Gerald E. Marsh website: gemarsh.com Climate Change, Energy, and National Security. Reconsidering the Science and Economics The Heartland Institute's Fourth International Conference on Climate Change May 2010
Click here for video of presentation Some excerpts from video. How can perfectly intelligent people, even those with a science background, support the idea of a climate Armageddon? The issue of climate change is not simply one of proving who is right and who is wrong, and not about the IPCC and it's sort of alarmist reports. To understand the positions taken by governments, one needs to look at the issue in a much broader context. Let me start with what we agree upon: - Most Man-Made CO2 that was put into the atmosphere was done after 1940. - The temperature increased slightly from 1950 to 1970. - Since 1998, the rise in temperature has stalled. - We would be hard pressed to prove the temperature - CO2 relationship by the quality of data that is out there. - There is no consistent temperature data over the last cenury or so.
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- There is a question if there exists a physically meaningful concept of the Earth's temperature. - The Earth is not in thermodynamic equilibrium. - The average of the temperature data around the world can't be said to be the temperature of the world. - The changes in temperature in the North Atlantic and Eurasia resulted from changes in the North Atlantic Oscillation not CO2. - If the US Government were genuinely concerned about man-made global warming, it would not be pursuing technologies like solar and wind. - In order to meet the 50% increase in energy demand by 2050, most of the increase will have to come from Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq. -
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