Global warming science anything but settled (Terry Donze, geophysicist)

Warming’ Science Is Anything but Settled Because the vested financial and political interests are too great for the alarmists to drop.

Dec. 7, 2015 In regard to your (Wall Street Journal) Dec. 2 editorial “We’ll Always Have the Illusions of Paris”: Concerning illusions, we will always have the illusions of global warming, too, because the vested financial and political interests are too great for the alarmists to drop. Their illusions are great: Sea level rise is going to be catastrophic despite the top sea level expert, Stockholm geologist Nils-Axel Moerner, saying that is “the greatest lie ever told”; Arctic ice is melting despite its 5% increase in the last nine years; the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica is failing despite the increased ice pack there over the past 15 years; extreme weather events will increase because of global warming despite cyclonic activity falling to a 30-year low after Rita and Katrina in 2005, despite tornado activity trending down for 50 years, and despite the U.N. IPCC concurrence that extreme events are not increasing; global warming is caused by increased carbon dioxide atmospheric concentrations despite the U.N.’s model signature for this to occur, a hot spot 10-12 kilometers above the tropics, has never been found, despite those concentrations being much higher though geologic history, at times during glacial periods, and despite the increase in carbon dioxide concentrations over the past 17 years not causing Earth temperatures to rise; temperatures are rising quickly despite satellite data showing no temperature increase since 1998.

These are the lies alarmists say need to be mitigated immediately or there will be catastrophe. The immediacy is needed, of course, before the misinformed populace learns the truth. Perhaps alarmists should abide by their own precautionary principle and not wreck our economy entirely before the science is settled, which it definitely is not.

Terry W. Donze Geophysicist Wheat Ridge, Colo.

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The book cover shows the size of our sun and the planets. Earth is tiny compared to the sun. Earth's climate is primarily controlled by activity of the sun.

This book should be taught in high school and college science classes and read by the public. page 2

BOOK CONTENT & BRIEF EXCERPTS

The Media Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish And Icebergs Melt (By the Associated Press) "The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the waters too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen Norway" The global warming crisis is upon us? No, that article was published in The Washington Post, November 2, 1922.

Earth's Temperatures

From the graph we can see that today's temperatures are not much off the norm from the recent past, which has had some wide near-term variation on a geologic scale. At the end of the first millennium, the Vikings were able to colonize Greenland due to the Medieval warm period providing lush and fertile fields for their crops and animals. But 400 years ago people were skating on the Thames River in London because it froze in page 3

the winter, as did many other rivers in Europe, Asia, and North America. The Vikings left Greenland at that time before they froze to death, because it had become a white winter wasteland.

Our Savior the Sun Several things affect our climate, such as the sun-earth separation distance which varies throughout the year, the axial tilt of the earth and it's bearing, positions of the continents drifting through plate tectonics, cosmic wobbles in the earth's rotation known as Milankovich Cycles .. .. .. , but the main climate driver is the sun's energy output. [1]

Miniscule Man Living in a greenhouse is good. .. .. "If we didn't have the greenhouse effect the planet would be at miius 18 deg. C, but because we do have the greenhouse effect it is plus 15 deg. C. all the time."

Yet the amount of greenhouse gases that man contributes to the atmosphere is very miniscule in the overall scheme of things. Look at the sources of greenhouse gases in the figure above. page 4

Past Predictions (And Their Outcomes) The claims and predictions of the alarmist climate community have been widespread over the years, as can be seen from all of the examples above (in this chapter). With all of the actual scientific data available to refute their statements, it is a wonder that alarmists have any credibility at all.

Present Arguments ",,, the government does two things very well: it scares us to death and it spends our money." - Judge Andrew Napolitano

Deception & Integrity However, good science consists of the determination of facts ascertained by reproducible experimentation, testing of falsifiable theories, and publication of results in journals of the highest integrity, leading to great respect for that science and thus who practice it. Today, unfortunately, billions of tax dollars are being distributed in the name of climate science by many state and federal bureaucracies presided over and beneficent to a closed group of practitioners.

No Consensus, No End Besides exclaiming that all of their new scientific papers related to climate and CO2 have been peer reviewed, alarmists say there is a consensus among scientists that catastrophic global warming is being caused by man, so it must be true. However, scientific papers related to greenhouse effect, climate change and human influence do not receive critical examination of many of their statements: they are simply assumed to be true. Much of that problem comes from the articles being peer reviewed by their pals.

Show Me During a climate discussion, a colleague noted my Missouri background and asked what it was I wanted others to "show me." My response came easily. The truth!

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