The planet has evolved mechanisms over geological time (4.5 billion years of trial and error) to protect itself. Earth’s climate varies for a lot of extraterrestrial reasons. The shortest period has to do with the interplay of solar activity and cosmic radiation from the Milky Way. During quiet periods of solar activity, like now, cosmic radiation penetrates the atmosphere and creates clouds where conditions permit. Over long periods this cools the earth. Most of the time however, sun’s magnetic activity induces earth’s geomagnetic field. The geomagnetic shields are up during most of the 11 year sun spot cycle. Earth’s cooling (1940-1965) and earth’s heating (balance of the 20th century) is 95% correlated to sunspot peak frequency. Short cycles induce cooling and long cycles induce warming. This is a magnificently balanced system because the total solar irradiance varies very little. The subtlety is the correlation with sunspot peak frequency. During the Maunder Minimum there were no sunspots and the world suffered through the Little Ice Age.

CO2 has come out of the planet during 4.5 billion years of volcanic activity. Plants use CO2 to produce carbohydrates, oxygen and water vapour. Free oxygen is not produced by volcanoes. CO2 has the property of inverse solubility. Global warming from the sun forces CO2 out of the ocean in increasing quantities like warming beer. CO2 is the effect, not the cause of the warming. Moreover, the absorption wavelength for CO2 in the spectrum is filled. CO2 will not contribute any more heating. The analogy is adding a second Venetian blind to your window may not make the room any darker.

Sea level is said to be rising (ICPP) at 2 – 3 mm a year. Since the Pleistocene it has risen 125 metres (6 mm a year) and most of the coastal tribes of the earth have a Noah. The coral reefs of the oceans have kept pace because of a symbiotic relationship with algae that keep them thriving in the sunlit surface of the sea no matter how fast sea level rises. Barrier bars like the Atlantic longshore bar are dynamic features that are fed sand by Piedmont rivers and maintain themselves in the surf zone. A summer beach is wide and fine and a winter beach is coarse and steep. Common sense needs to be applied.

By the way modern coal-fired power plants produce electricity, water vapour and CO2; plant food not pollution. The US has enough coal and oil shale to support itself for 1,000 years. This AGW piece is political, not scientific, and is coming out on party lines.

It is possible that after Smithsonian officials reviewed the work, they determined that it was not objective. Although many on the left like to proclaim that the debate on global warming (climate change) is over; it is not. Shutting down debate, because you don’t like the competing viewpoint, is wrong, no matter who is doing it. If your views were suffiently conclusive, the Bush administration (or any other evil republican forces, for that matter) could not silence them. The reality is, your views aren’t that conclusive.

“House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Chairman Ed Markey (D-MA) has sent the Smithsonian a letter… ”

and in the letter he refers to the “Smithsonian Institute” (sic)

As the context of the article correctly notes, it’s Smithsonian Institution. If a House Committee Chair makes such a stupid mistake in correspondence that’s released to the press, he loses credibility and demonstrates that he has no knowledge of the Institution other than to try to score political points.

Idiot.

In 1000 BC ,what the rulers said was fact,no one disagreed,under penalty of death,period.

Today,with so many people able to read and write,,and formulate an opinion of thier own,,it is most important that the “writen” data be published and released “with the utmost care in what changes to make” and advertied to the public as “fact”,,for it is written in stone and signed by most important personages (paid for by the present government) and backed by no fewer than 20 known scientist (also on the government payroll) .
If not exposed,this information will be passed on through generatons until it will no longer be in dipute,,,and accepted as fact. A good example is the Bible,Koran,and a few other so called truth and nothing but the truth books.

Truth,facts,and proof go hand in hand.If one is distorted,,it all becomes just one big “LIE”.
Hail,mine furer Bush.
CITIZEN JOE

The Anti “Man-Made” Global Warming Resource

“There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition.”
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT

IPCC Author, Richard Alley and exhibit contributor, doesn’t think anything significant was removed.

Markey wants the names of those who contributed to the exhibit…so he can then proceed to smear them. I hope he attempts to smear Dr Alley.

Comment by Kiki — May 23, 2007 @ 2:54 pm

I clarified it…

Another one descends momentarily from the clouds of fantasy and wishful thinking. All I can say is, he who ROTFLs last, ROTFLs best or something like that. But I do wonder how we might do a really, really derisive ROTFL. Any suggestions?

The money you pay the government in taxes is being used to pay for the meals and houses and parties of people who’s main jobs turn out to be suppressing the truth in an effort to decive you into allowing them to funnel more money away from you and to the corporations, aka shareholders, aka those with money, aka those who already have possessions… in a matter similar to the old feudal lords.

I dont’ know which is worse, our military wars of aggression or our economic wars of aggression. We are the only country who has used a nuclear weapon on civilians, yet we don’t trust others with these weapons. So we impose sanctions that end up killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians to keep these nations from nuclear technology. We destory more innocent life than would be destroyed by a nuclear weapon used against us in preemption.

When will we be able to take a step back and say that this little experiment in the US has failed. The best hopes for democracy and human rights lie outside our borders. Western Europe, Canada, maybe even the communism spreading in central America will amount to something good. True, they have a long way to go, but at least they are moving in a direction that should help their poor it seems.

It is my conclusion that the US will continue to stare directly into the oncoming headlights until our eventual demise. We have lost our factories – the things that made us powerful in the past. China emerges economically, and they have the means to cripple our economy. They will, as soon as they don’t need our markets anymore. By then they will have a larger economy that us, and will be able to outspend us in defense, and we will be marginalized. That is our fate. That is our destiny. And ultimately, we, as a nation, do deserve it. Hopefully those who overtake us will spare civilians who wanted no part of this, but were unable to stop it.

ON

SCIENCE

To be “lost” like every other war on a concept… poverty, ignorance, drugs, terror, etc…

Articles

http://www.commercialalert.org/issues/government/smithsonian

If Gore had won the presidency he would have signed the Kyoto treaty. This would have excluded China from having to comply. Now we find that China in two years will be the biggest polluter of all.

http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=63391

ROTFL

Thank God Bush won! (Twice). Gore would have tied our economic hands, destroyed our country and probably surrendered when the planes hit the towers.

ROTFL