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Changing Climate to Global Warming

The climate is changing. The earth is warming up, and there is now overwhelming scientific consensus that it is happening, and human-induced. With global warming on the increase and species and their habitats on the decrease, chances for ecosystems to adapt naturally are diminishing. Many are agreed that climate change may be one of the greatest threats facing the planet. Recent years show increasing temperatures in various regions, and/or increasing extremities in weather patterns. What is Global Warming and Climate Change? Global warming and climate change refer to an increase in average global temperatures. Natural events and human activities are believed to be contributing to an increase in average global temperatures. This is caused primarily by increases in “greenhouse” gases such as Carbon Dioxide (CO2).

The impacts of Global Warming are, Rapid changes in global temperature, Extreme Weather Patterns, Rising Sea Levels, Increase in Pests and Disease, Failing Agricultural Output; Increase in World Hunger.

The United States is the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases. It:

• Accounts for roughly four percent of the world’s population;

• Accounts for approximately 23% of global emissions and 42% of industrialized country emissions.

The previously 15 member-nations European Union (E.U.), if considered as a whole (for it is more comparable to the U.S.):

• Accounts for roughly 3 percent of the world’s population;

• Accounts for around 10% of global emissions and 24% of industrialized countries’ man-made emissions of the six main gases.

Research has shown that air pollutants from fossil fuel use make clouds reflect more of the sun’s rays back into space. This leads to an effect known as global dimming whereby less heat and energy reaches the earth. At first, it sounds like an ironic savior to climate change problems. However, it is believed that global dimming caused the droughts in Ethiopia in the 1970s and 80s where millions died, because the northern hemisphere oceans were not warm enough to allow rain formation. Global dimming is also hiding the true power of global warming. By cleaning up global dimming-causing pollutants without tackling greenhouse gas emissions, rapid warming has been observed, and various human health and ecological disasters have resulted, as witnessed during the European heat wave in 2003, which saw thousands of people die. A growing concern from developing countries and various NGOs is the need for public participation and the effect on populations and poor countries that global warming negotiations have. The impacts of climate change will be felt on the world’s poorest countries the most. In some cases, climate changes have already affected some small island nations. Climate justice, equity and sustainable development are all important parts of this debate that are often left out of mainstream discourse. Equal rights to the atmosphere for all human beings and equity within and between nations are paramount.

An agreed principle was that of common but different responsibilities. That is, when the world’s majority countries signed up to climate change Convention (including countries like the US who would later withdraw from the subsequent Kyoto Protocol) it was agreed that it is today’s rich nations who are the ones responsible for global warming as greenhouse gases tend to remain in the atmosphere for many decades, and rich countries have been industrializing and emitting climate changing pollution for many more centuries than the poor countries.

Gillard finished, and her global warming message with her
Essential Media has more bad news for Julia Gillard, a week before the anniversary of her first year in office:
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Climate Change and Global Warming

A common mistake made by people who have a limited understanding about global warming will often loosely refer to the problem as either climate change or global warming. While the two have much to do with each other, they are two separate things that are related to the same cause, which is carbon dioxide put into the atmosphere by human activity. Global warming is referring to the rise in the average global temperature. It is this rise in temperature that causes the climate changes being seen around the world.

It may seem like it isn’t a big deal, but this really is something people should be concerned about. Global warming has been proven to be greatly caused by the greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide that people are putting into the air through their daily activities. These emissions are caused by cars, airplanes, factories, businesses, or anything else that burns fossil fuels. While there are other greenhouse gases put into the air, carbon is what makes up the largest contributor from human activities. Many don’t realize that global warming affects everyone, perhaps not in the most obvious way every day, but it does affect everyone. Global warming is what is causing the earth to warm, which, as mentioned before, causes the major climate changes that are being seen. What are some of these major climate changes and what does this have to do with people? Floods, severe hurricanes, odd weather patterns such as abnormally cold or warm winters; all of these are products of global warming.

Food and resources come from the natural world and if global warming causes severe drought (which it is in many places around the world), the crop yield will be much lower and money is lost. Not to mention that it’s less food available to people. Global warming is also what is warming the polar ice caps and drying up other fresh water resources. Life needs fresh water and without it, life tends to die.

It is something that people can change if they can take responsibility over it. It is possible to slow and stop the global warming, making the world a healthier place with the necessary resources available. It means that the burning of fossil fuels has to stop. Using energy sources that don’t require the burning of fossil fuels is what is needed. The sun and wind are both excellent examples of the tireless sources of energy available to humans. Saving water and producing less waste is also needed to reduce the carbon emissions. As more people turn to alternatives instead of burning fossil fuels, global warming could be stopped, which in turn would stop causing the major climate changes that have been the cause of such devastation in recent years.

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UN climate chief predicts US turnaround on warming
The U.N. climate chief says Washington’s inaction on climate legislation is a “very serious hand brake” on world efforts to combat global warming. But Christiana Figueres says she believes the U.S. will eventually join the rest of the industrialized world in mandatory reductions of greenhouse gases.
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Global Warming/ Climate Change – The Biggest Ponzi Scheme Ever Perpetrated

Global Warming/ Climate Change – or The Biggest Ponzi Scheme Ever Perpetrated

Global warming – and now “climate change”- is being mentioned at almost every turn of daily life in the United States. Our eternally pessimistic or tragedy-based “news media” (Journalism is dead in the US) only want to forecast perpetual gloom and doom. The United States always seems to be the blame for everything wrong in the world when nothing could be further from the truth. Bear with me as I hope to shed a little light on the nonsense the public receives daily from newspapers to radio to TV.

First, it was “Man-made Global Warming,” now its “Climate Change” with the implication that somehow the human race has caused some calamitous event to happen to the planet.  I find it so very incredible that the public as a whole is so scientifically illiterate that anyone would believe this nonsense.

A world leader once said:

    “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, eventually they will believe it.”

Another world leader said:

“When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.”

 First, does the “climate change?” Well of course. It has been changing since the beginning of time. Geologic history shows us that the earth has been warmer more than 80% of its 4+ billion year existence rather than cold. Warming is nothing new. Glaciers carved the Great Lakes, inland seas once covered most of Texas, where there are forests today in Wisconsin, there once were tropical plants. Everything changes, nothing stays the same. The rate of change is what one needs to consider. To do that, you need to look at the data.

 From 200 BC to 400 AD, the earth was in a warming period during the height of the Roman Empire. From 400 to 900 AD, the earth experienced a cooling period during the “Dark Ages.” From 900 to 1300, the earth experienced the “Medieval Warming” that allowed the Vikings to settle and farm in Greenland. As it became progressively colder, the animals died and the Vikings left Greenland by 1350.

 The years 1300 to 1850 brought what has been called the “Little Ice Age” where much of Europe experienced very cold summers and the Thames River in England regularly froze. People would pray in Church in hopes of preventing glaciers from wiping out villages in the Alps.

 Today, 1850 to present, we are now in what scientists call the “Modern Warming” era of the Earth’s climate.

 The Sun regulates the atmospheric temperature of Earth. More than 99.9% of the energy which drives our climate system warming the oceans, creating winds and ocean currents all comes from the Sun. Seems like a simple enough concept, yet politicians want you to believe that the US population and the evil SUV and the consumption of fossil fuels has something to do with it. The activity of the sun – sunspots- has a direct correlation on the amount of solar radiation the Earth receives.  While global temperatures have only been recorded for only the last 150 or so years, sun spot activity was first noticed in 1610 and detailed records of sunspot activity have been recorded since 1650. This data gives one the best idea of either increase or decrease in the global mean temperature.

The temperature in the last 100 years has risen 1º Farenheight – with a +/- .5º margin of error. Mankind and the rest of the world have adjusted nicely. It didn’t happen overnight nor is the increase anyone would notice. (With the +/- margin of .5ºF that means the temperature has changed by as little as ½ of a degree to as much as 1.5ºF.)  Since 1998, (and some say since 2004 – depends on the data they are referring to) the globe has been cooling – not warming. It has cooled enough to wipe out the 1ºF rise in the global mean temperature to make it a net zero change in temperature.

While parts of Texas has been suffering through a typical hot Texas summer and its perpetual drought, a good bit of Texas has had a normal summer. The rest of the country, and in particular the Eastern seaboard and Midwest, has had a “year without a summer”  – unusually cool and wet. It’s important to realize that all of this has happened even though the US has not signed the Kyoto Treaty on Climate Change and no significant legislation has been enacted to reverse the so-called “global warming.”

The average temperature of Earth has varied in a range of only 3º centigrade during the past 3,000 years. The minimal increase we may (or may not) experience in the next few decades is actually a recovery from a period known as the “Little Ice Age.” George Washington and his army at Valley Forge experienced the coldest era in 1500 years, but even then, the temperature was only above 1º C below the 3,000-year average.

When I ask the average person “What is the most common green house gas?” 100% of the time I hear the response  “carbon dioxide.” The major media outlets have done their brain washing well.

Antarctic research shows very clearly that in every instance the temperature always rises first before the level of CO2 increases in the atmosphere. The explanation is just as simple. As the earth warms, more plants grow. Plants, with a more active carbon cycle, release more CO2 into the atmosphere. A colder ocean is able to keep more CO2 dissolved in water. As the oceans warm, more CO2 is released.

 The number one “green house gas” (GHG) is water. The so-called “greenhouse effect” is caused by water vapor – i.e. clouds. We’ve all experienced it. In the summer, clouds help cool the surface by blocking sunlight. In the winter, nighttime clouds help to hold in heat and keep it from irradiating back into space.

Man made CO2 has no effect on global warming even though there has been a 6-fold increase in hydrocarbon use since 1940. When plotted together on a graph, it’s easy to see a direct correlation between solar activity and global surface temperatures. When plotted against world hydrocarbon use, there is no correlation with respect to surface temperatures.

Since the end of the Little Ice Age, the climate has improved with more rainfall, fewer tornadoes, and no increase in hurricane activity. The sea levels have risen at a rate of 7 inches per century (hardly a rise at all when one considers the difference between high tide and low tide can be several feet.) The idea that glaciers will melt and the sea levels will rise is an Environmental Alarmist ruse. Trends show that glaciers were melting and sea levels were rising for more than 100-years before the 6-fold increase in the use of hydrocarbons.

One of the favorite scare tactics that the Environmental Alarmists use is that the North Pole will have open seas during the summer. The alarmist scenario is that the melting of the polar ice cap will cause wide scale flooding. The problem with that idea is that it simply can’t happen. The polar ice cap is already floating on the ocean. When ice freezes, it expands 1/9 its size. Melting the polar ice cap will actually diminish the amount of water (or water displacement) by 1/9 the size of the polar ice cap. Melting of the polar ice cap could cause the sea level to actually lower. Another way to look at this is a glass of iced tea. When the ice melts does your glass overflow? No.

Caron dioxide makes up so very little of the atmosphere, that if it were doubled tomorrow no one would notice and the temperature of the planet wouldn’t change.

First, look at the carbon dioxide molecule – CO2 – one atom of carbon and 2 atoms of oxygen. Webster defines CO2 as a colorless, odorless gas. It occurs in the atmosphere at a mere 330 parts per million (ppm.)  Most folks have never seen a million of any one thing, so it’s easier to think about it as 33 parts per 100,000 or even 3 parts per every 10,000. If one has 3 (or 33) molecules of a colorless gas mixed with 10,000 (or 100,000) molecules of the rest of the atmosphere, it challenges the imagination (if not the laws of thermo dynamics) as to how carbon dioxide can be considered a “greenhouse gas.”

Recent headlines are now touting that CO2 concentrations have suddenly leaped to new heights of 380 or 385 ppm. To that I first thought, “So what?” When I looked at the data that every one was looking at, I saw the obvious problem. There is only one place on the entire planet that the National Oceanic Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) relies upon to measure levels of CO2 in the atmosphere and that is on the Big Island of Hawaii on Mauna Loa. Mauna Loa is billed as “Earth’s Largest Volcano.” The original thinking may have been that the atmosphere there was somehow pristine in Hawaii and an accurate reading of CO2 could be had without other polluting sources, but then they seemed to forget that volcanoes spew out more CO2 in a single year than mankind has produced in the entire length of human history.  Even with active volcanoes in Hawaii, the CO2 levels are still negligible and are really of no concern.

World wide, there are over 500 volcanic events happening each year. The number of volcanic vents spewing CO2 (and other gases) into the atmosphere number in the thousands, while the under sea vents that we can’t see, may number in the tens of thousands – all spewing CO2 into the oceans and atmosphere.

Increasing such a scarce gas as C02 in the atmosphere actually has a beneficial effect. Higher CO2 concentrations enable plants to grow faster and larger. Curiously, plants have undergone a slow evolutionary change reducing the number of stomata in their leaves as CO2 levels increase. This has the effect of allowing plants to be a little more drought tolerant. The extent and diversity of plants and animal life has substantially increased during the past half-century resulting in mildly stimulated plant growth.

Human production of carbon dioxide is estimated to be 8 gigatons (GT) or 8 billion tons of carbon dioxide. This statistic alone sounds like a huge number and one about which we should be concerned. However, the resident carbon dioxide in the rest of the atmosphere and oceans is estimated to be 40,000 GT. In other words, the contribution of the entire human race amounts only to .02 of 1%  (8/40,000) of the total atmospheric CO2.

In summary, there is no “global warming.” There is no “climate crisis.” It is a global fraud being perpetuated by self interest groups – scientists who get money for climate research and politicians who see the opportunity to collect climate taxes to maintain their power.

 Real scientists are lining up by the thousands to sign a petition rejecting global warming. (See http://www.petitionproject.org/) There is no “consensus” in real science. “Consensus” in the English language is defined firstly as unanimous or general agreement.  Science doesn’t work by consensus. With over 31,400+ scientists disagreeing with human releases of carbon dioxide as a cause of “Global Warming,” it’s a wonder that the media hasn’t noticed the story.

And the world leader who said:

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, eventually they will believe it.”

That was Adolph Hitler.

And the person who said:

“When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.”

That was none other than former vice president, Albert Gore, Jr.

 

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Global Warming Or Climate Change? Learn What is Really Happening

For many years millions of Americans and indeed others around the world have worried themselves about the immanent dangers of global warming. An entire industry has mushroomed around the idea. There are products being sold to “save the environment” and conventions being created and attended and even legislation being set forth to “combat” this evil that we as human beings are inflicting on this poor defenseless planet. Governments around the world are spending millions and more with plans for billions and billions of dollars to “correct” the problem. Billions of human beings are following and believing what is said as though it is absolute fact, and why not? The government says it is so. Why would they lie? This, my friends is the question you should be asking yourselves and ask it seriously.

If global warming is not really happening then why are they spending billions of OUR money to “fix” it? Why indeed? The scary truth is that global warming is not a fact. It is not happening as they say. It is not something that endangers us as human beings and it is not something that we are “causing”. Now it would be one thing if it was just a group of people who were misinformed, as many are. It would be one thing and pretty much innocent if they did not know that it was a lie and if they really thought that it was a threat. That is not the case however. The truth is they know it is not real. Those who are the biggest advocators of global warming have always known that it was a lie.

This is why the question of why they are pushing it is so important. Wake up America! Wake up world and use the gifts you were given. use your logic and think! Stop walking blindly through your life doing what you are told and do what you want to do, what you believe you should do! We are all sentient beings and we all have the right to think and act for ourselves. We also have a responsibility to ask properly and should be and will be held responsible for our actions and lack thereof. Study your history and learn the tactics of the great dictators. Don’t’ let yourselves be fooled by a promise from a silver tongue. You should also realize that it is not one person who is pulling the wool over your eyes. It is not one president or one leader. The true enemy is seldom seen. They are many and they are smarter than you because they know the truth and they already have most of us stumbling through life exactly as they wish. They say jump we say were and how high?

Become your own person. They can only control us if we let them. Unfortunately most of you are. There are too many who roll over and play dead when times get tough. There are too many who think that they have to do what they have always done for work. You think that you cannot learn anything new. You have always worked in the factory and that is all you know and if it is not there you turn to the government. Like candy from a stranger they offer benefits for those who don’t work. They offer free housing, free cars, free money, free food and free healthcare. Beware of those things that come without any effort from you. Just as you warn your child to avoid the stranger you should avoid any program that does not require you to work for yourself. You are entitled to nothing. We came into this life and we were told that we would earn our bread by the sweat of our brow. How foolish of us to think that we can get it without the effort or work. You can get angry at what I say. You can be bitter and you can try to convince yourself and others that you have tried and there just isn’t any other option. Say what you will. I know the sun shines. You cannot make me believe it does not.We are all capable of the same feats.

We all have the power within us to achieve greatness. We all have talents that can lift and help others. We are not dependant, should not be dependant on a small percentage of “leaders” to tell us what to do and how to live. If we continue in the blindness that we have then we will soon find ourselves in a very dire situation and many will look stunned as though they didn’t see it coming. Many of us are lifting our warning voices to help the rest of you who still believe that your president and congress have your best interest in mind. We try to show you their lies but you will only see them for what they are if you desire truth. You will only see the danger if you truly look at all the evidence. Search for the global warming email hacks and read about that truth and deception. Prepare yourselves and your loved ones. Educate yourselves people, before it is too late and you wake up to find yourselves more slaves than free. How close are you to that already with the taxes you bare? How much freedom have you already lost while you were focused on the lie of Global Warming?

Congress aims to curb EPA’s power over gases, bugs
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BBC became propaganda machine for climate change says Peter Sissons

BBC became propaganda machine for climate change says Peter Sissons
Ex-newsreader says the most worrying aspect of political correctness at the corporation was over the story that recurred with increasing frequency during his last ten years there – global warming.
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