I have been getting responses to my first Climate Crisis blog saying that they are yet to see evidence that global warming is around us. What ignorance! Even if you believe that we aren't going through it yet, you can't be that blind-sided to realize that if we continue our actions as they are going on now, the world is going to be done for. There has been study upon study upon study about greenhouse gases in the laboratory and outside, in observation that have proved that more CO2 causes more sunlight to be reflected onto the Earth. That is a FACT! Let's not wait until it's too late to change our ways. Let's research new forms of energy and get our country off of oil, gas and coal. Now is the time to change. Get out of your old ways and step into the light. The future can be hell or heaven, we must decide!
In my first blog, one comment said, and I quote, "as long as they will also accept the last two years where we were supposed to have severe hurricane seasons but actually had exceptionally mild hurricane seasons as evidence that global warming is not happening." This may be true, but over the last 30 years, the number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes has doubled. Sure, there are exceptions to the rules, but the law of averages says that global warming causes climate changes and natural disasters over time. It is hard to argue with stats like that. (Data from Nature magazine)
More stats, in the past decade, the amount of ice melted from Greenland has doubled. Doubled in 10 years! You cannot close your eyes to the problems facing the world! Climatologists have come up with scenarios that paint Greenland and the Arctic Ocean surrounding it as free from ice by 2050. This will cause a catastrophic rise in sea level, because this is where most of the world's water is held. Goodbye Florida and any coastal city that isn't less than 100 feet above sea level! (Data from Geophysical Research Letters and the Cambridge University Press).
Please don't turn your heads and call this propaganda. Surely 90% of intellectuals on the planet can't be wrong (estimated percent)! We can make a difference if we all open our minds. I for one don't want to leave a world of devastation to my children. "We must be the change we wish to see in the world," Gandhi. Thanks.
since people refuse to change maybe we can take global warming as an advantage and use the excess water for fueling purposes.no? Just a thought.
Good blog
~T
All truths are easy to understand once discovered; The point is to discover them ~Galileo
Thanks for the compliment. It would be hard to use water as fuel though, saying very little energy would be released from splitting it, but who knows? We aren't the future so hopefully something comes along someday.
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Have people looked at the polar bears lately? I almost typed polar beers. LOL. Their habitat (ice) is melting right underneath them. Hmm. How can you know about global warming? Look at the F*n polar bears. Although I am being sarcastic this is actually happening.
Good blog though. :)
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You mean the polar bears that in 1950 had a population of about 5000 animals and currently have a population of about 25,000 animals?
If a few polar bears have died recently it is most likely because their population has grown to the point where it exceeds the carrying capacity of their very harsh environment.
This sort of stuff happens in nature all the time. Populations cycle up and down.
I didn't say that they were dying. Their habitats are melting. That was what I talking about I didn't mean to word it that way...
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See my post below that talks about the previous Arctic melts that happened within the last 104 years. What happened last summer was nothing new or unique. And all of those previous thaws happened before significant man-made emissions of CO2 so apparently occassional Arctic thaws are just a natural occurence.
The fact that none of this historical context shows up in the sc-called scientific publications about global warming or in the main stream media means that the hysteria last summer was just fear-mongering and propaganda with the intent of manipulating and pulling the wool over the eyes of a generally ignorant population. I can see that it worked pretty well.
I hate confrontation but you had to go and pull the ignorance card... I am not ignorant I am far from it. I hate when people try to insult someone's intelligence because of their opinion and trends that they have noticed. It is just making yourself look like an idiot.
I don't waste time debating with skeptical people because I have better shit to do. Also skeptical people are narrow minded and even if the evidence was put right in front of them they would still be skeptical. You could be right and I could be wrong, but the fact of the matter is with all the bias information who can really be the judge of right or wrong? Even with facts placed right in front of us we should still question them because people lie, they make up things, they fabricate, and make mistakes. people are flawed therefore information becomes flawed. Things many of us know to be true could be soo wrong.
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Are you honestly saying that 25,000 is the carrying capacity for polar bears? I could fit 25,000 polar bears in a basketball arena. And they had a population of over 100,000 a century ago. What made the 75% drop other than humans and global warming? I'll be writing a new blog later today on the politics of endangered species, and I suggest that you read it.
P.S. Where did you get your 5,000 stat from because I don't think that that is true.
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P.S. Where did you get your 5,000 stat from because I don't think that that is true.
It is not hard to find the articles that debunk the polar bear extinction hysteria. It is based on very bad science. Here is a pretty good one:
U.S. Senate Report Debunks Polar Bear Extinction Fears
Read the whole article because it pours ice water on the polar bear nonsense. Be sure to click on the "more" link at the bottom because you might figure out that whoever has been filling your head full of fear about global warming is not telling you the whole story.
Here is a relevant excerpt that is responsive to your question;
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service estimates that the polar bear population is currently at 20,000 to 25,000 bears, up from as low as 5,000-10,000 bears in the 1950s and 1960s. A 2002 U.S. Geological Survey of wildlife in the Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain noted that the polar bear populations “may now be near historic highs.” The alarm about the future of polar bear decline is based on speculative computer model predictions many decades in the future. And the methodology of these computer models is being challenged by many scientists and forecasting experts.
Canadian biologist Dr. Mitchell Taylor, the director of wildlife research with the Arctic government of Nunavut: “Of the 13 populations of polar bears in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number. They are not going extinct, or even appear to be affected at present,”
Where did you get your 100,000 stat from because I don't think that that is true? Given that the USGS asserts that 20 to 25 thousand animals is near historical highs then 100,000 would by ridiculously outside that range.
But for the moment, I'll accept your 100,000 number even though I doubt its validity. Your assertion that the 75% drop in numbers to 25,000 could only be caused by humans and global warming is a complete misinterpretation of the data because you fail to look at the timeframe in sufficient granularity. When you look closer, in the first half of the century the numbers must have dropped from 100,000 to 5000 which is a 95% drop. This precipitous drop occurred before the era of massive CO2 emissions and man-made global warming. It must have been caused by something else. In the second half of the century, during the era of massive CO2 emissions and alleged man-made global warming polar bear populations climbed from 5000 to 25,000 or by about 500%. The data suggests that global warming is good for bear populations and the excerpt above indeed indicates that 11 of the 13 distinct bear populations are continuing to thrive and grow.
My 100,000 polar bear stat was from a source, but it was questionable. (I think I said something, but if I didn't, I meant to). So you could be right. But the polar bears are not considered endangered, but they are considered threatened. This means that they are doing fine, but they have a high chance of declining rapidly in the near future. Once I have some time, I'm going to read that article and get back to you.
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As for the increase in polar bear population, I did some research and found out that the United States banned polar bear trophy hunting a couple of decades ago. If you add this to other global environmental groups (outside the U.S. government), you can get a dramatic increase in polar bears.
And I'm writing that Politics of Endangered Species Blog I promised you a while ago as we speak...or as I write.
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There has been study upon study upon study about greenhouse gases in the laboratory and outside, in observation that have proved that more CO2 causes more sunlight to be reflected onto the Earth.
I guess the only thing that is missing is proof that the climate models actually work. The models predicted significant warming for the past 10 years. The levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have climbed for the last 10 years. But there has been no ACTUAL warming in the last 10 years. And the latest news is that NASA has discovered a shift in the ocean currents that are going to cause the climate to be COOLER for the next decade or three.
There are about 32,000 scientists that recently signed a statement that said the global warming science was suspect. I don't think the proof is all that convincing.
as long as they will also accept the last two years where we were supposed to have severe hurricane seasons but actually had exceptionally mild hurricane seasons as evidence that global warming is not happening.
Hey, I recognize those words! I think I wrote that!
My point is that it is laughable to site one hurrican season or two or thirty as proof of climate change. When you can cite a century or centuries or preferrably milleniums of evidence then climate change has meaning. Anything less is just unusual weather and it does not matter if jt supports climate change or does not support climate change. Last summer we heard a lot of hysterical hand wringing about melting in the Arctic. But one really had to dig to learn that the Arctic had melted more severely in 1904, 1940, and in 1942. In all three of those years, all of which proceeded significant man-made emissions of carbon dioxide, the Arctic melted more significantly than last year to the point where ships were actually able to sail between the Atlantic and the Pacific through the Northern Passage. The fact that the media and global warming scientists failed to provide this historical context makes their alarmist rantings last year little more than blatent propaganda.
With resepct to the melting in Greenland, I have to ask, has it melted to the extent that people can farm it like the Vikings were in the 15th Century during the Mideival Warm Period (I'm talking about that warm period that so-called climate scientists have done their best to suppress because it makes an inconvenient bump on their hockey stick.)? I don't think so! The ice has gotten back about to where it was in the 1940's. In fact a warplane that made an emergency landing there and was buried by snow has recently been re-exposed.
Of course farming in Greenland was ended by the Little Ice Age, The Midievel Warm period marks the beginning of the Rennissaince. The Little Ice Age is best characterized by the Black Death. It was a miserable period in human history. Warm is good, cold is bad.
With respect to costal cities disappering, so what. The sea level changes and it has been changing for a long time and it will change again whether we like it or not. I have personally scuba dived in the brackish waters of the ceynotes on the Yucatan Pennisula of Mexico and I have seen ancient pre-historic human fireplace hearths 80 feet below current sea level. Humans have not been in the New World for more than a few tens of thousands of years so we are talking about a massive rise in an eye blink of geological time.
I can show you entire ranges of hills here in Wyoming that are 3500 feet above current sea level that are covered with petrified sea shells. If the oceans are going to rise, then there is nothing that humans can do that will hold them back.
After a warm decade in the 1930s and a cold decade in the 1970s and a warm decade in the 1990s and now a pretty average decade for the past 10 years there is no evidence that global warming is even happening and even less that any climate change is human caused.
I think some people have talked about this before...An ancient indian civilization marked a calenday of sort of warm and cold times. They predicted this and new what they cycles were...they could blow our so called genious scientist out of the water and make them look like third graders. It is about balance and the weather evens it self out. Like in the body with homeostasis... something goes to far one way cause a negative feed back loop to stabilize near optimal. Basically what we are seeing and panicing over is normal. That does not mean keep doing things to ruin earth.
I should never try to say something while tired.
Shit happens, We learn, we forget, We repeat.
~T
All truths are easy to understand once discovered; The point is to discover them ~Galileo
What would be the purpose of "propaganda"izing global warming and getting the world to get off of oil and get carbon out of the air? There would be no purpose other than better the Earth in the minds of these scientists.
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Global warming is used as a political means to an entirely different end.
The United Nations longs for much greater power and most particularly for a source of tax revenue which would allow them to assert power without being dependent on the generosity of member nations and most particularly the USA which is by far their largest source of revenue.
They love to tell us that global warming is a global problem and is in need of a global solution. It is the justification for a global tax and an assertion of global sovereignty. If they scare people enough with propaganda they hope that people will give them what they crave.
Global warming is the means and global government is the end.
Once given the money (if they give out a global tax, which is highly, highly unlikely), they would have to give detailed records about how they spent it. Now, I do know that 90% of the country is not well-versed in their current events at all, but there would be people that would bring the news to the common people, hopefully. I'll have to look into this too.
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Do you remember the UN Oil for Food scandal involving various UN Officials, Saddam Hussain and various other government officials around the world who Saddam figured could influence decisions at the UN?. It all came to light just after the invasion of Iraq. It was the single largest example of corruption, bribery and fraud IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY!
I have absolutely zero faith in the dictators who run the UN in being even slighly honest or wise in their expenditures of money.
People frequently make the mistake of thinking that because there is voting at the UN that it is somehow a version of world democracy. What they forget is that most of the countries that are participating in these votes are totalitarian dictators and are in no way representative of the countries for whom they are casting votes. They have looted their local people and their domestic treasuries and they would like nothing more then to turn on the world spigot. It is a totally corrupt and incompetent organization.