1. There is no proof that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases from human activity. Ice core records from the past 650,000 years show that temperature increases have preceded%u2014not resulted from%u2014increases in CO2 by hundreds of years, suggesting that the warming of the oceans is an important source of the rise in atmospheric CO2. As the dominant greenhouse gas, water vapour is far, far more important than CO2. Dire predictions of future warming are based almost entirely on computer climate models, yet these models do not accurately understand the role or water vapor%u2014and, in any case, water vapor is not within our control. Plus, computer models cannot account for the observed cooling of much of the past century (1940%u201375), nor for the observed patterns of warming%u2014what we call the %u201Cfingerprints.%u201D For example, the Antarctic is cooling while models predict warming. And where the models call for the middle atmosphere to warm faster than the surface, the observations show the exact opposite.
The best evidence supporting natural causes of temperature fluctuations are the changes in cloudiness, which correspond strongly with regular variations in solar activity. The current warming is likely part of a natural cycle of climate warming and cooling that%u2019s been traced back almost a million years. It accounts for the Medieval Warm Period around 1100 A.D., when the Vikings settled Greenland and grew crops, and the Little Ice Age, from about 1400 to 1850 A.D., which
RE:The Myth Of Global Warming
by greatbush on Feb 21, 2008 07:11 PM Permalink
2. If the cause of warming is mostly natural, then there is little we can do about it. We cannot control the inconstant sun, the likely origin of most climate variability. None of the schemes for greenhouse gas reduction currently bandied about will do any good; they are all irrelevant, useless, and wildly expensive:
%u2022 Control of CO2 emissions, whether by rationing or elaborate cap%u2013and%u2013trade schemes %u2022 Uneconomic %u201Calternative%u201D energy, such as ethanol and the impractical %u201Chydrogen economy%u201D %u2022 Massive installations of wind turbines and solar collectors %u2022 Proposed projects for the sequestration of CO2 from smokestacks or even from the atmosphere
Ironically, even if CO2 were responsible for the observed warming trend, all these schemes would be ineffective%u2014unless we could persuade every nation, including China, to cut fuel use by 80 percent!
