The Polar Bears Are Melting!
Jennifer Pastula
Issue date: 3/11/10 Section: Opinion
With all this snow we've been having, I thought this would be a great opportunity to discuss global warming. They seem to go hand-in-hand. With frigid temperatures across the country, it seems global warming is approaching just as Al Gore predicted. Or maybe his inconvenient truth was just one hundred percent inconvenient.
There has been much speculation in the past couple of years about how we as Americans are threatening this planet by living on it. Our very means of survival (and privileged conveniences) such as travel by vehicle, farming, and breathing have been said to create a warming trend which is harming the environment. Therefore, we must take action, according to these experts in fields unrelated to climatology.
I advocate recycling as much as the next person. In fact, my family did this before it was popular. I think penguins and seals and baby polar bears are very cute and should not meet their death all at once. I would hate to see their homes melted away by the obnoxious country we live in and its 300 million citizens. Only WE can stop global warming.
However, I beg the question: Why fix what isn't broken?
Many have jumped on the band wagon to change the atmosphere by cutting back on the pollutants we put in the air. I have to say I remain a skeptic that this earth has stood for so many years while being entirely invaded by humans. A recent hurricane in Haiti seems to show that the weather has a more negative effect on us than we do on the weather. I would think that with all the typhoons, earthquakes, and cyclones the earth has gone through that it would have destroyed itself a long time ago, if that were the case. Essentially, the scare of global warming is what is known to some as "hatred against humanity."
In his article "The Religion of Global Warming," Dr. Edward F. Blick aims to disprove the facts provided by its biggest advocates. Blick, who spent fifty years at the University of Oklahoma as a professor of Engineering and worked as an adjunct professor of medicine and meteorology, investigates some of the most serious claims made with surprising results.
The experts in environmental change are flooding the media with delusions of an imminent disaster if we do not radically alter how we live. Apparently, our use of fossil fuels has disposed too much carbon dioxide into the air. We alone are at fault for causing the excessive warming our planet is seeing, which is also melting the polar ice caps. In an effort to save ourselves, but more importantly, the earth and its creatures, a plan of action has been created which allows only one million Americans to live after it is put into effect.
Yes, it's true. I'm afraid you'll have to go. Polar bears come first, mind you.
The United Nations has decided that to save the planet, they must control what we eat, where we live, what industries can remain and which ones will be shut down. America as we know it will be transformed into a habitat for 3% of its current population. Not only will we lose much of what we need to prosper, but it will cost billions upon billions of dollars that the US does not have. And the cost for this will be paid out of your pocket. And your great-great-great grandchildren's pockets, if we haven't decimated the world by then.
By removing oil, coal, and natural gas, we lose all transportation, along with chemical plants and steel mills. This is ludicrous, as is the notion that we could live on only carbon dioxide-free energy. We could get away with this if perhaps we still had nuclear energy, but the same people who are petitioning for the earth now are the same ones who destroyed nuclear energy. They did that thirty years ago.
Also, make sure you lose your appetite for meat and dairy products, because farm animals are contributing to global warming as well and will promptly be removed if the UN has its way.
With the doomsday predictions and the arguments that somehow seem like common sense, it's easy to get caught up in saving the world when it sounds like such a good idea. But being good stewards of the earth doesn't mean killing off a bunch of humans and not using our resources. There's a few other things those higher up refused to mention, but that's why we have scientists who are actually trained in meteorology and such to dispel the rumors and grace us with facts.
Did you know?:
Greenland, one of the ice capitals of the world, gained 11 billion tons of ice per year in a decade (from 1992-2002).
If carbon dioxide was the cause of warming, there should be an equal amount of warming in both the northern and southern hemisphere. As the atmosphere would have it, the carbon dioxide levels are the same, but the warming in each location is not. Obviously, there must be something else causing this.
The 1930s saw record high temperatures, but no one complained then. In the last seventy years, the only state to even reach a record high was North Dakota back in the 90s. For good reason, global warming caused no stir seven decades ago: it didn't exist then and it doesn't exist now.
The population of polar bears has actually increased rather than decreased in 11 of Canada's 13 regions.
Grapes used to be grown in England from 1000-1400 AD. Farmers can no longer do this because temperatures are not as warm then as they are now.
Did you know that there is absolutely no concrete evidence of global warming?
Granted, humans contribute to three billion tons of carbon dioxide that go into the air each year, a significant amount, no?
Examine how much the ocean, vegetation, soils, and atmosphere contribute each year and suddenly, it seems ridiculous that we would really pose such a threat. (39,000 billion + 2,200 billion + 750 billion= 41,590 billion tons compared to our three billion.)
Much of the carbon dioxide we produce gets consumed by the vegetation anyway. Remember junior high biology? We breathe out carbon dioxide and the plants take it in and generate oxygen. It's a nice clean cycle. Why do we worry? God has this all figured out. He wants us to live here, but more importantly, He wants our praise. We should focus on worshipping the Creator, not what He has created.
God is in control of everything, including what happens on and to the earth. The earth undergoes cooling and warming stages naturally and humanity can do nothing to change this. "But he [humanity] can kill millions of people in his vain attempt to control it by limiting or eliminating the fuel that we use" (Blick).
Warming and cooling are caused by none other than the sun! Sunspots vary the temperatures. This was discovered in 1801 by an astronomer, William Hershel, who saw that the price of wheat fell when sunspot activity was high and rose when it was low.
Studies have been executed in the past forty years to show that as the temperature increased, so did sunspots. Three years ago, experts warned that sunspot activity would slow down and temperatures would begin to drop, perhaps like what the nation has been facing recently. Early snow hit South America in May 2007, resulting in the death of thirty people.
Those behind global warming may be passionate, but they are little else besides mistaken. Many have not done research and are far from being "experts" in this area. Others have admitted to fabricating evidence to achieve the results they want.
Timothy Wirth, a former undersecretary of state for the Clinton administration admitted to "riding the theory of global warming even if it's wrong."
Al Gore's advisor, Dr. James Hansen, has said he is willing to exaggerate scientific facts to gain the attention of the media. His training is not in the area of climatology, but in astronomy and chemistry.
Liv Arnesen, a firm believer in the hearsay, attempted to prove that the North pole and its ice caps were indeed endangered by pulling a sled all the way there. She returned three days after she set out on her journey for a simple reason: she was freezing (Blick).
Let's assume that Al Gore has discovered something that is indeed a prominent catastrophe. Now, let's examine his credibility:
He ignored the Middle Age warming period entirely because it did not fit his charts.
Hurricane frequency, which is linked to global warming, has been proven to be entirely inaccurate, but he cited it anyway.
He never mentioned that sunspots have everything to do with high temperatures, nor that they, and not carbon dioxide, are largely to blame.
He left out that most of the Antarctic is actually gaining ice and focused only on the small section that is not.
He mentioned that the "Larsen B Ice Shelf" is breaking up, but left out that it has been doing this since the 18th century.
He blamed the water loss in Africa on global warming. NASA combated this idea, blaming it instead on "excessive water use and over-grazing" (Blick).
Nothing but fear can be gained by buying into every fad that comes along. Altering your lifestyle to fight a problem that doesn't exist only shows lack of research in what is really occurring. In today's society, let's focus on graduating college, raising families, and saving the world in ways that it desperately needs it. There is nothing Al Gore can imagine that God cannot control.
For more info, check out The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism by Christopher C. Horner.
There has been much speculation in the past couple of years about how we as Americans are threatening this planet by living on it. Our very means of survival (and privileged conveniences) such as travel by vehicle, farming, and breathing have been said to create a warming trend which is harming the environment. Therefore, we must take action, according to these experts in fields unrelated to climatology.
I advocate recycling as much as the next person. In fact, my family did this before it was popular. I think penguins and seals and baby polar bears are very cute and should not meet their death all at once. I would hate to see their homes melted away by the obnoxious country we live in and its 300 million citizens. Only WE can stop global warming.
However, I beg the question: Why fix what isn't broken?
Many have jumped on the band wagon to change the atmosphere by cutting back on the pollutants we put in the air. I have to say I remain a skeptic that this earth has stood for so many years while being entirely invaded by humans. A recent hurricane in Haiti seems to show that the weather has a more negative effect on us than we do on the weather. I would think that with all the typhoons, earthquakes, and cyclones the earth has gone through that it would have destroyed itself a long time ago, if that were the case. Essentially, the scare of global warming is what is known to some as "hatred against humanity."
In his article "The Religion of Global Warming," Dr. Edward F. Blick aims to disprove the facts provided by its biggest advocates. Blick, who spent fifty years at the University of Oklahoma as a professor of Engineering and worked as an adjunct professor of medicine and meteorology, investigates some of the most serious claims made with surprising results.
The experts in environmental change are flooding the media with delusions of an imminent disaster if we do not radically alter how we live. Apparently, our use of fossil fuels has disposed too much carbon dioxide into the air. We alone are at fault for causing the excessive warming our planet is seeing, which is also melting the polar ice caps. In an effort to save ourselves, but more importantly, the earth and its creatures, a plan of action has been created which allows only one million Americans to live after it is put into effect.
Yes, it's true. I'm afraid you'll have to go. Polar bears come first, mind you.
The United Nations has decided that to save the planet, they must control what we eat, where we live, what industries can remain and which ones will be shut down. America as we know it will be transformed into a habitat for 3% of its current population. Not only will we lose much of what we need to prosper, but it will cost billions upon billions of dollars that the US does not have. And the cost for this will be paid out of your pocket. And your great-great-great grandchildren's pockets, if we haven't decimated the world by then.
By removing oil, coal, and natural gas, we lose all transportation, along with chemical plants and steel mills. This is ludicrous, as is the notion that we could live on only carbon dioxide-free energy. We could get away with this if perhaps we still had nuclear energy, but the same people who are petitioning for the earth now are the same ones who destroyed nuclear energy. They did that thirty years ago.
Also, make sure you lose your appetite for meat and dairy products, because farm animals are contributing to global warming as well and will promptly be removed if the UN has its way.
With the doomsday predictions and the arguments that somehow seem like common sense, it's easy to get caught up in saving the world when it sounds like such a good idea. But being good stewards of the earth doesn't mean killing off a bunch of humans and not using our resources. There's a few other things those higher up refused to mention, but that's why we have scientists who are actually trained in meteorology and such to dispel the rumors and grace us with facts.
Did you know?:
Greenland, one of the ice capitals of the world, gained 11 billion tons of ice per year in a decade (from 1992-2002).
If carbon dioxide was the cause of warming, there should be an equal amount of warming in both the northern and southern hemisphere. As the atmosphere would have it, the carbon dioxide levels are the same, but the warming in each location is not. Obviously, there must be something else causing this.
The 1930s saw record high temperatures, but no one complained then. In the last seventy years, the only state to even reach a record high was North Dakota back in the 90s. For good reason, global warming caused no stir seven decades ago: it didn't exist then and it doesn't exist now.
The population of polar bears has actually increased rather than decreased in 11 of Canada's 13 regions.
Grapes used to be grown in England from 1000-1400 AD. Farmers can no longer do this because temperatures are not as warm then as they are now.
Did you know that there is absolutely no concrete evidence of global warming?
Granted, humans contribute to three billion tons of carbon dioxide that go into the air each year, a significant amount, no?
Examine how much the ocean, vegetation, soils, and atmosphere contribute each year and suddenly, it seems ridiculous that we would really pose such a threat. (39,000 billion + 2,200 billion + 750 billion= 41,590 billion tons compared to our three billion.)
Much of the carbon dioxide we produce gets consumed by the vegetation anyway. Remember junior high biology? We breathe out carbon dioxide and the plants take it in and generate oxygen. It's a nice clean cycle. Why do we worry? God has this all figured out. He wants us to live here, but more importantly, He wants our praise. We should focus on worshipping the Creator, not what He has created.
God is in control of everything, including what happens on and to the earth. The earth undergoes cooling and warming stages naturally and humanity can do nothing to change this. "But he [humanity] can kill millions of people in his vain attempt to control it by limiting or eliminating the fuel that we use" (Blick).
Warming and cooling are caused by none other than the sun! Sunspots vary the temperatures. This was discovered in 1801 by an astronomer, William Hershel, who saw that the price of wheat fell when sunspot activity was high and rose when it was low.
Studies have been executed in the past forty years to show that as the temperature increased, so did sunspots. Three years ago, experts warned that sunspot activity would slow down and temperatures would begin to drop, perhaps like what the nation has been facing recently. Early snow hit South America in May 2007, resulting in the death of thirty people.
Those behind global warming may be passionate, but they are little else besides mistaken. Many have not done research and are far from being "experts" in this area. Others have admitted to fabricating evidence to achieve the results they want.
Timothy Wirth, a former undersecretary of state for the Clinton administration admitted to "riding the theory of global warming even if it's wrong."
Al Gore's advisor, Dr. James Hansen, has said he is willing to exaggerate scientific facts to gain the attention of the media. His training is not in the area of climatology, but in astronomy and chemistry.
Liv Arnesen, a firm believer in the hearsay, attempted to prove that the North pole and its ice caps were indeed endangered by pulling a sled all the way there. She returned three days after she set out on her journey for a simple reason: she was freezing (Blick).
Let's assume that Al Gore has discovered something that is indeed a prominent catastrophe. Now, let's examine his credibility:
He ignored the Middle Age warming period entirely because it did not fit his charts.
Hurricane frequency, which is linked to global warming, has been proven to be entirely inaccurate, but he cited it anyway.
He never mentioned that sunspots have everything to do with high temperatures, nor that they, and not carbon dioxide, are largely to blame.
He left out that most of the Antarctic is actually gaining ice and focused only on the small section that is not.
He mentioned that the "Larsen B Ice Shelf" is breaking up, but left out that it has been doing this since the 18th century.
He blamed the water loss in Africa on global warming. NASA combated this idea, blaming it instead on "excessive water use and over-grazing" (Blick).
Nothing but fear can be gained by buying into every fad that comes along. Altering your lifestyle to fight a problem that doesn't exist only shows lack of research in what is really occurring. In today's society, let's focus on graduating college, raising families, and saving the world in ways that it desperately needs it. There is nothing Al Gore can imagine that God cannot control.
For more info, check out The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism by Christopher C. Horner.
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Tim Mackie
posted 4/19/10 @ 8:43 PM EST
So, there's a good bit wrong with this article. I'll start by debunking all of your "Did you knows?" then move on to broader arguments.
-Greenland ice: Greenland gaining ice during the 1990s is hardly surprising. (Continued…)
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