Global Warming

The Great Global Warming Blunder

How Mother Nature Fooled the World’s Top Climate Scientists” said this: “The supposed explanation that global warming is due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide from our burning of fossil fuels turns out to be based upon little more than circumstantial evidence. It is partly a symptom of our rather primitive understanding of how the climate [...]

How Mother Nature Fooled the World’s Top Climate Scientists” said this: “The supposed explanation that global warming is due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide from our burning of fossil fuels turns out to be based upon little more than circumstantial evidence. It is partly a symptom of our rather primitive understanding of how the climate system works.”


Climate change scare mongers harp constantly on science, as if they were talking about Newton’s laws of gravity, but you look in vain for an explanation of the supposed science. Nowhere in the media, alternative or mainstream, is anyone discussing the science of global warming. Only on specialized web sites produced by scientists is the science of global warming discussed.

We need to stop covering our ears and ignoring scientists. Yes, quite possible we’re in a period of global cooling until 2015 and maybe some indicators (certain satellites) have not supplied evidence for global warming…yet. However the public not only has accepted global warming but most want the government to do something about it.

Going against academics/science is not going to help us make any inroads with moderates and educated conservatives who would rather vote for pragmatists like Obama than dinosaurs like say 2008 Palin (she still could see the light). I agree with the Mankind approach of applying Pigouvian taxes to carbon and other chemical/atomic/molecular offenders. We can use the income from the global warming tax to apply more individual tax cuts and corporate tax cuts. You want taxes that provide good incentives such as reduction of pollution, not negative incentives such as on hard work via income tax. Now I believe an unintended consequence of this act will be an increase in green technology. This technology might be applied to the rest of the private sector to make us more efficient. And you never know how technology impacts other sectors – one man’s worthless piece of inventive junk might revolutionize another industry. We need to educate people on why higher gas prices aren’t such a bad thing.

Scientists were generally unconcerned about greenhouse gasses (GHGs) through most of the twentieth century, because GHGs saturate. Saturate means they absorb all radiation available to them, so more such gasses does nothing more. But then some persons took another look and said, maybe the shoulders on the absorption peaks don’t saturate, at least not high in the atmosphere. The point is: The scientific concern is over very small and disputed effects, not the barn burner some people assume.

Self-regulating doesn’t mean stable and unchanging. Climatic conditions vary immensely. Part of the change is due to a slow response. If temperatures move in one direction, they are gradually pulled back in the other direction. But there are also natural forces which change the regulated temperature. The most significant of these is the force which Roy Spencer attributes climate change to, which is cloud cover. Clouds reflect sunlight back into space, so less actually adds energy to the earth. Clouds also trap some heat in. So they create short term heating and long term cooling, but scientists do not know how to evaluate the net effects of clouds.

So the science of climate change is an irresolvable mystery, but what should be known about it is that humans do not have the slightest ability to influence the result.