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Global Warming!
Global Warming and the Price of a Gallon of Gas
by John Coleman
You may want to give credit where credit is due to Al Gore and his
global warming campaign the next time you fill your car with gasoline,
because there is a direct connection between Global Warming and four
dollar a gallon gas. It is shocking, but true, to learn that the
entire Global Warming frenzy is based on the environmentalist's attack
on fossil fuels, particularly gasoline. All this big time science,
international meetings, thick research papers, dire threats for the
future; all of it, comes down to their claim that the carbon dioxide
in the exhaust from your car and in the smoke stacks from our power
plants is destroying the climate of planet Earth. What an amazing
fraud; what a scam.
The future of our civilization lies in the balance.
That's the battle cry of the High Priest of Global Warming Al Gore and
his fellow, agenda driven disciples as they predict a calamitous
outcome from anthropogenic global warming. According to Mr. Gore the
polar ice caps will collapse and melt and sea levels will rise 20 feet
inundating the coastal cities making 100 million of us refugees. Vice
President Gore tells us numerous Pacific islands will be totally
submerged and uninhabitable. He tells us global warming will disrupt
the circulation of the ocean waters, dramatically changing climates,
throwing the world food supply into chaos. He tells us global warming
will turn hurricanes into super storms, produce droughts, wipe out the
polar bears and result in bleaching of coral reefs. He tells us
tropical diseases will spread to mid latitudes and heat waves will
kill tens of thousands. He preaches to us that we must change our
lives and eliminate fossil fuels or face the dire consequences. The
future of our civilization is in the balance.
With a preacher's zeal, Mr. Gore sets out to strike terror into us and
our children and make us feel we are all complicit in the potential
demise of the planet.
Here is my rebuttal.
There is no significant man made global warming. There has not been
any in the past, there is none now and there is no reason to fear any
in the future. The climate of Earth is changing. It has always
changed. But mankind's activities have not overwhelmed or
significantly modified the natural forces.
Through all history, Earth has shifted between two basic climate
regimes: ice ages and what paleoclimatologists call "Interglacial
periods". For the past 10 thousand years the Earth has been in an
interglacial period. That might well be called nature's global
warming because what happens during an interglacial period is the
Earth warms up, the glaciers melt and life flourishes. Clearly from
our point of view, an interglacial period is greatly preferred to the
deadly rigors of an ice age. Mr. Gore and his crowd would have us
believe that the activities of man have overwhelmed nature during this
interglacial period and are producing an unprecedented, out of control
warming.
Well, it is simply not happening. Worldwide there was a significant
natural warming trend in the 1980's and 1990's as a Solar cycle peaked
with lots of sunspots and solar flares. That ended in 1998 and now
the Sun has gone quiet with fewer and fewer Sun spots, and the global
temperatures have gone into decline. Earth has cooled for almost ten
straight years. So, I ask Al Gore, where's the global warming?
The cooling trend is so strong that recently the head of the United
Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had to acknowledge
it. He speculated that nature has temporarily overwhelmed mankind's
warming and it may be ten years or so before the warming returns. Oh,
really. We are supposed to be in a panic about man-made global
warming and the whole thing takes a ten year break because of the lack
of Sun spots. If this weren't so serious, it would be laughable.
Now allow me to talk a little about the science behind the global
warming frenzy. I have dug through thousands of pages of research
papers, including the voluminous documents published by the United
Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I have worked my
way through complicated math and complex theories. Here's the bottom
line: the entire global warming scientific case is based on the
increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from the use of fossil
fuels. They don't have any other issue. Carbon Dioxide, that's it.
Hello Al Gore; Hello UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Your science is flawed; your hypothesis is wrong; your data is
manipulated. And, may I add, your scare tactics are deplorable. The
Earth does not have a fever. Carbon dioxide does not cause
significant global warming.
The focus on atmospheric carbon dioxide grew out a study by Roger
Revelle who was an esteemed scientist at the Scripps Oceanographic
Institute. He took his research with him when he moved to Harvard and
allowed his students to help him process the data for his paper. One
of those students was Al Gore. That is where Gore got caught up in
this global warming frenzy. Revelle's paper linked the increases in
carbon dioxide, CO2, in the atmosphere with warming. It labeled CO2
as a greenhouse gas.
Charles Keeling, another researcher at the Scripps Oceanographic
Institute, set up a system to make continuous CO2 measurements. His
graph of these increases has now become known as the Keeling Curve.
When Charles Keeling died in 2005, his son David, also at Scripps,
took over the measurements. Here is what the Keeling curve shows: an
increase in CO2 from 315 parts per million in 1958 to 385 parts per
million today, an increase of 70 parts per million or about 20
percent.
All the computer models, all of the other findings, all of the other
angles of study, all come back to and are based on CO2 as a
significant greenhouse gas. It is not.
Here is the deal about CO2, carbon dioxide. It is a natural component
of our atmosphere. It has been there since time began. It is
absorbed and emitted by the oceans. It is used by every living plant
to trigger photosynthesis. Nothing would be green without it. And we
humans; we create it. Every time we breathe out, we emit carbon
dioxide into the atmosphere. It is not a pollutant. It is not smog.
It is a naturally occurring invisible gas.
Let me illustrate. I estimate that this square in front of my face
contains 100,000 molecules of atmosphere. Of those 100,000 only 38
are CO2; 38 out of a hundred thousand. That makes it a trace
component. Let me ask a key question: how can this tiny trace upset
the entire balance of the climate of Earth? It can't. That's all
there is to it; it can't.
The UN IPCC has attracted billions of dollars for the research to try
to make the case that CO2 is the culprit of run-away, man-made global
warming. The scientists have come up with very complex creative
theories and done elaborate calculations and run computer models they
say prove those theories. They present us with a concept they call
radiative forcing. The research organizations and scientists who are
making a career out of this theory, keep cranking out the research
papers. Then the IPCC puts on big conferences at exotic places, such
as the recent conference in Bali. The scientists endorse each other's
papers, they are summarized and voted on, and viola, we are told
global warming is going to kill us all unless we stop burning fossil
fuels.
May I stop here for a few historical notes? First, the internal
combustion engine and gasoline were awful polluters when they were
first invented. And, both gasoline and automobile engines continued
to leave a layer of smog behind right up through the 1960's. Then
science and engineering came to the environmental rescue. Better
exhaust and ignition systems, catalytic converters, fuel injectors,
better engineering throughout the engine and reformulated gasoline
have all contributed to a huge reduction in the exhaust emissions from
today's cars. Their goal then was to only exhaust carbon dioxide and
water vapor, two gases widely accepted as natural and totally
harmless. Anyone old enough to remember the pall of smog that used to
hang over all our cities knows how much improvement there has been.
So the environmentalists, in their battle against fossil fuels and
automobiles had a very good point forty years ago, but now they have
to focus almost entirely on the once harmless carbon dioxide. And,
that is the rub. Carbon dioxide is not an environmental problem; they
just want you now to think it is.
Numerous independent research projects have been done about the
greenhouse impact from increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide. These
studies have proven to my total satisfaction that CO2 is not creating
a major greenhouse effect and is not causing an increase in
temperatures. By the way, before his death, Roger Revelle coauthored
a paper cautioning that CO2 and its greenhouse effect did not warrant
extreme countermeasures.
So now it has come down to an intense campaign, orchestrated by
environmentalists claiming that the burning of fossil fuels dooms the
planet to run-away global warming. Ladies and Gentlemen, that is a
myth.
So how has the entire global warming frenzy with all its predictions
of dire consequences, become so widely believed, accepted and regarded
as a real threat to planet Earth? That is the most amazing part of
the story.
To start with global warming has the backing of the United Nations, a
major world force. Second, it has the backing of a former Vice
President and very popular political figure. Third it has the
endorsement of Hollywood, and that's enough for millions. And, fourth,
the environmentalists love global warming. It is their tool to combat
fossil fuels. So with the environmentalists, the UN, Gore and
Hollywood touting Global Warming and predictions of doom and gloom,
the media has scrambled with excitement to climb aboard. After all
the media loves a crisis. From YK2 to killer bees the media just
loves to tell us our lives are threatened. And the media is biased
toward liberal, so it's pre-programmed to support Al Gore and UN.
CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The LA Times, The
Washington Post, the Associated Press and here in San Diego The Union
Tribune are all constantly promoting the global warming crisis.
So who is going to go against all of that power? Not the politicians.
So now the President of the United States, just about every Governor,
most Senators and most Congress people, both of the major current
candidates for President, most other elected officials on all levels
of government are all riding the Al Gore Global Warming express. That
is one crowded bus.
I suspect you haven't heard it because the mass media did not report
it, but I am not alone on the no man-made warming side of this issue.
On May 20th, a list of the names of over thirty-one thousand
scientists who refute global warming was released. Thirty-one
thousand of which 9,000 are Ph.ds. Think about that. Thirty-one
thousand. That dwarfs the supposed 2,500 scientists on the UN panel.
In the past year, five hundred of scientists have issued public
statements challenging global warming. A few more join the chorus
every week. There are about 100 defectors from the UN IPCC. There
was an International Conference of Climate Change Skeptics in New York
in March of this year. One hundred of us gave presentations.
Attendance was limited to six hundred people. Every seat was taken.
There are a half dozen excellent internet sites that debunk global
warming. And, thank goodness for KUSI and Michael McKinnon, its
owner. He allows me to post my comments on global warming on the
website KUSI.com. Following the publicity of my position form Fox
News, Glen Beck on CNN, Rush Limbaugh and a host of other interviews,
thousands of people come to the website and read my comments. I get
hundreds of supportive emails from them. No I am not alone and the
debate is not over.
In my remarks in New York I speculated that perhaps we should sue Al
Gore for fraud because of his carbon credits trading scheme. That
remark has caused a stir in the fringe media and on the internet. The
concept is that if the media won't give us a hearing and the other
side will not debate us, perhaps we could use a Court of law to
present our papers and our research and if the Judge is unbiased and
understands science, we win. The media couldn't ignore that. That
idea has become the basis for legal research by notable attorneys and
discussion among global warming debunkers, but it's a long way from
the Court room.
I am very serious about this issue. I think stamping out the global
warming scam is vital to saving our wonderful way of life.
The battle against fossil fuels has controlled policy in this country
for decades. It was the environmentalist's prime force in blocking any
drilling for oil in this country and the blocking the building of any
new refineries, as well. So now the shortage they created has sent
gasoline prices soaring. And, it has lead to the folly of ethanol,
which is also partly behind the fuel price increases; that and our
restricted oil policy. The ethanol folly is also creating a food
crisis throughput the world – it is behind the food price rises for
all the grains, for cereals, bread, everything that relies on corn or
soy or wheat, including animals that are fed corn, most processed
foods that use corn oil or soybean oil or corn syrup. Food shortages
or high costs have led to food riots in some third world countries and
made the cost of eating out or at home budget busting for many.
So now the global warming myth actually has lead to the chaos we are
now enduring with energy and food prices. We pay for it every time we
fill our gas tanks. Not only is it running up gasoline prices, it has
changed government policy impacting our taxes, our utility bills and
the entire focus of government funding. And, now the Congress is
considering a cap and trade carbon credits policy. We the citizens
will pay for that, too. It all ends up in our taxes and the price of
goods and services.
So the Global warming frenzy is, indeed, threatening our civilization.
Not because global warming is real; it is not. But because of the
all the horrible side effects of the global warming scam.
I love this civilization. I want to do my part to protect it.
If Al Gore and his global warming scare dictates the future policy of
our governments, the current economic downturn could indeed become a
recession, drift into a depression and our modern civilization could
fall into an abyss. And it would largely be a direct result of the
global warming frenzy.
My mission, in what is left of a long and exciting lifetime, is to
stamp out this Global Warming silliness and let all of us get on with
enjoying our lives and loving our planet, Earth.
Global Warming and the Price of a Gallon of Gas
by John Coleman
You may want to give credit where credit is due to Al Gore and his
global warming campaign the next time you fill your car with gasoline,
because there is a direct connection between Global Warming and four
dollar a gallon gas. It is shocking, but true, to learn that the
entire Global Warming frenzy is based on the environmentalist's attack
on fossil fuels, particularly gasoline. All this big time science,
international meetings, thick research papers, dire threats for the
future; all of it, comes down to their claim that the carbon dioxide
in the exhaust from your car and in the smoke stacks from our power
plants is destroying the climate of planet Earth. What an amazing
fraud; what a scam.
The future of our civilization lies in the balance.
That's the battle cry of the High Priest of Global Warming Al Gore and
his fellow, agenda driven disciples as they predict a calamitous
outcome from anthropogenic global warming. According to Mr. Gore the
polar ice caps will collapse and melt and sea levels will rise 20 feet
inundating the coastal cities making 100 million of us refugees. Vice
President Gore tells us numerous Pacific islands will be totally
submerged and uninhabitable. He tells us global warming will disrupt
the circulation of the ocean waters, dramatically changing climates,
throwing the world food supply into chaos. He tells us global warming
will turn hurricanes into super storms, produce droughts, wipe out the
polar bears and result in bleaching of coral reefs. He tells us
tropical diseases will spread to mid latitudes and heat waves will
kill tens of thousands. He preaches to us that we must change our
lives and eliminate fossil fuels or face the dire consequences. The
future of our civilization is in the balance.
With a preacher's zeal, Mr. Gore sets out to strike terror into us and
our children and make us feel we are all complicit in the potential
demise of the planet.
Here is my rebuttal.
There is no significant man made global warming. There has not been
any in the past, there is none now and there is no reason to fear any
in the future. The climate of Earth is changing. It has always
changed. But mankind's activities have not overwhelmed or
significantly modified the natural forces.
Through all history, Earth has shifted between two basic climate
regimes: ice ages and what paleoclimatologists call "Interglacial
periods". For the past 10 thousand years the Earth has been in an
interglacial period. That might well be called nature's global
warming because what happens during an interglacial period is the
Earth warms up, the glaciers melt and life flourishes. Clearly from
our point of view, an interglacial period is greatly preferred to the
deadly rigors of an ice age. Mr. Gore and his crowd would have us
believe that the activities of man have overwhelmed nature during this
interglacial period and are producing an unprecedented, out of control
warming.
Well, it is simply not happening. Worldwide there was a significant
natural warming trend in the 1980's and 1990's as a Solar cycle peaked
with lots of sunspots and solar flares. That ended in 1998 and now
the Sun has gone quiet with fewer and fewer Sun spots, and the global
temperatures have gone into decline. Earth has cooled for almost ten
straight years. So, I ask Al Gore, where's the global warming?
The cooling trend is so strong that recently the head of the United
Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had to acknowledge
it. He speculated that nature has temporarily overwhelmed mankind's
warming and it may be ten years or so before the warming returns. Oh,
really. We are supposed to be in a panic about man-made global
warming and the whole thing takes a ten year break because of the lack
of Sun spots. If this weren't so serious, it would be laughable.
Now allow me to talk a little about the science behind the global
warming frenzy. I have dug through thousands of pages of research
papers, including the voluminous documents published by the United
Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I have worked my
way through complicated math and complex theories. Here's the bottom
line: the entire global warming scientific case is based on the
increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from the use of fossil
fuels. They don't have any other issue. Carbon Dioxide, that's it.
Hello Al Gore; Hello UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Your science is flawed; your hypothesis is wrong; your data is
manipulated. And, may I add, your scare tactics are deplorable. The
Earth does not have a fever. Carbon dioxide does not cause
significant global warming.
The focus on atmospheric carbon dioxide grew out a study by Roger
Revelle who was an esteemed scientist at the Scripps Oceanographic
Institute. He took his research with him when he moved to Harvard and
allowed his students to help him process the data for his paper. One
of those students was Al Gore. That is where Gore got caught up in
this global warming frenzy. Revelle's paper linked the increases in
carbon dioxide, CO2, in the atmosphere with warming. It labeled CO2
as a greenhouse gas.
Charles Keeling, another researcher at the Scripps Oceanographic
Institute, set up a system to make continuous CO2 measurements. His
graph of these increases has now become known as the Keeling Curve.
When Charles Keeling died in 2005, his son David, also at Scripps,
took over the measurements. Here is what the Keeling curve shows: an
increase in CO2 from 315 parts per million in 1958 to 385 parts per
million today, an increase of 70 parts per million or about 20
percent.
All the computer models, all of the other findings, all of the other
angles of study, all come back to and are based on CO2 as a
significant greenhouse gas. It is not.
Here is the deal about CO2, carbon dioxide. It is a natural component
of our atmosphere. It has been there since time began. It is
absorbed and emitted by the oceans. It is used by every living plant
to trigger photosynthesis. Nothing would be green without it. And we
humans; we create it. Every time we breathe out, we emit carbon
dioxide into the atmosphere. It is not a pollutant. It is not smog.
It is a naturally occurring invisible gas.
Let me illustrate. I estimate that this square in front of my face
contains 100,000 molecules of atmosphere. Of those 100,000 only 38
are CO2; 38 out of a hundred thousand. That makes it a trace
component. Let me ask a key question: how can this tiny trace upset
the entire balance of the climate of Earth? It can't. That's all
there is to it; it can't.
The UN IPCC has attracted billions of dollars for the research to try
to make the case that CO2 is the culprit of run-away, man-made global
warming. The scientists have come up with very complex creative
theories and done elaborate calculations and run computer models they
say prove those theories. They present us with a concept they call
radiative forcing. The research organizations and scientists who are
making a career out of this theory, keep cranking out the research
papers. Then the IPCC puts on big conferences at exotic places, such
as the recent conference in Bali. The scientists endorse each other's
papers, they are summarized and voted on, and viola, we are told
global warming is going to kill us all unless we stop burning fossil
fuels.
May I stop here for a few historical notes? First, the internal
combustion engine and gasoline were awful polluters when they were
first invented. And, both gasoline and automobile engines continued
to leave a layer of smog behind right up through the 1960's. Then
science and engineering came to the environmental rescue. Better
exhaust and ignition systems, catalytic converters, fuel injectors,
better engineering throughout the engine and reformulated gasoline
have all contributed to a huge reduction in the exhaust emissions from
today's cars. Their goal then was to only exhaust carbon dioxide and
water vapor, two gases widely accepted as natural and totally
harmless. Anyone old enough to remember the pall of smog that used to
hang over all our cities knows how much improvement there has been.
So the environmentalists, in their battle against fossil fuels and
automobiles had a very good point forty years ago, but now they have
to focus almost entirely on the once harmless carbon dioxide. And,
that is the rub. Carbon dioxide is not an environmental problem; they
just want you now to think it is.
Numerous independent research projects have been done about the
greenhouse impact from increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide. These
studies have proven to my total satisfaction that CO2 is not creating
a major greenhouse effect and is not causing an increase in
temperatures. By the way, before his death, Roger Revelle coauthored
a paper cautioning that CO2 and its greenhouse effect did not warrant
extreme countermeasures.
So now it has come down to an intense campaign, orchestrated by
environmentalists claiming that the burning of fossil fuels dooms the
planet to run-away global warming. Ladies and Gentlemen, that is a
myth.
So how has the entire global warming frenzy with all its predictions
of dire consequences, become so widely believed, accepted and regarded
as a real threat to planet Earth? That is the most amazing part of
the story.
To start with global warming has the backing of the United Nations, a
major world force. Second, it has the backing of a former Vice
President and very popular political figure. Third it has the
endorsement of Hollywood, and that's enough for millions. And, fourth,
the environmentalists love global warming. It is their tool to combat
fossil fuels. So with the environmentalists, the UN, Gore and
Hollywood touting Global Warming and predictions of doom and gloom,
the media has scrambled with excitement to climb aboard. After all
the media loves a crisis. From YK2 to killer bees the media just
loves to tell us our lives are threatened. And the media is biased
toward liberal, so it's pre-programmed to support Al Gore and UN.
CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The LA Times, The
Washington Post, the Associated Press and here in San Diego The Union
Tribune are all constantly promoting the global warming crisis.
So who is going to go against all of that power? Not the politicians.
So now the President of the United States, just about every Governor,
most Senators and most Congress people, both of the major current
candidates for President, most other elected officials on all levels
of government are all riding the Al Gore Global Warming express. That
is one crowded bus.
I suspect you haven't heard it because the mass media did not report
it, but I am not alone on the no man-made warming side of this issue.
On May 20th, a list of the names of over thirty-one thousand
scientists who refute global warming was released. Thirty-one
thousand of which 9,000 are Ph.ds. Think about that. Thirty-one
thousand. That dwarfs the supposed 2,500 scientists on the UN panel.
In the past year, five hundred of scientists have issued public
statements challenging global warming. A few more join the chorus
every week. There are about 100 defectors from the UN IPCC. There
was an International Conference of Climate Change Skeptics in New York
in March of this year. One hundred of us gave presentations.
Attendance was limited to six hundred people. Every seat was taken.
There are a half dozen excellent internet sites that debunk global
warming. And, thank goodness for KUSI and Michael McKinnon, its
owner. He allows me to post my comments on global warming on the
website KUSI.com. Following the publicity of my position form Fox
News, Glen Beck on CNN, Rush Limbaugh and a host of other interviews,
thousands of people come to the website and read my comments. I get
hundreds of supportive emails from them. No I am not alone and the
debate is not over.
In my remarks in New York I speculated that perhaps we should sue Al
Gore for fraud because of his carbon credits trading scheme. That
remark has caused a stir in the fringe media and on the internet. The
concept is that if the media won't give us a hearing and the other
side will not debate us, perhaps we could use a Court of law to
present our papers and our research and if the Judge is unbiased and
understands science, we win. The media couldn't ignore that. That
idea has become the basis for legal research by notable attorneys and
discussion among global warming debunkers, but it's a long way from
the Court room.
I am very serious about this issue. I think stamping out the global
warming scam is vital to saving our wonderful way of life.
The battle against fossil fuels has controlled policy in this country
for decades. It was the environmentalist's prime force in blocking any
drilling for oil in this country and the blocking the building of any
new refineries, as well. So now the shortage they created has sent
gasoline prices soaring. And, it has lead to the folly of ethanol,
which is also partly behind the fuel price increases; that and our
restricted oil policy. The ethanol folly is also creating a food
crisis throughput the world – it is behind the food price rises for
all the grains, for cereals, bread, everything that relies on corn or
soy or wheat, including animals that are fed corn, most processed
foods that use corn oil or soybean oil or corn syrup. Food shortages
or high costs have led to food riots in some third world countries and
made the cost of eating out or at home budget busting for many.
So now the global warming myth actually has lead to the chaos we are
now enduring with energy and food prices. We pay for it every time we
fill our gas tanks. Not only is it running up gasoline prices, it has
changed government policy impacting our taxes, our utility bills and
the entire focus of government funding. And, now the Congress is
considering a cap and trade carbon credits policy. We the citizens
will pay for that, too. It all ends up in our taxes and the price of
goods and services.
So the Global warming frenzy is, indeed, threatening our civilization.
Not because global warming is real; it is not. But because of the
all the horrible side effects of the global warming scam.
I love this civilization. I want to do my part to protect it.
If Al Gore and his global warming scare dictates the future policy of
our governments, the current economic downturn could indeed become a
recession, drift into a depression and our modern civilization could
fall into an abyss. And it would largely be a direct result of the
global warming frenzy.
My mission, in what is left of a long and exciting lifetime, is to
stamp out this Global Warming silliness and let all of us get on with
enjoying our lives and loving our planet, Earth.
