IS GLOBAL WARMING A THREAT?

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IS GLOBAL WARMING A THREAT?

• Or is it just hot air?
• www.friendsofscience.org

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GLOBAL WARMING DOOM AND GLOOM CIRCA 1990

• According to the U.N., some environmental
  activists, and even some governments, the
  greatest threat facing mankind is global warming.
  The earth is warming at an unprecedented rate
  and will soon become unlivable, sea levels will
  rise, crops will fail, weather will become wild
  and unpredictable.

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GLOBAL COOLING DOOM AND GLOOM CIRCA 1975

• There are ominous signs that the Earths
  weather patterns have begun to change
  dramaticallywith serious political implications
  for just about every nation on earth.- Newsweek
  April 28, 1975
• Present climate is highly abnormalThere is a
  finite possibility that a serious worldwide
  cooling could befall the earth within the next
  hundred years.
• - National Academy of Sciences, 1975
• If present trends continue, the world will be
  about four degrees colder for the global mean
  temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by
  the year 2000.This is about twice what it would
  take to put us in an ice age.
• - Kenneth E. F. Watt on air pollution and global
  cooling, Earth Day 1970
• WHAT HAPPENED?

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GLOBAL WARMING MYTH 1

• The earth has had stable temperatures for a long
  time, and the 20th century has seen a dramatic
  rise in temperature, in the shape of a hockey
  stick.

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GLOBAL WARMING FACT 1

• The math behind the hockey stick shaped graph
  has been proven wrong by Canadian statisticians
  Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick. Here are 4
  graphs. One is the global warming hockey stick
  used by the UN and governments around the world
  to justify Kyoto, the other ones use the same
  computer program, with COMPLETELY RANDOM data.
• Which one is which?

http//www.climate2003.com/
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GLOBAL WARMING MYTH 2

• The 1990s were the hottest years ever recorded
  on earth, and this was caused by human greenhouse
  gas emissions.

http//www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/info/warming/
http//www.ipcc.ch/present/graphics.htm
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Global Warming Fact 2

• Why then, did the global temperature of the
  earth decline from 1940 to the late 1970s
  (causing the global cooling scare)? During which
  time the human emissions of CO2 were increasing
  like crazy (due to increased industrialization
  after WWII).
• The Earth is actually coming out of a cold
  period, known as the Little Ice Age. Global
  climate has been colder than present. It has
  also been warmer and that warmth had nothing to
  do with man-made CO2.

Little Ice Age
Last Ice Age
Medieval Warm Period
Present Day
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Global Warming Myth 3

• The consensus of world scientists is that
  humanity is causing significant climate change.
• The overwhelming majority of scientific
  experts, whilst recognizing that scientific
  uncertainties exist, nonetheless believe that
  human-induced climate change is already occurring
  and that future change is inevitable.
• - Robert T. Watson, Chairman of the
  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
  in November, 2000
• The consensus is that global warming is real,
  that it's happening and that we humans -- with
  our cars, and especially our power plants,
  burning coal, oil and gas, and releasing carbon
  dioxide into the atmosphere -- are partly or
  mostly or entirely responsible.
• Eugene Robinson. Ignoring the Smoke.
  Washington Post, February 4, 2005, P.A17

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Global Warming Fact 3

• There is no consensus!
• Oregon Global Warming Petition - Signed by more
  than 17,100 basic and applied American
  scientists, two-thirds with advanced degrees
• - Urges the United States government to reject
  the global warming agreement that was written in
  Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other
  similar proposals
• http//www.oism.org/pproject/
• Heidelberg Appeal States there is no
  scientific evidence for man-made global warming
• - Started in 1992, it has now been signed by
  more than 4000 scientists from around the world
• http//www.sepp.org/heidelberg_appeal.html

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Global Warming Myth 4

• Global Warming will be disastrous for the
  environment and human society
• Warming is bringing unpredictable changes.
  Melting glaciers and precipitation are causing
  some rivers to overflow Diseases are spreading.
  Some crops grow faster while others see yields
  slashed by disease and drought. Clashes over
  dwindling water resources may cause conflicts
• Thermal expansion of the oceans, combined with
  melting ice on land, is also raising sea levels.
  In this century, human activity could trigger an
  irreversible melting of the Greenland ice sheet.
  This would condemn the world to a rise in sea
  level of six meters - enough to flood land
  occupied by billions of people.
• - Fred Pearce, New Scientist Magazine
• http//www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate
  -change/

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Global Warming Fact 4

• Dr. Tim Patterson, Professor of earth sciences
  (Paleoclimatology) at Carleton University, and
  climate historian Hubert H. Lamb demonstrate that
  during warm periods civilization flourished and
  weather was more moderate. In cold periods, there
  was more drought, famine, wars and disease.
• Between 900 and 1300 A.D., the Earth warmed 1
  to 2Capproximately what climate models now
  predict for the 21st century. This warming
  resulted in one of the most favorable periods in
  history. Food production surged due to mild
  winters and longer growing seasons. Primary
  agricultural regions had fewer droughts and
  floods When Erik the Red was exiled from Iceland
  for murder in 980 AD, he was fortunate that his
  banishment coincided with this unusually warm
  climatic period. Open sea-lanes allowed him to
  make his way to a wholly new and, at the time,
  reasonably hospitable land - calling it
  Greenland
• Source http//www.envirotruth.org/myth4.cfm

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Global Warming Myth 5

• Extreme weather events will become more and more
  common as the world warms. This can already be
  seen with the increase of drought, floods, forest
  fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, and tsunamis.
• Extreme weather threatens Canadian ecosystems,
  security and health, and imposes severe costs on
  key sectors of our economyThe cost of
  weather-related disasters in Canada increased
  significantly during the 1990s. A number of
  sectors in the Canadian economy including
  forestry, agriculture and fisheries can be
  easily devastated by climate change-induced
  weather disasters. Government of Canada,
  Project Green Moving Forward on Climate Change,
  2005

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Global Warming Fact 5

• Could the increased costs be due to people
  building structures in extreme weather prone
  areas such as floodplains and tornado alleys, and
  not due to increased extreme weather events?
• Dr. Madhav Khandekar, a meteorologist with 25
  years experience at Environment Canada, has
  showed that extreme weather events (heat waves,
  floods, winter blizzards, thunderstorms, hail,
  tornadoes) are not currently increasing anywhere
  in Canada. "Extreme weather events are definitely
  on the decline over the last 40 years," concludes
  Dr. Khandekar.
• According to Dr. John Christy, Professor and
  Director, Earth System Science Center at the
  University of Alabama, the frequency of
  hurricanes, thunderstorms, hail and tornadoes
  have not increased in recent years either.
  Weather just seems unusual and dangerous these
  days because of media focus. If the planet warms,
  the temperature differential between the Earth's
  poles and equatorial regions will drop, resulting
  in weather that is even more tranquil.

Hurricane Frequency, 1940 - 2000
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Global Warming Myth 6

• Alternative energy sources such as solar, wind,
  tidal, and hydrogen cells can soon be significant
  contributors to the energy needs of the human
  population.

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Global Warming Fact 6

• Environmentalists tell us that we can break the
  fossil fuel habit by massively expanding our use
  of "clean" wind and solar power to provide much
  of Canada's power needs. Unfortunately, this is
  hopelessly impractical. Both of these energy
  sources are far too diffuse and intermittent to
  ever provide more than a small fraction of the
  energy needs of any major industrialized nation,
  let alone vast, northern countries like Canada
  and United States. The problems of diffuseness
  and intermittency are ones that can never be
  completely overcome, no matter how much research
  and development is done in the field.
• "To produce an average of 1000 MW, the power
  produced by any large conventional (coal, oil,
  nuclear, gas) power plant, would require about
  833 square kilometers of wind turbines. That's
  the area of a mile-wide swath of land extending
  from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Multiply that
  by about 30 and you have California's
  electricity. - Dr. Howard C. Hayden, Emeritus
  Professor of Physics, University of Connecticut
• Consider that in 2001 there was a total global
  installed capacity of eight gigawatts (GW) of
  geothermal power, 25 GW of wind power and
  negligible photovoltaic solar power. Even
  assuming the wind blows all the time, geothermal,
  wind and photovoltaic add up to only one quarter
  of one per cent of worldwide primary energy
  production. To replace fossil fuels, you would
  need to increase all these renewables by a
  staggering 33,000 per cent!
• Source http//www.envirotruth.org/myth9.cfm

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Global Warming Myth 7

• Kyoto will reduce air pollution and will save
  lives.
• Climate change is already killing 150,000 people
  a year.
• - Greenpeace
• http//www.greenpeace.org.uk/climate/?CFID202606
  9CFTOKEN33577989
• Climate change is likely to have wide-ranging
  and mostly adverse impacts on human health, with
  significant loss of life
• David Suzuki Foundation
• Last, J., Trouton, K., and Pengelly, D. 1998.
  Taking Our Breath Away The Health Effects of Air
  Pollution and Climate Change. Vancouver David
  Suzuki Foundation.
• http//www.davidsuzuki.org/files/healthFULL.pdf

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Global Warming Fact 7
Kyoto is about greenhouse gases only. Kyoto only
addresses carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide,
hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur
hexafluoride. It does not address any SOX or NOX
particulate matter, nor does it address ozone,
the main cause of smog. Thus, Kyoto will not
reduce atmospheric pollution, it will only
attempt to reduce the amount of CO2 emitted by
human activities. The irony is that CO2 is
required by all primary life (plants) to grow.
Without it, there would be no plant or animal
life on earth.

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To Help Fight Kyoto

• 1) Write letters to your elected government
  officials, as well as to the editor of your local
  newspaper and the media, and contribute to
  websites and blogs as well as other avenues of
  communication, that you dont want Kyoto
  implemented, and you want a real solution to real
  pollution, which CO2 is not.
• 2) Visit the Friends of Science at
  www.friendsofscience.org often, to keep up to
  date and join us in fighting against the abuse of
  science and promotion of hysteria.