Hysteria is the Real Threat, Not Global Warming

by neilabraham | July 10, 2009 at 10:04 pm

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It has been a week of environmental fervor and there has been much discussion in the media and the internet on warming targets and what the global concensus should be.

Many are excitedly asking, "are the developed world's targets not enough and are the third world leaders not doing enough?"

With not all participants at the G8 Summit Italy agreeing on Global Warming targets, it should also be noted that not all environmental scientists agree whether is world is actually warming or not.

Professor Ian Plimar is one such multi-disciplined scientist who openly disagrees with the 1996 IPCC report. He has written many peer-reviewed scientific papers on the issue and published numerous books detailing alternative scientific research showing the earth has instead begun a period of global cooling.

So then why is there so much hype and hysteria promoting one position on global warming?

An article by Andrew Alexander of the UK news website "Mail Online" describes the global warming supporters (warmists) as having "semi-religious fervour" and that:

They are like medieval preachers, proclaiming to baying crowds that the end of the word is nigh.

Andrew then suggests that not everyone is convinced that Anthropogenic (man made) Global Warming is in fact real science and notes that since the 1996 IPCC report was released:

the world has disobligingly stopped warming. And two years of global cooling erased nearly 30 years of recorded temperature rises.

Amongst all the hysteria, the quiet voice of reason asks us to pause and consider whether all the hype is real, to question the reported facts and to read what the alternatives are.

For the sake of our children and future generations, let's not rush into locking the world into economically unsustainable carbon emmission schemes based on one IPCC report that is not fully supported by the wider scientific community, despite all the hype.

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Janjet (not verified)

at 05:47 on July 11th, 2009

My concerns aren't based on any report, but rather the disappearance of the glaciers and the melting of the polar ice cap. The economy is not going to matter if we leave our children with global disaster.

neilabraham

at 18:21 on July 12th, 2009

Hi Janjet,

Let not your heart be troubled. The ice is growing back again - and fast.

Read the following news article from April 18, 2009 which highlights this for you.

Antarctic ice is growing, not melting away

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25348657-401,00.html

Some highlights:

"ICE is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap."

"Antarctica has 90 per cent of the Earth's ice and 80 per cent of its fresh water"

"East Antarctica is four times the size of west Antarctica and parts of it are cooling. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research report prepared for last week's meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations in Washington noted the South Pole had shown "significant cooling in recent decades". "

"...sea ice losses in west Antarctica over the past 30 years had been more than offset by increases in the Ross Sea region, just one sector of east Antarctica. "

"Dr Allison said there was not any evidence of significant change in the mass of ice shelves in east Antarctica nor any indication that its ice cap was melting."

"Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years."

"Ice core drilling in the fast ice off Australia's Davis Station in East Antarctica by the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-Operative Research Centre shows that last year, the ice had a maximum thickness of 1.89m, its densest in 10 years."

"A paper to be published soon by the British Antarctic Survey in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is expected to confirm that over the past 30 years, the area of sea ice around the continent has expanded."

But go to the news site and read the full article for yourself. No tricks here. No hype or hysteria. Just simple, easy to observe facts that the ice caps are COOLING.

Janjet and any other folk who have been misled and now fear global warming, please take a deep slow breath, then allow yourself to stop worrying.

Bookmark the news link above and email it to all your friends (and your federal politicians) who are worried about global warming and melting ice caps. It's just not happening.

Don't live in fear, instead be informed.

Neil

PS Apologies to Al Gore - you'll have to find another way to make money now. The global community just can't believe your hysterical warming predictions anymore.

elvisjj

at 18:38 on July 11th, 2009

Well I have a problem with Global Warming myself. I mean I live in Toronto and we've had one colder winter after another and longer and colder. I mean the winters we've had were like the ones when I was growing up. So I haven't felt any global warming at least here in Toronto.

PIM of SPAIN

at 04:26 on July 12th, 2009

Lets put this way: There is a lot of hype surrounding this climate issue. Creating business out of it as well. About a year ago in a BBC presentation 'Global Warming a Swindle' where many well known scientist had a different opinion and were of the same meaning as Professor Ian Plimar, if he wasn't present? I can't recall. Al Gore has at least the matter over done. Nevertheless climate concienceness is a good thing for everyone.

neilabraham

at 18:03 on July 12th, 2009

The BBC production, "The Great Global Warming Swindle" was an excellent documentary and well worth watching if you can find a copy on the net somewhere. Is shows that there is much money to be made by the global warming groups, especially Al Gore's businesses that stand to raise incredible amounts of money from all the goverment carbon credits, etc. No wonder he is so keen to see governments mobilized so he can fill his pockets faster.

And what's the rush? Maybe they know the warming trend has stopped already and they want to fill their pockets BEFORE the world notices and THEN claim its cooling because we paid them to save the planet.

If there was no, and I mean NO monetary aspect to this then I doubt anyone, especially Al Gore would bother pursuing this further and would move on (pardon the pun) to the next hysterical global crisis that they can find to convince governments to throw money at. (global cooling perhaps?)

Let's put a stop to all the carbon trading, carbon credits NOW, and pursue this for FREE and see how interested everyone is.

Am I right or am I right?

(By the way - Carbon is the lifeblood of the planet and the warmists are labelling it as a 'pollutant' - how crazy is that?)

Ostia

at 05:07 on July 13th, 2009

Some good points here... but how about seeing it a bit differently for a second.

Does it really matter so much if global warming is so real or not? I think everyone who has lived in a big city and on the countryside knows for sure that the air on the countryside is better. So why not try to do something to reduce smog for living quality?

Have you ever thought about the benefits you might get from not being too dependent on big MNCs for your energy supply? My family's house isn't zero-energy but we at least don't ever suffer from power shortage, and proper insulation helps a lot to keep the temperature more pleasant in the house both during winter and summer.

Also have you ever considered that even if there is no climate change, biodiversity is decreasing rapidly. Most megadiverse (high degrees of biodiversity) countries are developing countries, if they don't care for their environment, we may soon encounter quite a lot of problems when it comes to developing and finding new pharmaceutical products because most of them are, in the end, based on biological resources.

I could keep going, but the point I want to make here should be clear. It's not about what Al Gore might tell you (and not actually follow himself), or what the media is trying to convince you about. It's about using some common sense and noticing that caring about the environment might in the end be quite a clever move, not only for future generations but also for yourself!

neilabraham

at 05:31 on July 13th, 2009

Awesome points there Ostia!

And I live about 45 mins drive outside a large city. I can see the smog hovering around the city but so far the air I breathe where I live is clean.

And I plan to install solar electrcty panels on my roof and get solar hot water and my own water tank too, but the costs for Solar electricity is still prohibitive so that will have to wait.

The cost for all our utilities are going up all the time, and if Al Gore and firends have their way, most of us won't be able to afford electricty, petroleum, gas, heating, etc. soon.

PIM of SPAIN

at 09:42 on July 13th, 2009

Much about that carbon CO2 issue is not sufficiently well investigated, I refer to a previous article about this subject at Carbon Con: in which scientist found that N2O gas emission is 100 times worse in the atmosphere.