This is the second in a series of three articles. Please also read Global Warming Deception—Part I and Global Warming Deception—Part III
"For all intents and purposes, politics is to keep the populace alarmed, so they demand safety measures. They are bombarded by an endless array of imaginary hobgoblins..." H.L. Mencken, publicist and author 1880-1956.
"By far the most terrifying movie you will ever see," ad line for Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth.
False Assertions
Building a vision of horror requires powerful pictures. Let's begin with the now almost snow free Mount Kilimanjaro, the silent stone witness of glacier melting caused by carbon dioxide (CO2 1 ). Unfortunately this is far from the truth.
The melting of the glaciers began before 1880, when the CO2 content, due to early industrialization, had barely increased from 280 to 290 ppmv (a millionth of a part in volume.) Therefore, CO2 is not the culprit. Actually, the glacier was reduced from 20 square kilometers to 12 square kilometers between 1880 and 1910. Since then the acceleration of melting, despite rising CO2 levels, slowed down until 2004 when it was a mere 4 square kilometers. (Kaser et al. 2004)
The glaciers seem to be no more than a remaining phenomenon of a past colder period.
In the 20th century there also was no uniform temperature increase associated with a simultaneously strong CO2 increase. Mirroring other areas, the temperatures in Greenland's capital city Nunk/Godhab were higher between 1920 and 1940 (first graph). Afterwards, the temperatures dropped worldwide until about 1975. Despite huge manufacturing levels before and after the war, CO2 did not reach new highs. However, as discussed in Part I, scientists were warning of an approaching ice age until 1975.
Deforestation and Humidity
It has been proven that the melting of glaciers began more than 100 years ago. This change was caused by drier air streams, causing less precipitation to feed the melting glaciers and ice. This is the result of a global deforestation. The earth had 70% more forested areas than now.
Gore's movie also claims that Malaria did not exist in Nairobi and only started due to warming in recent years. Between 1920 and 1940, malaria outbreaks in Nairobi were nothing special and quite common.
The re-emergence of malaria is less connected to CO2 than to the increased use of the insecticide DDT. Flies which transmit malaria are developing a greater resistance to DDT, because it was not applied or targeted correctly.
Background–Medieval Warming
Records tell of a warming stage when temperatures were 1.5 and in some cases even 3 degrees Celsius higher than now between 950 and 1450 in Europe. Even, the non-existent winter of 2006/2007 was nothing compared to those years when cherry trees blossomed around Christmas.
Greenland would not have been called "green land" by its discoverers and settlers, the Vikings, if they had not found green pastures and meadows. Even the Bermuda Triangle was about 1 degree Celsius warmer 1,000 years ago.
Cause and Effect
CO2 causes global warming according to the United Nations report and Al Gore's movie claims. Is this for certain? Not at all.
Many scientists don't agree with this contention. The global warming theory claims that increasing CO2 concentration results in increased temperatures. Gore's movie presents a temperature curve covering the last 650,000 years and depicts 4 previous warming stages but glosses over important facts—each of those warming stages was warmer than today, even though there were lower CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere.
There is another decisive factor, first temperatures increased then CO2 increased, exactly the opposite of today's CO2 theory.
The Human Factor
How does man actually fit into the production of CO2? Much more important than man are volcanic eruptions and CO2 releases from the oceans. People being the main cause of increasing CO2 levels is frankly one of the biggest myths of the current myth-rich science.
Before the industrial revolution, CO2 accounted for 288 ppmv. In the year 2000, total CO2 increased to 369 ppmv, but the part caused by humans accounted for only two to four percent of the increase. The remaining 96-98 percent increase was caused by nonhuman activity.
Are Storms Increasing in Number and Intensity?
The German weather service "Donnerwetter.de" carefully examined seven different subjects relating to climate change and wrote the following concerning storm and weather cycles:
"Again, the subject of increasing storms and associated intensity… Actually the number of storms and hurricanes [in Europe], from a historical perspective has been very low during the past few years. While there were around 40 hurricanes in 1550, the number dropped to 20 during the 18th century. In the 19th and 20th centuries the number fluctuated between 10 and 20 hurricanes. During the last few years it was quite calm. Especially after 1995 the number of hurricanes dropped notably. The allegation is clearly wrong!"
[1]CO2, as defined by the Farlex dictionary, is a heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances; absorbed from the air by plants in photosynthesis.
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