Summer is almost over and most people in Britain would be forgiven for thinking that it had never really gotten started. All this talk of global warming and yet around the world, things seem to be getting colder and colder. Apparently contradicting the predictions of extreme drought and the claims that action on Global Warming is almost too late.
We’ve all seen the dire computer models, the ‘evidence’ that mankind is causing a global meltdown, even though this seems to defy common sense. CO2 makes up a tiny proportion of our atmosphere, and mankind is responsible for just a tiny proportion of that each year (less than 0.5%), yet it is ostensibly having such a catastrophic impact.
At first I completely bought into this Global Warming business, after all the evidence was irrefutable, everyone agreed that Global Warming was real and furthermore, man made.
Then I learned that the evidence wasn’t so incontrovertible and the more than I read the more convinced I became that the ‘evidence’ may not be all that it is cracked up to be. There are many, many scientists that are disputing the Global Warming phenomena. Over 100 sent a letter to the UN last year saying that cutting CO2 emissions was pointless.
Recent events seem to have backed up my scepticism. Despite certainties that Global Warming was real and that the world is already suffering the affects, it has been getting colder, not warmer.
Take 2007; Global Warming ‘experts’ explained that due to mankind’s inability to cut carbon emissions, 2007 would be the warmest year on record. It turned out to be the coldest year on record in many places, the coldest in living memory in most.
There was snow in Johannesburg for the first time in 25 years, Baghdad for the first time in 80 years, and Buenos Aires saw snow for the first time in 90 years. This seems pretty odd considering that the planet is getting progressively warmer each year, at least according to the Global Warming champions.
The fact is, despite the increase of carbon emissions, despite the claims and apparent obvious evidence of Global Warming, such as floods and hurricanes; the average global temperature hasn’t risen in a decade.
That’s right, Global Warming peaked in 1998, but no one has yet had the courage to tell the Emperor that he isn’t wearing any clothes.
The current hypothesis amongst true climatologists is that the planet is actually entering a period of cooling and that all the information points to this being a natural cycle in the planets climate and having nothing to do with man’s CO2 emissions.
Of course, one swallow does not a summer make, and one cold winter does not mean that Global Warming is all a load of rubbish, but it certainly isn’t following the computer models that have been bandied about for years.
Also this ten year blip in rising temperatures could just be the calm before the storm, and the next decade could see Global Warming continue apace. But people are not stupid, one bad summer and cold winter can be explained away, but two and then three…surely then even the most ardent believers in Global Warming are going to start to see the strings.
14 responses so far ↓
Iain Hall // August 19, 2008 at 6:01 am |
yes Charlie the warminists are really scrambling to find explanations for the non-existent warming trend that their computer models predicted. personally I think it is a case of shit in = shit out with those computer models
Free Environment Blogs » - “global warming” // August 19, 2008 at 6:01 am |
[...] Another cold summer, so much for global warming By Charlie All this talk of global warming and yet around the world, things seem to be getting colder and colder. Apparently contradicting the predictions of extreme drought and the claims that action on Global Warming is almost too late. … Charlie’s Space – http://charlie180.wordpress.com [...]
Anne Cox // August 19, 2008 at 10:28 am |
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Sep 18 2007
Are Climate Change/Global Warming Really Happening?
IF THESE CHANGES ARE REALLY HAPPENING WHAT CAN WE DO?
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Are Climate Change and Global Warming the same or different? Well now, Climate Change
is a known fact. Earth’s climate has never stayed the same. The term ‘Global Warming’
is a media-invented term that just describes what seems to be happening at the moment.
So, what is really happening? Are Climate Change and Global Warming the same or
different? Now, Climate Change is a known fact. Earth’s climate has never stayed
the same. The term ‘Global Warming’ is a media-invented term that just describes what
seems to be happening at the moment.
So, what is really happening? From Victorian times onwards we have burned coal and
later oil to give us their stored energy and power. The attitude was – smoke and
exhaust gets blown away. As long as it doesn’t affect us directly we haven’t worried
- well some of us haven’t. Trouble has been that all our pollution headed for the Poles.
Think of the Earth’s rotation as a spin dryer flinging water (but here pollutants)
down the plug hole. Unfortunately there aren’t plugs at the North and South Poles,
so the pollution stays in the atmosphere as smog. I know this I have seen it myself.
The upper atmosphere shields the Earth from harmful rays from outer space. At this
great height the oxygen isn’t like the oxygen we breathe, this is two oxygen atoms
‘tied’ together. The ozone that protects us in the upper atmosphere is very reactive.
Ozone reacts with pollutants to form that photochemical smog . All sorts of things
react with ozone in the atmosphere. Gas from aerosols, exhaust fumes from motor
vehicles, smoke from coal burning, refrigerant from fridges and freezers.
Carbon dioxide is a waste product of many life processes and industry. This too tries
to escape, but gets trapped by the Greenhouse Effect. A well known and even worse problemis the methane produced by those notorious farting cows. Methane is a
product of their digestion and this methane forms an even better blanket than carbon dioxide around the Earth.
Add all these facts together and you contribute to Climate Change with the
temperature of the Earth rising overall at the moment. Why should this matter?
Surely if our environment was warmer , we could save on heating bills?
End of Part 1.
Copyright © 2007 The Energy Lady.
Earl E // August 19, 2008 at 3:29 pm |
July was the 5th warmest since 1880, that is worldwide. No one gives a crap about what the weather was like on any specific continent, it is a worldwide average.
Weather is impacted by pollution. Ever heard of cloud seeding. Man directly impacts weather all day long.
If China cleans their air by seeding, how does that impact the rainfall elsewhere?
Noone is looking into that question right now, and it may be impossible to predict.
And who cares. We have been seeding clouds with soot from dirty coal for centuries impacting cloud formation and rainfall.
7 mass extinctions in the fossil record.
7 climate upheavals.
Is it so hard for you to admit you pump poison into the atmosphere all day long?
I know you feel guilty, and you should be, but do you have to write things that on the surface sound like you really are educated?
Charlie // August 19, 2008 at 6:55 pm |
Agreed. But judging by the comments here it is going to take a hell of a lot more than mere cold and snow to convince these environ-mentalists that we’re not getting hotter and hotter each year.
Charlie // August 19, 2008 at 6:59 pm |
Anne Cox,
Thank you for the comment, although I am not quite sure what you are trying to say.
I agree that climate change is real, but not that it is produced by mankind. In fact other than computer models and theories, I have yet to see any incontrovertible evidence that this man made and that the warming and cooling cycle isn’t just a natural and regular occurrence that has been happening since long before mankind came along.
Charlie // August 20, 2008 at 12:03 am |
Quite right, which is why I said “the average global temperature hasn’t risen in a decade”, global is another word for ‘worldwide.’
You will also note that I said it hasn’t risen, not that it is not high. 1998 was the warmest year globally and despite the increase in pollution worldwide in the past ten years, it has still to be surpassed.
Precisely.
CO2 isn’t poison, plants need it to live and produce their by product of oxygen. People like you, who are obsessed with carbon footprints, fail to realise that even if mankind stopped producing CO2 completely, 99.51% of the CO2 that gets into the atmosphere each year would be unaffected.
Yes, I feel very guilty about the 0.0000000000008167% of the worlds annual CO2 emissions that I am responsible for.
Most of my facts and figures came from these articles: Dr. Oleg Sorokhtin, Merited Scientist of Russia and fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and the Danish National Space Centre – The persistent role of the Sun in climate forcing.
JJ // August 31, 2008 at 1:06 pm |
Waste of the mind
Buffoon // December 17, 2008 at 7:59 pm |
One thing you got wrong Charlie, people ARE stupid..
I just listened to your guy Ed Miliband letting the true agenda slip, wealth re-distribution…
check it out and I’d be interested to hear a Brits take on it…
http://www.dequalss.com/wp/2008/12/17/the-brits-are-on-board-with-the-climate-change-wealth-re-distribution-scheme/
Sandra S // January 9, 2009 at 2:17 am |
warming, scmarming – the real danger is that the air is getting so polluted with carcinogents that to breathe is to risk cancer, to drink carcinogenic water is to risk cancer, to eat carcinogenic food is to risk cancer. The reduction of the world’s tree cover, the destruction of wildlife and habitat – whether it’s global warming or other manmade factors, we are heading toward an environmental armageddon – overpopulation, nonsustainable lifestyles. The human species is shi**ing all over its own den, and extinction would be well deserved. We were supposed to be ’stewards’ of our home planet, not destroyers, but what can you expect from the only species on the planet with a death wish?
Charlie // January 12, 2009 at 2:40 am |
Sandra S,
I have always wondered whether the prevalence of cancer today, compared to say a hundred years ago, is due to toxins ingested throughout one’s life, or the fact that people are living longer. Personally, I think that it is the latter.
Gordon V // July 10, 2009 at 11:11 pm |
you obviously have no idea what you are talking about… shame on you.
OZZY // November 1, 2009 at 4:34 pm |
yes it is wrong.
i mean scientista just others just want people to be on thier toes, i mean someday the world might ned, but no anytime soon,
because the world was “supposed” to end in 2000
people were almost sure about it, but look where we are
NOTHING HAPPENED
the same thing happened in 2004, the world was supposed to end, never did
i mean the world could end if the sun blew out, but in 2 billion years, the sun ha only burned out 2% meaning we still have 98% left
dont worry about it, in this lifetime, you are definaly fine.
Charlie // November 2, 2009 at 2:00 am |
Quite right. Indeed I am willing to bet that my great, great grandchildren will be fine too.