During 2008, have we seen many stories in the newspapers about 2007 being particularly warm as a result of global warming?
During
2006, the doomsters were predicting that 2007 would be the hottest year
on record, so why have we seen no reports about this?
The answer
is simple – 2007 turned out to be the coolest year for 30 years. It is
also the case that there has been no global warming since 1998. In
fact, since 1998, there has been steady cooling.
Even more
dramatic is the fact that the most recent computer model predictions
indicate that there will be no more global warming for the next ten
years. But the doomsters say that, after this ten-year period, global
warming will come back with a vengeance. Why?
Certainly,
mankind's production of carbon dioxide (CO2) has continued to increase
since 1998 and will continue to increase, particularly since countries
such as China and India say that their economic growth comes first, so
they do not intend worrying too much about CO2 production.
Bjorn
Lomborg earned the wrath of many scientists by calling into question
the direness of global warming. Now, in this wide-ranging interview,
find out why he claims that Al Gore is 'wildly exaggerating' about
climate change and its effects.
Bjorn
Lomborg is a Danish political scientist and author of The Skeptical
Environmentalist, a controversial book about the costs and benefits of
reducing carbon emissions and mitigating climate change. He spoke to
NEWSWEEK about the Stern Review, Al Gore and his critics.
NEWSWEEK:
The Stern Review, a 2006 report on the economics of climate change,
concluded that averting the worst impacts of climate change will cost 1
percent of global GDP annually, and that failure to address the problem
could cost a projected 20 percent of global GDP.
LOMBORG:
It understates the costs of dealing with climate change. It says it's 1
percent. Even the U.N. estimates that it's somewhere between 3 and 5
percent, depending on the time frame. And it dramatically exaggerates
the cost of not doing something. Most models show that the costs by the
end of the century from global warming say 3 percent of GDP. Basically
it's a non-peer reviewed study that was commissioned by the UK
government to come out and support the UK government's policy. It tells
us a very different story from all of the peer reviewed, published
studies that it bases itself on.
BANGLADESH is a flat deltaic country where 80% of the land is less than
12 metres above sea level. Coastal southern Bangladesh is mostly at sea
level. Because of the geographical setting and physical
characteristics, the country is regularly inundated by riverine and
coastal flooding.
Climate change will make the country highly
vulnerable to sea level rise, intense cyclones and storm surge
flooding. A recent special report entitled "Bangladesh is set to
disappear under the waves by the end of the century" by Johann Hari,
published in the British daily Independent, has drawn significant
attention around the world. It has sent a shockwave through the people,
scientists and policy-makers, in Bangladesh.
However, will
Bangladesh completely disappear under water by 2100 as claimed in the
Independent, which cited National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(Nasa)? This issue deserves discussion in the context of the findings
of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) that was released in 2007, and the scientific
developments that have taken place since then. Read rest…
Carbon emissions may be melting the arctic sea ice, but probably not from humans: ScienceDaily.com reports“evidence of explosive volcanic eruptions
deep beneath the ice-covered surface of the Arctic Ocean.” Volcanoes
release “tremendous” blasts of carbon dioxide—and immense heat.
Twenty-two researchers from nine institutions and four countries collaborated on the report,
published in the academic Nature journal’s June issue. “The
generation of magmas in the earth proved far more complicated than
anyone imagined,” wrote Henry J. B. Dick, a senior scientist at the
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), which fronted the report.
Researchers found volcanoes “as far as we could survey to the east,”
samples of “abundant active hydrothermal venting in a region where current theory predicted their absence.”
Since its creation in March by the
International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), the Manhattan
Declaration on Climate Change has attracted signatories from 40
countries. Although ignored by most media and governments, endorsement
for the Declaration has rained in from hundreds of climate experts and
other scientists, as well as professional engineers, economists, policy
experts, medical doctors and average citizens. The complete Declaration
text, endorser lists and international media contacts for expert
commentary, may be viewed at http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/media1.php
"The climate change declaration offers Americans of all backgrounds an
opportunity to demonstrate that they are increasingly ill at ease with
the wild forecasts of Al Gore, James Hansen and the UN’s
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)," said Dr. J. Scott
Armstrong, Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania. "Such skepticism is entirely appropriate.
Expanding
oil drilling will not severely harm the environment or put alternative
fuel investments at risk, some energy industry experts say.
The
Institute for Energy Research (IER) responded to questions from various
news reporters by way of a conference call on Tuesday. (The group
maintains that freely-functioning energy markets provide the most
efficient and effective solutions to global energy challenges.)
IER's
Senior Vice President of Policy Daniel Kish asked about the
environmental risk of oil drilling, said, "There's always a risk in any
kind of energy development. Windmills kill birds."
Kish also
noted that offshore oil drilling is preferable to importing oil
supplies in tankers that could leak or spill their contents.
So according to Al "I need some more McD's" Gore we are all up the creek and we better hope we have a paddle. He has said that with scientific proof, Global Warming is real and we are all doomed. Really? Really?!? According to his most incredible and Oscar winning movie, Global Warming can and will strike at any time. According to Mr. Wizard himself, all of the ice will melt causing all water levels to rise and flood everyone and everything. Thank god I took those swim classes back in Minnesota when I was a kid.
Does he not understand that the world was once covered in ICE! When you lost your bid to become the first "Environmental" President, we all thought and hoped that the whole Global Warming hype would die with you. But instead you devoured millions of dollars of McD's food and are still promoting your un-proven facts. I will give you eight reasons why this political scam should be shut down:
1. Most scientists do not believe human activities threaten to disrupt the Earth's climate. More than 17,000 scientists have signed a petition circulated by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine saying, in part, "there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate." (Go to www.oism.org for the complete petition and names of signers.) Surveys of climatologists show similar skepticism. Read rest....
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