[I am reposting entry from a more general blog.]
The dumbest criticism the Democrats' media sheep
make of Tea Party members is that Tea Partiers don't accept the global
warming nonsense that most Democrats and their media sheep have fallen
for.
Most Tea Party members aren't climate experts, but they are smart
enough to recognize a political con when they see one. In
business cons, police warn that if something sounds too
good to be true it probably is. In political cons, if something
sounds too bad to be true it probably is too bad to be true.
Like most con artists, the people attempting to continue Enron's
global warming scam try to oversell their claims. The
global warming scammers are essentially saying that if we don't stop
producing the "evil" gas carbon dioxide God will flood the
world like he did in the time of Noah.
Supporters of Enron's global warming scam
falsely claim
that carbon dioxide (CO2) possesses some magical power to increase the
temperature of the atmosphere by interacting with low energy infrared
radiation (IR).
In the 90's Enron paid scientists and so called environmental
groups to claim
that
an increase in atmospheric CO2 would cause significant
temperature changes even though CO2 comprises less than 0.04% of
the atmosphere. Enron even wrote the Kyoto Accords
for the Clinton administration.
Enron wanted the opportunity to make a fortune by trading what the
company called "carbon
credits". Enron had previously made
a fortune trading sulfur dioxide credits
under a program set up to allow northeastern power plants to
continue producing the pollution associated with acid rain.
People who are unfamiliar with science don't understand that western
science has long been infected with con artists. In the Middle Ages "Alchemists" obtained
money from wealthy nobles by claiming to be working on a method of
turning a base metal like lead into gold.
Some of the more popular science scams today involve miraculous medical
treatments and machines that use little or no energy.
Today's scientists don't trust each other to be truthful. Science
journals require "peer review" of articles to discourage writers from
publishing phony results that seem to support their theories.
Attorneys in court often question whether a scientist witness has
been paid to testify a certain way.
Scientists who have trouble getting money for legitimate research may
feel they have no choice but to adjust their research and statements to
conform to the desires of the businesses or political organizations
that offer them money.
Many of the global warming "scientists" who call themselves
"climatologists" lack the qualifications for making such
claims. The only qualifications most of them have are for
predicting short term weather.
Understanding the way climate changes over time requires a background
in astrophysics and the operation of earth's complex energy
system as well as an understanding of
weather patterns.
The Milankovich cycles
are the primary factors causing
climate. Changes in the earth's tilt on its axis determine how
temperatures change from one season to another. Changes in
the sun's output affect short term changes in air temperature
.
Those familiar with thermodynamics know that physicist R.W. Wood
disproved the claim that greenhouses and the atmosphere stayed warm by
reflecting IR.
Those who support the claim if global warming don't talk like
scientists.
Real scientists don't use terms like "settled science" or "consensus"
when talking about their theories. "Consensus" is a political
term not a scientific term Scientists don't rely on consensus
because the consensus view has been wrong before. In 1895 the
consensus among physicists was that atoms were the smallest particles
of matter. The consensus was proved wrong when Sir
J.J.Thomson reported his discovery of the electron.
Priests
suggest their statements represent matters that are
"settled". Real scientists qualify their claims and look for
additional tests to
make to see if they have missed something. Scientists who believe
they may have an accurate model of the nucleus of atoms are using the
Hadron Collider to determine if they might have missed
something.
I learned in high school that when scientists conduct experiments, they
should mention conditions that could reduce the accuracy of
results. Those who claim global warming ignore the
likelihood that the 0.25% change in temperature during the 20th
Century might indicates nothing more than the use of different
equipment.
Real scientists use mathematically rigorous methods. The
people who claim global warming rely on the mathematically meaningless
term called "average
global temperature".
Priests use terms similar to "denier" and "contrarian" to describe
heretics
who question their statements. Scientists provide.the
results of experiments and observations to refute critics.
Contrary to the statements of President Barack Obama and various energy
companies, there is no such thing as clean energy. Large wind
generators kill birds and many believe they are visual
pollution. The companies that produce solar cells in China
are heavy polluters. Using solar energy to heat water to produce
electricity requires large amounts of water.
Carbon dioxide is the most essential molecule in the atmosphere.
Plants need it to convert solar energy into the bonds that
hold complex carbon molecules together. Humans and other animals
then use those carbon molecules for food.
Animals than return part of the carbon to the atmosphere as CO2 to be
used by plants to complete the carbon cycle. Unfortunately,
humans remove large amounts of plant carbon from the cycle by using
plant products for items like clothing and paper in which
the carbon isn't returned to the atmosphere. Some unused portions
of food products are put in landfills instead of the carbon being
returned to the atmosphere. We actually need to use
fossil fuels to replace the carbon that we remove from the carbon
cycle.
I have various posts on this blog exposing flaws in the
global warming scam. I also have a Global Warming, Not
Blog that primarily only has global warming type posts.
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