“Climate Reality” A Tutorial Presentation October 2011 version by Charles Battig, M.S., M.D. President, Piedmont Chapter Virginia Scientists and Engineers for Energy and Environment Does/Did Our Planet Have A “Fever”? • • • • • Who has taken the temperature? Where was it measured? How was it measured? Was the temperature record unusual? Has any scientific study proved a measurable link to human activity? If so, what activity? What Was The Amount of Global Warming That Was Portrayed As Cause For Concern? Over the 20th century it was a claimed rise of 0.75 Degrees Celsius = 1.8 Degrees Fahrenheit In the U.S. most of this temperature increase was confined to urban areas; matched rural areas showed almost no increase The 2009 “Climategate” affair has cast doubt on the validity of this temperature record “Climategate”: A Betrayal of Trust • Thousands of internal e-mails and documents from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) advisory center… the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of East Anglia University U.K. were leaked or hacked late November 2009 to a Russian web-site • The Russian Institute for Economic Analysis claimed that Russian temperature data had been tampered with to assert far more warming than had actually occurred • Independent reviewers have since found a general pattern of shutting out dissenters, manipulating climate data to fit the IPCC global warming story line, and illegal dodging by a small, politically connected group of climate scientists of U.K. Freedom Of Information Act requests Hall of Shame, Continued: • Prof. Trenberth: “The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment (October 2009) and it is a travesty that we can’t”; “The fact that we can not account for what is happening in the climate system makes any consideration of geoengineering quite hopeless as we will never be able to tell if it is successful or not” • Prof. Tom Wigley, National Center for Atmospheric Research…lowered temperature blip for mid-20th century • William Connolley, U.K. Green Party activist…since 2003 rewrote 5,428 Wikipedia climate articles , turning it into the “missionary wing of the AGW movement” blocking access to contrary opinions; member of Realclimate.org Climategate “Science Hall Of Shame” Includes U.K. and U.S. Members • Prof. Philip Jones, U.K Director CRU…resigned • Prof. Michael Mann, Penn State University (prior UVA)… originator of the discredited “hockey stick” graph; under investigation; subject to fraud investigation by US Attorney General Office for possible misuse of public funds • Dr. James Hansen, NASA/GISS…selective temperature sourcing and data “adjustments” producing a warming bias • Prof. Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research; IPCC lead author…promoted unsubstantiated claims of hurricane increases caused by global warming More IPCC Shame • Dr. Benjamin Santer (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory): lead author of Chapter 8 of the 1995 IPCC Working group report now admits (January 2010) that he alone arbitrarily deleted the five original statements by the scientists in their finalized draft of that chapter which had stated that “there is no discernable human effect on global temperatures”, reflecting his, non-peer-reviewed opinion, and upholding the IPCC man-made climate change premise • The IPCC was created to establish mankind’s influence on climate; not to be an independent climate research entity • “Climategate” scientists appear to have let personal belief and advocacy to taint their impartial scientific analysis IPCC Melting Himalayan Glaciers 2035 Prediction…Now Recanted • The latest IPCC report (2007) claimed that the world’s glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035 • January 2010: IPCC admits that the claim was based on a single, non-peer reviewed, popular science magazine (New Scientist) article, then quoted by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and not expert reviewed by the IPCC • The author of the article now admits his claim was made to support the politically correct view point of the IPCC • The activist group Greenpeace is now revealed as the source for non-peer reviewed claims of coral reef and Amazon degradation, in that same IPCC report Headline From U.K. Sunday Daily Mail, February 14, 2010 • Data for “hockey stick graph” has gone missing • There has been no global warming since 1995 • Warming periods have happened before, i.e. in medieval times – but NOT due to man-made fossil fuel usage or CO2 production More Doubt About IPCC Scientific Impartiality • Railroad engineer, Rajendra Pachauri, has been the chairman of the IPCC since 2002 • During January 2010, reports from Britain and India revealed his ties to a number of energy companies, including The Energy Research Institute (TERI), the Oil and Natural Gas Commission , Indian Oil Corporation, the National Thermal Power Corporation, and the TATA Group, some of which received funding based on these IPCC climate claims • India has announced plans to leave the IPCC and form its own climate panel The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) (The Gold Standard Of Environmentalists’ Policy), Speaks: “We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy…One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore”* *IPCC lead author and chairman of WG 3, Dr. Ottmar EdenHofer , November 13, 2010 interview Cooking The Climate Data Can We Trust The Data? Copenhagen December 2009 Climate Conference “COP-15” • A much hyped, follow-on to the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, which covered the period of 2008-2012, sponsored by Club of Madrid, the EU Commission, and the UN, amongst others…attended by thousands of activists and politicians • The original 1997 Kyoto treaty was signed by President Clinton, but he never submitted it to the senate for ratification • The “Copenhagen Accord” calls for no 2020, nor 2050 emission reductions and has attracted few signatories • Political squabbling over wealth re-distribution and oneworld governance replaced concerns over global climate PANIC! NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN! Credit: Dr Fred Goldberg, Sweden The Arctic Has Been Warmer In The Past When CO₂ Levels Were Lower Figure by Arndt Bemaerts in “How Spitsbergen Heats the World” Earlier Arctic Ice Melts Roald Amundsen 1903 USS Skate 1958 Image : US Navy Submarine Laboratory No History Of “Tipping Points” CO₂ And Temperatures From The Past Slide: www.geocraft.com ,Temp: C.R. Sootese, CO2:R. A. Berner Global Temperature Record • There has been an apparent period of global warming at an average baseline trend of 0.7 C per hundred years since the end of the “Little Ice Age” (A.D. 1300-1850), although the absolute validity of the surface temperature record is now questionable because of NOAA and GISS “adjustments”, and “loss” of original temperature data • Why did “Little Ice Age” end around 1850, well before the beginning of the modern industrial age and major increases in carbon dioxide emissions beginning in the late 1940s? • Why did the “Medieval Warm Period” occur during A.D. 900-1300 and produce global temperatures several degrees warmer than now, even though carbon dioxide levels were very much lower than now? Global Temperatures, Past, Present & Future ? It All Depends Upon Your Chosen Starting Point And Time Period Graph: Dr. Syun Akasofu-The Third Heartland Climate Conference, NYC, 2009 The Troublesome Medieval Warm Period: “M. Mann Made” Global Warming? www.wattsupwiththat.com/2009/07/08the-medieval-warm-period-linked-to-... Documentation Of Climate Cycles Dr. Singer is professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia; president of The Science and Environmental Policy Project (1990); served as the first director of the U.S. National Weather Service; and is co-founder of Virginia Scientists and Engineers for Energy and Environment The Natural History Of Climate Is One Of Constant Change Climate Change Is The Normal State Of The Climate Change Is The Normal State Of All Life And All Matter Is There Anything Unusual About The Global Temperature Record Since The Ending Of The “LITTLE ICE AGE” Around 150 Years Ago? • Three similar periods of increased rates of warming: 18601880, 1910-1940, and 1975-1998 • In between these warming periods, global temperatures declined at about the same rate, but In the early 1970s, newspaper and magazine headlines proclaimed numerous scientific predictions of a coming ice age, world famine, and deaths; of course nothing of the sort happened • For the past seven years the four major international global temperature monitoring agencies have documented a global cooling even as carbon dioxide increases: a noncorrelation 1900 To Present A Record Of Cycles Source: www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/; www.c3headlines.com 2009: Another Average Year 1934 the hottest year Data source: National Climate Data Center; Graph: World Climate Report Thirty Year Satellite Global Temperature Record September 2011 www.drroyspencer.com , monthly satellite temperature data Surface Temperature Record Problems • Surface temperature data accuracy susceptible to faulty placement of recording instruments, urban heat island bias, in addition to investigator “warming” bias at CRU, NASA/GISS, and NOAA • By 1990 NOAA dropped 4, 550 of its 6,000 global thermometers, preferentially retaining those in warmer urban sites, retaining only one above the Arctic Circle • Only 3 % of US temperature sites(865 out of 1,221) meet the Class 1 quality rating of the National Administration’s National Weather Service for a technically correct location • Land surface stations can only monitor 30% of the earth; the rest of the earth is water covered • A large number of temperature monitoring sites in Russia have been abandoned; most were in cold areas; their loss produced a warming bias in the world data A Global Warming “Source” Image: NOAA USHCN COOP Station , Hanksville, UT, Credit: www.wattsupwiththat.com Different Siberian Tree Core Data, Different Temperature Reconstructions www.climateaudit.org EVIDENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT EVIDENCE THAT IT HAS BEEN CAUSED BY HUMAN ACTIVITY EVIDENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT EVIDENCE THAT IT HAS BEEN CAUSED BY CARBON DIOXIDE FROM FOSSIL FUELS December 24, 1979 Fear Global Cooling, Not Global Warming •History of more deaths in cool periods because of disease and famine resulting from crop failures • More cardiovascular and respiratory deaths in winter, particularly for women • More falls and broken bones in winter • More winter related traffic and pedestrian deaths • Many climatologists now forecast 20 more years of global cooling, as cooling/warming cycles have averaged 30 years each in the recent past What Created The Current Fixation With Global Warming And Climate Crisis? • Enron Energy was early to promote green energy and natural gas in the 1990s as a new profit making scheme; coal was an energy competitor and was demonized by Ken Lay’s company • Enron lobbying in Clinton/Gore era • Gore film Inconvenient Truth and “The Hockey Stick” • Earth Day in Rio 1992: anti-capitalists+environmental activists; Canadian oil magnate Maurice Strong • IPCC formation in 1988 and the 1997 Kyoto protocol • United Nations’ One-World-Government Solutions Global Warming Agenda • Club of Rome: “The common enemy of humanity is man; we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming…would fit the bill” • Prof. Stephen Schneider, Stanford Climatologist: “we have to offer up scary scenarios…make little mention of doubts…decide the right balance between being effective and being honest” • Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace: “it doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe” • Maurice Strong, UN Environment Program: “The U.S. is the greatest threat to the global environment…isn’t it the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? “ IPCC formed to find mankind’s climate impact “The Science Is Settled” •A falsehood – true science is never settled and is always open to a better explanation: The sun revolves about the earth; the earth is flat; peptic ulcers are caused by excess acid; Euclidian geometry; Newtonian physics…all disproved or revised •Saying something is so does not make it so; traditional science does not depend on consensus •Arguments to authority are not scientific proof •A cowardly position taken by those unwilling or unable to engage in open, scientific debate The Science Is Settled? • January 2010: IPCC contributor Susan Solomon now reports that water vapor levels in the stratosphere had dropped in the past decade coincident with the observed global cooling, even as CO2 levels continued to rise • January 2010: Swiss Federal Research Institute now reports that atmospheric CO2 amplification of global warming is 80% less than previously assumed CO2 Up; Global Temperatures Down Why The Panic Over Emissions? Aug 2011 Saturated Fat Causes Cardiovascular Disease “The Science is Settled”…Really? • A 2009 analysis of 21 epidemiological studies monitoring 350,000 people found “no association between saturated fat and risk of CHD or stroke” • A 2008 report from the World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization of the US found that “intake of saturated fatty acids was not associated with CHD events or mortality; fatal CHD were not reduced by low-fat diets” 2011: What Has Been Learned Since 2007? It’s The Sun, Cosmic Rays, and Clouds It’s Not Just All About Carbon Dioxide Equivalents science Not Personal Opinion Huge Government Subsidies + Political Opportunism + Commercial Opportunism + Massively Funded One-Sided “Science” + The Rise of “Post-Normal” Bogus Science + Environmentalism Dogma In Place Of Impartial Evidence-Based Science Dirty Money? Environmentalists claim that science funded by “dirty oil money” is corrupt and to be disregarded, yet: – Canadian oil magnate, avowed socialist, Maurice Strong, together with the U.N.’s Kofi Ann, was one of the founding fathers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1988 – The Pew Charitable Trusts were founded on Sun Oil money; the Sierra Club receives funding from the Pew Trusts – Standard Oil fortunes funded the Rockefeller Institute – Cities Service Oil fortunes funded the Alton Jones and Blue Moon foundations; the Sierra Club receives funding from Blue Moon WHAT IS THE GREENHOUSE HYPOTHESIS? • A popularized, fictional allusion to a garden greenhouse although the Earth does not have a glass house roof and walls, but is open to outer space • The Greenhouse Hypothesis supposes that the mixture of atmospheric gases hinders the loss of heat energy from the Earth out into space; that a warmer Earth evaporates more water vapor to the atmosphere, causing more heat trapping, amplifying the small, non-linear effect of carbon dioxide in a positive feedback cycle • Space measurements suggest negative feedback What Are The Atmospheric Gases? • Nitrogen comprises about 78% • Oxygen comprises about 20% • Greenhouse gases comprise about 2% Relative Contributions Of The Green House Gases Man Made Carbon Dioxide vs. Naturally Occurring Carbon Dioxide What Is The Source For Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide? • Naturally occurring sources of carbon dioxide are estimated to make up about 96% of total carbon dioxide in the atmosphere , +/-186 billion tons • All man-made sources, called anthropogenic sources, are estimated to contribute about 3.25% to the total carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, +/- 6-7 billion tons • By taking the 3.25% manmade contribution of total carbon dioxide emissions and applying that fraction to the 3.6% of the total carbon dioxide greenhouse effect, (0.0325 x 0.036 = 0.117%, approximately) one sees that the human contribution of carbon dioxide is responsible for about total so called greenhouse gas effect 0.117% of the The Expenditure Of Tens Of Billions Of Governmental Funding Has Not Proved A Link Between Global Warming And Man Made Carbon Dioxide • IPCC global temperature/greenhouse gas computer models predict that there should be an increased rate of warming of the atmosphere around six miles above the earth’s surface • Thirty years of satellite temperature records fail to show it---”the missing fingerprint” The Missing Greenhouse Gas “Hot Spot” All The IPCC Computer Models Predict It; Real World Measurements Do Not Find It • Te Sources: (A) Assessment Report 4, IPCC 2007; (B) Synthesis and Assessment Report 1.1 CCSP, 2006 Real World Data From The Earth Radiation Budget Experiment Satellite data from the real world contradicts eleven theoretical climate computer models CO2 Up, But Temperature Down Graph credit: J. D’Aleo 2008 Misleading Terminology By Climate Alarmists 1. “Global Warming” was rebranded as “Climate Change” to cover warming and cooling events so as to become the universal environmentalism scapegoat 2. The term “Carbon Pollution” was crafted in an attempt to taint life-sustaining carbon dioxide with the image of generic pollution (NOx, SO₂, lead, CO) 3. Since 1980, the EPA reports that emissions of the actual six “principle pollutants” have declined 49 percent 4. Carbon dioxide was not a “principle pollutant” “Climate Change”…A Problem? • • • • Whose climate needs to be changed? What is the universally “correct” climate ? Who shall decide the “correct” climate? What group and mechanism shall be used to change the climate? • Who will be responsible if the climate change results in harm to some but benefits others? The “Climate Change” Language Of Fear, Media Sound Bites In Place of Science • • • • • • • • If current trends continue… Unprecedented… According to computer studies… Not experienced since… There is a XX% chance… Scientists agree… We must act now… In my opinion… CARBON DIOXIDE IS NOT A HEALTH POLLUTANT The 2007 Supreme Court ruled it a “pollutant” based on existing EPA automobile emission regulations, not on independent scientific grounds With all due credit to Charles Dickens “If the law supposes that…the law is an ass…an idiot” Your Life Depends On Plant Life; Plant Life Depends On Carbon Dioxide The Basic Equation of Plant Life 6CO₂ + 6H₂O → C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂ chlorophyll + light + nutrients In Words: Plants Convert Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Plus Water In The Presence of Plant Chlorophyll Into Carbohydrates And Oxygen The Benefits Of Increased CO₂ To Plant Life…And To Your Life • Increased atmospheric CO₂ promotes increased plant growth…a free fertilizer • Increased atmospheric CO₂ enables plants to resist stress and use less water • Plant nurseries increase their CO₂ levels 3 to 4 times over normal atmospheric levels to promote growth • NASA reports a 6.2% in Earth biomass over 20 years…the Amazon rainforest is increasing • Eastern U.S. forests are growing the fastest in 225 years as CO₂ levels increased 12% over 22 years What Is The Source For All The Claims Of Impending Climate Disasters? • Computer models are used to try to predict future climate states; none have been able to accurately predict past climate changes nor predict beyond a few days • Computers reflect the knowledge, prejudices, assumptions, guesses, and desired outcome biases of the modeler • The IPCC issues only make believe, “what if” scenarios and projections, which the media and politicians falsely portray as predictions When Does Weather Become Climate? In 1964, Edward Lorenz, American meteorologist, mathematician, and early computer analyst published his paper “Does a Climate Exist?” Lorenz was also the founder of “chaos theory” and considered the mathematical possibility that there is no long term average weather; therefore there is no stable climate; therefore weather/climate is always changing on some time scale Climate Computers Can Not Predict the Climate •Claims of climate catastrophes, disease spread , species extinction and the like in 2020, 2050, or 2100 are computer fictions generated by biased, incomplete understanding, and/or faulty assumptions •The absence of a full understanding of all the climatic factors, their interactions, their precise initial measurements, and their non-linear relationships dooms long term climate forecasting •The complex interaction of low level clouds, high level clouds, ice particles, cosmic ray particles, aerosol and soot particles, and humidity changes with altitude are poorly understood •The past seven years of global cooling were not predicted by the UN climate models, in much the same way that the most sophisticated financial computers failed to predict the financial collapse of the past several years The United Nations’ IPCC Does Not Make Climate Predictions Third IPCC Assessment Report (2001), Chapter 14, page 774 774 Advancing Our Understanding 14.2.2.2 (continued): the magnitude and pattern of the response. Furthermore, many groups have now performed model integrations using similar radiative forcings. This allows ensembles of model results to be constructed (see Chapter 9, Section 9.3; see also the end of Chapter 7, Section 7.1.3 for an interesting question about ensemble formation). In sum, a strategy must recognise what is possible. In climate research and modelling, we should recognise that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible ARGO Ocean Temperature Data: 3,000 Automated Recording Buoys www.wattsupwiththat.com/2009/05/06: William DiPuccio “The Global Warming Hypothesis… Evidence Of Long Term Ocean Cooling Graph: Dr. Roy Spencer, University of Alabama Arctic Sea Ice 2002-2011 By Satellite Imagery, October 2011 www.wattsupwiththat.com monthly IARC-JAXA Information System update Meanwhile, At The ANTARCTIC +/-2% 98% Picture credit: NASA and www.wattsupwiththat.com If Manmade CO2 Is Not A Significant Driving Force Of The Climate, What Is? • Natural rhythms of ocean circulations – North Atlantic Decadal Oscillation (ADO) – Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) – Arctic Oscillation (AO) – Thermohaline Circulation/Ocean Conveyor Belt – El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) – El Nino warming/La Nina cooling pattern • Natural surface volcanic activity releasing dust and gases into the atmosphere • Natural under-ocean volcanic activity The Sun, More Than Just Sunshine Image credit: NASA Where Have All The Sunspots Gone? Image credit: Wikipedia Other Causes, Continued, Solar • Solar Activity: – Sunspot activity, a nominal 11 year cycle, nearing a hundred year low in 2009 with over 590 cumulative days of spotless days; activity finally up in January 2010 – Sporer-Maunder-Dalton sun spot minimums spanning 1400s to 1800 coincided with the Little Ice Age – Modern solar Grand Maximum State of 20th century has come to an abrupt end – Solar and Earth magnetic field changes – Solar emissions of various high energy particles and solar wind at 55 year low – Solar/Earth magnetosphere/ionosphere energy transfer – Solar brightness Interaction Between The Solar Wind And Cosmic Ray Particles And Cloud Formation Theory (Svensmark) • As the solar wind blows past the Earth, it deflects incoming cosmic ray particles • These cosmic ray particles are thought to be responsible for the formation of moisture particles in the atmosphere, which subsequently coalesce to form low level, cooling clouds • Increased solar wind activity thereby results in fewer cooling clouds = global warming • Decreased solar wind activity results in more cooling clouds = global cooling More Other Causes • Natural changes in the orbit, tilt, and wobble of the earth’s axis in relationship to the sun • Natural changes in the solar system geometry and dynamics; other planets in our solar system have also shown evidence of simultaneous warming • Changes in land use patterns: farming practices, irrigation practices, urbanization • Manmade aerosols and soot • Legislated prohibition of brush clearing in known fire zones, e.g. Australia and California Al Gore Spotlight • In response to a law suit by a father of an English school child, a British Judge found in his 2007 ruling that “An Inconvenient Truth” was political propaganda and had erred in 9 of its 12 claims • Mr. Gore featured the discredited “hockey stick” graph of climatologist M. Mann, attempting to show that the 20th century warming was linked to human industrial activities and unprecedented. The “hockey stick” graph had eliminated the Medieval Warm Period (A.D. 900-1300), when temperatures were as warm or warmer than now, and CO2 levels much lower. The graph was shown to be a statistical artifact by independent researchers. British Court Rules “Inconvenient Truth” – Partisan Political View, Citing Nine Errors Image: Heartland Institute publication • Sea level rise of 20 feet • Pacific Atolls Inundated • Shutting Down of Ocean Conveyor Belt • CO₂ and Temperature Charts Not Linked • The Snows of Kilimanjaro • Lake Chad • Hurricane Katrina • Death of Polar Bears • Coral Reefs Mr. Gore’s Financial Links • He is a investor-partner in the California venture capital firm Kleiner-Perkins, which specializes in energy and environmentally oriented investments • He is co-founder of the London based, carbon trading firm Generation Investment Management • To date, Mr. Gore refuses to openly debate the science of his proclaimed climate crisis Polar Bear Populations; Not One But 20 Significant Populations Source: IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group, 1997 Polar Bears; The Numbers • Worldwide, there are now 22,000 to 25,000; 50 years ago there were 8,000 to 10,000 • The most significant factor in control of polar bear populations has been the regulation of hunting permits • Polar bears have been around for over 100,000 years and have survived higher temperatures than at present • Mr. Gore’s publicity film falsely implied an epidemic of drowning polar bears; in fact there were four polar bears found dead following an unusually strong Beaufort Sea Storm in 2004 Carbon Dioxide Emissions Up, Hurricane Activity Down Credit: Ryan N. Maue, Florida State University Long Term Ocean Levels Image Credit: Global Warming Art; www.wattsupwiththat.com February 4, 2010 Ancient Mass Hysteria Published in 1841 • The Mississippi Scheme • The South-Sea Bubble • Tulipomania • The Alchemists • Fortune-Telling • The Magnetizers • The Crusades • The Witch Mania • • • • • • • • • • Modern Hysteria And Scams DDT Disappearing U.S. farmland Disappearing rain forests Year 2000 computer scare Long Term Capital scam Bernard Madoff and Ponzi investment scams Housing market bubble Perpetual environmental disasters Run away/tipping point global warming Autism and vaccines True In 1999; True In 2009 • False “Bad News” • Bad news sells papers, raises campaign donations, and research grants • Paul Ehrlich prophet of doom ; population bomb; climate doom • Peak Oil • Acid Rain • Vanishing Farmland Scam • Endless imagined environmental disasters • Past irrationally viewed as better than present J. Simon’s “Media-Shaped Opinion” Feedback Loop 1. The media carry stories about environmental scares 2. People therefore become frightened 3. Polls then show people to be worried 4. The worry then is cited as support for policies to initiate actions about the supposed scares 5. These policies raise the level of public concern further, which the media report again…back to step 1 Energy Sources • Windmills and solar energy sources provide about 1-2% of our energy needs ,gobble up huge tracts of land and water resources, and disrupt native habitat…one 1,000MW coal plant replacement takes 600 sq. miles of wind turbines, and require backup, inefficiently operated electric power plants – In Spain, windmill “green jobs” cost 9 jobs for every 4 new ones at a cost of $750,000 per green job, but collapsed following the withdrawal of lavish governmental subsidies • Fossil fuels “the original biofuels” coal, oil, and gas provide about 85% of our energy • Nuclear power provides about 8-9% • Hydroelectric plants supply about 3% Solar And Wind Power Receive Huge Governmental Taxpayer Subsidies On a dollar per megawatt hour basis: •Solar receives $24.34 •Wind receives $23.37 •Nuclear receives $ 1.59 •Hydro receives $ .67 •Coal receives $ .44 •Oil receives $ .25 Data: U.S. Energy Information Administration 2008 Wind And Solar As Alternate Power? • Less than 1% of U.S. electricity is generated from petroleum • Petroleum represents less than 40% of total U.S. energy use • Two thirds of imported oil comes from Canada and Mexico, not the Middle East • China and other foreign countries have supplied 65% of U.S. wind installations; 80% of 2 billion of your tax dollars • China is the world manufacturing center for solar power panels, a technology producing a variety of toxins • China is the source for rare earth metal ores used in electric car batteries and electric motors • Britain reported that this winter, wind power failed to deliver during the cold and snowy conditions…lack of wind Green Energy ?– Clean Energy? • If it is “green”, is it supported in practice by environmental groups? – Carbon free nuclear power is opposed by the Sierra club • France generates 80-85% of its electric power by nuclear plants • China is adding 100 new nuclear plants over the next 20 years – Carbon free hydropower, wind power, and desert solar farms are opposed by environmentalists • Green energy/clean energy is by political mandate, needlessly more expensive energy • Discouraging domestic oil and coal energy development reduces domestic energy security and results in more importation of foreign oil • Ethanol from corn has increased food prices, reduced car mileage, and increased pollution Oil Pollution in Our Off-Shore Waters? Nature Does It “Best” Is The U.S. An Out Of Line Polluter? • In 2008, the U.S. accounted for 30% of the world’s gross domestic product • In 2008, the U.S. accounted for 19% of global greenhouse gas emissions • Between 1980 and 2008, the EPA reported double digit declines in the six major pollutants ( carbon monoxide, ground level ozone, lead, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, and sulfur dioxide) even as fossil fuel use increased • The U.S. manages to produce more goods and simultaneously reduce levels of pollution Are You Worried About Your Carbon Footprint? • By one estimate, it takes 1,767,250,000,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide to raise global temperature 1 degree Centigrade. • If you stopped driving your car for one year, you would save about 5.5 metric tons of carbon dioxide. Divide 5.5 by the above number, and that is your contribution to global warming reduction. • If the entire state of Virginia were to completely shut down all fossil fuel consumption, it would take only 50 days for that saving to be replaced by global growth. Page One Of Three Pages OF EPA Instructions For CFL Handling p Why Not A Carbon Tax? • A straight forward carbon tax could be implemented by the government • Wall Street banks, investment banks, and commodity trading investors do not support a tax because they would be left out of the money loop, being deprived of the huge trading profits that they wish to skim off from a multitrillion dollar “cap and trade” marketplace…subprime morgtage/Bernard Madoff redux? • Carbon trading credits (cap and trade) represent a uniquely fictitious commodity having no physical existence; a form of fiat money and ripe for fraud as already demonstrated in Europe Taxpayer Money Tree • Follow the money…approximately $100 BILLION has been spent by the U.S. government funding global warming/“climate change” projects since 1989…based on the predetermined premise that manmade CO2 is a climate change problem requiring immediate solution • “Everyone” has learned how to make a buck from the “incurable problem” of natural climate change---the invented disaster that keeps on giving university grant money, favored federal subsidies, Wall Street profits, media scare stories, activist funding, and political control • Federal make-work, giveaways of taxpayer money to a chosen scientific/industrial complex is akin to the make-work WPA programs of the 1930s What Your Federal Government And The Media Suggest You Do • Andrew Revkin, NY Times environmental writer: “single most substantive thing an American could do is not turning off a light or driving a Prius, it’s having fewer children” • John Holdren, President Obama’s Federal science advisor: “families contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children; a planetary regime might be given responsibility for determining optimum population for the world” • Victoria University (Australia): Brenda and Robert Vale , sustainable living specialists, publish: “Time To Eat The Dog”; calculating that feeding a dog for a year produces more carbon emissions than a SUV; feeding a cat produces the emissions of a VW golf What To Do ? • The current state of climate understanding does not justify a radical restructuring of the industrialized world • The current state of impartial scientific evidence does not support claims of impending global climate disasters • A new era of open and unbiased climate research, divorced from political and agenda driven activists, is needed What Can You Do? • Educate yourself beyond the biased media; it takes work • Find out what your children and grandchildren are being taught in school; demand unbiased science, not the politically correct dogma of advocacy groups • Realize the basic fact of modern life: that control of energy and its cost is control of your and your families’ lives • Realize that energy companies will pass onto you any of their mandated increased costs of energy production • Voluntary energy conservation is, and has always been, prudent • Question the motives of the politicians and special interest groups and let them know your views In Closing H.L. Menken’s insight from the early 1900s, is still valid: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed , and hence clamorous to be led to safety , by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary My On-Line Library www.climateis.wordpress.com Climate Information Web Sites, Some Suggestions • www.climatedepot.com …updates from multiple news sources, with links to the original sources • www.theclimatescam.com …in Swedish • www.cornwallalliance.org ...a faith based view • www.green-agenda.com ...learn about the common “one world government” ambitions of the founders of the United Nations and supporting environmentalists • www.icecap.us ... updated daily by meteorologist Joe D’Aleo , with links to the original sources • www.junkscience.com founded by Green Hell author Steve Milloy, daily updates with links to original sources More Web Sites • www.PlantsNeedCO2.org …Plant scientists demonstrate the very positive benefits from more CO2 • www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org …in depth essays including those by Lord Christopher Monckton, former science advisor to Margaret Thatcher • www.sepp.org ...UVA’s Professor S. Fred Singer, updates under his “The Week That Was” (TWTW) • www.wattsupwiththat.com …San Diego meteorologist Anthony Watts, with science publications • www.worldclimatereport.com …long running, factual analysis web site • www.undueinfluence.com ...follow the oil money trail supporting your favorite “green” organization