500-year warming
cycle, going back 1 million years. It may be driven by the slightly varying distance between the earth and the sun. The
sunspot index has had a 79 percent correlation with the earth’s thermometer record since 1860, during this time, the
temperature correlation with CO2 is a dismissive 22 percent.
NASA’s Jason satellite tells us the Pacific Ocean has entered a cool phase. Historically, these have lasted 25 to 30 years.
After that, there may be some additional warming. However, the 1,500-year cycles typically shift abruptly; we should
already have most of this one’s warming. When we’ll get the inevitable cooling? Probably centuries from now.
The global warming alarmist propaganda disseminated by environmentalists is far from over. Reputations and huge
bundles of cash have been bet on man-made warming, including billions in government funding for climate research. The
UN’s reputation — and perhaps its future — are on the line.
The American Physical Society itself has issued a statement: It stands by its belief that human-emitted CO2 is “changing
the atmosphere in ways that affect the earth’s climate” and notes that Physics & Society is not peer-reviewed.
Nonetheless, the debate is finally and openly joined, after 20 years of the Greens proclaiming that their charge of
humanity’s guilt for wrecking the planet is absolute truth and beyond sane discussion or questioning.
Now, we look forward to an actual debate over the global warming hoax, over the bogus claims made by the
environmentalists. We look forward to a full-scale exploration of the science. We have heard quite enough from the
computers.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
The Earth's Natural History, Global Climate Changes,
& the Future of Human Life & Civilization on the Planet:
Science, Ideology, & Public Policy
Dennis T. Avery is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., and is the Director of the Institute's Center for
Global Food Issues (www.cgfi.org). Formerly he was a senior policy analyst for the United
States Department of State, where he won the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement. He is the co-author, with
atmospheric physicist Fred Singer, of the book, Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years (Blue Ridge Summit,
Pennsylvania: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006). Avery's book, Saving the Planet With Pesticides and Plastic: The Environmental
Triumph of High-Yield Farming (Washington, D.C.: Hudson Institute, 1995), continues to be popular as a readable overview
of realistic agriculture for the future and for today. Readers may write Avery at Post Office Box 202, Churchville, Virginia, 24421.
Email: cgfi@hughes.net
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