Climate change
As various medical organizations have made their support for the
statist and scientifically invalid Kyoto protocol a public health
issue, I believe it is my role to make people aware of the junk science
that underlies the current theory of anthropogenic global warming
(AGW). It is my position that the economic hardship that would
occur should Canada cut CO2 admissions in accordance with the Kyoto
protocol will have far more devastating health consequences than if
nothing was done at all.
Kyoto has become a new religion which is very intolerant of those who
question the predictions of dire climatic catastrophe that will result
unless we all revert to a third world style of living. The high
priests of Kyoto claim the ability to predict weather 50 years into the
future whereas the chaotic nature of atmospheric systems makes it
impossible to predict weather even a month ahead. We are told
that "the matter is settled" and that "scientific consensus" exists and
that questioning the conclusions of the high environmental priests is
not permitted.
Anyone who believes that scientific progress occurs through
consensus is utterly ignorant of science. It takes but one
counterexample to demolish a scientific theory. In medicine, the
overwhelming consensus of physicians in the early 1800's was that their
failure to wash their hands between deliveries had absolutely nothing
to do with a sometimes 80-90% maternal death rate from purpureal
fever that occurred in maternity hospitals. Dr. Semmelweiss
disagreed and began the practice of hand washing and use of chlorine
water as a disinfectant. Post-partum deaths on his ward
plummeted, but he still recieved a very hostile reception from the
medical establishment.
The premise of the AGW fanatics is that the earth's climate was
constant until we started burning fossil fuels and adding large
quantities of CO2 to the atmosphere. When one looks at long term
climate records, I am struck primarily with the degree of variability
of average terrestial temperatures that have occurred over the last few
thousand years. It isn't surprising that the earth would be
warming for, after all, we've come out of an ice age a mere 18,000
years ago. The 1930's were significantly warmer than today but it
has taken the sleuthing efforts of people such as Steve McIntyre to
expose the fraudulent data manipulation which led to the infamous
"hockystick" temperature graph. After being presented with
overwhelming evidence NASA has also agreed that 1934 was the hottest
year in the last century. Steve McIntyre maintains a blog at climateaudit.org
which is an excellent source of information on climate change.
Other highly recommended links are:
WattsUpWithThat -
Anthony Watt's blog. Best science blog and excellent source of
information. Updated daily.
mbm
- he is an atmospheric scientist and independant thinker
John Daly's site for a
wealth of climatologic information
Junk science.com has
information on other scientific frauds aside from AGW
CO2Science.com has
material on AGW as well as beneficial effects of higher atmospheric CO2
levels
Small dead animals
which is a political blog, but has frequent links to AGW stories.
One very intriguing link is Dr. Theodor
Landscheidt's page on solar effects on climate. Don't be put
off by the technical nature of the article as the links between solar
activity and climate are quite obvious from the graphs.
The AGW religion makes the assumption that the suns activity is
constant which is curious given the 11 year sunspot cycles and various
longer cycles that exist in solar activity. The solar "constant"
has varied by 3 W/square meter since 1978. If you think this is a
trivial amount of variation, consider that the doomsday scenarious by
the AGW fanatics are based on a predicted 2 W/square meter increase in
heating from higher atmospheric CO2 levels. The AGW
religion studiously ignores the effects of solar variability in its
climate models and does its historical revisionist best to eliminate
such embarassments such as the "little ice age" and high temperatures
in the 1930's.
Over time I'll add more material to this link but I've now done my bit
to counter erroneous AGW medical propoganda.
9/9/2009
I'm glad to see that the evidence against AGW is now so becoming so
overwhelming that even the MSM is being forced to occasionally report
some news of this. The warmists are becoming even more shrill in
their attacks and are still dangerous as their agenda has nothing to do
with climate change but rather the centralization of power in their
hands and the elimination of individual freedom. Here in BC
idiotic "carbon taxes" have begun to affect medical care as money which
was once allocated for patient care is being grabbed back by the
government in "carbon taxes". Gordon Campbell is one of the
warmists usefull idiots and the sooner he is replaced the
better. As the climate continues to cool and peoples
heating bills rise with taxes taking a bigger and bigger chunk of that
amount, politicians will feel the wrath of the people who can
unambiguosly see that the winters are getting colder, CO2 levels
continue to increase and what better proof does one need that a trace
gas essential for life on earth has next to nothing to do with control
of the earths temperature.
(C) Dr. Boris Gimbarzevsky 2007 Last modified.
30/9/2007 00:30