Allan Caruba

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 18:37 CDT

Unless you live in Seattle, you likely did not know that the National Weather Service just announced that the city endured its third coolest June on record. As much of America swelters through a heat wave, it's not surprising that the usual suspects are telling everyone that it's because of "global warming."

I have a longtime friend, Ron Marr who has a Jack Russell Terrier and in a recent commentary for Missouri Life magazine, he wrote that, "Jack doesn't believe in global warming in the least; he does not believe the recent atmospheric hellfire results from ozone holes or aerosol cans or giant leprechauns with a big magnifying glass. We share the same views on the topic and have discussed them often. Our considered opinion is that this streak of blazing nonsense stems from the fact that - to put it in scientific terms - it's summer and the sun is hot."

On July 3rd Seth Borenstein, a reporter for the Associated Press, a newswire service that has been reporting global warming lies for decades, wrote that "If you want a glimpse of some of the worst of global warming, scientists suggest taking a look at U.S. weather in recent weeks."

IT'S SUMMERTIME, SETH! IT GETS HOT IN THE SUMMER!

It did not take long for the high priests of global warming to proclaim the current WEATHER to be CLIMATE. There's a very big difference. Weather is what is occurring now while climate is measured in terms of centuries. It's about trends and cycles.

It surely has been a hot summer thus far. Reuters reported that "more than 2,000 temperature records have been matched or broken in the past week as a brutal heat wave baked much of the United States." The announcement was made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on July 2nd.

Meteorologist Joe Bastardi took another reporter to task for coupling the heat wave with global warming, pointing out that "The US is less than 10% of the globe" while ignoring that "Scandinavia had coldest June on record and that Australia is having a bad winter."

What we should all know by now is that the Warmists all use trickery to advance their hoax.

The simple fact is that heat waves are nothing new. In 1936 a North American heat wave was the most severe in the modern history of the continent. It occurred in the middle of the Great Depression, killing more than 5,000 Americans and desiccating vast amounts of crops. To put it in perspective, there were no home air conditioning appliances at the time. People depended on fans to circulate the air.

The sun surely is hot, but its heat - solar radiation - has not been sufficient to avoid cyclical ice ages and short term periods of intense cold because the sun itself goes through cycles of increasing and diminishing solar radiation.

There was a "Little Ice Age" that lasted between 1550 and 1850. Temperatures dropped to the point that the Thames River in England froze over and "frost fairs" were held on its surface. It was felt through Europe and parts of North America.

Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Matt Ridley noted that "Over the past million years, it has been as warm as this or warmer for less than 10% of the time, during 11 brief episodes known as interglacial periods," adding that "this warm spell is already 11,600 years old, and it must surely, in the normal course of things, come to an end."

The average length of interglacial periods is 11,500 years.

In the 1970s, prior to the global warming hoax, many scientists were convinced that a new ice age had begun. In January 2012, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Habibullo Abdusamatov, predicted that the next ice age will begin in 2014 and will last at least two centuries. Regarding the timing, he could be right. He could be wrong. One thing is sure. The Earth is overdue another ice age.

My friend, Robert W. Felix, the author of Not by Fire, But by Ice, is an expert on ice ages and magnetic reversals. It is the latter that accompanied mass extinctions such as the dinosaur's fate and many other species at the end of the Cretaceous period. In ice ages, the Earth's water doesn't disappear, it turns to ice. The current growth of the planet's glaciers is an indicator of what is actually occurring.
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Another indicator, of course, is the sun. On January 29, 2012, writing in the Daily Mail, a British newspaper, David Rose noted that "The supposed 'consensus' on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years."

"After emitting unusually high levels of energy throughout the 20th century, the sun is now heading towards a 'grand minimum' in its output, threatening cold summers, bitter winters, and a shortening of the season available for growing food. Solar output goes through 11-year cycles, with high numbers of sunspots seen at their peak."

"We are now at what should be the peak of what scientists call 'Cycle 24'...but sunspot numbers are running at less than half those seen during cycle peaks in the 20th century." Oddly, despite the obvious and documented effect of the sun on the planet's average temperature, there remain scientists who are unconvinced of its essential role. Only a relative few even understand the role of magnetic reversals on the planet's history.

Actually, the diminishing number of sunspots has been known for a while. In June 2010, Stuart Clark, writing in The New Scientist, observed that "For the past two years, the sunspots have mostly been missing. Their absence, the most prolonged for nearly a hundred years, has taken even seasoned sun watchers by surprise."

The obvious often catches people by surprise. The last Ice Age came on very swiftly and the next is likely to do so as well. In the meantime, the current heat wave will capture everyone's attention.

It's just what the earth does. She's done it before and she's doing it again.

Yes there are cycles. From cold to hot and hot to cold during the long history of the Earth, but that's not a good thing. It obviously resulted in the mass extinction of many species. Also don't forget that many of these changes were caused by factors outside of the Earth such as meteors.

The main question now is whether Global Warming is influenced by humans and most scientists will say that it is. Humans have increased the Carbon Dioxide concentration in the atmosphere by 40% in the past 150 years which is huge and is also marked by a proportional increase in temperature.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/quantifying-the-human-contribution-to-global-warming.html
This explains the 40% increase in CO2 concentration.

This chart records the temperature changes within the past 150 years. http://www.planetseed.com/files/uploadedimages/Science/Earth_Science/Global_Climate_Change_and_Energy/global_temp3.jpg

You can clearly see the relationship between the green house gasses and temperature changes.

While people can still say, "but it could be because of a natural climate change and that correlation does not imply causation", we have a good understanding of how these gasses work and the data match up really well with this understanding.

The Medieval Warm Period was a global phenomenon, and yet it occurred without Mankind's help. So, if another warm period is occurring, then it is possible that it has all-natural causes.

exactly...

i think deforestation is the cause of that... we might go, or a majority of us will, but the earth will right itself as it been doing... we just may have to adapt...

Actually Trees contribute very little to Carbon Dioxide consumption. The majority of the oxygen that we breath came from photosynthetic blue-green algea. Oxygen is released during photosynthesis btw.
Early earth had very little oxygen - mainly carbon dioxide (The Super continent pangaea was much hotter than earth today. Animals such as triops were adapted to surviving in the hotter temperature but now they can only be found in a few locations). For a few million years, there were only anaerobic bacteria but oxidative phosphorylation was much more efficient so aerobic bacteria began to dominate producing the oxygen we breath.

There is no shortage of algea in the world and trees account for very little of the oxygen, so the increase in CO2 has to be due to the massive release of CO2 from industry, cars, and respiration.

While there are cycles of warm and cold, the correlation of CO2 vs Temperature is so precise that it is undeniable that humans have impacted temperature this time.

you may be right about the algae, but i do not think that it is 'undeniable' that we are the cause. the earth has been through many changes in it's billions of years of history, and our accurate weather recording is only about 200 years old, if that. i do not think we have enough data to say for sure that man has caused anything to do with the weather, there are just to many factors we do not know about yet.