April 25, 2001
Check out this story on a physicist from the Great White North, "A Canadian scientist is pouring cold, unfrozen water on the notion that global warming is melting arctic sea ice like a Popsicle at the beach," writes The Canada National Post. "Greg Holloway galvanized an international meeting of arctic scientists Tuesday by saying there is little evidence of a rapid decline of the volume of ice in the northern oceans."
Now, how many of you are living under the impression that the global temperatures are skyrocketing so much that the polar ice caps are melting, icebergs are melting - and it's a crisis? Seriously. That "news" is all over the place out there, and it works because of the proclivity we all have to believe doom and gloom. We believe apocalyptic things. When somebody says that this is the last day, we believe that this is it.
If somebody tells you that tomorrow is going to be the greatest day of your life, you get all cynical and say, "Don't try to bump me up with this false optimism. It's not going to be that great a day." But boy, you fill people with negative stuff, and they'll just lap it up. This is one of the tricks of the environmentalist wackos - to convince as many people as possible that we are at the point of no return on the environment.
Despite breathless media reports and speculation of an ice-free Northwest passage, Holloway, a scientist with the Institute of Ocean Science in Victoria, suggests that it's far more likely that the ice has just been moved around in the cycles of arctic winds. "It's more complicated than we thought," The Canada National Post quotes Holloway as saying. The original theory was based on declassified records from the trips of U.S. submarines under the ice.
Satellite photos have clearly shown that the surface area of the ice has decreased about 3% a year for the last 20 years. The question always was: How thick was it? Here's the truth, from a physicist - sound science, not junk science rooted in fear - sea ice is not melting as we've been told. Do you have the courage to believe it?
Global Temperatures Are Not Skyrocketing
Cooling earth temperatures between A.D. 1000 and 1900 have been linked to deforestation during that period, according to environmental researchers. Using computer simulations to test their theories, researchers at the Lawrence Livermore laboratory concluded that the regions on Earth which cooled more over those 800 years were also the hardest hit by deforestation. The researchers' discovery casts doubt on the debated notion that a great abundance of trees on earth can slow global warming. It's just the opposite.
In fact, the answer here is, if there ever is global warming, if it ever does really happen, the answer to it is clear-cut! The answer is more baseball bats, more pianos, more homes, more of the beautiful things you can do with trees once you chop them down.
Here's another story for you:
"The protective ozone layer over the North Pole appears to have stabilized after years of thinning but the gain may be temporary," scientists from the United Nations World Meteorological Organization said on Tuesday. I know I'm addressing those of you in this audience who are rock-ribbed conservatives who hate the U.N, but a lot of you rock-ribbed conservatives are also subject to falling prey to these apocalyptic environmental claims. You think the U.N. is the seat of world government and the focus of evil in the modern world, yet when the U.N. comes out and predicts some horrible thing on the environment, you tend to believe it.
This, again, illustrates the amazing power of negativity. The power of doom and gloom is awesome to me. By the way, these U.N. scientists say the ozone thickening fight may have been caused by a warmer-than-usual winter, and not by global cuts in the use of "harmful" chemicals. Of course not! The sun creates ozone, which is why we couldn't destroy it if we tried.
Phillip Duffy, leader of the Lawrence Livermore lab group that conducted the study said, "This complicates life for people like me who are trying to predict climate change. It's saying that there is one more factor we have to account for when we want to predict future climates." Predict climates? Does that not sound just absolutely egocentric? Why does anybody take that seriously? You can't predict the weather beyond three days.
There's Big Grant Money In Leftwing Junk Science
These "climate predictors" have now learned that deforestation results in cooling, and as a result, they are actually complaining! A monkey wrench has been thrown into the works that upsets the whole political agenda of global warming - because cutting trees is never, ever good. Now, we find out that the number one environmentalist wacko cause, global warming, can be retarded, maybe even averted by clear-cutting - and that these warmer temperatures are actually healing the ozone and not causing the ice caps to melt!
These are the same people that, on one hand, consider human beings to be no different than any other life form, and tell us that we're certainly not superior. But then, on the other hand, we are so superior and so capable, we can study and predict climate change, centuries of years out - and possibly bring about the end of the world.
As I talked about this on Wednesday's show, I received an e-mail note from Mr. C. S. Colwell, chairman of the Keepers of Odd Knowledge Society in Ellsworth, Maine. He reminded me that scientists often chase grant money. They feed off the government, many of them, so they don't have to work for a living. They go wherever they can get the grant money, and if they do some scientific research into something some liberal senator or some liberal group wants established, the scientists can siphon a little bit of the grant money off. This is an incentive to produce desired results, and doesn't keep you objective.
Folks, I'm not making any of this stuff up, and it totally contradicts conventional wisdom of the last 15 years. Every one of these last three stories just blows a giant hole through the entire foundation of environmental wackoism. But there's nothing really emotional about it. Nothing you can glom onto and say, "Yeah, yeah, I dig that." There's nothing that incites fear here or says that humans are destroying their environment.
Basically, the news is good.
These three stories alone totally dispel the political agenda associated with these so-called protectors of the environment, who, as we've said countless times, are simply pushing a political agenda, and aren't at all happy when they hear things aren't as bad as they thought.
Read the Article...
U.N. World Meteorological Organization:
Seasonal Ozone Update: Arctic ozone values similar to 1980's Geneva, 24 April 2001 -
Northern middle and high latitude ozone values during winter and spring appeared to be higher than in recent years, according to measurements released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), issued today in Geneva. This weaker than usual ozone depletion reflects natural variations that affect the seasonal losses.
Total ozone values measured by the WMO's Global Atmosphere Watch network of ground based stations and satellites were about five per cent less than the average pre-1980 levels which are used as a 'normal' un-depleted reference. These higher ozone values are attributed to natural variations. The reduced loss is not related to the expected long-term recovery of the stratospheric ozone layer in the coming decades.
The near 'normal' Arctic ozone values in the spring of the Northern Hemisphere were a result of the Arctic stratosphere having been warmer than average for winter and spring. Warm temperatures in the lower Arctic stratosphere prevent the formation of polar stratospheric clouds that initiate and accelerate ozone destruction.
Additionally, solar activity, which is currently near the peak of its 11-year cycle, as well as the easterly phase of the stratospheric winds over the equator are contributing positively to ozone values. The observed five per cent average ozone depletion at Northern Hemisphere middle and high latitudes can be seen as a combination of these factors and a warmer than usual Arctic lower stratosphere.
Background briefing today at 14.00 hours in Pressroom 1 with Michael Proffitt (WMO Senior Scientific Officer of the Environment Division)
John Miller (WMO Chief Environment Division)
For more information please contact:
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