Posted by
reasonmclucus on Saturday, February 16, 2008 1:05:56 AM
Weather Channel founder John Coleman calls global warming the
biggest
scam in
history. Unfortunately many politicians and journalists are gullible
enough to fall for the false theory that carbon dioxide is causing what
Coleman calls “the illusion of rapid global warming”.
The claim
that carbon dioxide is a “greenhouse gas” with the power to control air
temperature sounds like magic. Someone offering a product capable of
doing what CO2 can supposedly do in the atmosphere would likely be
arrested by the police for fraud. The evidence for “global warming” is
of little value.
Those who talk about global warming claim a 1 F
(0.5 C) increase in what they call the global average temperature over
the last century indicates the earth is getting warmer. You don’t have
to be a mathematician or physicist to recognize that one temperature
cannot represent every place on earth from frigid polar regions to
blazing deserts. Nor can a single temperature represent year round
conditions in temperate regions where temperatures can range from 0 F
(-18 C) in the winter to 100 F (35 C ) in the summer.
“It is i
mpossible
to talk about a single temperature for something as complicated as the
climate of Earth,” according to thermodynamics expert Professor
Bjarne Andresen, of the
Niels
Bohr Institute, University of
Copenhagen.
“A temperature can be defined only for a homogeneous system.
Furthermore, the climate is not governed by a single temperature.
Rather, differences of temperatures drive the processes and create the
storms, sea currents, etc. which make up the climate.”
The claim
that a 1 F (0.5 C) increase is significant ignores the fact that the
number represents only a 0.17% change over a century. (Note: Per cent
changes in temperature must be calculated using the Kelvin
scale
because of the arbitrary zero points of the Celsius and Fahrenheit
scales.) Scientists might be able to obtain an accuracy within 0.17% in
laboratory conditions, but not in the real world. Inadequate
maintenance of equipment can reduce accuracy. Changes in the area near
the site of the reading can affect temperatures.
Anthony Watts, Chief Meteorologist for KPAY-AM radio, has established a
site
that tracks poorly located weather stations. He has found temperature
stations with sensors on the roofs of buildings; near air-conditioning
exhaust vents; in parking lots; near hot automobiles, barbecues,
chimneys and on pavement and concrete surfaces - all of which would
lead to higher temperature recordings than properly located equipment. .
Ross McKitrick and Pat Michaels in an
article
published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres (December
2007) charge that temperature data have been processed in ways that
allow inaccuracies to remain. Some temperature data are known to be
subject to local environmental factors that may make the temperatures
unrepresentative, but current
procedures are inadequate to correct errors
that can inflate temperature data and create the false impression of
“global warming”
Dr. Nils-Axel Mrner
is the former head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at
Stockholm University in Sweden, past president (1999-2003) of the
INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and
Coastal Evolution and leader of the
Maldives Sea Level Project.
He
claims that
the IPCC has falsified data indicating a sea level rise. According to
Morner sea levels rose from 1850 through 1940 but there is no recent
trend of sea levels rising. In one case the IPCC used a tide gauge in
an area of Hong Kong that is sinking because of the compaction of
sediment to indicate that sea levels were rising even though other tide
gauges in Hong Kong indicated no rise.
CO2 constitutes
less than 0.04% of the atmosphere. How can anyone believe that an
increase from 0.036% to 0.037%, for example, could possibly increase
air temperature? CO2 is supposed to heat the ground by
re-emitting
radiation it has absorbed. The idea that individual CO2 molecules can
actually radiate enough energy to heat anything sounds so ridiculous
that it’s hard to understand how any logical person could
believe it.
Greenhouse gas advocates claim the process involves trapping radiation
produced by the ground, but physicist
R.
W. Wood, the inventor of both infrared and ultraviolet photography,
proved in 1909 that greenhouses did not raise
temperatures by trapping radiation.
One
of the oldest scams in physics involves the perpetual motion machine.
Such machines supposedly operate with little or no energy. The inventor
may claim that his machine may produce nearly as much, if not as much,
energy as it consumes. Claims about greenhouse gases imply they cause
the atmosphere to function as a perpetual motion machine according to
Dr. Gerhard Gerlich and Ralf D. Tscheuschner of the Institute for
Mathematical Physics at the Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University,
Germany, in their essay
“Falsification of the Atmospheric
Greenhouse Effects Within the Framework of Physics”.
The
only gas humans put into the atmosphere that might affect temperature
is water vapor, but the effect doesn't involve radiation.
Water vapor carries what physicists call
latent heat which is the heat energy required to turn ice and liquid
water into water vapor.
The
fact that some scientists support the idea of greenhouses gases doesn’t
make it valid. There are other scientists who say it is nonsense.
Scientists are just as capable of being con artists as anyone else.
Scientists once defrauded European nobles by claiming the ability to
turn lead into gold. Modern scientist con artists seek funding for
research to develop miracle cures or perpetual motion machines.
Police
will tell you that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably
is. Scam artists tend to oversell whatever they are peddling.
Business
oriented scam artists overstate the benefits of what they are selling.
Politically oriented scam artists like Al Gore and the IPCC overstate
the dangers of whatever they are warning about. The people who warn of
global warming are overselling claims about climate change and gullible
politicians and journalists are buying what they are selling.