The world is still warming
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- January
- 31
It was unexpected. President Bush acknowledged global warming in his State of Union address.
Here’s what he said last week:
“America is on the verge of technological breakthroughs that will enable us to live our lives less dependent on oil. And these technologies wil help us be better stewards of the environment, and they will help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change.”
It was just a mention. The president did not propose any regulations to cap greehouse gases.
Nor did he say humans were contributing.
But a group of scientists in Paris are expected to do just that by the end of the week.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is overseen by the United Nations, is to issue a report that news accounts say will warn that global warming is here, it is getting worse, and it is at least 90 percent certain that it is being caused by the burning of fossil fuels, according to the Associated Press.
And it quotes an unidentified participant as saying that the U.S. delegation is much more constructive than it was in 2001, when some people accused it of hanging up the talks.
There will probably be people who will scoff at the report. Many of them will not be scientists. The scientists, at least the ones at the conference, are expected to be urging action.
Europe is capping its emissions from industrial plants. China resists.
The United States? The White House has been pressuring federal scientists to play down global warming, advocacy groups told Congress yesterday, the AP reported.
And this from Sen. James Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who chaired the Environment and Public Works Committee until the Democrats took control.
There is “no convincing scientific evidence” that human beings are causing global warming.
And the scientists gathered in Paris?
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Of course the world is warming look how close to the sun we are. This is probably a natural turn of events we had an ice age for whatever reason. now its warming up. Should we be afraid yes. Is it because we are screwing up the atmosphere, probably partly. Would it have happened anyway, more than likely, yes.
At least bush is starting to admit it—maybe the fact that we have not had snow in what, the last 2-3 christmas’ has gotten to him?
I dont know about you but we got dumped on last year. And colorado still is getting dumped on. This is just the natural order of the eco system. adjusting. sooner or later the planet will shrug and a new species will start on the planet. and the roach will still be around. ;-]
For the scientifically-challenged majority out there, consider this simple example of why natural cycles, and not man-made effects, are far more likely to be the cause of so-called global warming.
In the First Century, Romans were successfully growing wine grapes in Britain. Again, in 1068 AD,we know wine grapes were grown there again because tax officials reported in the Domesday Book that nearly 50 vineyards there were growing wine grapes.
The Little Ice Age, which extended from roughly 1400 to 1850, prevented the cultivation of wine grapes in Britain.
Moreover, it is essentially still too cold to grow wine grapes there now successfully, though recent efforts show it may be warming enough there to do so once more.
So, we do know that in both the 1st and 11th centuries, Britain was warmer than today. Climatologists know that there is a natural, moderate 1500-year climate cycle, which was first discovered in the long Greenland and Antarctic ice cores in the 1980s. Since then, the 1500-year cycle has also been found in the seabed sediments of five oceans, in glacier advances and retreats worldwide, in ancient tree rings, and in historic documents from both Europe and Asia. It goes back at least a million years.
The 1500-year climate cycle has no correlation with CO2 in the atmosphere. It has had a strong correlation with the length of the sunspot cycles on the sun.
CO2 may be adding to the Modern Warming, but its impact is apparently not large. Remember that our warming started 90 years before human CO2 emissions began to surge about 1940. When human CO2 emissions did surge after 1940, global temperatures went down for 35 years. The Greenhouse Theory says the Polar Regions will warm first, but they aren’t doing it. The Antarctic has been cooling since the 1960s, except for the tiny Antarctic Peninsula. The Arctic was warmer in the 1930s than it is today.