My Aggie friend Jim Taylor from Harlingen, Texas writes: . It has been said that if one specializes enough to learn more and more about less and less, he will eventually know everything about nothing. After 50 years of observation, reading, listening, and only two degrees (B.S. and M.S.), at the age of 75 I can tell you from the works of others that:
1) There is no evidence to support the idea that global warming is produced by increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere, whether produced by humans or not;
2) The warmest year(s) we had in the last 100 were about 1934 before humans began to produce CO2 amounts that might measurably increase its atmospheric levels;
3) It’s cooler now than it was 10 years ago; Human produced CO2 levels are 30% greater now than they were 10 years ago;
4) There has been approximately one half of one degree (0.5) to as much as 0.75 degree of measurable natural warming in the last 100 years; cooling may be occurring now; the temperature of 2007-2008 was down by 0.6C to the temperature of 1980;
5) If there has been global warming, it has been good for humans;
6) Increased CO2 levels have been good for plants, which feed humans and their animals;
7) The largest contributor to ‘greenhouse gases’ are wetlands’ water vapor, yet we try to preserve our wetlands;
8) The largest contributor to earth’s cooling is precipitation (rain); rain requires clouds; clouds require – yep, you guessed it: water vapor;
9) The computer models used by global warming alarmists’ data do not even consider precipitation as affected by warming (if it exists);
10) Models do not consider the variations in the movements of heavenly bodies in relation to each other, or even all the changes of the angles of the Earths axis in relation to heavenly bodies;
11) One average volcano produces more actual pollution (atmospheric floating particles) than what human existence has produced; this with lightning-caused forest fires dwarfs human particle pollution to insignificance; a super volcano can bring devastation to the Earth;
12) The total of naturally formed ice on the planet has not varied significantly in the last 100 years; only the location of the ice; at present more than usual is in the Antarctic, less than usual is in the Arctic; this recurs periodically;
13) The new ice cores show that in the past six global warmings over the past half million years, the temperature rises occurred on average 800 years before the accompanying rise in atmospheric carbon; if warming precedes carbon increases, carbon (CO2) increases cannot be the cause of warming;
14) Melted ocean ice cannot flood the planet, even if it were true that the ice is melting faster than it forms elsewhere; filling a container of ice with all the ice that will float does not result in its overflowing when it melts;
15) Global warming politics is based on fear-mongering alarmists seeking to relieve us of our freedom for increased bureaucracy; the proposed carbon tax is theft by Democrats;
16) This country has fallen behind in the use of the cleanest of all fuels in power production (nuclear generation);
17) Engines exist that can burn any known fuel which results in less CO2 emissions than that found in the atmosphere; instead of promoting their production, our government restricts our fossil fuel production, which we have in abundance underground and sea;
18) This political policy is promoted by “Chicken Little” people like Sarah B. Merrill (VMS/10, May) whom I judge to be sincere but inadequately informed, and by others who listen to them.
The leaders of this Environmentalism politics are usually people who do not have to work very hard to earn large incomes, feel guilty for this, and want us to share their guilt;
19) The people who write the reports for the IPCC (UN climate change think tank) are not themselves qualified scientists, but rather they are laymen environmentalist activists of organizations such as Greenpeace.
20) The proportion of qualified scientists who dissent with the man made global warming theory, doubt or question its existence or have no opinion either way is approximately 46 percent by polling; in the year 2007 there were 400 prominent scientists who disputed the man-made global warming theory (US Senate Report).
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I will be glad to give a complete reference as to where these comments can be found (bibliography) in books, reports and online. One who looks for both sides of the argument will easily find them online. I’m surprised that Ms Merrill didn’t do this. Jim Taylor
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