What About “Climate What About “Climate Change”?Change”?

Climate Has Always Been Climate Has Always Been ChangingChanging

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• 200 B.C. to A.D. 500 Roman “warm period”

• A.D. 500 to A.D. 900 Post-Roman “cooling period”

• 900 to 1350 Medieval “warm period”

• 1350 to 1850 “Little Ice Age”

• 1850 to present “warming period”

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Craig Loehle: “A 2000-Year Global Temperature Reconstruction Based on Non Tree-Ring Proxies” (Energy and the Environment,

Vol 18, 2007

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Painting of 1684 “Frost Fair” on the River Thames

Climate Has Always Been Climate Has Always Been ChangingChanging

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• 200 B.C. to A.D. 500 Roman “warm period”

• A.D. 500 to A.D. 900 Post-Roman “cooling period”

• 900 to 1350 Medieval “warm period”

• 1350 to 1850 “Little Ice Age”

• 1850 to present “warming period”

Stark, Stark, How the West WonHow the West Won, Chap , Chap 77

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“If historians have been rather inattentive to matters of geography, they have been even less attuned to the implications of climate and disease. Of course, the obvious effects of climate . . .have always been noted. What has been given little attention are significant climatic changes. In part this is because until Hubert Lamb wrote about them in 1965, it was not widely recognized that there had been any substantial climatic changes since the end of the Ice Age, . . .despite the fact that the history of medieval Europe hinges on two major shifts in climate. . . .Amid the bitter contemporary conflicts over whether the climate is getting warmer, and if so why, the most basic fact about earth’s climate has been nearly forgotten: that warming and cooling trends are quite common.”

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Craig Loehle: “A 2000-Year Global Temperature Reconstruction Based on Non Tree-Ring Proxies” (Energy and the Environment,

Vol 18, 2007

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SOLAR INFLUENCE??

Arctic Surface Air Temperature Arctic Surface Air Temperature Variation & CO2 & Solar ActivityVariation & CO2 & Solar Activity

Composition of the AtmosphereComposition of the Atmosphere

Gas % total molecules

Nitrogen (N2) 78.08%

Oxygen (O2) 20.95%

Argon (A) 0.93%

Water Vapor (H20) 0.04%

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) 0.0003%

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Problems with Government-Problems with Government-Funded ScienceFunded Science

President Eisenhower’s1961 Farewell Speech(with the famous “military-industrial complex” warning)

“In this [technological] revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more. . .costly. . . .Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes a substitute for intellectual curiosity. . . .The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present. . . .Public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite”.

Declaración de Margarita Declaración de Margarita sobre Cambio Climáticosobre Cambio Climático

“The structural causes of climate change are linked to the current capitalist hegemonic system. . . .To combat climate change it is necessary to change the system” 

Venezuela UN-sponsored conference on climate 15-18 July 2014Signed by 130 environmentalist groups

Political goals trump telling the truth Political goals trump telling the truth

“To capture the public imagination, we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.”

A leading proponent of global warming, Steven Schneider of Stanford, in Discover magazine (1989)

Obama Administration Environmental Obama Administration Environmental Protection AgencyProtection Agency

Proposed ruling to cut CO2 emissions from power plants by 30% by 2030.

Scientific “accomplishment”: 0.02˚C reduction in global average temperature by the end of this century

Economic impacts:•$50 billion per year•600,000 jobs lost•$1,200 per year in reduced income for the average family of four

Conclusions:Conclusions:

1. Climate is changing and has always been changing

Therefore, causes of the change exist other than increasing CO2 emissions by man.

2. Climate models are incomplete and underperforming

Therefore, policies that so drastically hurt the underdeveloped poor nations and the laboring families of our country, are too risky and ought not to be implemented.

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