Warming myth

By Mary Nall

It would appear that the organized governments of the world through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (World Meteorological Organization-United Nations Environment Program) have decided that the human race is causing the globe to warm, and we have to do something right now to stop it.

Although you often hear about "the debate on global warming," there really isn't a debate. Once governments (for whatever reason, usually expansion of governments) sink their teeth into a project, hold on to your hat, because you can't possibly keep them out of your pockets. All of the "proof" of man-made global warming has been funded by some kind of government grant money, and the news media are promoting man-made global warming as a fact rather than a theory, even though it's a rather unprovable theory at best.

Many scientists and academics will be attracted to the grant money available and will jump on the bandwagon to "prove" that human endeavors are causing an environmental global-warming catastrophe. Individuals who do not find "proof" will have a harder time receiving funding. Funding from government is won through politics, as has been shown in the past. For instance, there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, even though much of the information, funded by our government, "proved" there were, and any information that didn't comply was ignored or deemed incorrect.

However, there are a lot of studies that actually question the global-warming theory or theorize that it is a natural phenomenon that no amount of tax money can fix. On one Web site -- "The Other Side of the Global Warming Debate" at personals.galaxyinternet.net/toga/ -- there are over 300 studies debating the IPCC global-warming theory. In his paper "Is the Global Warming Theory Defective?" nuclear physicist and engineer James A. Maruse states: "A strong link between elevated carbon dioxide levels and elevated global temperatures has not been established. Current global warming theory fails to take into account Earth's natural heat transport mechanism. The idea that global warming is in a runaway state is not supported. The Earth has experienced much higher carbon dioxide levels in the past. Comparing global warming to the environment on the planet Venus is inappropriate because the warming due to magmatic heat loss has not been factored. Analysis of factors depressing phytoplankton needs further investigation to determine why their productivity has declined so rapidly. Other forms of photosynthetic life are responding to this minor uptick in carbon dioxide level by increased growth. This is a natural mechanism to bring the carbon cycle on Earth back into balance."

Nima Sanandaji, president of the Swedish think tank Captus and editor of Captus Journal, and Fred Goldberg, associate professor at the Royal School of Technology in Stockholm, write: "Global climate is an important issue to debate, but it is sad that what is communicated often has a clear shifting toward the worst-case scenarios and the doomsday theories. There is no reason to scare people by giving them only one side of the argument."

When professor William Gray of Colorado State University was asked if he believed global warming was causing climate change, he responded: "No. If it is, it is causing such a small part that it is negligible." Gray is considered to be the world's foremost expert on tropical cyclones (hurricanes).

Phillip Stott, professor emeritus of biogeography at the University of London: "The global warming myth harks back to a lost Golden Age of climate stability, or, to employ a more modern term, climate 'sustainability.' Sadly, the idea of a sustainable climate is an oxymoron. The fact that we have rediscovered climate change at the turn of the millennium tells us more about ourselves, and about our devices and desires, than about climate. Opponents of global warming are often snidely referred to as 'climate change deniers'; precisely the opposite is true. Those who question the myth of global warming are passionate believers in climate change -- it is the global warmers who deny that climate change is the norm."

In a study published in the journal Nature, a number of polar researchers showed that they had observed a net cooling 0.7 Fahrenheit degrees in a region of Antarctica between 1986 and 2000. Another study published in Science showed that the East Antarctic ice sheet had grown by 45 million metric tons between 1992 and 2003.

I could go on and list the more than 17,000 scientists and physicians who signed a petition by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, which opposes adoption of the Kyoto Protocol, but to know that most scientists disagree with the man-made global-warming theory should be enough.

In summary, there are many papers and studies regarding global climate that have been researched and written by educated, informed, accredited individuals. Much of this research points toward the fact that the earth's climate changes, change is natural, change cannot be controlled and the earth with all the living creatures on it adapt. Those that don't adapt naturally become extinct. I'm thankful Tyrannosaurus rex is extinct.

Much of the poverty throughout the history of mankind has been created by do-gooders who thought they could control human endeavor in order save or protect something. Neither we nor our children, grandchildren and children beyond them in the future can afford another non-winnable tax-funded war like the ones we have on poverty, drugs and terrorism that waste billions or trillions of dollars and initiate more laws and restrictions on individuals, further depleting the wealth of this nation and the freedom of the individuals who live in it. Once we initiate a war on global warming, another billion- or trillion-dollar hole will have been created in the earnings of individuals and companies working in the private sector.

"Consensus is the business of politics. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period." -- Michael Crichton, author of "Jurassic Park" and creator-producer of "ER."

Mary Nall is a Marble Hill, Mo., resident.