John Eidson, writer, analyst for energy, climate change, government policies, retired electrical engineer, independent voter: How do you take over the world? You find a way to terrify the world’s children to believe they will die if they don’t listen to you. In what amounts to nothing less than intentional child abuse, the Left has sought since the 1980s to terrify the world’s children about global warming.
Gregory Wrightstone, geologist has been investigating the Earth’s processes for more than 35 years. He is author of the newly published book Inconvenient Facts: The Science That Al Gore Doesn’t Want You to Know. On September 23, 2019 an irate 16-year-old Swedish girl told the United Nations General Assembly that her elders are failing to address the supposed dangers of climate change. While it is easy to poke fun at the blatant virtue signaling of this whole affair, more dangerous is her vitriolic message that was accepted uncritically by the world’s media as factual. It turns out that very little of what she said is supported by science.
Katharina Bochsler on Swiss Radio and Television, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF): Zahlreiche Studien kochen das Konfliktpotential der Erderwärmung hoch. Sie prophezeien gewaltsame Konflikte und grosse Völkerwanderungen. Doch wissenschaftlich sind die meisten dieser Studien nicht haltbar.
Alex Baur, EIKE, Markus Haering geologe: Kohlendioxid, kurz CO2, gilt als die grösste Bedrohung unserer Epoche. Zu Unrecht, schreibt der Basler Geologe Markus O. Häring in seinem neuen Buch. Die Realität ist komplizierter, als viele denken.
Switzerland ice storm on Lake Geneva, Lac Leman, Genfer See: Dramatic ice formations on land with the lake not frozen.
Click here to see pictures of the ice storm on Lake Geneva in January, 2009 with song, Ameno by Era.
Markus Haering, geologist: The complexity of life and nature keeps you humble. Science helps us understand nature in increasingly greater detail. And while it may help us recognize future trends, it will never allow us to predict the future.
Ed Berry, physicist and climate scientist: The scientific basis for the effect of human carbon dioxide on atmospheric carbon dioxide rests upon correctly calculating the human carbon cycle. This paper uses the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) carbon-cycle data and allows IPCC’s assumption that the CO2 level in 1750 was 280 ppm. Human emissions through 2019 have added only 31 ppm to atmospheric CO2 while nature has added 100 ppm. If human emissions were stopped in 2020, then by 2100 only 8 ppm of human CO2 would remain in the atmosphere. Siimon Aegerter, Eric Jelinski and Douglas Lightfoot offer comments from different perspectives.
Germany is responsible for about 2% of global annual CO2 emissions from energy. To match Germany’s electricity demand (or over 15% of EU’s electricity demand) solely from solar photovoltaic panels located in Spain, about 7% of Spain would have to be covered with solar panels (~35.000 km2).
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Through the process of photosynthesis, and with the power of the sun (specific UV wavelengths), and naturally occurring chemicals such as chlorophyll, and invivo reactor sites provided by naturally occurring enzymes, we know how to produce gigatons of feedstock for our hydrocarbon production process from CO2. Algae farms might be our best alternative to accomplishing this part.
Peter Roff, Washington Examiner: Spurred on by trial lawyers and environmental activists, whose political support is crucial for any up and coming progressive, state and local elected officials have been trying to prove as a matter of law that the nation’s energy companies lied for years to their stockholders and to the American people about the possible impact of global warming. They’ve been unsuccessful, largely because the charge is untrue — as several of those who’ve already brought these lawsuits have been forced by the facts to admit.
Viv Forbes, Executive Director of The Saltbush Club, Australia: It is urgent that all Australian politicians understand the dangers in the Paris Climate Agreement. Here are TEN REASONS to EXIT PARIS NOW. 1) Science not settled. 2) There is no unusual waming. 3) CO2 is not a pollutant. 4Most populous nations will ignore the Paris climate change agreement. 5) Despite 20 years of subsidies, wind and solar still small part of energy production. 6) Australian policies making electricity more expensive. 7) Australia has few options for cheap, reliable power. 8) Australians will be seriously punished by Paris agreement. 9) The agreement will destroy industries & jobs. 10) If the world cools, Australia will quickly need reliable coal power.
John Eidson, writer, analyst for energy, climate change, government policies, retired electrical engineer, independent voter: In a remarkably frank admission that laid bare the stealth agenda behind global warming alarmism, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted during a February 2015 press conference in Brussels that the UN’s real purpose in creating climate fear is to end capitalism throughout the world.
Jay Lehr, Ph.D. Science Director at The Heartland Institute: We are confident that all of our readers have read or heard for a number of years that 97% of all scientists believe that mankind has played a role in changing the earth’s climate. While it should have been recognized long ago as an urban myth, one of those stories that hang around regardless of a lack of any supporting facts. Rarely a day goes that a global warming alarmists do not use it to promote their cause of enlarging government and reducing personal freedom through the promotion of fear about our future.
John Shanahan, civil engineer: Humanity has made tremendous strides over the last two centuries in energy, medical and other technologies – greatly improving living standards and life spans for billions of people. Meanwhile, far too many foundations and organizations, segments of the media and individuals have tried to prevent progress. They want to keep energy and mineral treasures in the ground and insist that nothing mankind does is safe enough.
Europe and the United States are facing serious energy crises that will cause people on fixed income and people dependent on jobs to suffer a lot. Not to mention the homeless.
This has been caused by a fifty plus year war on fossil fuels led by alarmists with an unspoken agenda: cut the world's population back to what it was in the 1800s. This involves reducing the population by about 7 billion people. Who can justify the killing of one innocent person? Who has the nerve to demand the elimination of seven billion people?? The anti-fossil fuel alarmists. That is who!!
Because the degree to which the earth's surface is heated by the sun determines air temperatures, landscape changes like lost wetlands, deforestation, overgrazing and urbanization have all contributed significantly to warming since the Little Ice Age ended. Although most landscape changes are caused by humans, the intent here is show how landscape changes largely account for the land's temperature trends that have been incorrectly blamed on rising CO2.
Tim Ball, environmental consultant and former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg:The big lie that humans are causing climate change spreads as it is promoted by those with a political agenda and their use of a familiar technique to ensnare high profile people. This practice is a fallacious form of argument called Argumentum Ad Verecundiam defined as "…an appeal to the testimony of an authority outside the authority’s special field of expertise." The latest well-known person exploited in this way is documentary producer Sir David Attenborough, who was taken in by the false story of anthropogenic global warming (AGW). It appears he let his socialist views over-ride any sense of science he might have.
Ed Berry, PhD in Physics with a focus on atmospheric physics. Dr. Berry’s theoretical PhD thesis is recognized as a breakthrough in the science of rain formation and in the use of computer-based numerical models.: Continued human emissions will not increase the 18-ppm human-caused balance level. They will only maintain it. Therefore, there is no cause for alarm. The human-caused 18-ppm would disappear in a few years if human emissions stopped. Nature’s 392-ppm balance level would remain. The Paris Climate Agreement proposed to reduce worldwide human emissions by 28 percent of 18 ppm, or by 5 ppm. The Paris Agreement would not change climate and would not stop natural climate change.
Fred Singer, Founding Director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service. He regards the absence of any significant man-made global warming as settled; note the emphasis on the word “significant.” Policies to limit CO2 emissions are wasting resources that could better be used for genuine societal problems like public health. He is much more concerned by a cooling climate—as predicted by many climate scientists—with its adverse effects on ecology and severe consequences for humanity. The photo posted with this article shows the very rare occurrence of a frozen ocean near Woods Hole, Massachusetts in February/March, 2015