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The Real Story about Global Warming

What to do about Climate Change?

Below are a series of questions I would challenge you to consider in assessing the severity of climate change and the ability to effectively do anything about it.

I will assume that for each question that we answer in support of climate change. Just realize that at any point of the questions that a no, maybe, or not sure invalidates any logic that we should spend billions or trillions of dollars.

Key Questions to Ask about the Truth of Climate Change

Is the world actually warming?

The earth has actually been in a cooling phase, or at least a pause, for the until about 2018; thus the change to the climate change to further obfuscate the issue. Hurricanes, tornadoes, and droughts have actually decreased in recent decades, not become more severe. If we pull back a million years, or even better, a billion years, we see a steady swing of temperature changes that make Al Gore's hockey stick look insignificant. We are actually at the tail end of an inter-glacial period (free of an ice age), and are likely to see significant cooling in decades to come. But let us say the earth is warming, then the question is:

2) Is the climate change significant enough to pose a threat to the planet?

The earth has been going through changes in climate constantly, from seasons to decades to eons. Normal fluctuations have been occurring forever without humans being the cause. 80,000 years ago Kansas was under over a mile of ice. 80,000,000 years ago Kansas was a sea over 1,000 feet deep! This all occurred without a single SUV or smokestack, imagine that. But again let’s assume there is some sort of threat that we should pay attention to.

3) Is the climate change being caused by humans?

By far, the largest factor affecting world temperatures is the sun. Just notice the difference in temperature between day and night or winter and summer. The amount of irradiance the earth receives has a dramatic effect on temperature. The yearly cycle of orbiting the sun as significant effect on temperature. But, there are other longer cycles in play as well.

The 11-year sun spot cycle affects earth’s temperature. During solar flares, cosmic rays that normal bombard the earth freely, are greatly diminished (pushed aside) by the energy coming from the sun spots. This effects cloud formation. From Google: “Cosmic rays are charged particles that bombard the Earth's atmosphere from outer space. Studies suggest they may influence cloud cover either through the formation of new aerosols (tiny particles suspended in the air that can grow to form seeds for cloud droplets) or by directly affecting clouds themselves.”

Clouds can reflect heat entering the earth’s atmosphere (the albedo effect: the measure of diffusive reflection of solar radiation out of the total solar radiation received by a body) or they can help to trap heat beneath them and raise temperature. The balance between lower temperatures ((albedo effect) and raising temperature via entrapping surface heat is not well known. But suffice it to say the sun, cosmic rays and clouds are integral to varying temperatures.

The Milankovitch cycle describes the ever-changing relationship between the earth and the sun. The elliptical orbit we have around the sun varies over tens of thousands of years and becomes nearly circular. The 23.5-degree tilt of the sun varies over thousands of years. The “wobble” of the earth changes such that Vegas not Polaris will be true north at some point, and then back again. All of these factors contribute more to changes in temperature cycles than CO2.

CO2, the culprit most cited by global warming alarmist, is only 400 parts per million (PPM) in the atmosphere. The vast majority of CO2 comes from the oceans, decaying biomass, and volcanoes. Only one-tenth of CO2 comes from humans or 40 PPM. Just as a reference, that is like one penny out $250 worth of pennies…very small.

CO2 has ranged from 7,000 parts per million to as low as 180 parts per million - and life survived. In fact, in times of higher CO2 concentrations, agriculture flourished, famine was reduced and human advancement increased. Humankind was freed from spending all their time tilling the land and was able to contemplate the stars, write poetry, advance science and ponder the meaning of life. Did you know that greenhouses intentionally pump in CO2 to levels of 2,000 PPM or more because plants thrive in a CO2-enriched environment?

Arctic and Antarctic ice cores conclusively show over and over that periods of significant temperature rise always precede the rise in CO2; by many decades or even hundreds of years. Why? Because the oceans, by far, the largest repository of CO2, release it as temperatures rise. This leads to massive increases in vegetation which, as it dies, also releases prodigious amounts of stored CO2. CO2 continues to rise, as a lagged effect, for decades or centuries after a cooling period has started. The causality is just the opposite as expounded by climate alarmist.

CO2, as a greenhouse gas (GHG), is a poor retainer of heat. Yes, it does, as a GHG, elevate temperature especially between zero and 400 PPM. However, it is an ever-decreasing asymptotic curve of diminishing affect. It is estimated that a doubling of CO2 to 800 PPM would only have a .7-degree C impact on global average temperatures. Why? Because the bandwidth spectrum that CO2 resides within is nearly saturated at 400 PPM.

Let's not forget that water vapor is by far the most abundant GHG (about 85% of GHGs). It has far greater impact on heat absorption in the atmosphere than CO2. But let us for argument sake say that global warming is real, it poses a threat, and it is man-made. Next question.

4) Is there something that we can practically do to change the threat of global warming?

Short of shutting down all fossil fuel consumption, what is it we can do? Will better MPG or electric cars (which use energy from electric plants that predominately burn fossil fuels) stop climate change? Will going to all solar and wind help?

Only about 3% of US energy comes from these highly subsidized yet unprofitable businesses. These technologies do not have the ability or resources to provide the energy needed to run the U.S. economy, and won’t have it for decades. If we shut everything down will it make a difference? What data, analysis, or studies show that a 100% effort by humans would change the natural temperature cycles the earth has experienced? But let’s assume we can, next question.

5) If there are practical things we can do, are they affordable?

Who is going to pay for all this climate change remediation? Do we even have a plan of what actions we would take, what the timeline would be, or most importantly how much it would cost? What is the plan except invoking mammoth carbon taxing? Will the poorest 180 countries contribute any money? Probably not. In fact, they likely will receive a massive influx of cash to “fight” global warming. Can you guess why they signed the Paris treaty? One perspective is that climate change is really just a justification and means to help redistribute the wealth of the 20 richest countries, mostly from the U.S., to the poorest nations.

Will India or China (who both of whom out pollute the U.S.) agree to divert huge national resources away from their growing economies to solve a problem that many believe doesn’t exist? Does the U.S., which is already $20T in debt, have the resources? All the billionaires in the U.S, only have about $2.2T and all the millionaires only about $19T. Where does the money come from? Especially if we want to continue to increase U.S. entitlements?

President Trump rightly pulled out of the Paris Accord because the U.S. was being forced to pay the preponderance of the costs, and countries like China and India were being allowed to continue to pollute. But let’s assume we can afford it. Next question.

6) Do we as citizens of the world have the political will to allow our leaders to effect massive changes that would directly affect our pocketbooks, our lifestyles, consumption patterns, and freedoms?

Would we be willing to go back to the lifestyle of the pre-industrial world? No electricity, no cars, no iPhones, no lights, no A/C? Okay, maybe not that drastic - how about limiting car usage, rationing electricity, or moving us all into smaller “sustainable” 1970 era Russian-like apartments?

If we restrict fossil fuels won’t people start cutting down trees to heat their homes and doing other unhealthy environmental things? What do we do when nations ignore the rules? Do we succumb to a one-world government that has the power and control to force us?

It is a lot of ifs, and I for one am not willing to give our government further control of my life on a bunch of flimsy ifs. Who benefits if climate change is a hoax or is being vastly overblown? Government! It gives them more power, more control; and for us, less personal freedom and ultimately, a world dominated by elites and not of, for and by the people.

I am not a climate denier; I am a government skeptic! Do we need to be prudent proactive stewards of the earth? Do we need to combat pollution? Of course! Do we need to be told to change our lives based on politicized science - not on my watch! There is no such thing as settled science, that is a non-sequitur.

Is global warming real? Is it a threat? Are humans a significant cause? Is there something we can do about it? Can we afford to fix it? These are some of the questions we should all be demanding be answered before we are shackled with the consequences of trying to battle the climate change phantom.

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