Global Climate Change - Facts

By Ronnie Daniels

Instead of joining ranks with the parties engaged in the current cold war over climate change I would like to do something refreshing and new. This article is going to present you with a series of indisputable facts on the global climate and then ask you to decide for yourself what your opinion on the matter is.

Here I sit at my desk on a typical summer day in Tennessee. It gets in the 90F temperature range during the first part of the day and then there are thundershowers in the afternoon. It could be any summer day picked at random from the 50 odd summers of my life.

The first true fact: in over 100 years the temperature has not increased even 1degree.
2 opposing forces

One group of people with a liberal bent would have us believe that the planet is at the edge of ecological disaster due to the increase in CO2 caused by human activities, of which one is simply breathing. Led by one of my states native sons and the United Nations these forces attempt to use science (sometimes used very badly) and fear to promote their agenda of globalism and socialist ideals.
The other group, firmly entrenched in the warm and coy bed of conservatism and the corporate energy lobby struggle to use their influence to make us think that global climate change is a myth. They seek to preserve our constitutional methods of governing and let the free market deal with our energy problems. The nation would be better served if the opposing sides would address our energy and climate problems sans politics.

Fact: The climate is changing. It has been changing for millions of years and will continue to change.
Fact: Human activity does affect the climate to an extent. Cities change the weather in their immediate area simply by existing.

Fact: The Earth captures CO2 and stores it in plant life and in the sediments of the sea bottom. There is a correlation between the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and the amount of O2 ( oxygen) in the atmosphere. In times past the planet had higher temperatures and higher levels of O2 and CO2. These levels came down during the ice ages. The planet is in the final stages of the last ice age and has been for over 12,000 years.

Fact: The Earth is a self regulating organism with extremely complex interactions of millions of processes and variables. Each one in interdependent with every other in a system so complex that we don't have the technology to completely understand it. Even with cray super computers and climate modeling it is still a lot of guesswork because the system changes faster than it can be modeled.
The atmosphere begins on the sun and reaches all the way to the core of the planet. The complex interaction between the atmosphere, the cycles of water in the lakes,seas and rivers and the life processes ( respiration) of every living thing on the planet work together to produce the weather conditions prevalent today and for the foreseeable future.

Fact: There is no real consensus among scientists on this issue. One group of climate scientists who by use of computer modeling, have concluded that global warming is a fact and is caused by an increase in man made CO2 emissions. These same scientists have also stated that their computers are not capable of handling the sheer number of calculations needed for proof of their assertion.
Many other scientists in a number of disciplines including geology, earth science and meteorology hold different opinions. Some even argue that the Earth is cooling.

Fact: The problem is complex with many variables to consider and there has been a lot of misrepresentation of the facts in the press by both politicians and reporters.

We see one example of this in the way the press covered a report in 2007 by the University of Illinois showing that the arctic ice cap had the lowest level of ice cover in thirty years. This was reported widely in the popular press while omitting reports statement that in 2007 the Antarctic ice cover was at an all time high.

Fact: Over 30,000 American scientists have signed a petition stating that:

* Believe global warming is not occurring or has ceased

* Believe accuracy of IPCC climate projections is questionable

* Believe global warming is primarily caused by natural processes

* Believe cause of global warming is unknown

* Believe global warming will benefit human society

This petition has been signed by 31,478 American scientists including 9,029 with PhD. degrees and including Nobel Laureates.

The petition is as follows:

"We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.

There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth. "

(From petitionproject.org)

While it is a fact that our climate is constantly changing, is the response by government and the U.N. an over-reaction to the situation? That decision is for you to make.

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Understanding Climate Change

Climate change can be defined as a change in climate variables, especially temperature and rainfall that occur gradually in a long period of time between 50 to 100 years. Besides it should be understood that the changes caused by human activity (anthropogenic), especially those related to fossil fuel consumption and over-land.

So the changes caused by natural factors, such as additional aerosols from volcanic eruptions, are not accounted for in terms of climate change. So the natural phenomena that lead to extreme climatic conditions such as cyclones can occur in a year (inter-annual) and El-Nino and La Nina, which can happen in ten years (inter-decade) cannot be classified into global climate change.

Human activity in question is the activities that have led to an increase in atmospheric concentrations, especially in the form of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O). The gases then determines the temperature increase, because it is like glass, which can forward to short-wave radiation which is not hot, but hold long-wave radiation that is heat. As a result the earth's atmosphere heats up.

The impact of climate change:

Agricultural sector will be affected through the reduction of food productivity caused by the increase in cereal sterility, reduction in area can be irrigated and decrease the effectiveness of nutrient absorption and spread of pests and diseases.

In some places in the developed (high latitudes) increase in CO2 concentration will increase productivity because of increased assimilation, but in the tropics that most developing countries, an increase of assimilation was not significant compared with respiration which is also increased. On the whole, if adaptation is not done, the world will experience a decline in food production to 7 percent.

However, with continued levels of adaptation, meaning high costs, food production can be stabilized. In other words, stabilization of food production on climate change will cost very high, for example by improving irrigation facilities, provision of inputs (seeds, fertilizers, insecticides / pesticides) added.

In Indonesia, the scenario of CO2 concentrations double from current rice plant production will increase to 2.3 percent if irrigation can be maintained. But if the irrigation system did not experience improvements in rice plant production will decline to 4.4 percent (Matthews et al., 1995).

Warmer temperatures will cause a shift in vegetation species and ecosystems. Mountain areas will lose many species of original vegetation and replaced by lowland vegetation species. Along with that the condition of water resources from the mountains will also be susceptible to interference. Furthermore the stability of land in mountainous areas is also disrupted and hard to keep the original vegetation. This impact is not so apparent in the low latitude areas or low elevation area. If more and more forest fires are common in Indonesia, it was difficult to connect the incident with climate change, because most (if not all) incidents of forest fires caused by human activities associated with land clearing.

That happened in conjunction with the El-Nino events because of this phenomenon provides dry weather conditions that facilitate the occurrence of fire. However, as described above El-Nino is phenomenon of nature which associated with extreme climate events in climate variability, not climate change in the meaning as described above. Increasing of population makes pressure on water supply, especially in urban areas.

At this moment there are lots of urban residents who have difficulty getting clean water, especially those who are low- income and low-educated or unskilled. The impact of climate change which causes changes in temperature and rainfall will have an impact on the availability of water from the surface runoff, groundwater and other reservoir shapes. In the year 2080 there will be 2 - 3.5 billion people will experience water shortages.


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Can We Be Pleased with the Progress We Made on Climate Change Mitigation?

The response to climate change has hitherto been characterized either by dewy-eyed romanticism or by malignant optimism ("if we only recognize the magnitude and nature of the problem and throw money and new technologies at it, all will be well"). These twin fallacies (really, psychological defense mechanisms) have led to the adoption of implementation of measures and technologies that ranged from the futile (ethanol in gas) to the harmful (biofuels). In lieu of devising effective strategies to cope with this potential threat, leaders and civil society (NGOs, multilateral organizations) engaged in grandstanding (The Kyoto Protocol) and stonewalling, often kowtowing to special interests. The remarkable gains in energy efficiency we did gain were driven by market forces, mainly in the wake of price hikes in oil and its derivatives. Humanity failed to otherwise cope with global warming and to mitigate its consequences. It failed even to merely prepare for them in a coherent and analytical manner.

I would like to take this opportunity to digress somewhat and try to place climate change in a philosophical context:
Some physical systems increase disorder, either by decaying or by actively spreading disorder onto other systems. Such vectors we call "Entropic Agents".

Conversely, some physical systems increase order or decrease disorder either in themselves or in their environment. We call these vectors "Negentropic Agents".

Human Beings are Negentropic Agents gone awry. Now, through its excesses, Mankind is slowly being transformed into an Entropic Agent.

Antibiotics, herbicides, insecticides, pollution, deforestation, etc. are all detrimental to the environment and reduce the amount of order in the open system that is Earth.

Nature must balance this shift of allegiance, this deviation from equilibrium, by constraining the number of other Entropic Agents on Earth - or by reducing the numbers of humans.

To achieve the latter (which is the path of least resistance and a typical self-regulatory mechanism), Nature causes humans to begin to internalize and assimilate the Entropy that they themselves generate. This is done through a series of intricate and intertwined mechanisms:

The Malthusian Mechanism - Limited resources lead to wars, famine, diseases and to a decrease in the populace (and, thus, in the number of human Entropic Agents).

The Assimilative Mechanism - Diseases, old and new, and other phenomena yield negative demographic effects directly related to the entropic actions of humans.

Examples: excessive use of antibiotics leads to drug-resistant strains of pathogens, cancer and deteriorating sperm counts are caused by pollution, heart ailments are related to modern Western diet, AIDS, avian flu, SARS, swine flu, and other diseases are a result of hitherto unknown or mutated strains of viruses.

The Cognitive Mechanism - Humans limit their own propagation, using "rational", cognitive arguments, devices, and procedures: abortion, birth control, the pill.

Thus, combining these three mechanisms, nature controls the damage and disorder that Mankind spreads and restores equilibrium to the terrestrial ecosystem.

Both now-discarded Lamarckism (the supposed inheritance of acquired characteristics) and Evolution Theory postulate that function determines form. Natural selection rewards those forms best suited to carry out the function of survival ("survival of the fittest") in each and every habitat (through the mechanism of adaptive radiation).

But whose survival is natural selection concerned with? Is it the survival of the individual? Of the species? Of the habitat or ecosystem? These three - individual, species, habitat - are not necessarily compatible or mutually reinforcing in their goals and actions.

If we set aside the dewy-eyed arguments of altruism, we are compelled to accept that individual survival sometimes threatens and endangers the survival of the species (for instance, if the individual is sick, weak, or evil). As every environmental scientist can attest, the thriving of some species puts at risk the existence of whole habitats and ecological niches and leads other species to extinction.

To prevent the potential excesses of egotistic self-propagation, survival is self-limiting and self-regulating. Consider epidemics: rather than go on forever, they abate after a certain number of hosts have been infected. It is a kind of Nash equilibrium. Macroevolution (the coordinated emergence of entire groups of organisms) trumps microevolution (the selective dynamics of species, races, and subspecies) every time.

This delicate and self-correcting balance between the needs and pressures of competing populations is manifest even in the single organism or species. Different parts of the phenotype invariably develop at different rates, thus preventing an all-out scramble for resources and maladaptive changes.

This is known as "mosaic evolution". It is reminiscent of the "invisible hand of the market" that allegedly allocates resources optimally among various players and agents. Martin Nowak, a Harvard professor, argues that emergent cooperation is a fundamental principle of evolution, as basic as natural selection and mutation.

Moreover, evolution favors organisms whose rate of reproduction is such that their populations expand to no more than the number of individuals that the habitat can support (the habitat's carrying capacity). These are called K-selection species, or K-strategists and are considered the poster children of adaptation.

Live and let live is what evolution is all about - not the law of the jungle. The survival of all the species that are fit to survive is preferred to the hegemony of a few rapacious, highly-adapted, belligerent predators. Nature is about compromise, not about conquest.

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Climate Change - Impacts on the Development of Real Estate

The fact that climate change will affect our future does not need introduction. Our buildings and infrastructure are important elements in how we influence and adapt to the changes associated with climate change. Greenhouse gas emissions during construction and operation, climate change resilience and changes in the way people will organise their lives are all important factors to consider when preparing to develop new real estate.

To a certain extent these factors are being considered in most new development projects. The partial provision of energy through low carbon technologies is becoming the norm as part of the planning application process for major development. Standards controlling the way flood risk assessments are carried out take into account future precipitation patterns. These considerations are often driven by current requirements from planning authorities or other statutory bodies and focus on the greenhouse gas element of climate change management.

Appraising the effects of climate change on development projects will gain in importance and a strategic and pro-active approach to its integration in the management of these projects has many benefits. These include the improved management of risks, for instance by providing protection against litigation for failing to take into account known future risks, the protection of future asset values and strengthening a forward looking reputation of the organisation.

The near future will see significant changes in the way climate change is being addressed within development projects. The awareness of client organisations and local planning authorities about the effects climate change will have on the future usability of buildings is increasing rapidly. This will lead to a range of new requirements, tools and appraisal methodologies that professionals within the property development sector cannot afford to miss.

Considering climate change in real estate development projects should be considered a strategic issue. At an early stage in the project a developer should prepare a project climate change strategy and consider three issues:

1. How can the greenhouse gas emissions as part of the development be reduced?
2. How will a changing climate effect the usability of my building?
3. Is the building required in its currently proposed form in the mid to long term future?

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Paul Giesberg is founder and Principal Director at Planning for Sustainability Ltd. This firm specialises in supporting organisations with meeting the challenges of sustainable development in infrastructure and real estate development projects. Among the services that Planning for Sustainability provides are BREEAM advice and assessments and environmental impact assessments.

The Important Differences Between "Climate Change" and "Global Warming"

Many people in the media (and elsewhere) use the terms "climate change" and "global warming" interchangeably, as if they were the same thing. But there are differences between the meanings of the two terms. 

Getting a better handle on the definitions of and differences between "global warming" and "climate change" will help us understand why the threat caused by continued warming of the planet is so serious.
Planet Earth's current warming trend is based largely on natural warming and cooling cycles that have been happening for eons; as well as human-caused additions to greenhouse gases, which are boosting the atmosphere's ability to trap heat in the biosphere. Minor factors like an overall increase in the sun's solar intensity play a smaller role.

While greenhouse gases are an essential component of a livable planet - they're what keep Earth from being a lifeless ball of ice - humans are causing greenhouse gas levels to increase so quickly that it's causing the average global temperature to rise much faster than it would naturally. This warming is predicted to lead to a variety of negative effects, including:

1) Melting (and possible disappearance) of glaciers and mountain snow caps that feed the world's rivers and supply a large portion of the fresh water used for drinking and irrigation.

2) A rise in sea levels due to the melting of the land-based ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, with many islands and coastal areas ending up more exposed to storm damage or even underwater.

3) Increasingly costly "bad weather" events such as heat waves, droughts, floods, and severe storms.

4) Lowered agricultural productivity due to less favorable weather conditions, less available irrigation water, increased heat stress to plants, and an increase in pest activity due to warmer temperatures.

5) Increases in vector-borne infectious diseases like malaria and Lyme Disease.

6) Large numbers of extinctions of higher-level species due to their inability to adapt to rapidly changing climate and habitat conditions.

The first two of these effects are mostly related to increasing average temperatures. Items 3-6 are related to heat too, but also playing a role are non-temperature factors - i.e. "climate-change factors."

Climate change is about much more than how warm or cool our temperatures are. Whereas "global warming" refers to increasing global temperatures, "climate change" refers to regional conditions. Climate is defined by a number of factors, including:

1) Average regional temperature as well as day/night temperature patterns and seasonal temperature patterns.

2) Humidity.

3) Precipitation (average amounts and seasonal patterns).

4) Average amount of sunshine and level of cloudiness.

5) Air pressure and winds.

6) Storm events (type, average number per year, and seasonal patterns).

To a great extent, this is what we think of as "weather." Indeed, weather patterns are predicted to change in response to global warming:

1) Some areas will become drier, some will become wetter.

2) Many areas will experience an increase in severe weather events like killer heat waves, hurricanes, flood-level rains, and hail storms.

It's tempting to think that all of these changes to the world's climate regions will average out over time and geography and things will be fine. In fact, colder climates like Canada may even see improved agricultural yields as their seasonal temperatures rise. But overall, humanity has made a huge investment in "things as they are now, where they are now." 

Gone are the days of millennia ago when an unfavorable change in climate might cause a village to pack up their relatively few belongings and move to a better area. We have massive societal and industrial infrastructure in place, and it cannot be easily moved. Climate-change effects will generally not be geographically escapable in the timeframe over which they happen, at least not for the majority of humans and species.

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James Nash is a climate scientist with Greatest Planet (www.greatestplanet.org). Greatest Planet is a non-profit environmental organization specialising in carbon offset investments. James Nash is solely responsible for the contents of this article.

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Global Warming/ Climate Change - The Biggest Ponzi Scheme Ever Perpetrated

Author: Patrick Wentworth

Global Warming/ Climate Change – or The Biggest Ponzi Scheme Ever Perpetrated Global warming - and now “climate change”- is being mentioned at almost every turn of daily life in the United States. Our eternally pessimistic or tragedy-based “news media” (Journalism is dead in the US) only want to forecast perpetual gloom and doom. The United States always seems to be the blame for everything wrong in the world when nothing could be further from the truth.

Bear with me as I hope to shed a little light on the nonsense the public receives daily from newspapers to radio to TV. First, it was “Man-made Global Warming,” now its “Climate Change” with the implication that somehow the human race has caused some calamitous event to happen to the planet.  I find it so very incredible that the public as a whole is so scientifically illiterate that anyone would believe this nonsense.

A world leader once said:     “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, eventually they will believe it.” Another world leader said:  “When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.”

First, does the “climate change?” Well of course. It has been changing since the beginning of time. Geologic history shows us that the earth has been warmer more than 80% of its 4+ billion year existence rather than cold. Warming is nothing new. Glaciers carved the Great Lakes, inland seas once covered most of Texas, where there are forests today in Wisconsin, there once were tropical plants. Everything changes, nothing stays the same. The rate of change is what one needs to consider. To do that, you need to look at the data.

From 200 BC to 400 AD, the earth was in a warming period during the height of the Roman Empire. From 400 to 900 AD, the earth experienced a cooling period during the “Dark Ages.” From 900 to 1300, the earth experienced the “Medieval Warming” that allowed the Vikings to settle and farm in Greenland. As it became progressively colder, the animals died and the Vikings left Greenland by 1350.

The years 1300 to 1850 brought what has been called the “Little Ice Age” where much of Europe experienced very cold summers and the Thames River in England regularly froze. People would pray in Church in hopes of preventing glaciers from wiping out villages in the Alps.

Today, 1850 to present, we are now in what scientists call the “Modern Warming” era of the Earth’s climate.

The Sun regulates the atmospheric temperature of Earth. More than 99.9% of the energy which drives our climate system warming the oceans, creating winds and ocean currents all comes from the Sun. Seems like a simple enough concept, yet politicians want you to believe that the US population and the evil SUV and the consumption of fossil fuels has something to do with it. The activity of the sun – sunspots- has a direct correlation on the amount of solar radiation the Earth receives.  While global temperatures have only been recorded for only the last 150 or so years, sun spot activity was first noticed in 1610 and detailed records of sunspot activity have been recorded since 1650. This data gives one the best idea of either increase or decrease in the global mean temperature.

The temperature in the last 100 years has risen 1º Fahrenheight – with a +/- .5º margin of error. Mankind and the rest of the world have adjusted nicely. It didn’t happen overnight nor is the increase anyone would notice. (With the +/- margin of .5ºF that means the temperature has changed by as little as ½ of a degree to as much as 1.5ºF.)  Since 1998, (and some say since 2004 – depends on the data they are referring to) the globe has been cooling – not warming. It has cooled enough to wipe out the 1ºF rise in the global mean temperature to make it a net zero change in temperature.

While parts of Texas has been suffering through a typical hot Texas summer and its perpetual drought, a good bit of Texas has had a normal summer. The rest of the country, and in particular the Eastern seaboard and Midwest, has had a “year without a summer”  - unusually cool and wet. It’s important to realize that all of this has happened even though the US has not signed the Kyoto Treaty on Climate Change and no significant legislation has been enacted to reverse the so-called “global warming.”

The average temperature of Earth has varied in a range of only 3º centigrade during the past 3,000 years. The minimal increase we may (or may not) experience in the next few decades is actually a recovery from a period known as the “Little Ice Age.” George Washington and his army at Valley Forge experienced the coldest era in 1500 years, but even then, the temperature was only above 1º C below the 3,000-year average.

When I ask the average person “What is the most common green house gas?” 100% of the time I hear the response  “carbon dioxide.” The major media outlets have done their brain washing well.

Antarctic research shows very clearly that in every instance the temperature always rises first before the level of CO2 increases in the atmosphere. The explanation is just as simple. As the earth warms, more plants grow. Plants, with a more active carbon cycle, release more CO2 into the atmosphere. A colder ocean is able to keep more CO2 dissolved in water. As the oceans warm, more CO2 is released.

The number one “green house gas” (GHG) is water. The so-called “greenhouse effect” is caused by water vapor – i.e. clouds. We’ve all experienced it. In the summer, clouds help cool the surface by blocking sunlight. In the winter, nighttime clouds help to hold in heat and keep it from irradiating back into space.

Man made CO2 has no effect on global warming even though there has been a 6-fold increase in hydrocarbon use since 1940. When plotted together on a graph, it’s easy to see a direct correlation between solar activity and global surface temperatures. When plotted against world hydrocarbon use, there is no correlation with respect to surface temperatures.

Since the end of the Little Ice Age, the climate has improved with more rainfall, fewer tornadoes, and no increase in hurricane activity. The sea levels have risen at a rate of 7 inches per century (hardly a rise at all when one considers the difference between high tide and low tide can be several feet.) The idea that glaciers will melt and the sea levels will rise is an Environmental Alarmist ruse. Trends show that glaciers were melting and sea levels were rising for more than 100-years before the 6-fold increase in the use of hydrocarbons.

One of the favorite scare tactics that the Environmental Alarmists use is that the North Pole will have open seas during the summer. The alarmist scenario is that the melting of the polar ice cap will cause wide scale flooding. The problem with that idea is that it simply can’t happen. The polar ice cap is already floating on the ocean. When ice freezes, it expands 1/9 its size. Melting the polar ice cap will actually diminish the amount of water (or water displacement) by 1/9 the size of the polar ice cap. Melting of the polar ice cap could cause the sea level to actually lower. Another way to look at this is a glass of iced tea. When the ice melts does your glass overflow? No.

Carbon dioxide makes up so very little of the atmosphere, that if it were doubled tomorrow no one would notice and the temperature of the planet wouldn’t change.

First, look at the carbon dioxide molecule – CO2 - one atom of carbon and 2 atoms of oxygen. Webster defines CO2 as a colorless, odorless gas. It occurs in the atmosphere at a mere 330 parts per million (ppm.)  Most folks have never seen a million of any one thing, so it’s easier to think about it as 33 parts per 100,000 or even 3 parts per every 10,000. If one has 3 (or 33) molecules of a colorless gas mixed with 10,000 (or 100,000) molecules of the rest of the atmosphere, it challenges the imagination (if not the laws of thermo dynamics) as to how carbon dioxide can be considered a “greenhouse gas.”

Recent headlines are now touting that CO2 concentrations have suddenly leaped to new heights of 380 or 385 ppm. To that I first thought, “So what?” When I looked at the data that every one was looking at, I saw the obvious problem. There is only one place on the entire planet that the National Oceanic Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) relies upon to measure levels of CO2 in the atmosphere and that is on the Big Island of Hawaii on Mauna Loa. Mauna Loa is billed as “Earth’s Largest Volcano.” The original thinking may have been that the atmosphere there was somehow pristine in Hawaii and an accurate reading of CO2 could be had without other polluting sources, but then they seemed to forget that volcanoes spew out more CO2 in a single year than mankind has produced in the entire length of human history.  Even with active volcanoes in Hawaii, the CO2 levels are still negligible and are really of no concern.

World wide, there are over 500 volcanic events happening each year. The number of volcanic vents spewing CO2 (and other gases) into the atmosphere number in the thousands, while the under sea vents that we can’t see, may number in the tens of thousands - all spewing CO2 into the oceans and atmosphere.

Increasing such a scarce gas as C02 in the atmosphere actually has a beneficial effect. Higher CO2 concentrations enable plants to grow faster and larger. Curiously, plants have undergone a slow evolutionary change reducing the number of stomata in their leaves as CO2 levels increase. This has the effect of allowing plants to be a little more drought tolerant. The extent and diversity of plants and animal life has substantially increased during the past half-century resulting in mildly stimulated plant growth.

Human production of carbon dioxide is estimated to be 8 gigatons (GT) or 8 billion tons of carbon dioxide. This statistic alone sounds like a huge number and one about which we should be concerned. However, the resident carbon dioxide in the rest of the atmosphere and oceans is estimated to be 40,000 GT. In other words, the contribution of the entire human race amounts only to .02 of 1%  (8/40,000) of the total atmospheric CO2.

In summary, there is no “global warming.” There is no “climate crisis.” It is a global fraud being perpetuated by self interest groups – scientists who get money for climate research and politicians who see the opportunity to collect climate taxes to maintain their power.

Real scientists are lining up by the thousands to sign a petition rejecting global warming. (See http://www.petitionproject.org/) There is no “consensus” in real science. “Consensus” in the English language is defined firstly as unanimous or general agreement.  Science doesn’t work by consensus. With over 31,400+ scientists disagreeing with human releases of carbon dioxide as a cause of “Global Warming,” it’s a wonder that the media hasn’t noticed the story.

And the world leader who said: “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, eventually they will believe it.”  That was Adolph Hitler. And the person who said: “When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.”  That was none other than former vice president, Albert Gore, Jr.

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Patrick Wentworth is a certified arborist and biologist that has been studying and working with the environment for the last 35 years in Central Texas. Pat’s company, Austin Tree Specialists, has been caring for trees and landscapes in Central Texas longer than any other company in town under the original ownership. Services offered include pruning, removals, cabling and bracing as well as arborist reports, diagnostics, pest management, oak wilt treatment, and fertilization. Find out much, much more at www.austintreespecialists.com.

The Ill Effects Of Climate Change

Author: Dave Text

Now-a-days we hear about Climate Change more often than before. Climate change is a global phenomenon and the term "Climate Change" is indeed a straightforward expression for such a complex subject. In fact, it has more than we can comprehend from this phrase and that is why it is quite essential to go at defining climate change in today's scenario.

In the present glossary of researchers and scientists, climate modification as a term is no longer in use and effect. The reason behind this is that we have come to realize the effect of the changes we make to our environment will eventually increase the temperature in many parts of the world, but at the same time will also be decrease in temperature for few parts of the planet. This however, creates a general imbalance in the climate of the world which in turn leads us to the phrase, "Climate Change."

While wondering the effects of this phenomenon, the things you know of as climate modification is actually referred to as global a global phenomenon of climate change. However, with all the details and statistics we have in hand at present, we can definitely conclude that the world is unquestionably warming with the temperatures rising like never before.

This is a global problem with many natural disasters started taking shape; the general awareness of this factor is really low. For the better understanding of the issues associated with this phenomenon, we require a simple definition in relation to the warming of the planet. And this definition needs to be the one that brings us the essence of this problem without compromising the simplicities.

However, the easiest and most precise definition is that it is the effect greenhouse gases have on the earth's overall climate. Greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide and methane, but are not limited to these two.

While learning more about this issue, we need to understand few important facts associated with it. The first fact is that it is both a natural phenomena and one catalyzed by us. For instance, greenhouse gases are a natural part of the biosphere and would exist if man did not. In fact, these gases are a vital component to the existence of life on this planet.

It is due to the existence of the greenhouse gases, the temperature on planet earth does not average zero degrees! These naturally occurring gases help to keep the temperature at a desirable 59 degrees. But, the climate change, which is due to the greenhouse gases, is not indeed natural. In fact, the problem we are facing is the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

These gases act as thermal blankets for the atmosphere. The more gas in the atmosphere, the thicker the blanket and the less heat escapes from earth. In the last 80years, we have been releasing these gases into our atmosphere and thus helping them to form a blanket.

On the other hand, we are reducing forests around the planet, which are the natural plant collection that absorb greenhouse gases. This double whammy is starting to show negative results, the increased heating of our world, and thus the beginning of the dreaded climate change.

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Climate Change

Climate Change

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Now-a-days we listen Climate Change more often than before. Climate change is a global phenomenon and the term “Climate Change” is indeed a straightforward expression for such a complex subject. In fact, climate change has more than we can comprehend from this phrase and that is why it is quite essential to go at defining climate change in today’s scenario. In the present glossary of researchers and scientists, climate modification as a term is no longer in use and effect. The reason behind this is that we have come to realize the effect of the changes we make to our environment will eventually increase the temperature in many parts of the world, but at the same time will also be decrease in temperature for few parts of the planet. This however, creates a general imbalance in the climate of the world which in turn leads us to the phrase, “Climate Change.”

While wondering the effects of the climate change, the things you know of as climate modification is actually referred to as global a global phenomenon of climate change. However, with all the details and statistics we have in hand at present, we can definitely conclude that the world is unquestionably warming with the temperatures rising like never before. Climate change is a global problem with many natural disasters started taking shape; the general awareness of this factor is really low. For  the better understanding of the issues associated with the climate change, we require a simple definition for climate change in relation to the warming of the planet. And this definition needs to be the one that brings us the essence of this problem without compromising the simplicities. However, the easiest and most precise definition is that climate change is the effect greenhouse gases have on the earth’s overall climate. Greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide and methane, but are not limited to these two.

While learning more about climate change, we need to understand few important facts associated with it. The first fact is that climate change is both a natural phenomena and one catalyzed by us. For instance, greenhouse gases are a natural part of the biosphere and would exist if man did not. In fact, these gases are a vital component to the existence of life on this planet. It is due to the existence of the greenhouse gases, the temperature on planet earth does not average zero degrees! These naturally occurring gases help to keep the temperature at a desirable 59 degrees. But, the climate change, which is due to the greenhouse gases, is not indeed natural. In fact, the problem we are facing is the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. These gases act as thermal blankets for the atmosphere. The more gas in the atmosphere, the thicker the blanket and the less heat escapes from earth. In the last 80years, we have been releasing this gases into our atmosphere and thus helping them to form a blanket. On the other hand, we are reducing forests around the planet, which are the natural plant collection that absorb greenhouse gases. This double whammy is starting to show negative results, the increased heating of our world, and thus the beginning of the dreaded climate change.

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