Climate Change is Natural!
John Shanahan
June
INTRODUCTION
Throughout history humans learned that climate depends mainly on the sun, the seasons, the sun’s heat retained in the oceans, on land and in the atmosphere.
There are thousands of good sources explaining climate for the general public and government officials. Here are a few: CO2 Coalition, GWPFThe Global Warming Policy Foundation, Kaltesonne und Klimanachrichten, and allaboutenergy.net.
Only since the 1960s has there been a concerted effort by certain scientists, politicians, and people in special interests groups to panic the public in Australia, Europe and North America into believing that atmospheric carbon dioxide from use of fossil fuels is the control knob to catastrophic climate change. People have been led to believe that electricity from wind turbines and solar panels, far less than 5% of the world’s total energy use from fossil fuels will save the world from climate change catastrophes.
The climate change alarmists fables should be obvious to everyone. Unfortunately that is not the case and Australia, Europe and North America are committing energy suicide by converting their coal and natural gas electric generating plants to wind turbines and solar PV farms. They are mandating converting cars, trucks, trains and military vehicles of all types to battery powered.
This report presents photo evidence that Earth’s climate is the best it can be now and for millions of years in the past. Earlier in this section links are given to a few outstanding websites for simple scientific information.
Thanks to Swiss engineer, Walter Aeberli, for his valuable review and recommendations.
EVIDENCE AROUND THE WORLD SINCE 1970
Life and climate on Earth are amazing. Attempts to panic people with threats of catastrophic man-made global warming and demands to stop the use of fossil fuels will destroy the modern world. The following photos show the weather around the world since 1970. It is beautiful and natural, not catastrophic and man-made.
Spring - USA
Gore Range and Green Mountain Reservoir, Colorado May 26 to 30, 2024
Continental Divide at Interstate 70 Eisenhower Tunnel and Loveland Ski Area with clouds resting on the Divide - Colorado, May 26 to 30, 2024.
Fish Creek in Steamboat Springs, Colorado - May 26 to 30, 2024.
Spring - New Zealand
Early December on the South Island of New Zealand
This tree in Auckland, New Zealand has an amazing pattern of branches and roots that document climate during its life. Nature is spectacular. Climate is phenomenal.
Forest and River on the South Island, New Zealand
Spring - Netherlands
Keukenhof - The most beautiful spring garden in the world
Spring - Japan
Spring - Germany
Forsythia on the Lombard Bridge in Hamburg, Germany, Reseachers recorded the date of the first blossoms since the 1950s. If the climate is getting warmer, the date of first blossoms should get earlier in the year. It is getting later. Longer winters.!
A beautiful garden in the Ruhr River Valley, Germany. John Shanahan has observed its growth since the 1970s. What manmade global warming are Chancellors Angeela Merkel and Olaf Scholz scaring you with?.
Spring - Nepal
Many people in Asia have beautiful smiles. They aren’t frowning from fifty years of being worried about catastrophic man-made global warming.
When will Americans and Europeans smile again? Their politicians want
them to worry about man-made global warming and think their politicians are solving important problems for them.
Spring - South Africa
Wildlife close to nuclear power plant in South Africa
Summer - Canada
Prince Edward Island has a beautiful maritime climate
Summer - Bolivia
Summer - Chile
John Shanahan and family near Punta Arenas, Chile, January 1994
Torres del Paine, Patagonia, Chile is a windy place 1994
Fall - Switzerland
A stack of firewood in Ticino with an important message
Fall - Italy
Italy has a lot of natural beauty and four great seasons. Italians don’t have to leave the country to go on beautiful vacations. It takes them a lifetime to fully enjoy their country.
Winter - Switzerland
Cross-country ski touring in the Jura Mountains
A Swiss cabin buried in snow with many happy memories - near St Croix, Jura Mountains
Winter - Germany
Southern Germany winter. Is this catastrophic man-made global warming?
Winter - USA
Forest in southern Germany in winter
race near Joseph, Oregon - 1994
Snowshoe
EVIDENCE ACROSS MILLIONS OF YEARS IN ONE PLACE
Petrified redwood trees in Colorado 34 million years ago
A petrified redwood tree in today’s arid Front Range of Colorado. A long time ago this part of Colorado was lush with redwood trees like California today. Climate does change regionally as well as globally. These changes are mostly due to factors other than changes in concentration of CO2.
Trees growing where glaciers came after them.
A tree stump still firmly rooted in the ground that thrived in a warm climate before this now retreating glacier grew over the tree. Tremendous natural climate change independent of concentration of man-made CO2.
CONCLUSIONS
Earth has had great natural beauty for thousands of years with periods of drought, floods, cold and heat - all recorded in geology and some carved in stone, art, or written record. There has been no beyond-the-record-books global warming since 1800. Are the politicians telling the truth about manmade climate catastrophes? Are the floods, droughts, wildfires, heat waves, cold spells that have been a part of climate history forever, now man-made from CO2 from use of fossil fuels? NO!
CO2 is the molecule of life. The world must not abandon fossil fuels and their 6,000 marvelous by-products that are essential in the modern world.
Hundreds of scientists and engineers explain that global climate change is all natural. Some good sources for sound climate science and general explanations are CLINTEL, CO2 Coalition, Europäisches Institut für Klima und Energie e.V Global Warming Policy Forum, Klimanachrichten,
Five global organizations claim that humanity is able to correct man-made global warming: the National Academies of Science, nuclear power organizations, the United Nations, the World Economic Forum and the Pope!.
They each have different reasons for going along with catastrophe manmade climate change alarmism and different objectives they want to achieve with their alarms:
- National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (around the world). They are going along with key alarmists like John
Holdren, Jim Hansen, and Michael Mann. These well known scientists and institutions would rather go along with their peers than follow the Scientific Method.
- Nuclear power professional and advocacy organizations around the world. Many are going along with catastrophic man-made global warming alarmists because it attacks coal for generating electricity and “should” promote nuclear power. They are inferring that nuclear power can be implemented to replace most of the coal fired electric generating plants in time to prevent alarmists’ self-proclaimed catastrophic climate tipping points. The tipping points aren’t going to happen, if ever and nuclear power will not replace all coal electric generating plants for several hundred years. There are many reasons for the long rollout of nuclear power. No one will be able to make it happen sooner. But the nuclear power organizations and advocates are free to talk as if the world will all be using nuclear power in 50, 100 years. Talk is cheap. Accuracy is cheaper. Even for some nuclear power professionals.
- Some key individuals in certain United Nations organizations are determined to control human population size and rule over all more than they do now. Other countries go along with the alarmists in order to achieve separate goals. They will ignore the climate alarmists when necessary.
- The World Economic Forum is run by powerful people who want to reduce the world’s population and rule over the survivors. The WEF is independent of countries and the United Nations.
- Pope Francis has proclaimed catastrophic man-made global warming. His advisor may be a non-believer. Only God might guess his motives.
Climate and climate change are very complex subjects that aren’t governed much by atmospheric carbon dioxide, the molecule of life.
There is enough good scientific literature to understand that the role of man-made carbon dioxide in climate change is immeasurably small at concentrations above 400 ppmv (parts per million volume), 0.04%.
Fossil fuels and their by-products enabled the terrific modern world and life of 8 billion people.
It is wrong to waste them on applications that nuclear power could do as well, because fossil fuels will be very difficult to duplicate with synthetic liquid fuels, especially in the massive quantities we use today.
It is wrong to waste fossil fuels on poorly designed cities and transportation systems: one billion commuter cars crawling for several hours a day on clogged highways when commuter distances could be minimized and overhead wire electrified public transportation could be increased. John Shanahan lived in Europe for twelve years and took electrified public transportation to work most of the time. It was a relaxing, productive time. Commuting one plus hours per day in cars, mostly single occupant, is not relaxing, productive, inexpensive or as safe.
Fossil fuels and their 6,000 by-products created the modern world, not wind turbines and solar panels. The by-products of petroleum and coal are essential and will be very difficult and expensive to replace.
The only things that will keep the modern world going after petroleum is no longer available are synthetic liquid fuels manufactured with nuclear energy and nuclear power for electricity, process heat and space heating. That is going to be difficult and expensive. Mother Nature produced fossil fuels over very long periods of time with the help of the sun and the miracle “manufacturing” process of LIFE!
The decisions of Australian, European and North American governments to replace coal and nuclear power plants with wind turbines and solar panels doesn't have a chance to succeed on a global scale for the next thousand
years. Change in leadership must come or Western civilization will be lost.
The decisions to use battery powered cars, trucks, trains and military vehicles can only be made by people completely out of touch with technical reality who should have no authority over others.
There is no time to lose getting western leadership back on track. There were better leaders all over the world in the distant past!
What marine and land creatures will survive the longest? The species with the most advanced brains and free will, the ones with less brains, or plants and other life forms with no brain at all?
There are winter days in summer and summer days in winter. All natural events. The mass media and certain politicians claim these natural weather events are due to the use of fossil fuels. They insist we switch to wind turbines and solar panels for generating electricity. That is not going to happen for long and only in certain countries.
Snow storm at Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, August 2018
