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Subject: FW: 2007 The Year of Global Cooling - MAKE SENSE???
I’ve been proactive and aggressively eco-sensitive since the 70s, when recycling meant making a special trip to one of the few recycling centers. But I consider this popular ‘Global Warming’ hysteria a trumped-up, politically-correct opportunity for more irrelevant and most often counter-productive, artificial constraints and restrictions, and continued cultural self-flagellation.
Do you really want to lessen the negative impact of humans on the earth? Have fewer children. Most of you reading this, already are. On to something more productive...
If it's printed in black'n'white, you can be certain of only one thing: It's printed in black'n'white.
Read, listen, observe critically.
Another great article on the contradictions of "Global Warming".
As I've pointed out before, how do we know the current changes in climate aren't part of the same natural climate cycling that led to the last great ice age melting off? Before we endorse the government's TAKING money from the taxpayers to address climate changes that some associate with human population growth, maybe we should take a closer look over a wider period of time to determine if the current climate changes (warming, cooling or whatever) really are occurring, and whether man's increasing population is really the reason for it, or whether it is just a normal, natural variation of weather.
If human population growth is the issue, perhaps we should address that issue specifically, rather than trying effect change by selling the people on an emotional issue that can't be substantiated by meteorological or geological facts, and that will lead to greater government control over our personal lives.
Do you really want to lessen the negative impact of humans on the earth? Have fewer children. Most of you reading this, already are. On to something more productive...
If it's printed in black'n'white, you can be certain of only one thing: It's printed in black'n'white.
Read, listen, observe critically.
Another great article on the contradictions of "Global Warming".
As I've pointed out before, how do we know the current changes in climate aren't part of the same natural climate cycling that led to the last great ice age melting off? Before we endorse the government's TAKING money from the taxpayers to address climate changes that some associate with human population growth, maybe we should take a closer look over a wider period of time to determine if the current climate changes (warming, cooling or whatever) really are occurring, and whether man's increasing population is really the reason for it, or whether it is just a normal, natural variation of weather.
If human population growth is the issue, perhaps we should address that issue specifically, rather than trying effect change by selling the people on an emotional issue that can't be substantiated by meteorological or geological facts, and that will lead to greater government control over our personal lives.
2007 The Year of Global Cooling
By David Deming
December 19, 2007
Full unedited text at http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071219/COMMENTARY/10575140
Al Gore says global warming is a planetary emergency. It is difficult to see how this can be so when record low temperatures are being set all over the world. In 2007, hundreds of people died, not from global warming, but from cold weather hazards.
Since the mid-19th century, the mean global temperature has increased by 0.7 degrees Celsius. This slight warming is not unusual, and lies well within the range of natural variation. Carbon dioxide continues to build in the atmosphere, but the mean planetary temperature hasn't increased significantly for nearly nine years. Antarctica is getting colder. Neither the intensity nor the frequency of hurricanes has increased. The 2007 season was the third-quietest since 1966. In 2006 not a single hurricane made landfall in the U.S.
South America this year experienced one of its coldest winters in decades.
By David Deming
December 19, 2007
Full unedited text at http://www.washingtontimes.com
Al Gore says global warming is a planetary emergency. It is difficult to see how this can be so when record low temperatures are being set all over the world. In 2007, hundreds of people died, not from global warming, but from cold weather hazards.
Since the mid-19th century, the mean global temperature has increased by 0.7 degrees Celsius. This slight warming is not unusual, and lies well within the range of natural variation. Carbon dioxide continues to build in the atmosphere, but the mean planetary temperature hasn't increased significantly for nearly nine years. Antarctica is getting colder. Neither the intensity nor the frequency of hurricanes has increased. The 2007 season was the third-quietest since 1966. In 2006 not a single hurricane made landfall in the U.S.
South America this year experienced one of its coldest winters in decades.
- In Buenos Aires, snow fell for the first time since the year 1918. Dozens of homeless people died from exposure.
- In Peru, 200 people died from the cold and thousands more became infected with respiratory diseases. Crops failed, livestock perished, and the Peruvian government declared a state of emergency.
Unexpected bitter cold swept the entire Southern Hemisphere in 2007.
- Johannesburg, South Africa, had the first significant snowfall in 26 years.
- Australia experienced the coldest June ever. In northeastern Australia, the city of Townsville underwent the longest period of continuously cold weather since 1941.
- In New Zealand, the weather turned so cold that vineyards were endangered.
Last January, $1.42 billion worth of California produce was lost to a devastating five-day freeze.
- At the supermarket, citrus prices soared.
- In the wake of the freeze, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked President Bush to issue a disaster declaration for affected counties.
- A few months earlier, Mr. Schwarzenegger had enthusiastically signed the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, a law designed to cool the climate. California Sen. Barbara Boxer continues to push for similar legislation in the U.S. Senate.
In April, a killing freeze destroyed 95 percent of South Carolina's peach crop, and 90 percent of North Carolina's apple harvest.
- At Charlotte, N.C., a record low temperature of 21 degrees Fahrenheit on April 8 was the coldest ever recorded for April, breaking a record set in 1923.
- On June 8, Denver recorded a new low of 31 degrees Fahrenheit. Denver's temperature records extend back to 1872.
Recent weeks have seen the return of unusually cold conditions to the Northern Hemisphere.
- On Dec. 7, St. Cloud, Minn., set a new record low of minus 15 degrees Fahrenheit.
- On the same date, record low temperatures were also recorded in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Extreme cold weather is occurring worldwide.
- On Dec. 4, in Seoul, Korea, the temperature was a record minus 5 degrees Celsius.
- Nov. 24, in Meacham, Ore., the minimum temperature was 12 degrees Fahrenheit colder than the previous record low set in 1952.
- The Canadian government warns that this winter is likely to be the coldest in 15 years
- Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri are just emerging from a destructive ice storm that left at least 36 people dead and a million without electric power.
Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.
David Deming is a geophysicist, an adjunct scholar with the National Center for Policy Analysis, and associate professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma.
Comment from friend A:
Well, uh, a couple points of interest:
the birthrate in the world hasn't changed much ... it's the death-rate that's changed dramatically: too many people living a WAY lot longer than folks used to ... uh, so maybe gov't should just start mandating an age by which people Have to die?
Okay, if that doesn't amuse you, nothing will. So I'll just make one other point to be irritating: with regard to the cited cold events, there IS irrefutable proof that global warming IS occurring, and at an alarmingly accelerated rate all the time. Photos are graphic in addition to survey measurements of glaciers and sea and polar ice all around the world. People may argue that it is not melting due to human activity all they want ... but the fact that the ice IS melting is not arguable — it's graphic.
As for human activity being the cause, that's pretty measurable too.
cheers :) We're all going to hell in a handbasket!
Comment from friend B:
You don't have to sell me on Gorebul Warming being BS... I've known the author of this piece for almost 20 years... Deming taught in my college at Oklahoma (and still does).
The other skeptic name you hear sometimes is David Legates. He is (or was, I think the PC governor yanked his title) the state climatologist in Deleware. I had him for two different classes when he was at Oklahoma, and when I ran the student computer labs he'd come down and a bunch of us would play Doom against each other on the networks. I still keep in touch with
him.
I have a good friend whose only fault is she's a liberal. Once I got her to sit down, examine the real data, and throw out on the anectdotal evidence (which Deming uses in the opposite direction below), it was easy to convert her on this AND the ozone hole (a myth - it's always been there, CFC's are heavier than air and thus can't reach the middle stratosphere, and what causes the hole - a lack of sunlight in the southern hemisphere winter, means that I am exposed to more UV radiation in 15 minutes on a summer day in Denver than someone stark naked for a week at the South Pole).
Need a good link for all this stuff? JunkScience.com
