Global warming is not a top priority of the American people. In fact, it is a low priority at just 28 percent with the economy, jobs and terrorism at around 80 percent. So if we are killing the Earth, as they say we are, why aren’t Americans caring more?
According to the Hearland Institute website, “Global warming is the biggest environmental issue of our time. Its political and economic impacts will be larger than those associated with any other environmental issue.”
The Energy Tribune put out an article called “12 Facts About Global Climate Change That You Won’t Read in the Popular Press.” The article lists all of the current scares of global warming, that actually contradict this environmental issue. It says, even as carbon dioxide continues to rise, temperatures have been cooling since 2002. Greenhouse models show the warming should be greatest at mid to high atmosphere levels in the tropics. But balloon and satellite observations show cooling there.
When the oceans were warm in the 1930s to the 1950s, Arctic ice diminished and Greenland warmed. The recent ocean warming, especially in the 1980s to the early 2000s, is similar to what took place 70 years ago and the Arctic ice has reacted much the same way, with diminished summer ice extent. Antarctic ice has been increasing and the extent last year was the greatest in the satellite monitoring era, which means that wee are ahead of last year’s record pace.
The critical data that is continuously observed is the increase of atmospheric CO2 that claims to be released by humans causing temperatures to increase through the greenhouse effect. If we look closer, there is a trend with all the collected data; it all is forming the same conclusion because they come from the same data. The result is dependent upon the data and not vice versa. So where is the correct data?
The IPCC, the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, puts out a report on the climate change every six or seven years. The 1995 IPCC report put out a chart that displays the current temperatures are well below the highest level placed at over 2,000 years ago. Then the 2001 report replaced the original chart with the “hockey stick” chart, pointing out that the year 2000 is significantly higher temperatures than ever before. The 2001 report also released a new temperature chart.
In actuality, the IPCC consists of 10 full-time unpaid volunteers and thousands of scientists and universities and research institutes around the world who contribute as authors or reviewers in the completion of each report. This is good reasoning for each report to contain many factual errors.
The accuracy of the consensus can be applied through it’s history; Y2K, global cooling, ten years of oil left, Russia as a superior military power, welfare reform starving women and children and Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction.
