For the past five years, I’ve been watching and listening to this debate on global warming/climate change.
I told myself that when I retire (which I did), I was going to take a hard look into this very controversial issue to try and understand what it’s all about.
I spent months reading articles, books, watching interviews on TV with scientists, along with the many online videos from people in all fields of climate science, and visiting many websites about the climate.
I have corresponded with two Apollo astronauts who are knowledgeable on the subject. What I learned was encouraging.
1) The Earth has been warming since the last Ice Age ended. No surprise there.
2) CO2 is not a pollutant like some suggest but rather a life-sustaining gas that all life depends on.
3) The Earth’s temperature has risen slightly over the years but did so before CO2 rose and after the Little Ice Age ended.
4) As CO2 levels have risen so has food production and the greening of our planet.
5) As the Earth has warmed, sea levels have risen slightly due to some ice melt and the ocean waters expanding (which is to be expected).
6) Once CO2 in the atmosphere drops to 150 ppm, life starts to die.
7) There have been several times in Earth’s history of warming and cooling and much higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere before humans.
8) I could not find any evidence of severe weather increasing in intensity or frequency for tornados, hurricanes, droughts, or floods but rather the opposite.
9) From all I have read, many scientists say we are now entering a long, downward slide into a global cooling cycle that is not good for humans or the food products we depend on.
Of course, my research led me to some questions of my own. Here are just a few.
1) What should the ideal concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere be and why?
2) When climate change alarmists hold meetings and town halls, why do they avoid mentioning the past cycles of Earth’s warming and cooling?
3) Why do people who believe humans don’t contribute much in the way of CO2 get threatened with funding cuts or can only apply for grants that don’t allow for the study of natural climate cycles?
4) More people die from colder climates (Lancet Journal). So wouldn’t we want a warmer climate?
5) If climate science is settled as some think, then why do end-of-the-world deadlines keep changing?
6) Why did the Earth’s temperature stop rising, remain flat, or even cool in the past even when CO2 kept rising?
7) Former EPA Administrator Lisa P Jackson became the first federal official to declare CO2 a pollutant. If CO2 is a pollutant, why does OSHA say an employee in the workplace can be exposed to CO2 levels of 5,000 ppm during an 8-hour workday?
8) Why all the alarmism? Is it really about climate or is it about money, or power, or both?
9) And why does the U.N. IPCC alter final reports by leaving out scientists who state: “No study to date has positively attributed all or part [of the climate change observed to date] to anthropogenic [man-made] causes”. (“The Science of Climate Change, 1995″ IPCC Report)
These are just a few questions people should think about.
Ed Walbroehl spent 47 years in aviation, which included studying the weather as part of flight training, while his radar training in the U.S. Air Force that got him interested in weather. Climate has now become his main interest.
In Point 5 – rising sea levels – you point out that is mainly attributable to melting of ice and sea water expansion. I’ll accept that ice (continental glacier) melt does make a meager contribution to what little sea level rise might be measurable. However, sea water thermal expansion is really negligible. The expansion factor can only really affect the upper 200-500 feet of the world’s ocean in the so-called “photic zone,” which is that portion of the oceans’ mass that may be subject to influence from the atmosphere. The other factor in sea level rise that is almost universally ignored, but should not be, is the portion that comes from run-off and that comes from two unnatural sorces: 1) storm run-off that is accelerated due to urban and suburban development and 2) groundwater “mining” by which the world’s acquifers are being pumped dry over the past 100 years. This is not an insignification aspect of the equation.
While we’re on this topic of sea levels and the oceans, let it not be ignored that it is the oceans which drive global climate not the atmosphere.
Your question 8 is answerable, the leftist/Marxist/Communists create fear by their railing against facts. It is now patently obvious that they are terrorising the world, milking Western economies dry with their potent propaganda. Our power for example; we have hideous wind farms blotting our landscapes, unrecyclable solar panels by the millions and mind numbing expense. We should be using new generation nuclear and HELE coal fired power stations for clean power. But the lMC as I now call then don’t want that, they want money, position and power.
In fact, the last millennium has been the coolest of the 10 millennia since the last ice age ended.
I’m glad you said that. The warmest time in the current interglacial was probably about 7,700 years ago.
The writer wrote it confusingly. Perhaps he had in mind the times in around the Maunder Minimum. Clearly, you have in mind the last glacial.
There’s more understanding if folks define their terms. The word “ice age” gets used to mean a few different things. I think it’s better to just stick with the proper paleoclimatological definition. That is from some million year ago and ongoing – the Current Ice Age.
That 7,700 years before present puts you into the “Holocene Optimum”. I have one anthropology book on North America which also refers to that period as the “Holocene Altithermal” – when “some areas were probably not habitable”.
If you have 15 or 20 minutes, https://harpers.org/archive/1958/09/the-coming-ice-age/ is an interesting read. From the 1950’s!!
Excerpt:
These two serious, careful scientists — geophysicist Maurice Ewing, director of Columbia University’s Lamont Geological Observatory, and geologist-meteorologist William Donn believe they have finally found the explanation for the giant glaciers, which four times during the past million years have advanced and retreated over the earth. If they are right, the world is now heading into another Ice Age.
End excerpt
They also had two papers on the subject published in “Science”.
Enjoy……
Thanks for the link! Amusing. What struck me most about this 50s article is that even though it predicted a possibility of sea-level rise as drastic as alarmists predict today, they presented it as nothing to worry about. There’d be plenty of time to either build levees or move away. Also, glacial advance is presented as the worst eventuality, but one’s descendants could move to the Sahara grasslands. Refreshingly practical, in contrast to today’s hysterical tone of any little change and we’re all gonna die.
I dont beleive in Climate Change its only being used by the Globalists to create a One World Government all under the United Nations and Socialism