Here is the second part of the Global Warming Myths video from Friends of Science.
It’s sad that we have to scour sources like youtube and google video to find any thing to watch that explains the other side to the global warming debate.
This video from Friends of Science clears up a lot of myths, fibs and lies about Global Warming.
This is Part One in a five part video. Stay tuned for the second video.
“Boy, it sure is hot today Billy Bob,” complained Cooter. “Yeah, that must be cause of that global warmin’ stuff they’re talkin’ about on the TV,” Billy Bob explained.
If you are willing to believe those two and leave it at that, so be it. If you’ve got half a brain more than Billy Bob, you may begin to wonder if global warming is really causing that unusually hot summer day. Is that dagnab climate changing on us due to our smoke and pollution? Or could it possibly be the good ole’ weather that is making Cooter complain? What the heck is the difference between the weather and the climate anyways?
Well we’ll try to explain it so even Cooter can understand.
What we call “weather” is pretty much just that, it’s the events that happen every day in our beautiful atmosphere. (Yup Cooter, that big blue sky up there.)
Things like rainfall, humidity, temperature and other “weather stuff” are what we refer to when we ask our neighbor, “How about that weather?”
The more difficult concept for someone like Cooter to understand is that funny word - “Climate”. As the climate is different around the earth, the weather at your house is different than at Zookoo Tu Tu’s hut in Africa. Climate controls the weather. Did you get that? Let’s repeat that slowly…climate controls the weather. That hot sunny day that Cooter was complaining about is very common in many parts of the world, global warning or no global warming.
Now why is it hotter this year than last year? Well, climate temperatures have historically gone up and down. Right now climates are heating up because our planet is warming. So, is that why it’s hotter this year? It’s global warming right? It just may be, but climate change across the globe is a lot trickier than a simple yes or no to the questions raised due to many other factors.
Still confused like Cooter?
Stay tuned for more of our Global Warming Basic Facts.
Here is a great ten minute video featuring many respected experts on the subject of global warming. “The Great Global Warming Swindle is a controversial documentary film by British television producer Martin Durkin, which argues against the scientific opinion that human activity is the main cause of global warming. The film showcases scientists, economists, politicians, writers, and others who are sceptical of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming. Publicity for the program states that global warming is ‘a lie’ and ‘the biggest scam of modern times’.”
That’s right global warming fans, there were sixty scientists that sent an open letter to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The letter warned the Prime Minister that climate change is poorly understood, and cautioned him in the validity of recent computer models. Below is the actual text contained in the letter and a list of the sixty scientists in agreement. So next time someone tells you scientists have proven global warming….well you’ll know what to do.
Dear Prime Minister:
As accredited experts in climate and related scientific disciplines, we are writing to propose that balanced, comprehensive public-consultation sessions be held so as to examine the scientific foundation of the federal government’s climate-change plans. This would be entirely consistent with your recent commitment to conduct a review of the Kyoto Protocol. Although many of us made the same suggestion to then-prime ministers Martin and Chretien, neither responded, and, to date, no formal, independent climate-science review has been conducted in Canada. Much of the billions of dollars earmarked for implementation of the protocol in Canada will be squandered without a proper assessment of recent developments in climate science.
Observational evidence does not support today’s computer climate models, so there is little reason to trust model predictions of the future. Yet this is precisely what the United Nations did in creating and promoting Kyoto and still does in the alarmist forecasts on which Canada’s climate policies are based. Even if the climate models were realistic, the environmental impact of Canada delaying implementation of Kyoto or other greenhouse-gas reduction schemes, pending completion of consultations, would be insignificant. Directing your government to convene balanced, open hearings as soon as possible would be a most prudent and responsible course of action.
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Rush makes the case that bottled water is more harmful to the environment than oil:
“All right, I have some of the most hilarious and revealing stories in our global warming stack today. From the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday, story by Jared Blumenfeld and Susan Leal. Listen to this. San Franciscans and other Bay Area residents enjoy some of the nation’s highest quality drinking water, with pristine Sierra snowmelt from the Hetch Hetchy reservoir as our primary source. Every year, our water is tested more than 100,000 times to ensure that it meets or exceeds every standard for safe drinking water. And yet we still buy bottled water. Why? Maybe it’s because we think bottled water is cleaner and somehow better, but that’s not true. The federal standards for tap water are higher than those for bottled water. The Environmental Law Foundation has sued eight bottlers for using words such as “pure” to market water that contains bacteria, arsenic and chlorine. Bottled water is no bargain either: It costs 240 to 10,000 times more than tap water. For the price of one bottle of Evian, a San Franciscan can receive 1,000 gallons of tap water.
When politicians and journalists declare that the science of global warming is settled, they show a regrettable ignorance about how science works. We were treated to another dose of it recently when the experts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued the Summary for Policymakers that puts the political spin on an unfinished scientific dossier on climate change due for publication in a few month’s time. They declared that most of the rise in temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to man-made greenhouse gases.
The small print explains “very likely” as meaning that the experts who made the judgment felt 90% sure about it. Older readers may recall a press conference at Harwell in 1958 when Sir John Cockcroft, Britain’s top nuclear physicist, said he was 90% certain that his lads had achieved controlled nuclear fusion. It turned out that he was wrong. More positively, a 10% uncertainty in any theory is a wide open breach for any latterday Galileo or Einstein to storm through with a better idea. That is how science really works.
Neil Boortz realizes the weather isn’t working out for the global warming folk…
SOME BAD NEWS FOR THE GLOBAL WARMING FANATICS
What bad news?
The hurricane season. Things aren’t quite going the way the global warming crowd predicted. There have only been three tropical storms thus far. This is about average for the short term, but if you average it out over multiple years this would be below average.
Hurricanes? Thanks for asking, but there hasn’t been one as of yet. None. Nada. Zip. Nunca. Averaging between 19044 and 2005 we would have seen about 1.5 hurricanes thus far. Again … we’ve seen none.
According to weatherstreet.com the National Weather Service predicted 12 to 15 named storms by December of this year. There were 27 last year. Now it looks like the 12 to 15 prediction may be a bit high.
OK … so the global warming nuts were wrong. They predicted a horrible hurricane season. It isn’t happening. So … what’s different? What happened? Here’s where you global warmistas need to sit down. Surface temperatures on the world’s oceans are getting …… cooler. According to a paper to be published next month in Geophysical Research Letters, between 2003 and 2005 globally averaged temperatures in the upper levels of the ocean have cooled. They’ve cooled not just a little … but dramatically. Sea surface temperatures in the western Atlantic .. where hurricanes are fueled … are now slightly below normal.
Oh well. Whatchagonna do!Â
There’s always the glaciers you can go to in order to prove your global warming scenario.