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I thought maybe since this is a forumn that I would drop another view on
"Global Warming" to be disseminated by the group.
Since 1895, the media has alternated between global cooling and warming scares
during four separate and sometimes overlapping time periods. From 1895 until
the 1930's the media peddled a coming ice age. From the late 1920's until the
1960's they warned of global warming. From the 1950's until the 1970's they
warned us again of a coming ice age. This makes modern global warming the
fourth estate's fourth attempt to promote opposing climate change fears during
the last 100 years.
The National Academy of Sciences report reaffirmed the existence of the
Medieval Warm Period from about 900 AD to 1300 AD and the Little Ice Age from
about 1500 to 1850. Both of these periods occurred long before the invention of
the SUV or human industrial activity could have possibly impacted the Earth's
climate. In fact, scientists believe the Earth was warmer than today during the
Medieval Warm Period, when the Vikings grew crops in Greenland.
What the climate alarmists and their advocates in the media have continued to
ignore is the fact that the Little Ice Age, which resulted in harsh winters
which froze New York Harbor and caused untold deaths, ended about 1850. So
trying to prove man-made global warming by comparing the well-known fact that
today's temperatures are warmer than during the Little Ice Age is akin to
comparing summer to winter to show a catastrophic temperature trend.
Something that the media almost never addresses are the holes in the theory
that C02 has been the driving force in global warming. Alarmists fail to
adequately explain why temperatures began warming at the end of the Little Ice
Age in about 1850, long before man-made CO2 emissions could have impacted the
climate. Then about 1940, just as man-made CO2 emissions rose sharply, the
temperatures began a decline that lasted until the 1970's, prompting the media
and many scientists to fear a coming ice age.
A letter sent to the Canadian Prime Minister on April 6, 2006 by 60 prominent
scientists who question the basis for climate alarmism, clearly explains the
current state of scientific knowledge on global warming. The 60 scientists
wrote: "If, back in the mid-1990s, we knew what we know today about climate,
Kyoto would almost certainly not exist, because we would have concluded it was
not necessary." The letter also noted: "Climate change is real' is a
meaningless phrase used repeatedly by activists to convince the public that a
climate catastrophe is looming and humanity is the cause. Neither of these
fears is justified. Global climate changes occur all the time due to natural
causes and the human impact still remains impossible to distinguish from this
natural noise."
In 2006, the director of the International Arctic Research Center in Fairbanks
Alaska, testified to Congress that highly publicized climate models showing a
disappearing Arctic were nothing more than "science fiction."
"Geologists Think the World May be Frozen Up Again." That sentence appeared
over 100 years ago in the February 24, 1895 edition of the New York Times.
A front page article in the October 7, 1912 New York Times, just a few months
after the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank, declared that a prominent
professor "Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age." The very same day in 1912, the
Los Angeles Times ran an article warning that the "Human race will have to
fight for its existence against cold." An August 10, 1923 Washington Post
article declared: "Ice Age Coming Here."
By the 1930's, the media took a break from reporting on the coming ice age and
instead switched gears to promoting global warming: "America in Longest Warm
Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-year Rise" stated an article in
the New York Times on March 27, 1933.
The media of yesteryear was also not above injecting large amounts of fear and
alarmism into their climate articles. An August 9, 1923 front page article in
the Chicago Tribune declared: "Scientist Says Arctic Ice Will Wipe Out Canada."
The article quoted a Yale University professor who predicted that large parts
of Europe and Asia would be "wiped out" and Switzerland would be "entirely
obliterated."
A December 29, 1974 New York Times article on global cooling reported that
climatologists believed "the facts of the present climate change are such that
the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure
in a decade." The article also warned that unless government officials reacted
to the coming catastrophe, "mass deaths by starvation and probably in anarchy
and violence" would result. In 1975, the New York Times reported that "A major
cooling [was] widely considered to be inevitable."
On February 19, 2006, CBS News's "60 Minutes" produced a segment on the North
Pole. The segment was a completely one-sided report, alleging rapid and
unprecedented melting at the polar cap. It even featured correspondent Scott
Pelley claiming that the ice in Greenland was melting so fast, that he barely
got off an ice-berg before it collapsed into the water. "60 Minutes" failed to
inform its viewers that a 2005 study by a scientist named Ola Johannessen and
his colleagues showing that the interior of Greenland is gaining ice and mass
and that according to scientists, the Arctic was warmer in the 1930's than
today.
According to data released on July 14, 2006 from the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the January through June Alaska statewide
average temperature was "0.55F (0.30C) cooler than the 1971-2000 average."
In August 2006, Khabibullo Abdusamatov, a scientist who heads the space
research sector for the Russian Academy of Sciences, predicted long-term global
cooling may be on the horizon due to a projected decrease in the sun's output.
Here is another great source for "Global Warming Alarmism" facts:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=56dd129d-e40a-4bad-abd9-68c808e8809e
Enjoy your Blizzards while they are still around!
Regards,
C. E. Woodford
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