Welcome to the Global Warming Scam blog.
This free blog is a public service to refute claims that humans can predict the future climate by playing computer games.
I am not a Republican -- the only Republican I ever voted for was in 1980.
I am not a Democrat -- the last Democrat I voted for was in 1976.
I am not conservative or liberal.
I am a Libertarian -- a believer in a smaller, less intrusive government.
As a Libertarian, I don't want my government making false predictions of a coming global warming catastrophe, and then claiming only a more powerful government can prevent that catastrophe.
Although I do have a BS degree, I have never worked as a scientist.
I also have an MBA in finance -- my primary interest is economics and finance.
My interest in global warming started while I was working in the product development organization of an auto manufacturer.
The left-wing attack on fossil fuels would significantly affect my company.
I started using the internet at work in 1996, and started reading about global warming in 1997, after finding The Week That Was column at www.SEPP.org -- I still use that column as a source of good articles.
In the 1990s there was a significant rise of CO2 and the average temperature.
Scary.
I didn't know it then, but so far the brief period from the early 1990s to early 2000s was the ONLY period in 4.5 billion years of Earth's history when man made CO2 and the earth's average temperature both went up significantly at the same time!
I wrote two articles about global warming in my economics newsletter -- one in 2007, and another in late 2014.
This blog was launched after the 2014 article for updates.
My conclusions about global warming are based on data, facts and logic.
I don't start with a conclusion and then cherry pick facts to support it.
While I prefer warming, since I live in Michigan, I don't care if there is cooling -- our planet is always warming or cooling ... and man made CO2 has little or nothing to do with that.
I celebrate Earth's wonderful climate, which has been getting slightly better every decade of my life.
My main goal is to refute a 40 year-old climate change scare, based entirely on an unproven theory, and wild guess computer game predictions.
In plain English, carbon dioxide is a phony boogeyman used by left-wing politicians to scare and control people.
Leftists who want more political power try to scare people by claiming an invisible, harmless, airborne plant fertilizer called carbon dioxide is a satanic gas.
Their goal is to to create a lot of frightened citizens ... that will allow their government to seize more power to fight their imaginary boogeyman.
Real air, land and water pollution, primarily in Asia, is ignored.
This blog may be the only place you read, in plain English, that there is no evidence CO2 has EVER been Earth's 'climate controller', at ANY time in the past 4.5 billion years -- in fact, most of Earth's history had more CO2 in the air than today (up to 10x or 20x more).
Real climate scientists would celebrate the greening of our planet from more CO2 in the air, as measured by satellites.
But you won't find real, unbiased climate scientists on government payrolls.
You will find computer gamers HIRED ONLY IF THEY SUPPORT THE NEAR-RELIGIOUS BELIEF THAT CO2 CONTROLS THE CLIMATE.
Skeptics are not hired.
Yet the most important character trait of a scientist is skepticism.
Climate skepticism is not allowed among gooberment employees.
Their 'hottest year evah' press releases are designed to mislead and scare people ... while teaching them nothing about Earth's climate, such as ...
-- 2016 included a strong heat spike in the Pacific Ocean, called an El Nino,
-- The 2016 El Nino was unusually large, but also similar to the unusually large 1998 El Nino heat spike.
-- El Ninos are temporary, natural, cyclical events, where a portion of the Pacific Ocean releases heat.
-- El Ninos have nothing to do with carbon dioxide (CO2).
The really important news you did not hear:
-- There was a flat trend of the average temperature between the 1998 and 2016 El Nino peaks.
That's real climate news.
But no one in the mainstream press will tell you that.
So I will.
The mainstream press wants you to believe rising CO2 levels drive the average temperature up, so there could not be a flat temperature trend (not to mention the declining temperature trend from 1940 to 1975, as CO2 levels rose).
We've had an 18-year (between the sharp 1998 and 2016 El Nino warming peaks) flat temperature trend, while CO2 increased every year ... and that was not important news?
It's evidence that CO2 levels do not control the climate.
In fact, there's no evidence CO2 has ever controlled the climate at any time in the past 4.5 billion years.
Here's my HONEST report on the climate in 2016:
Earth's climate in 2016 was wonderful.
The climate was better than it has been in at least 500 years, for humans (nighttime low temperatures not as cold), and for plants (growing faster from more CO2 in the air, so the entire planet is 'greening').
Once again our bureaucrats (at NASA-GISS and NOAA) have announced the prior year was the hottest year on record ... dishonestly implying this was a surprise, unusual, and very bad news.
Some "journalists" misinterpreted the press release as the "hottest year ever", and almost everybody will blame the slight warming in the past 150 years on carbon dioxide, without any proof that assumption is true.
The 2016 average temperature announcements are deliberate lies used to scare people, coming from government organizations that:
(1)
Falsely imply there is something unusual about the average temperature of our planet (average temperature is a complex and very rough statistical compilation that scientists use as a proxy for "climate"),
(2)
Fail to mention geologists believe Earth's average temperature was warmer than today during most of the past 4.5 billion years,
(3)
Fail to reveal the average temperature has remained in a small 1 degree C. range since 1880 -- unusually stable based on what scientists have learned about the climate in the past million years from studying ice cores,
(4)
Fail to mention most of the Earth's surface is not measured, even today, meaning a majority of the surface temperature data are wild guesses (called data "infilling" to cover up what actually happens),
(5)
Fail to mention the repeated "adjustments" to raw data by government bureaucrats, almost always resulting in more "warming", and most important
(6)
Fail to mention new high average temperatures were expected, for the very simple reason that ALL the real-time average temperature data were collected DURING a warming trend !
That's like measuring the stock market by using a new stock index created in 2010 during a bull market, and then announcing every new index "record" like it's a big surprise ... and implying stock prices will keep going up forever after!
Ice core studies found that our planet has had hundreds of irregular, harmless cycles of mild warming / mild cooling in the past 800,000 years.
An entire cycle typically lasts 500 to 2,000 years.
The last cooling trend started about 1250.
The current warming trend started about 1850.
Average temperature compilations began in 1880.
Frequent new highs are to be expected until the 1850 warming trend ends, and the next cooling trend begins.
No one knows when the 1850 warming trend will end.
In fact, it's possible the 1850 warming trend has already ended (considering the lack of a warming trend since 1998, when EXCLUDING the heating effects of natural EL Nino peaks).
No one knows exactly how much warming in 2015 and 2016 was caused by the EL Nino, so no one tries to delete its effects from the average temperature.
The "new high" average temperature in 2016 suggests the 1850 warming trend is still in progress.
That's not a catastrophe -- it's something to celebrate!
Prior to 1850 there were unusually cool periods that people hated!
Half the mild warming measured since 1880 (+1 degree C., +/- 1 degree C.), was before the 'age of manmade CO2' began in 1940.
That means half the warming can NOT be blamed on CO2.
The other half of the warming, after 1940 (actually after 1975), is blamed on CO2 without scientific proof, and much contradictory evidence that CO2 was NOT the cause:
(1)
CO2 levels have been consistently rising after 1940, but half the time the average temperature trend was declining, or steady -- not rising.
Both declining and steady average temperature trends are ignored by people who demonize CO2 and fossil fuels.
The "warmunists" focus ONLY on a warming trend from 1975 to the early 2000s, along with wild guess computer game predictions of the future climate -- in spite of the fact that their predictions have been grossly inaccurate for the past 40 years.
In fact, most of the warming after 1940 was in a ten year period from the early 1990s to early 2000s.
Warming from CO2 should be slow and steady from year to year -- not one 'hot decade' like we had from the early 1990s to early 2000s.
(2)
Although CO2 is spread fairly evenly in the atmosphere, the northern half of the Northern Hemisphere warmed a lot more after 1975 than the southern half of the Southern Hemisphere.
Warming from CO2 should not do that.
(3)
Scientists claim CO2 should warm both poles much more than the tropics ... but Antarctica has more ice on it now than it had at any time since satellite measurements began in the 1970s.
Warming from CO2 should not do that.
Climate science is not settled.
Climate science has become so politicized in the past 30 years that it has been regressing, rather than progressing
The specific causes of climate change are unknown.
We have lots of speculation, and few facts.
There is no 97% consensus in climate science, and there never was.
Most of what you hear about the climate is fake news to scare people.
The current climate is wonderful, yet almost all you hear and read is scary predictions of a coming global warming catastrophe.
The demonization of CO2 is the biggest hoax in human history.
The hoax is used to scare people with the goal of empowering government officials.
The "green" industry is a taxpayer- subsidized scam that has made many leftists, especially Al Gore, rich.
Real air, land and water pollution, especially in Asia, is ignored by power-hungry leftists who want more power -- they prefer to scare people with an invisible, harmless airborne plant fertilizer called carbon dioxide, and then tell them how to live their lives ... over reducing REAL pollution that can actually hurt people, animals and plants.