You've been Doped into thinking this! The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reports, which have become bibles for bureaucrats, environmentalist fanatics and you "global warming believers", accuse modern civilization of being responsible for global warming, and repeatedly state that they reflect a true "consensus" of the scientific community.
Opinions critical of the IPCC reports have been expressed by many prominent, competent scientists. For example, Dr. Frederick Seitz, (a past president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society) President Emeritus, (Rockefeller University, former Chairman of the Defense Science Board and former Science Adviser to NATO) stated:
"I have never witnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer-review process than the events that led to this IPCC report." Climate warming caused by man-made greenhouse gases, is usually presented as a gloomy catastrophe that will induce the mass extinction of animals and plants, epidemics of contagious and parasitic diseases, droughts and floods, and even invasions of mutated insects resistant to insecticides. Melting glaciers are predicted to raise sea level by 6 meters, flooding islands, densely inhabited coastal areas, and great metropolises. There will be mass migrations and a host of other social and environmental effects.
According to one American climatologist, the
"scare-them-to-death" approach seems to be the best way to get money for climate studies. Dr. Stephen Schneider, a leading prophet of man-made climate warming, stated this bluntly:
"To capture the public imagination... we have to... make simplified dramatic statements, and little mention of any doubts one might have.... Each of us has to decide the right balance between being effective and being honest". About half of the scientists who took part in preparing the IPCC report of 1996
do not agree with its conclusions –
hardly a consensusEveryone knows that single anomalies are totally relevant in long-term statistical studies. The tempeture might be steadly rising all over the world, But hey..It was pretty hot back in 1902! Explain that scientists!
Satellite measurements of the temperature of the lower troposphere provide us with evidence against the theory of man-made global warming. Between 1979 and 1997, these measurements (270,000 readings per day over 95 percent of the Earth’s surface) revealed a slight cooling trend of – 0.04°C per decade. In the same time period, ground-level measurements over land and sea were showing a warming of +0.15°C per decade, and computer models projected a warming of+0.18°C per decade. The difference between satellite and balloon measurements on the one hand, and ground-level measurements on the other, is usually explained as the result of ground-level mea-surements being influenced by local heating of the atmosphere by cities, and changes in methods in sea-surface measurements.
(figure 1)Carbon dioxide is causing a massive greenhouse effect that is heating the earth up? Nonsense...The earth heated up before. It doesn't matter if it's past increases in temp were all natural. That doesn't matter. Neither does the fact that we are releasing billions of tons of co2 every year and that co2 is a proven greenhouse gas. Those are pesky little details and facts that we can't let ruin our big conspiracy!
The most important greenhouse gas is water vapor, which is responsible for about 96 to 99 percent of the greenhouse effect. A reader of the IPCC 1990 report (the bible of the man-made global warming adherents) might incorrectly believe that CO2 causes 25 percent of the entire greenhouse effect.
What is striking in this IPCC report, is that water was not even mentioned in any of its eight tables comparing the greenhouse effect of different atmospheric components! If the corresponding values for water had been presented in these tables, the unimportance of the contribution from CO2 produced by man, in the thermal balance of the atmosphere, would have been very clear. If CO2 were the only greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, it would contribute about 22 percent of the present greenhouse effect.
It is the existence of oceans, which emit water vapor, and not the presence of CO2, that we can thank for a temperature well above 14º C at Earth’s surface, that is stable in a range of only a few degrees, which has enabled the existence of life. To the total CO2 flux into the global atmosphere of 169 gigatons (Gt) of carbon per year, human industrial and agricultural activity adds about 6 Gt of Carbon per year.
Natural Annual Fluxes into AtmosphereOcean 106
Land 63
TOTAL 169Man-made Annual Fluxes into AtmosphereFossil fuels and land use 6Hence, man's addition to the total natural greenhouse effect may be about 0.05 to 0.25 percent. But even this tiny addition is doubtful.
