The truth is non-partisan

A business associate who sells fuel additives recently emailed the following:

"Scientists from around the world now agree that global warming is a fact of life, and not only is it here to stay, if we continue with our current lifestyle choices soon it may be too late to save the planet. I have attached a link to a recent article from Time Magazine entitled "Can We Save the World by 2015?"

"Most people who read this article are stunned to discover that some of the biggest polluters in the world have done little to nothing to prevent global warming. This means that it is up to each and every one of us to start doing our part."

I don't disagree that we need to do our part to reduce to our "carbon footprint" and the waste of fossil-based fuels. It is only good sense that as stewards of the Earth that we would want to conserve and use its resources wisely. However, my colleague's argument is based on bad information. Time Magazine and the elite press, for whatever reason, are lying to us. And, so is Al Gore.

The recent edition of the New American interviews Dr. Arthur Robinson, who is a professor of chemistry and is cofounder of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. Read the complete article at http://thenewamerican.com/node/7009.

Robinson says that the earth is warming. However, "the current temperature is about average for the past 3,000 years. It was much warmer during the Medieval Climate Optimum 1,000 years ago. The climate, as we know from historical records, was just fine during that warm period. In fact, it was a little better."

The earth goes through normal warming and cooling cycles. Robinson says "the temperature, which is going up very slowly, is correlated with the sun's activity, not hydrocarbon use."

"Gore, et al., tell us that CO2 is a pollutant, and that humans have caused this terrible problem. But actually the atmosphere contains lots of carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide, water, and oxygen are required for life.... Human use has caused a transient increase during the past century - from about 0.03 percent to 0.04 percent of atmospheric molecules."

"The human-caused increase [of carbon dioxide] in the atmosphere is not permanent, but temporary. This increase is only being maintained by our production and, as soon as we stop producing at some later time when our technology advances, it will go back to its naturally controlled level."

"When we use hydrocarbons, the resulting carbon dioxide goes through the atmosphere on its way to the oceans and biosphere, so there is a rise in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide has a very short half-time of about seven years in the atmosphere. However, while it is in higher concentration, it is wonderful for us because it makes our plants grow faster, which markedly increases the amounts and diversity of plant and animal life."

Robinson says the UN claims that they have about 2,500 people, including 600 scientists, that support the view that global warming is caused by humans. "We have more than 22,000 scientist signers of our global-warming petition who've looked at the issue and concluded essentially the opposite of these United Nations people. This says nothing about the science. Science does not depend on polling. Just because we have 22,000, and the UN may have 600, does not matter. The only thing our petition demonstrates is that there is no consensus among scientists in support of the UN claims."

"Human-caused global warming is a hypothesis that has failed so many experimental tests that it is clearly without merit."

Al Gore and others claim that glaciers are melting because of man-made global warming. Robinson says: "The glaciers started shortening long before we were using significant amounts of hydrocarbons, and, when we increased our use by six-fold, the shortening rate did not change. Therefore, human hydrocarbon use is evidently not the cause of glacier shortening or the mild natural temperature increase that is causing that shortening."

He says "the temperature goes up before the CO2 and goes down before the CO2. The CO2 lags the temperature. And the reason it does is that the CO2 rise is caused by the temperature rise rather than vice versa."

Why does the UN take its position that global warming is man-made in contrast to what most scientists say?

Robinson states: "The power to tax and ration energy is the power to control the world - to have life and death control over every human being on the planet. No government should ever have this power. The United Nations-IPCC process is not about the climate or saving the environment. It is about power and money - lots of it."

"Should Gore and the UN succeed, the effect will not only be diminished prosperity in the United States. In underdeveloped countries, billions of people are lifting themselves from poverty by means of hydrocarbon energy. If their energy supplies are rationed and taxed, they will slip backwards into poverty, misery, and death. This fits the population control agenda of the United Nations."

Robinson warns: "If the misuse and falsification of the scientific method that drives the human-caused global-warming mania succeeds, it will cause the greatest acts of human genocide the world has ever known. It must be stopped."

Read about "The Recovery from the Little Ice Age and Global Warming" at http://thenewamerican.com/node/6973.

// posted by John Fisher @ 1:26 PM