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Global warming is a hoax
By Don Snyder
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

The cat is out of the bag. I could not figure out why the media, including this paper, has suddenly hit us from all sides with global warming.

It climaxed with the report from the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change, a UN panel established under the United Nations Environment Programme. This panel is not made up “of hundreds of scientists,” as the AP articles state. The IPCC does not carry out research, nor does it monitor climate-related data or other relevant parameters. It selects scientific literature to be peer-reviewed and overseen by its parent UN organizations. It concluded that global warming is real and that human activity is the cause.

Here are a few basics facts on global warming. The greenhouse effect related to global warming is not the same as the backyard greenhouse, but both trap heat. The major atmospheric constituents (nitrogen, N2 and oxygen, O2) are not greenhouse gases. Water vapor accounts for about 90 percent of the Earth’s greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrous oxide, methane, ozone contributes the rest. It should be noted that changes in the relative humidity on the order of 1.3 to 4 percent are equivalent to the effect of doubling the CO2. An IPCC report admitted that “the role of water vapor as a greenhouse gas” is “extremely misleading,” as water vapor cannot be controlled by humans.

Increased levels of carbon dioxide can cause an initial rise in temperatures. This rise evaporates tropical oceans, which leads to increased cloud condensation at high elevations. This cloud cover then blocks sunlight from heating the earth, resulting in cooler global temperatures. Haven’t you ever wondered why it’s cooler when it’s cloudy? If human activity increased carbon dioxide levels, it would not raise the temperature. In fact, the global temperatures have been stable. Satellites measure temperatures to .01 degrees Celsius, find a statistically significant cooling trend in the lower atmosphere since they started taking measurements in 1979. Warming simply isn’t happening, according to the satellite data. The satellite data also matches up perfectly, on a year-to-year basis, with temperatures measured in the lower atmosphere by weather balloons. This is a completely independent corroboration of the lack of predicted warming.

Then where does this warming trend come from? Big warming numbers come not from measurements but from computer models. You know the saying about computers, “garbage in — garbage out.” What about the glaciers melting and making the sea level rise? Fred Singer, president of the Science and Environmental Policy Project Research Group, says the sea level will continue to rise at a slow rate of 8 inches per century, as it has been for the last few thousand years. The arctic temperatures have been measured for a long time. They vary cyclically. The warmest years in the Arctic were around 1940. Then, it cooled. And it’s warming again, but it hasn’t reached the levels of 1940. Paleoclimatology Professor Tim Patterson of Carleton University in Canada suggests that changes in the brightness of the sun from sunspots has some responsibility for this.

This whole global warming thing is a hoax. French President Jacques Chirac has let the cat out of the bag. He warned that if the United States did not sign the Kyoto climate protocol agreements, a carbon tax on goods could be imposed to try to force compliance. A long time ago, I laughed when someone told me the government would eventually tax everything, including the air we breathe. A carbon tax is putting a price on carbon dioxide emissions — essentially, taxing those emissions. This would raise the production cost, thereby forcing firms as well as households to limit emissions. Landowners planting trees are paid a set price for each ton of carbon stored by these newly planted trees or undisturbed fields. The going rate in the Chicago Climate Exchange was $3.80 per ton. Businesses that emit carbon dioxide buy credits on the exchange to help offset their emissions. In Europe, where carbon dioxide emissions are capped by law, the price of carbon has topped $20 a ton. The system is voluntary here in the United States until Bush dictates otherwise. China and other communist countries are, of course, exempt.

Let’s stop this insanity and write your congressman to let him know you want America free and independent of UN global control. Have him support House Concurrent Resolution 487 to stop the North American Union.
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