100 Reasons why climate
change is natural:
PUBLISHED: Nov 20, 2012 - The
Express
1) There is “no real scientific proof” that the current warming is caused
by the rise of greenhouse gases from man’s activity.
2) Man-made carbon dioxide emissions throughout human history
constitute less than 0.00022 percent of the total naturally emitted from the
mantle of the earth during geological history.
3) Warmer
periods of the Earth’s history came around 800 years before rises in CO2
levels.
4) After
World War II, there was a huge surge in recorded CO2 emissions but global
temperatures fell for four decades after 1940.
After World War II, there was a huge surge in
recorded CO2 emissions
5) Throughout
the Earth’s history, temperatures have often been warmer than now and CO2
levels have often been higher – more than ten times as high.
6) Significant
changes in climate have continually occurred throughout
geologic time.
7) The
0.7C increase in the average global temperature over the last hundred years is
entirely consistent with well-established, long-term, natural climate
trends.
8) The
IPCC theory is driven by just 60 scientists and favourable reviewers not the
4,000 usually cited.
9) Leaked e-mails from British climate scientists – in a scandal known as
“Climate-gate” - suggest that that has been manipulated to exaggerate global
warming
10) A
large body of scientific research suggests that the sun is responsible for the
greater share of climate change during the past hundred years.
11) Politicians and activiists claim rising sea levels are a direct cause of
global warming but sea levels rates have been increasing steadily since the
last ice age 10,000 ago
12) Philip
Stott, Emeritus Professor of Biogeography at the School of Oriental and African
Studies in London says climate change is too complicated to be caused by just
one factor, whether CO2 or clouds
13) Peter
Lilley MP said last month that “fewer people in Britain than in any other
country believe in the importance of global warming. That is despite the fact
that our Government and our political class—predominantly—are more committed to
it than their counterparts in any other country in the world”.
14) In pursuit of the global warming rhetoric, wind farms will do very
little to nothing to reduce CO2 emissions
15) Professor
Plimer, Professor of Geology and Earth Sciences at the University of Adelaide,
stated that the idea of taking a single trace gas in the atmosphere, accusing
it and finding it guilty of total responsibility for climate change, is an
“absurdity”
16) A
Harvard University astrophysicist and geophysicist, Willie Soon, said he is
“embarrassed and puzzled” by the shallow science in papers that support the
proposition that the earth faces a climate crisis caused by global warming.
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17) The science of what determines the earth’s temperature is in fact far from settled or understood.
18) Despite
activist concerns over CO2 levels, CO2 is a minor greenhouse gas, unlike water
vapour which is tied to climate concerns, and which we can’t even pretend to
control
19) A
petition by scientists trying to tell the world that the political and media
portrayal of global warming is false was put forward in the Heidelberg Appeal
in 1992. Today, more than 4,000 signatories, including 72 Nobel Prize winners,
from 106 countries have signed it.
20) It
is claimed the average global temperature increased at a dangerously fast rate
in the 20th century but the recent rate of average global temperature rise has
been between 1 and 2 degrees C per century - within natural rates
21) Professor
Zbigniew Jaworowski, Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Central
Laboratory for Radiological Protection in Warsaw, Poland says the earth’s
temperature has more to do with cloud cover and water vapor than CO2
concentration in the atmosphere.
22) There
is strong evidence from solar studies which suggests that the Earth’s current
temperature stasis will be followed by climatic cooling over the next few
decades
23) It
is myth that receding glaciers are proof of global warming as glaciers have been
receding and growing cyclically for many centuries
24) It
is a falsehood that the earth’s poles are warming because that is natural
variation and while the western Arctic may be getting somewhat warmer we also
see that the Eastern Arctic and Greenland are getting colder
25) The IPCC claims climate driven “impacts on biodiversity are significant
and of key relevance” but those claims are simply not supported by scientific
research
26) The IPCC threat of climate change to the world’s species does not make sense
as wild species are at least one million years old, which means they have all
been through hundreds of climate cycles
27) Research
goes strongly against claims that CO2-induced global warming would cause
catastrophic disintegration of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets.
28) Despite
activist concerns over CO2 levels, rising CO2 levels are our best hope of
raising crop yields to feed an ever-growing population
29) The
biggest climate change ever experienced on earth took place around 700 million
years ago
30) The
slight increase in temperature which has been observed since 1900 is entirely
consistent with well-established, long-term natural climate cycles
31) Despite
activist concerns over CO2 levels, rising CO2 levels of some so-called
“greenhouse gases” may be contributing to higher oxygen levels and global
cooling, not warming
32) Accurate
satellite, balloon and mountain top observations made over the last three
decades have not shown any significant change in the long term rate of increase
in global temperatures
33) Today’s
CO2 concentration of around 385 ppm is very low compared to most of the earth’s
history – we actually live in a carbon-deficient atmosphere
34) It
is a myth that CO2 is the most common greenhouse gas because greenhouse gases
form about 3% of the atmosphere by volume, and CO2 constitutes about 0.037% of
the atmosphere
35) It
is a myth that computer models verify that CO2 increases will cause significant
global warming because computer models can be made to “verify” anything
36) There
is no scientific or statistical evidence whatsoever that global warming will
cause more storms and other weather extremes
37) One
statement deleted from a UN report in 1996 stated that “none of the studies
cited above has shown clear evidence that we can attribute the observed climate
changes to increases in greenhouse gases”
38) The
world “warmed” by 0.07 +/- 0.07 degrees C from 1999 to 2008, not the 0.20
degrees C expected by the IPCC
39) The
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says “it is likely that future
tropical cyclones (typhoons and hurricanes) will become more intense” but there
has been no increase in the intensity or frequency of tropical cyclones
globally
40) Rising
CO2 levels in the atmosphere can be shown not only to have a negligible effect
on the Earth’s many ecosystems, but in some cases to be a positive help to many
organisms
41) Researchers
who compare and contrast climate change impact on civilizations found warm
periods are beneficial to mankind and cold periods harmful
42) The
Met Office asserts we are in the hottest decade since records began but this is
precisely what the world should expect if the climate is cyclical
43) Rising
CO2 levels increase plant growth and make plants more resistant to drought and
pests
44) The
historical increase in the air’s CO2 content has improved human nutrition by
raising crop yields during the past 150 years
45) The
increase of the air’s CO2 content has probably helped lengthen human lifespans
since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution
46) The
IPCC alleges that “climate change currently contributes to the global burden of
disease and premature deaths” but the evidence shows that higher temperatures
and rising CO2 levels has helped global populations
47) In
May of 2004, the Russian Academy of Sciences published a report concluding that
the Kyoto Protocol has no scientific grounding at all.
48) The “Climate-gate” scandal pointed to a expensive public campaign of
disinformation and the denigration of scientists who opposed the belief that
CO2 emissions were causing climate change
49) The head of Britain’s climate change watchdog has predicted households
will need to spend up to £15,000 on a full energy efficiency makeover if the
Government is to meet its ambitious targets for cutting carbon emissions.
50) Wind
power is unlikely to be the answer to our energy needs. The wind power industry
argues that there are “no direct subsidies” but it involves a total subsidy of
as much as £60 per MWh which falls directly on electricity consumers. This
burden will grow in line with attempts to achieve Wind power targets, according
to a recent OFGEM report.
51) Wind
farms are not an efficient way to produce energy. The British Wind Energy
Association (BWEA) accepts a figure of 75 per cent back-up power is required.
52) Global temperatures are below the low end of IPCC predictions not at “at
the top end of IPCC estimates”
53) Climate alarmists have raised the concern over acidification of the oceans but Tom Segalstad from Oslo University in Norway , and others, have noted that the composition of ocean water – including CO2, calcium, and water – can act as a buffering agent in the acidification of the oceans.
53) Climate alarmists have raised the concern over acidification of the oceans but Tom Segalstad from Oslo University in Norway , and others, have noted that the composition of ocean water – including CO2, calcium, and water – can act as a buffering agent in the acidification of the oceans.
54) The UN’s IPCC computer models of human-caused global warming predict the
emergence of a “hotspot” in the upper troposphere over the tropics.
Former researcher in the Australian Department of Climate Change, David Evans,
said there is no evidence of such a hotspot
55) The argument that climate change is a of result of global warming caused
by human activity is the argument of flat Earthers.
56) The
manner in which US President Barack Obama sidestepped Congress to order
emission cuts shows how undemocratic and irrational the entire international
decision-making process has become with regards to emission-target setting.
57) William Kininmonth, a former head of the National Climate Centre and a
consultant to the World Meteorological Organisation, wrote “the likely extent
of global temperature rise from a doubling of CO2 is less than 1C. Such warming
is well within the envelope of variation experienced during the past 10,000
years and insignificant in the context of glacial cycles during the past
million years, when Earth has been predominantly very cold and covered by
extensive ice sheets.”
58) Canada
has shown the world targets derived from the existing Kyoto commitments were
always unrealistic and did not work for the country.
59) In
the lead up to the Copenhagen summit, David Davis MP said of previous climate
summits, at Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and Kyoto in 1997 that many had promised
greater cuts, but “neither happened”, but we are continuing along the same
lines.
60) The
UK ’s environmental policy has a long-term price tag of about £55 billion,
before taking into account the impact on its economic growth.
61) The UN’s panel on climate change warned that Himalayan glaciers could
melt to a fifth of current levels by 2035. J. Graham Cogley a professor at
Ontario Trent University, claims this inaccurate stating the UN authors got the
date from an earlier report wrong by more than 300 years.
62) Under
existing Kyoto obligations the EU has attempted to claim success, while
actually increasing emissions by 13 per cent, according to Lord Lawson. In
addition the EU has pursued this scheme by purchasing “offsets” from countries
such as China paying them billions of dollars to destroy atmospheric
pollutants, such as CFC-23, which were manufactured purely in order to be
destroyed.
63) It is claimed that the average global temperature was relatively
unchanging in pre-industrial times but sky-rocketed since 1900, and will
increase by several degrees more over the next 100 years according to Penn
State University researcher Michael Mann. There is no convincing empirical
evidence that past climate was unchanging, nor that 20th century changes in
average global temperature were unusual or unnatural.
64) Michael
Mann of Penn State University has actually shown that the Medieval Warm Period
and the Little Ice Age did in fact exist, which contrasts with his earlier work
which produced the “hockey stick graph” which showed a constant temperature
over the past thousand years or so followed by a recent dramatic upturn.
65) The globe’s current approach to climate change in which major
industrialised countries agree to nonsensical targets for their CO2 emissions
by a given date, as it has been under the Kyoto system, is very expensive.
66) The “Climate-gate” scandal revealed that a scientific team had emailed
one another about using a “trick” for the sake of concealing a “decline” in
temperatures when looking at the history of the Earth’s temperature.
67) Global temperatures have not risen in any statistically-significant
sense for 15 years and have actually been falling for nine years. The
“Climate-gate” scandal revealed a scientific team had expressed dismay at the
fact global warming was contrary to their predictions and admitted their
inability to explain it was “a travesty”.
68) The IPCC predicts that a warmer planet will lead to more extreme
weather, including drought, flooding, storms, snow, and wildfires. But over the
last century, during which the IPCC claims the world experienced more rapid
warming than any time in the past two millennia, the world did not experience
significantly greater trends in any of these extreme weather events.
69) In explaining the average temperature standstill we are currently
experiencing, the Met Office Hadley Centre ran a series of computer climate
predictions and found in many of the computer runs there were decade-long
standstills but none for 15 years – so it expects global warming to resume
swiftly.
70) Richard Lindzen, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, wrote: “The notion of a static, unchanging climate is
foreign to the history of the Earth or any other planet with a fluid envelope.
Such hysteria (over global warming) simply represents the scientific illiteracy
of much of the public, the susceptibility of the public to the substitution of
repetition for truth.”
71) Despite
the 1997 Kyoto Protocol’s status as the flagship of the fight against climate
change it has been a failure.
72) The first phase of the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which ran
from 2005 to 2007 was a failure. Huge over-allocation of permits to pollute led
to a collapse in the price of carbon from €33 to just €0.20 per tonne meaning
the system did not reduce emissions at all.
73) The EU trading scheme, to manage carbon emissions has completely failed
and actually allows European businesses to duck out of making their emissions
reductions at home by offsetting, which means paying for cuts to be made
overseas instead.
74) To date “cap and trade” carbon markets have done almost nothing to
reduce emissions.
75) In
the United States , the cap-and-trade is an approach designed to control carbon
emissions and will impose huge costs upon American citizens via a carbon tax on
all goods and services produced in the United States. The average family of
four can expect to pay an additional $1700, or £1,043, more each year. It is
predicted that the United States will lose more than 2 million jobs as the
result of cap-and-trade schemes.
76) Dr Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of
Alabama in Huntsville, has indicated that out of the 21 climate models tracked
by the IPCC the differences in warming exhibited by those models is mostly the
result of different strengths of positive cloud feedback – and that increasing
CO2 is insufficient to explain global-average warming in the last 50 to 100
years.
77) Why
should politicians devote our scarce resources in a globally competitive world
to a false and ill-defined problem, while ignoring the real problems the entire
planet faces, such as: poverty, hunger, disease or terrorism.
78) A
proper analysis of ice core records from the past 650,000 years demonstrates
that temperature increases have come before, and not resulted from, increases
in CO2 by hundreds of years.
79) Since
the cause of global warming is mostly natural, then there is in actual fact
very little we can do about it. (We are still not able to control the sun).
80) A
substantial number of the panel of 2,500 climate scientists on the United
Nation’s International Panel on Climate Change, which created a statement on
scientific unanimity on climate change and man-made global warming, were found
to have serious concerns.
81) The
UK’s Met Office has been forced this year to re-examine 160 years of
temperature data after admitting that public confidence in the science on
man-made global warming has been shattered by revelations about the data.
82)
Politicians and activists push for renewable energy sources such as wind
turbines under the rhetoric of climate change, but it is essentially about
money – under the system of Renewable Obligations. Much of the money is paid
for by consumers in electricity bills. It amounts to £1 billion a year.
83) The
“Climate-gate” scandal revealed that a scientific team had tampered with their
own data so as to conceal inconsistencies and errors.
84) The
“Climate-gate” scandal revealed that a scientific team had campaigned for the
removal of a learned journal’s editor, solely because he did not share their
willingness to debase science for political purposes.
85) Ice-core
data clearly show that temperatures change centuries before concentrations of
atmospheric CO2 change. Thus, there appears to be little evidence for insisting
that changes in concentrations of CO2 are the cause of past temperature and
climate change.
86) There are no experimentally verified processes explaining how CO2
concentrations can fall in a few centuries without falling temperatures – in
fact it is changing temperatures which cause changes in CO2 concentrations,
which is consistent with experiments that show CO2 is the atmospheric gas most
readily absorbed by water.
87) The
Government’s Renewable Energy Strategy contains a massive increase in
electricity generation by wind power costing around £4 billion a year over the
next twenty years. The benefits will be only £4 to £5 billion overall (not per
annum). So costs will outnumber benefits by a range of between eleven and
seventeen times.
88) Whilst CO2 levels have indeed changed for various reasons, human and
otherwise, just as they have throughout history, the CO2 content of the
atmosphere has increased since the beginning of the industrial revolution, and
the growth rate has now been constant for the past 25 years.
89) It
is a myth that CO2 is a pollutant, because nitrogen forms 80% of our atmosphere
and human beings could not live in 100% nitrogen either: CO2 is no more a
pollutant than nitrogen is and CO2 is essential to life.
90) Politicians
and climate activists make claims to rising sea levels but certain members in
the IPCC chose an area to measure in Hong Kong that is subsiding. They used the
record reading of 2.3 mm per year rise of sea level.
91) The accepted global average temperature statistics used by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that no ground-based warming has
occurred since 1998.
92) If
one factors in non-greenhouse influences such as El Nino events and large
volcanic eruptions, lower atmosphere satellite-based temperature measurements
show little, if any, global warming since 1979, a period over which atmospheric
CO2 has increased by 55 ppm (17 per cent).
93) US
President Barack Obama pledged to cut emissions by 2050 to equal those of 1910
when there were 92 million Americans. In 2050, there will be 420 million
Americans, so Obama’s promise means that emissions per head will be
approximately what they were in 1875. It simply will not happen.
94) The European Union has already agreed to cut emissions by 20 percent to
2020, compared with 1990 levels, and is willing to increase the target to 30
percent. However, these are unachievable and the EU has already massively
failed with its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), as EU emissions actually rose
by 0.8 percent from 2005 to 2006 and are known to be well above the Kyoto goal.
95) Australia
has stated it wants to slash greenhouse emissions by up to 25 percent below
2000 levels by 2020, but the pledges were so unpopular that the country’s
Senate has voted against the carbon trading Bill, and the Opposition’s Party
leader has now been ousted by a climate change sceptic.
96) Canada
plans to reduce emissions by 20 percent compared with 2006 levels by 2020,
representing approximately a 3 percent cut from 1990 levels but it
simultaneously defends its Alberta tar sands emissions and its record as one of
the world’s highest per-capita emissions setters.
97) India
plans to reduce the ratio of emissions to production by 20-25 percent compared
with 2005 levels by 2020, but all Government officials insist that since India
has to grow for its development and poverty alleviation, it has to emit,
because the economy is driven by carbon.
98) The
Leipzig Declaration in 1996, was signed by 110 scientists who said: “We – along
with many of our fellow citizens – are apprehensive about the climate treaty
conference scheduled for Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997” and “based on all the
evidence available to us, we cannot subscribe to the politically inspired world
view that envisages climate catastrophes and calls for hasty actions.”
99) A US
Oregon Petition Project stated “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 CO2, 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.”
100) A report by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate
Change concluded “We find no support for the IPCC’s claim that climate
observations during the twentieth century are either unprecedented or provide
evidence of an anthropogenic effect on climate.”
